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Commons Hansard for 19 December 2002 (Volume 396)

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Commons Chamber

Record of debates that happened in the House of Commons main chamber.

House Of Commons (item number 1) (id 30290546-982d-4dd3-8e7f-69ce280c28af)
Prayers (item number 2) (id 751809d2-1e5c-452c-a12d-b4cf9fbc3ef5)
Business Of The House (item number 5) (id 2f360330-e2df-499a-bb9a-a2613d8e790d)
Point Of Order (item number 6) (id 98b7dfd4-f653-437c-8f35-f34d817ba9b7)
Adjournment (Christmas) (item number 7) (id 6a882a95-a4fe-4e23-a803-044fed9bb6b7)
Education Funding (item number 8) (id 4c47721e-8336-4d03-83d9-2fca32ef5956)

Written Answers

Content for Written Answers.

Written Answers To Questions (item number 1) (id 0eb753bd-9bfa-449f-a712-1519fcb0f792)

International Development

Abuja Talks (item number 1) (id cdcacce6-8ca4-4ab6-8a2d-85515e0b6829)
Afghanistan (item number 1) (id 2db2abb9-71eb-4f5c-afc6-e6bd5a32243a)
African Development (item number 1) (id e2dbf17c-8174-4301-a0f8-bf8b978fe8f2)
African Union (item number 1) (id d281e0a4-2a4c-47a7-a09e-961429bab4c3)
Good Governance (item number 1) (id 5362f963-5904-4adc-b27d-802e03d05e3f)
Health Care And Education (item number 1) (id 1cdef89a-659a-414c-aa6d-89c3fac993d2)
Hiv/Aids (item number 1) (id 890fd223-f1c1-4101-b65f-afe23aaa11f6)
Information Communication Technology (item number 1) (id c14e6614-db3b-41d3-bcd4-6ea7d31cd0bd)
Kenya (item number 1) (id 46e9f8d9-9e8d-4419-93ab-ec4de73a6a29)
New Partnership For Africa's Development (item number 1) (id 153e96c1-b06b-4a64-9a43-475e5c0cda7b)
Poverty Reduction (item number 1) (id 52e7cc97-711c-4a20-8f18-88cd68dabd03)
River Congo (item number 1) (id f3a7af82-4248-456a-be4c-e6d4270ae53e)
South Africa (item number 1) (id 5318c99f-32da-4b85-b6f3-86a270fdae34)
Southern Africa (item number 1) (id 95a0ed92-8b7f-479d-b11d-d28e4ddaa4cd)
Sustainable Crops (Africa) (item number 1) (id 46a31891-1eda-4f14-b18a-6cf014046bfa)
Uganda (item number 1) (id 717ec851-ee65-49fc-a34d-553cd86ba87e)
Urban Sewage Projects (item number 1) (id 221b3dbc-f5be-4243-a1db-073cac0c3857)
Uzbekistan (item number 1) (id 5e1d2317-59ce-45f4-a0f7-b5f4ea683333)
Working Group On Access To Medicines (item number 1) (id 9900b7ce-f780-4eba-991a-5187e9b6497f)
Yemen (item number 1) (id 9f1f6e20-4c08-4edd-8b6b-d762dc111db3)
Zimbabwe (item number 1) (id 0ff15c31-1166-49a7-8b9c-6cfa916e6c0e)

