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Commons Hansard for 12 February 2004 (Volume 417)

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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 2674c865-1f2e-41f1-8386-4d3346951da5)
Prayers (item number 2) (id d69395fa-23ec-4566-8a4f-d0a00aef3fbf)
Business Of The House (item number 4) (id a1962e6b-0872-4b61-9d28-535340fa96ef)
Cap Reform (England) (item number 5) (id 4496b8e1-0113-4bfe-b63c-f563ed4f7d11)
Sustainable And Secure Buildings Bill Money (item number 6) (id 0a1ee69b-a6e9-4700-8359-ec2717c755ec)
Public Accounts (item number 7) (id 1d083a29-d3e7-41c1-91c3-af6be49798a4)
Allotments (North-East Lincolnshire) (item number 8) (id 0d2c9d15-6678-4061-aac8-acca85c15fa4)

Written Statements

Written statements are normally used to put the day-to-day business of government on the official record and in the public domain.

Written Ministerial Statements (item number 1) (id a6242220-ff1b-444f-b803-971892dbf7f8)

Written Answers

Content for Written Answers.

Written Answers To Questions (item number 1) (id e7938ff9-a41c-4fe9-a3ea-69847587da20)

Work And Pensions

Cockling (item number 1) (id bedfb1e2-391b-4389-a215-f91ada0b398c)
Objective 3 Funds (item number 1) (id 46641d00-a0e1-4735-bbf2-ffb2b802f5c8)
Benefit Fraud (item number 1) (id f61492c9-aad0-4888-9e64-f2ffc2d8351f)
Benefits (item number 1) (id 825ab79f-d3f4-4e83-9003-19e4c6378074)
Carer's Allowance (item number 1) (id 3b48fcd8-1075-4336-8545-ad6114644103)
Child Poverty (item number 1) (id fa13b85f-fe2a-4478-9b98-337e8ed33087)
Child Support Agency (item number 1) (id 57450363-9b32-483e-ac94-aba8ebd002bc)
Civil Servants (Transfer Of Pensions) (item number 1) (id 988bb726-fefd-4aca-8fc6-5d682cbb2745)
Compensation Awards (item number 1) (id 550e68a0-3df4-4d8b-8835-135b6e677843)
Council Tax Benefit (item number 1) (id b64ce64d-c447-46fd-89f6-bc0cd626d59a)
Departmental Staff (item number 1) (id bba0e71b-67f7-4d19-9022-1f46a9a36041)
Departmental Staff (Fraud) (item number 1) (id c6cd6914-406f-4fbb-a2fa-4bdc07a9e5d5)
Elderly People (Benefits) (item number 1) (id ec60b71b-5308-49e9-aafc-51ff9ce5b59b)
Employment (Older People) (item number 1) (id 2e068269-f203-4339-87db-4cb6be844dba)
Eu Citizens (Benefits) (item number 1) (id 7f24497e-af37-442f-92bc-64b2f3a62fe1)
Family Support (item number 1) (id 83cf9c39-42bf-4096-acbd-0c9ef6cb4198)
Income Support (item number 1) (id 8e8fcbbc-9fac-4272-af86-ca7e0f663421)
Information Technology (item number 1) (id aa5ae2e3-006b-4a47-af08-5d3652fe6464)
It Services (item number 1) (id a660be04-d565-43e8-be69-84068c46bbbf)
Jobcentre Plus (item number 1) (id 5adb3392-b6df-4f35-9dfc-8b42020bf796)
Jobcentre Plus/Pension Service (Relocation) (item number 1) (id 3cd46a39-adb2-4e8c-b12b-77fa70180c7c)
New Deal (item number 1) (id 973f354d-d5c4-4083-afee-e63787f7a5a6)
Part-Time Workers (Pensions) (item number 1) (id d21080c7-10df-4107-8f9e-36007d412fc8)
Pension Credit (item number 1) (id ef9810e6-1855-4161-960d-eb87e91354e0)
Pension Schemes (item number 1) (id e9ff4beb-88a6-4c15-967e-406eaaa2da46)
"Riding The Benefits Rollercoaster" (item number 1) (id b66ce2a9-938f-4b14-9dae-7b8e443ba7c2)
Stakeholder Pension Scheme (item number 1) (id 98a508d1-4284-43c6-95d8-8d5fe925c312)
Train Travel (item number 1) (id 3bc5b845-7d6c-48f0-a43d-500fbb71a65b)
Vaccine Damage Payment Act 1979 (item number 1) (id de6b50dd-e5ee-4950-bae9-7a11b4622fe4)
Welfare Modernisation Fund (item number 1) (id 0f3f5323-40b1-4e79-a809-9fc911c60b0e)
Winter Fuel Payments (item number 1) (id a189a75a-a794-4c19-9c92-e309f5d5b2c4)
Workstep Programme (item number 1) (id df2c2db0-7236-4098-be4f-328eebfbedc2)