Treasury

Environment, Food And Rural Affairs

Car Dumping (item number 1) (id fdd674bc-c4f0-4544-a48f-3f8236681327)
Coastal Erosion (item number 1) (id 5ae12750-51fe-4026-8b60-b9a08ce6830d)
Bee-Keeping (item number 1) (id 2944cafd-cfa9-477e-afad-b6956649416f)
Illegal Waste (item number 1) (id 445b28a1-6fba-403b-a385-ab015adf191b)
Water Framework Directive (item number 1) (id 58763bc8-0534-4986-b3ea-3755b690acd1)
Agricultural Wages Board (item number 1) (id baa87d2d-63e0-49f1-b7ab-c4752c747845)
Dairy Sector (item number 1) (id e008c3c3-9531-4030-9f29-df123789e61a)
Warm Front Scheme (item number 1) (id 3efc865f-c6a0-46e9-9232-b229bbbb93c9)
20-Day Rule (item number 1) (id c0ac84f1-c3a1-447b-a636-3126454c1385)
Earth Summit (item number 1) (id 1e5e984c-cc05-4512-beb2-79e36262f716)
Flood Plains (item number 1) (id ce6ce516-61eb-4ab7-95a3-d17ec7de2306)
British-Produced Food (item number 1) (id 1cfcb013-4d7c-4fd3-87ab-c0e443ee2811)
Waste Refrigerators (item number 1) (id 08d1b377-2cb4-40f6-844a-77f6f0aafa81)
Farmers (Entry-Level Payments) (item number 1) (id 4dec0ed3-6ce4-41a5-ae02-3c749201b189)
Coastal Protection (item number 1) (id 41590677-95f3-4366-bbda-056b3b11f49e)
Bovine Tb (item number 1) (id 7e6459dc-1032-4b4c-8c00-4974bdc31483)
Cap (item number 1) (id 86030cd0-c8e2-47f8-b617-ee3b10b122ed)
Countryside Stewardship Scheme (item number 1) (id 2e5d426f-556c-4460-a016-5686a0f8815d)
Farmers (Retirement) (item number 1) (id 0ca01f01-b530-4c95-8a11-3ef51136fd64)
Fuel Poverty Advisory Group (item number 1) (id 29fe8898-e370-4f5b-a5f0-0f55334a2fc1)
Recycling (item number 1) (id e5b2a033-79b5-4213-b04f-c4ed415f4958)
Spending Review (item number 1) (id 09c865c6-55ee-4e79-83d8-8e72bec58cdc)
Technetium-99 (item number 1) (id 8971ed50-efe7-485a-9513-e468851cfbc6)
Thailand (item number 1) (id 90434f07-744d-4140-adb5-5965596d0842)
Water Directive (item number 1) (id 743dbb34-f9a6-418f-9878-b0d640d08976)

Deputy Prime Minister

Amateur Sports Clubs (item number 1) (id bea4b9f3-17f5-43d2-ac99-8f346d3fa7e9)
Asylum Seekers (Rough Sleeping) (item number 1) (id b9656943-e1cc-467a-8e78-11eb143a8c19)
Bain Inquiry (item number 1) (id c9ee2c35-e104-4882-81d8-abd8103bd4b5)
Business Co-Ordination Unit (item number 1) (id d85ea758-fec3-4f28-bd4b-3437385f0538)
Business Improvement Districts (item number 1) (id 1d53822b-ea5c-493c-87f4-493dbd4b6ae8)
Christmas Expenses (item number 1) (id 8b8add83-80d7-4b63-beda-6b83516a5044)
Deprivation (item number 1) (id 56a1ecca-02d1-496b-bdbf-d918671026ea)
Empty Homes (item number 1) (id 2f393bce-cf2b-41ff-ad95-3bc593437407)
Fire Services (item number 1) (id 13277a27-7065-4e2a-b1f6-285ce66ad7be)
Firefighters' Dispute (item number 1) (id de212e74-90e5-4916-b682-414bcc985241)
Green Belt (West Midlands) (item number 1) (id 63c3625b-d345-49e6-959c-519dcee85b7e)
Home Ownership (item number 1) (id 642cd9f7-149a-4111-b8ce-22e8e5489f3a)
Homelessness (item number 1) (id 3da3782c-4798-43c3-9aa9-be11af14c4a8)
Housing (Black And Minority Ethnic People) (item number 1) (id f0fb64ad-4332-498a-8042-1c69820aa692)
Housing Associations (item number 1) (id d5e9948a-ea91-4670-8d59-c60067b04c8f)
Housing Need (Somali Community) (item number 1) (id b5f6106b-445b-4101-a4b9-da57142ceaba)
Local Government Finance (item number 1) (id bd0a88cc-4a85-497a-b715-b28c0638b257)
Local Sport (item number 1) (id a51dba2c-971e-41dc-a99f-ffc11d54be1b)
Overcrowded Housing (item number 1) (id 25f91244-4fff-4f53-8230-a223792b5e9f)
Planning Applications (item number 1) (id f374cdb8-45e9-4cbd-856e-1b6902803a9c)
Right To Buy Scheme (item number 1) (id b0549d53-f36b-45bd-9bff-02f7c94b5274)
Social Inclusion (item number 1) (id f659dc4a-b658-4c79-a0d6-7605c7eec060)
Starter Home Initiative (item number 1) (id 2a277852-a7a4-48be-9f77-538fbf48c348)
Tenancy Deposit Scheme (item number 1) (id 5aa44e11-e36a-4e90-ae60-d11281f9984c)
Visually Impaired Children (item number 1) (id 6740e848-b684-429f-9f34-a4aed76c234b)
Wandsworth Development Plan (item number 1) (id 3ace560a-a82c-4a6e-93ff-c06e9352d5d7)
West Midlands Regional Assembly (item number 1) (id f8de13d0-ef7a-462d-b4ea-ce616c6f7743)

Home Department

Accreditation (item number 1) (id 9bd291da-0426-4dd5-b067-d7fc58181494)
Air Weapons (item number 1) (id c4e4db27-0030-46c3-b573-2aa537570dc8)
Children's Rights (item number 1) (id e2e278e0-10b4-45e7-b574-51f89c1f853a)
Community Support Officers (item number 1) (id 14d972ba-0d87-4783-94ce-d3f6d48cb65d)
Correspondence (item number 1) (id 65af138b-52f1-4a18-9f7a-41f6875be66b)
Crime And Antisocial Behaviour (item number 1) (id 74df916a-aa76-4040-92bf-28806a71e287)
Crime Figures (Lancaster) (item number 1) (id 75d8fa3e-4e57-453c-9ff9-c21ab5d7a7f2)
Crime Reduction Fund (item number 1) (id 15d7573b-006a-4262-b2c6-f5a397b48a20)
Crime Statistics (item number 1) (id a9337224-34df-4aaa-8a43-a8c8ab5de30e)
Criminal Offences (item number 1) (id b9830940-4644-4aa7-a93e-bebb6e0bd1aa)
Crown Court Juries (item number 1) (id e416dd1c-bd6b-4963-9171-3f1a460f1654)
Domestic Violence (item number 1) (id 57cbcf95-f98c-4dc5-8dd7-36793410e482)
Examining Officers' Powers (item number 1) (id 7cd50491-c11b-41ad-b410-fc5536d1b56f)
Immigration (item number 1) (id 9a53f2cc-974b-4f46-8037-a19aef2d0136)
Local Authority Finance (item number 1) (id 78389d33-7996-409c-b53a-fd236acb0a31)
Local Volunteer Development Organisations (item number 1) (id 79bf5068-fec9-4609-b19d-59d27cb0ecaf)
Parliamentary Questions (item number 1) (id b2cf41a5-259d-42f1-9ace-b067e873da8b)
Police (item number 1) (id 5902cfd4-5593-4b15-aedc-1e185e58530f)
Prisons (item number 1) (id 31bebb5c-6419-4b39-94ac-1b826321d390)
Replica Firearms (item number 1) (id d80f841b-5e04-4ca6-85eb-2ac46d98a864)
Secure Units (item number 1) (id 147a52c6-12a9-47f7-ba8d-7ea2df17d8df)
Spending Review (item number 1) (id dae5d3aa-6bdc-4f1d-8ae6-eb61fd83333f)
Street Robberies (item number 1) (id 8a10c773-453d-4363-8ca5-227b74114a91)