Trade And Industry

Agriculture Subsidies (item number 1) (id 9ca66671-9aed-471e-a018-0be38109e7c0)
Benefit Fraud (item number 1) (id 45f8af39-8ed5-423c-a8c5-3e6f8c5b3b25)
Business Support (item number 1) (id c7912059-a39d-4f1f-ad7d-a61fc33bbd16)
Company Directors (item number 1) (id b6e4c0e4-88ed-4ca5-ac3e-a6b21825d78d)
Corporate Social Responsibility (item number 1) (id 9c5d7c0b-0695-48a3-8528-973153e6a4d7)
Credit Records (item number 1) (id e0432b58-8031-4b68-9c68-9e37929c2334)
Eu Export Subsidies (item number 1) (id 26fbf923-c871-4262-bda6-cd9f616ace23)
Export Assistance (item number 1) (id ae88425b-a437-47b5-a7d1-e0e657ccc099)
Export Credits Guarantee Department (item number 1) (id cd38b8a7-d262-4112-8654-affab835c6a0)
Faraday Partnerships (item number 1) (id a824951c-4e64-4176-bb1f-46a0313afc2c)
Fisheries (item number 1) (id b0bc15c7-31ed-416d-a5ba-18e764671240)
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Grocery Market (item number 1) (id 8f0435ac-3208-4b9d-af1e-66fb2bb21d6c)
Group 3 Employment Cases (item number 1) (id abb78469-8bc2-4685-b1fb-7b01fb944c03)
Indonesia (item number 1) (id 594f613e-d5ae-4526-afed-d85119e758db)
Information Technology (Women) (item number 1) (id 4f3f6c35-b8a0-4bb6-93a4-416e9d95cddd)
Milk Marque (item number 1) (id 08ae484e-a0fc-4e6c-90f0-5c2ee03426d3)
Miners' Compensation (item number 1) (id e5ad259b-f758-4f90-9487-0dafb35762a9)
Ministerial Travel (item number 1) (id e5d1ee9c-c6ba-4f3d-be3f-5445834693ec)
Money Laundering (item number 1) (id eaafd217-7b5b-425a-a6f2-b347a02c28bc)
National Minimum Wage (item number 1) (id 4c286e1b-467f-4ff3-80aa-42dab720e5e6)
Offshore Oil And Gas Facilities (item number 1) (id 389ea514-879c-4e12-a39b-91f7c7609e42)
Operating And Financial Review (item number 1) (id 3858e844-aa41-4e94-b618-323f9c954e3c)
Phoenix Fund (item number 1) (id 3246d617-0de5-466f-b3ca-507dc4d59901)
Phonographic Industry (item number 1) (id 2b2772a3-afe8-4915-93ab-868a6217573e)
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Small Businesses (item number 1) (id eb93cc8a-d396-47bc-a10b-ced9d92661ed)
Smart Awards (item number 1) (id f1c121fe-23b6-4048-a9d2-2892aa93bbb8)
Uk Online For Business (item number 1) (id ce40a811-68b1-4c47-ae82-3900b9f960a6)
Wind Turbines (item number 1) (id 55e0e371-101a-4d61-87f8-fd707c6bc9c2)
World Trade Organisation (item number 1) (id 1b752275-b732-44a7-9807-488e0ef9b6cd)