Work And Pensions

Council Tax Benefit (item number 1) (id 546a9f89-2f93-49d8-8df7-9718a369fac7)
Fairground Safety (item number 1) (id 467c5f95-256f-4f8e-8300-56e15d34db1f)
Access To Financial Services (item number 1) (id 64293060-7d82-4de1-93c2-81c6c5397c30)
Ageism (item number 1) (id 2971c180-ac39-4657-9d17-3477f435c190)
Appointments (item number 1) (id 233ca002-1bea-4303-b1a6-76cb5234246b)
Benefits (item number 1) (id 54c21297-55c6-4de5-9133-0a80f07ed19d)
Child Support Payments (item number 1) (id a37e4e2e-c19b-45a2-8236-71c3b06f5782)
Christmas Expenses (item number 1) (id a2693c3d-4af8-4116-a657-5ef7dc48dcc9)
Civil Servants (item number 1) (id 9bc5ed75-52a7-4919-b608-bf88603caf1f)
Community Care Grant (item number 1) (id 7f01fb88-bf55-4699-b589-895911326d43)
Crisis Loans (item number 1) (id df5b3aff-61c9-4d2b-ad6b-f5997be4fb75)
Departmental Training (item number 1) (id 5a8b4fa9-ae0d-4b3a-b2e7-ef5d6fcc365a)
Drug Addicts (item number 1) (id 90008242-49c4-4c02-9f01-e9e29acaf35a)
Economic Inactivity (item number 1) (id 9ca2997b-54bd-441d-a1f2-fc8b998f4382)
Employment Zones (item number 1) (id f7060b37-fb9e-428b-b257-307cf3684253)
Health And Safety (item number 1) (id 78858ca2-759b-4566-be7a-aec040f785c5)
Housing Benefit (item number 1) (id 039c2e54-b0e7-4749-9210-f3e23e0be163)
Incapacity Benefit (item number 1) (id d19d6843-24d7-40e6-a6fb-61722d55fd4f)
Individual Learning Account (item number 1) (id 897cd6d1-a32a-4413-a208-c1847c3c3de8)
Intermediate Labour Programmes (item number 1) (id 38567961-943a-4c17-8f5c-1064ce1cc659)
Jobcentre Plus (item number 1) (id ecbd6fd0-28a2-461c-8d8a-a130a08fcb25)
Ministerial Engagements (item number 1) (id a2d47299-0d50-4b27-a263-0554631239db)
New Deal (item number 1) (id a3b129c2-d2f6-40cf-a737-4b8c060fbcfd)
Parliamentary Questions (item number 1) (id 8139d3e7-9a75-4fec-9ba0-79ec323a585c)
Retirement Ages (item number 1) (id 0a617f86-4534-4a7c-9d91-5b14f19000d8)
Schlumbergersema (item number 1) (id d405f60a-4662-498a-92e4-0e2515598f30)
Serps (item number 1) (id 79ea5d99-f399-424a-afa4-eeb540dbb765)
Social Fund (item number 1) (id addef4e4-01b8-4a0d-8663-7e66942f4e40)
Social Fund Repayments (item number 1) (id 88b186fd-3e3b-4152-9ae3-a9864cb293aa)
War Pensions (item number 1) (id 8c606941-6968-4b19-8640-0bbf73ecf4a2)
Winter Fuel Payment (item number 1) (id fab4bbf3-ca82-4405-868c-dc0ea6f512f6)

Work And Pensions

Benefit Claimants (item number 1) (id 25a513c5-309e-4f4e-b586-e526adbcb0d7)
Child Care (item number 1) (id d2978eb1-30f0-45ef-920a-0210d08ed8e1)
Christmas Expenses (item number 1) (id 54c7e63d-e432-4601-97c4-239ba3bc3216)
Disabled People (item number 1) (id 491c610a-9c90-4f50-b4a4-21824b6cfe01)
Employment (Disability) (item number 1) (id c8756904-0874-4cef-a5c3-8174a76131b1)
Gas Pipes (item number 1) (id 4a55ff14-5ce2-4482-8ccb-24ded8655cc3)
Habitual Residence Test (item number 1) (id b1b5d4e2-a18e-4b88-825e-a2613e540473)
Jobcentres (Advertisements) (item number 1) (id 6e7f5cb8-ad0e-4991-a11c-b595fb144f73)
Jobseekers Allowance (item number 1) (id a1b5c764-b379-479b-8948-0ebbd1d8239d)
Lone Parents (item number 1) (id d1747283-8406-48b4-b724-d1a99d1f2bbc)
Maxwell Communications Pension Plan (item number 1) (id 14f40abf-33cb-498c-9522-f52d5f7f15f0)
Medical Assessments (item number 1) (id c4af80ac-588b-4d7e-85ac-18a4578e3b05)
New Deal (item number 1) (id ffa769d9-ad92-4666-b9de-10cbc41b74a4)
Official Travel (item number 1) (id 3e87fbea-c4d1-4792-b149-e998c6d3e2d0)
Parliamentary Questions (item number 1) (id 9871cdfb-49d9-4e90-a4fa-f8744e091559)
Unemployment (Copeland) (item number 1) (id e5a0cdfd-ed02-4985-b8f5-b401d4b17d0b)
Public Service Agreements (item number 1) (id 07648038-e648-40f5-b18c-78b288012ae4)
State Pension (item number 1) (id ed19874c-f960-4de5-b979-ce772a7d13ba)
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Unemployment (item number 1) (id 42f5e6af-9b90-42d3-9634-3ae91a88b2d6)
Winter Fuel Payment (item number 1) (id fa4bc255-4e69-4366-8bcc-0d4abe6b2059)
Work Opportunities (Older People) (item number 1) (id 02c1344d-983f-4f92-8b71-fc87dcdbf78c)