Defence

Afghanistan (item number 1) (id 5ed54137-90e7-4119-b9d5-54a61d596614)
Aircraft Carriers (item number 1) (id e441744d-c730-4ae6-935c-3c0a189dd80f)
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Army Training (item number 1) (id 91114525-1aba-4ac4-a1c4-f8e5806adb93)
Challenger Ii Tanks (item number 1) (id 28637241-8156-4082-851f-c9d318dff4fe)
Civil Contingency Reaction Force (item number 1) (id b18e7ba1-0625-48b1-8a1c-b9496b9c614c)
Consultation Documents (item number 1) (id 5feacdfd-002f-4344-900b-a8b408d43200)
Defence Exports (Uk Employment) (item number 1) (id e97274f1-86df-48bf-8318-fde48d2a7249)
Defence Medical Services (item number 1) (id ab821b09-d568-4ad2-a60a-9447d8b6c00b)
Foreign Aircraft (item number 1) (id 14636aec-db8c-429b-bd21-86f4baf0fc69)
Information Technology (item number 1) (id 09b75acd-985b-4f0f-822b-8a57cb0f3677)
Iraq (item number 1) (id f17712d2-9c62-4d59-a914-9b9b5ebc3855)
Israeli Defence Minister (Uk Visit) (item number 1) (id 3b3a0389-9e74-4d56-aaa5-bb95376e36fc)
Joint Strike Fighter (item number 1) (id 6137235d-1d12-43f7-b5e8-6cca69a83cc9)
Offshore Patrol Ships (item number 1) (id ea2f1d45-6e16-4984-a8ce-40a4747e862d)
Private Finance Initiative (item number 1) (id 0ce0b151-c737-46e4-919e-fd487fbaa8db)
Recruitment (item number 1) (id 8b46cea0-4343-422c-b76e-5906370f7812)
Reserve Forces (item number 1) (id 788c40cc-bb38-4712-aaff-8769625b43bd)
Royal College Of Defence Medicine (item number 1) (id 9e35f919-510d-4c6c-9d67-709d30007bbd)
Shipbuilding Industry (item number 1) (id 496810ae-43eb-4d78-9a5f-f33bc3c3d6a6)
Suez Medal (item number 1) (id 14891a3b-5096-4fe5-a0ff-ca148315a3d7)
Typhoon (item number 1) (id b2396cf3-9089-4700-9514-9ee3f978a023)
Weapons Of Mass Destruction (item number 1) (id 6df1e308-ce7c-4950-abc4-88dc4672664d)

Transport

Pensioner Travel Concessions (item number 1) (id 5c6ca345-d017-4e98-8726-88a5c83ec55e)
Speed Cameras (item number 1) (id d7b6b4e6-bd6a-406a-b102-76cfa0c532c9)
Banned Airlines (item number 1) (id f8ed5b51-374f-4ada-97f1-bed77d2734c8)
Benefit Fraud (item number 1) (id 0bbd2100-056e-4d8d-aadc-2ab4bade23c2)
Civil Servants (item number 1) (id db4b2d91-ef96-496c-b996-7e000ec8a5b6)
Collapsible Plates (item number 1) (id 6117da7f-f548-4a1c-8901-8e93d04ddb4e)
Consultancy Fees (item number 1) (id c910f362-ce8a-4296-9af4-144d115f3624)
Consultations (item number 1) (id de940053-8523-4f00-b7a0-a6b029e6b490)
Department Branding (item number 1) (id 6c9f4d27-a4f0-42f5-932e-af9404720513)
Departmental Minutes (item number 1) (id 3fe70530-5b32-45ee-a627-737bbc831bfb)
Departmental Staff (item number 1) (id 5f844c04-ffb7-4db0-bab7-3284478624e8)
Driver, Vehicle And Operator Group (item number 1) (id 7ca2d873-4a89-4f34-8268-a87703681ff5)
Exhaust Emissions (item number 1) (id 9f6f1a32-e05a-4ee3-805f-df6487c7e10c)
Grand Prix (item number 1) (id 977e6468-4f17-4f14-8c81-af7376712133)
Highways Agency (item number 1) (id bf7f8f99-922e-4ade-9daf-cddf55a5f5e5)
M2 (item number 1) (id ba2d761b-57f8-4787-bc16-bf4d0d771cb7)
Rail Authorities (item number 1) (id 31d9cd94-2e80-4f7f-a33b-94c1e65a169d)
Railways (item number 1) (id 3ff5046a-2d1c-45d2-939f-1cd3431e6801)
Road Accidents (item number 1) (id 2ab3c32a-611a-494e-b016-cd9b615f0e8d)
Rural Speed Limits (item number 1) (id 3c8b848e-7a07-4b0e-9fa4-cf6f49d591bd)
Speed Cameras (Southend) (item number 1) (id 965a6b6e-0903-425f-bf2e-a9a5d0c5a924)
Traffic Lights (Sheppey) (item number 1) (id d80d7d86-409a-4d0c-8dab-583483dcea8a)
Train Rolling Stock (item number 1) (id 7436c228-6d4b-45c1-8189-dc8834c03386)
Train Travel (item number 1) (id c6e6ec79-8832-41cc-9022-58bae2f98555)
Uninsured Cars (item number 1) (id c49a0ced-f009-415a-b7ce-1d7a06b275c9)
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Vehicle Fuels (item number 1) (id 9707aac4-4eca-4463-a054-91e79e47e067)