Health

Abattoirs (item number 1) (id 3e145387-4191-414b-93b5-d7e93eb8ceb2)
Accident And Emergency Units (item number 1) (id df75d199-1418-4eb0-83a9-7729bda5562b)
Acute Hospitals (Nurse Training) (item number 1) (id 076c9334-90a2-45d9-b294-8720d8885cc7)
Acute Trusts (Nurses) (item number 1) (id 4ba8e86a-1e7c-4c28-b25d-04e8a3eb453a)
Adult Placement Schemes (item number 1) (id 7380ce16-7607-41a1-9c0a-dae45c9a7249)
Agency Nurses (item number 1) (id 0962972a-9b62-4214-ab23-1944152a3a45)
Alcohol Reduction Strategy (item number 1) (id 0df388c0-7f96-4e0d-855a-17506610e667)
Antipsychotic Drugs (item number 1) (id 4e6040bb-60bf-4210-a0c6-d8c341513290)
Assisted Dying (item number 1) (id 0c9b19fb-c50b-48be-9f97-ffae9287236c)
Bed Availability (Worcestershire) (item number 1) (id b4a3f950-8c7d-4bc8-af6d-f78dd7aafb9d)
Blood Donations (item number 1) (id 277dbae0-1426-467b-99f3-e8be8ef9a698)
Body Part Imports (item number 1) (id c5cb02c0-7098-4122-8c03-62697be1e48d)
Cancer Screening (item number 1) (id 2562b3b6-d9ea-47bc-8c85-ccbcc1d8846b)
Care Costs (item number 1) (id 8924cfec-5dc9-40e7-a982-3dc4c2e36246)
Care Homes (Insurance Cover) (item number 1) (id cfed8275-50ef-4d3b-939b-59dbedb98461)
Children In Care (item number 1) (id 7239e040-2cd7-4aed-a042-91e704e56278)
Children In Temporary Accommodation (item number 1) (id b4d3b7b5-d84b-456f-ac0d-168de0e5497c)
Chiropody (item number 1) (id 33edb91e-11f9-486f-8eb3-34e8f1d2cc29)
Community Initiatives (item number 1) (id c6a8aeb5-e3dd-4840-bde1-671eac5a9ea6)
Continuing Nhs Care (item number 1) (id f94e26eb-bea2-4a93-97cd-1f23c5d7c52b)
Correspondence (item number 1) (id b9119544-4f2e-4a6b-b238-50e1acfe15dc)
Denturism (item number 1) (id dfba5802-6ce5-4dcb-8097-25fdcb42d8c0)
Christmas Expenses (item number 1) (id 46acbfdc-4458-42d2-814d-29ae7729390f)
Electronic Patient Records (item number 1) (id a62df782-548b-4b30-a593-751a77a283ee)
Eu Food Supplements Directive (item number 1) (id 4814fc04-03fe-477b-880f-dbac49d9c6c4)
Food Imports (Banned Substances) (item number 1) (id ba38587f-0a95-4987-9a95-3b848393e299)
Food Supplements (item number 1) (id f6f53bc9-c73c-47bb-b5c0-40b2c3505657)
Foster Care (item number 1) (id f4fcf59a-0882-4cad-906c-c422a83cf26e)
Gp Registers (Patient Removal) (item number 1) (id a3a33cd6-b811-4988-a62d-7f03b6e85e43)
Health Statistics (item number 1) (id a94f632a-31de-4ab9-a69b-3b5e763d83f5)
Homeless People (item number 1) (id 2a5ab774-e0b0-4524-adfb-13f9216ebe78)
Medical Personnel (item number 1) (id eb9ef68e-3656-487b-8718-d6c6ff1ecfac)
Merseyside Regional Ambulance Service (item number 1) (id 9b5a1754-357a-47e6-8815-dfc81f49d997)
Mixed-Sex Wards (item number 1) (id 5580c3c3-6f63-43c2-9e01-88bbdb081efa)
Nhs Dentistry (Shropshire) (item number 1) (id 5f88e6fe-c036-4c0a-80ef-b75f2c2e8371)
Nhs Direct (item number 1) (id 29f644c4-1384-43a6-a2aa-56dbd264f4f7)
Nhs Professionals (item number 1) (id 8237a145-82d2-4a1d-bc2b-5f0b11637c81)
Nhs Staff (item number 1) (id 7ac75088-9288-40c1-9bd7-979478212205)
Nurse Training (item number 1) (id d2ba0726-aa86-4914-b2d8-680715eb70a4)
Overseas Nurse Advice Line (item number 1) (id a8f00466-2dbc-448a-919a-612658c04095)
Patient Deregistration (item number 1) (id 9b396395-f087-4ab4-870e-df55437a8a67)
Personal Medical Services (item number 1) (id 417cb25d-38b6-4026-a16d-fab4750f9cd2)
Port Medical Units (item number 1) (id 5c238274-9c54-4377-868e-ed62c2353eae)
Poultry Imports (item number 1) (id 997bd41e-ed0a-4310-a3e8-96c82e88cef1)
Prisons (Health Needs Assessment) (item number 1) (id 4132a3e1-c8ca-479e-a70d-2bfda6523316)
Prosecutions (Contaminated Blood) (item number 1) (id 31c23865-45e3-4e6a-b373-c38739131dda)
School-Age Workers (item number 1) (id 6277ff8c-b4f7-4f8c-a3c7-8dd6adc7bd4a)
Secure Beds (item number 1) (id 4748e470-8404-4693-8252-4df542e0d3ca)
Specialist Register (Overseas Applicants) (item number 1) (id 9a98e138-d31c-4416-8028-97373f7c48a8)
Surgical Specialties (item number 1) (id f0a9cdf8-2025-4b44-8c34-d167411be649)
Thrombolysis (item number 1) (id f707c810-b330-4ec7-bb2a-9c393e96a6e9)
Woodside Adolescent Unit (item number 1) (id 5b386f3d-9f27-4a11-903e-146890bb26b0)

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