Health

Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (item number 1) (id 854cdd66-2d18-4520-8e94-8ad07454a2f9)
Food Supplements (item number 1) (id f5116f9f-3505-4af2-bd62-fbc5ff50d9b8)
Allergies (item number 1) (id db9711e1-d94b-46ea-9cba-ab92ed4d3140)
Ambulance Service (item number 1) (id 7680791a-511e-4052-817e-113b829ee9b3)
Anti-Ligature Policies (item number 1) (id f199509d-844f-4c0c-b2a0-04dea5bd476c)
Autism (item number 1) (id 75e75396-074a-43da-8501-dc352177b94e)
Cancer Survey (item number 1) (id 0082ccbb-95bc-40f5-845a-6909125fde51)
Cardiac Treatment (Brighton Hospitals) (item number 1) (id a696c722-1d09-4a5c-a868-19f22becf271)
Care Homes (item number 1) (id a46213ae-f33c-4f3d-b849-ed3281205185)
Care Registrations (item number 1) (id 4e4bdf75-8fbb-4c97-9558-1a4c97e517eb)
Care Workers (item number 1) (id bcad3dd2-9ec0-49fc-bce5-cece4feca386)
Childhood Immunisation (item number 1) (id 70b4a2dd-c3ff-43b6-b26a-fce6b11469ab)
Consultant Contracts (Lancashire) (item number 1) (id 1919cf55-5a43-49b1-8c2d-28a3840bca60)
Contaminated Blood (item number 1) (id 98ae2034-2644-4813-a442-1857630324e5)
Delayed Discharges (Essex) (item number 1) (id 38af1502-5048-4748-8173-337404a2f518)
Dietary Strategy (item number 1) (id b00b8891-d73f-496e-90e0-558d1f8c1bb0)
Domiciliary Care (item number 1) (id 61cc87ec-95b5-4504-9b0a-c940f3d8be73)
Down's Syndrome (item number 1) (id 600d00b8-b5a5-4f51-94c8-a93daea67f6d)
Eu Directives (item number 1) (id 53da66fd-3e96-464e-9b53-6ec1ab5bb96f)
Gamma Cameras (item number 1) (id a13027c2-813b-47f6-83b8-91a03cc4f902)
Gp Drug Training (item number 1) (id 61cd2066-878c-41d3-9fb8-81b594a37bb2)
Health Protection Agency (item number 1) (id c4222ee4-06a4-4bb8-82d9-d44cb6a909a9)
Heroin Addicts (item number 1) (id 124b7f17-b80c-484d-9343-181a54463962)
Hospice Funding (item number 1) (id 370d4c44-4f33-42e1-afc3-362086e14b8c)
Illegal Meat (item number 1) (id d8c05497-dec7-4ca0-9688-70dac5727ab3)
Learning Disabilities (item number 1) (id c5719165-89ac-41de-a4c6-bfcdd31a2991)
Mental Health (Suicide) (item number 1) (id a4d7dfa0-dee6-4fbe-b2c0-36bd00f57d0c)
Methadone (item number 1) (id 8925400c-a207-440e-b4a8-09b95905d668)
Ministerial Visits (item number 1) (id 3d8b400d-d930-4f42-af16-b7ad84ffda90)
Multiple Sclerosis (item number 1) (id 011f1cee-7973-45d2-94bd-cfbce78069a9)
Nhs Trust Documents (item number 1) (id 09981e8d-88dd-4293-a094-a6209f7dcff5)
National Care Standards Commission (item number 1) (id 5c29823d-84b6-4496-88ad-a4db5ebb471d)
Nhs Beds (item number 1) (id 4e855cb9-026b-4043-8195-10eb92e46f66)
Operation Telic (item number 1) (id 1f40ae55-db93-44c7-a53f-636f2db29c6e)
Parliamentary Questions (item number 1) (id 1d5a0a1f-9929-4497-a025-4773bd6ed429)
Public Health Skills Audit (item number 1) (id 98b29422-3f82-43e9-b61d-5f069b3da752)
Public Health White Paper (item number 1) (id 95406f03-ae63-4968-b56c-dfc92a3e5fa5)
Pulmonary Hypertension (item number 1) (id d56ed992-3fdb-4146-8f55-16f951e1afca)
R And D (item number 1) (id 5baef53d-eb0a-404d-89fb-35caa69d799c)
Renal Services (Lancashire) (item number 1) (id 7ed72360-35dc-449c-ae04-f8f59a6da23f)
Restructuring/Change Programme (item number 1) (id 2599d32b-ee38-4220-92de-f35c2e32573a)
Rural Health Care (item number 1) (id 94c0d532-ec09-4d55-afa2-d0d02d6ab184)
School Fruit (item number 1) (id 1b3704b1-c06e-4fc1-8dfd-a74bfe636e35)
Sustainable Development (item number 1) (id 65e510e7-04af-49f9-8712-e85453866b20)
Toxic Chemicals (item number 1) (id f8e0dc32-255f-4d32-a264-3ce3c029d465)
Tuberculosis (item number 1) (id 26023101-b984-441e-964c-0a5d9c5dd7a9)
Variant Cjd (item number 1) (id ebc31382-bc8f-4e61-9f91-3017aaf4a15c)
Waiting Times (Breast Cancer) (item number 1) (id f91cbe3e-7e4e-4c02-ab29-9071328d4efc)
Working Time Directive (item number 1) (id 08496b5f-d920-4f9b-8895-7df01b8efade)
Yellow/Red Cards (item number 1) (id 6b9aa7a9-e642-4e51-984e-9146dadb2140)

Home Department

Criminal Justice Boards (item number 1) (id dd8ae2d5-e1e3-41ac-826c-39483ff55bf1)
Speed Cameras (item number 1) (id 8d37f0f9-ad39-4c2a-ae73-5fd3000065b6)
Airwave (item number 1) (id 77f81a4a-3c80-424e-bc81-aa7c63b1964d)
Bribery (item number 1) (id 6161b832-fe6a-421c-9ce6-28df87770876)
Camp Hill Prison (item number 1) (id ad2f0011-7a0b-4bcc-aa91-b17b4ae4e2a7)
Carter Report (item number 1) (id 7d185f58-b78d-4e63-b8c0-825122774a83)
Consultation (item number 1) (id 4db3014b-e781-49f1-b622-1c65200e9e95)
Convictions (Balance Of Probabilities) (item number 1) (id ca39a1b4-5c10-40df-a927-6a98295a8119)
Correctional Services Board (item number 1) (id 457c304c-e833-4d9f-ba74-143a66473374)
Correspondence (item number 1) (id b9789124-5795-47da-8b1e-a976068d60b1)
Crime And Disorder Partnerships (item number 1) (id 85da2862-21d8-4de2-b416-68a79147385d)
Crime Statistics (item number 1) (id 7fd20f51-34c7-40fa-9268-9760fd4969a8)
Driving Convictions (item number 1) (id e58140a9-a501-423c-957a-e0f023941a89)
Drugs Treatment (Wales) (item number 1) (id 9a0fae5e-cc0b-4105-a91d-91063f443350)
Extraditions (Russia) (item number 1) (id 4f43cb63-9ef2-4633-80ab-53552d1659a6)
Female Prisoners (item number 1) (id 79ce8aaa-1383-44d6-8231-414c5a6cf1ef)
Firearms Consultative Committee (item number 1) (id e99d9974-cfa3-4e4c-a528-8457bd312a54)
Graffiti (item number 1) (id 413d7e89-abaa-4e34-b77b-9239a751d812)
Heroin (Criminal Activity) (item number 1) (id 7382776e-4909-4307-ad61-533a5794dc57)
Hmp Bronzefield (item number 1) (id 7f091319-b1bd-47d0-8fa8-32a7f9dcfba5)
Home Detention Curfew (item number 1) (id ea80818d-7f37-4041-af7d-13569c719736)
National Offender Management Service (item number 1) (id e60dc1e4-23a2-43e9-8f13-cd3ed88730d2)
Parliamentary Questions (item number 1) (id 8c67aa36-e89d-4952-8983-e8b506a20987)
Police Cells (item number 1) (id 1087dfed-0c90-41a2-aa79-a806b22aba8f)
Prisoners (item number 1) (id 1aecf3b1-dd31-4d34-b969-956318ea6920)
Prisons (item number 1) (id 1f56fd45-c401-4dde-9623-91fbebb8313f)
Probation Service (item number 1) (id ced8fcf3-3b4c-46f9-8509-d8aac84335c4)
R And D (item number 1) (id 7d1fc311-2acd-495d-afec-16b320f1c5eb)
Re-Offending (item number 1) (id 23cca1f4-d672-4846-9020-368cde326885)
Sexual Assault Referral Centres (item number 1) (id 88d742f0-66eb-4d2e-ba95-c35027971612)
Somalia (item number 1) (id 6fe49131-8063-4993-81e8-de2570581d20)
Vehicle Theft (item number 1) (id 1804ffb3-665c-47ff-9632-d4f5a04ad172)
Video Links (item number 1) (id 5784f454-287f-4dd2-b29e-b58cae93d70f)
Young Offenders (item number 1) (id 5c6454ba-98fc-4d1d-ad3a-ad8c1b9ced89)
Workers' Compensation (item number 1) (id 97295b35-8532-4c8a-bbea-e1b4938c83e0)

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