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Commons Hansard for 1 December 2004 (Volume 428)

From the corrected (daily) version. Last updated 4 December 2025 at 10.59am.

Commons Chamber

Record of debates that happened in the House of Commons main chamber.
House of Commons (item number 1) (id 148a3da9-99fc-4832-90c7-709b9e7174b9)
Prayers (item number 2) (id 40087e31-4510-44d6-932a-d17d917fbc28)

Oral Answers to Questions
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Northern Ireland

Decommissioning (item number 1) (id 2e691639-957b-4a96-a7aa-6526532c85f2)
Cross-Border Trade (item number 1) (id a750c3fe-a0eb-4959-a696-068f31725d58)
Peace Process (item number 1) (id e005bb7f-9693-4497-8443-8bed90b48194)
Religious Bigotry (item number 1) (id f9647e52-8c97-461b-9826-7889bea96a76)

Prime Minister
Engagements (item number 1) (id 251cf3a4-0738-469e-8f64-1f7d4dbb0067)
Animal Rights Extremists (item number 1) (id 861040cf-ed3c-4216-a53b-dff1b81b91df)
Engagements (item number 1) (id 5672d49e-0171-46b4-90c3-710fb607ff20)
Point of Order (item number 4) (id 962462d7-ed06-4e3f-af52-f03b99e54756)
Orders of the Day (item number 5) (id 87d52fb5-0ddd-4df4-987f-da05804eae30)
Debate on the Address (item number 6) (id c9567962-8cf1-4d4d-8eb9-f6ff69c63f4a)

Petitions
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Traveller Sites (item number 1) (id 44485656-a452-463d-aee9-aed2c08a97e9)
Primary Schools (Stevenage) (item number 1) (id cd1f8efb-17b6-4667-8099-e56fd34d3c1d)
Coroners' Courts (item number 8) (id 657a8f71-9697-49b7-bbc1-07e19377e5da)

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 b824852f-b1e7-4636-aede-f1476340f1ae)

Defence

Iraq (Multinational Division (South-East)) (item number 1) (id 10c9d2de-132f-4f53-a17b-f6ad6aac28af)

Deputy Prime Minister

Business Rates Revaluation (item number 1) (id 101c0a91-0114-4a1f-862f-208a5437d5bc)
Regional Spatial Strategy (item number 1) (id e72942b3-1ad2-4663-ad94-4ee8755d731b)

Education and Skills

Higher Education/Courses of National Strategic Importance (item number 1) (id ca325d1f-49cc-468e-bf5c-804bc243751b)

Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Over 30-Months Rule (item number 1) (id f26e4a35-fa80-4be9-b0fb-3c300d44f4bd)

Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs

Côte d'Ivoire (item number 1) (id aa4e217f-2d6f-4d0a-a008-d8851303012f)
Equatorial Guinea (item number 1) (id 280e0519-5f9d-4e4a-9b63-72ee63dbac41)

Home Department

Closure of Solihull Asylum Screening Unit (item number 1) (id 21cfa4e0-8adf-489c-81e3-d972cbf09d3c)

Written Answers

Content for Written Answers.

Written Answers to Questions

Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Bass (item number 1) (id 2ffc89f6-80f9-4bc6-8f72-833224938d76)
GM Crops (item number 1) (id cf617bb7-6912-4302-bb7e-50d6b8b8927b)
Hazardous Waste Sites (item number 1) (id 36a2399a-076b-4a8d-97e3-be8a1bb80d0b)
Pair Trawling (item number 1) (id 3d34c6e0-23d0-4668-a7ec-e3d2a3a98b83)
Peregrine Falcon (item number 1) (id 44dc008c-7754-431c-8802-e57109d59087)
Tuberculosis (item number 1) (id e3282cee-fa35-4429-9e66-43372a79ff33)
Warm Front (item number 1) (id 8e8d4d0b-7a3f-4a2d-80ae-43b6880bbdb2)
Waste Management (item number 1) (id b71a0426-819a-4fb8-b41f-afed96b1c453)
Wildlife Trafficking (item number 1) (id 9b45cdc8-7332-4861-9b82-c2e9dcb5d335)

Transport

A249 (item number 1) (id 3781466a-274d-4bc1-8a65-29365379fa2d)
Air Quality (item number 1) (id f3ebaf72-cedc-4dff-a6b6-adb65069bb69)
Carbon Emissions (item number 1) (id ee8d8f51-49de-46b9-a0dd-2f276f83c455)
Driving Tests (Gillingham) (item number 1) (id d7c2a285-583c-4a1a-9ada-738ba339e9ea)
Highways Agency (item number 1) (id 3706c8f6-f3ff-4836-a181-b04892eed692)
M2 (item number 1) (id de50d1d1-d74f-4c5b-8e1c-0af9a02ef3b9)
Motor Cycle Safety (item number 1) (id d4246155-0804-400b-b52c-89decad24d6b)
Navigational Aids (Republic of Ireland) (item number 1) (id 06e1fa86-89b6-472b-bf77-56fdfba0aa80)
Regional Transport Boards (item number 1) (id 9a89695a-0cb8-47e2-a0f2-99665399c005)
Road Developments (item number 1) (id 1242d8b2-f539-49da-82ca-b442458b8ab4)
Road Safety (item number 1) (id 70f9479c-64dd-4b50-9985-8f8aedd609c2)
Vehicle Registration (item number 1) (id 6e343add-70a6-40d3-943d-981e86f8c609)

Deputy Prime Minister

Circle initiative (item number 1) (id 204d0b77-530a-42a7-abb0-f168c6c5d6a6)
Local Authority Funding (item number 1) (id 0956c1a1-f610-4d6d-862a-aa7d67f7729b)
Local Government Pension Scheme (item number 1) (id a0eed0ee-a755-4440-809a-cf2cbe42c403)

Treasury

Civil Service Jobs (item number 1) (id f53a85d8-cad8-4358-831d-15109b3f0734)
European Constitution (item number 1) (id 8a0819a8-57c0-4e93-8e78-06b0de44e3ce)
Higher Rate Taxpayers (item number 1) (id 87ba5b4d-d68e-41b3-8571-4b8ac81bb689)
Inland Revenue Staff (item number 1) (id b1a6fb34-f060-4009-982b-a67296016955)
Invoice Payments (item number 1) (id a2af93c5-2a71-4fc0-ab04-b5c18dfc499c)
Pensioners (Income Tax) (item number 1) (id ba30fbed-f560-406c-aa0c-88fcf08bef16)
Timber (item number 1) (id 11b93541-abe3-4d57-8ba3-934c8e19fb6c)
VAT (Golf) (item number 1) (id 43dcfda9-e09d-4980-876e-b7335f57b9a9)

Health

Chronic Illnesses and Dementia (item number 1) (id 8f309481-c738-4b39-bca8-6a67cb278412)
Dentistry (item number 1) (id d859cbfd-1a66-4c7f-a75a-d8e0da7e0567)
Disabled People (Direct Payments) (item number 1) (id 8ed2e404-0f0c-4a50-9800-9ed5bc7f02ae)
E-Government (item number 1) (id adde380c-c60c-4793-8568-8bd4939019f8)
Health White Paper (item number 1) (id a0e1d0f8-9fac-4e4b-85e8-beaa7c2e6742)
Leukaemia (item number 1) (id 3a9f3b2e-56da-40e3-a146-1107930ca4b2)
Parliamentary Questions (item number 1) (id e9d10354-7974-46a9-805a-b539d76552e1)
Pregnant Women (item number 1) (id 81deb079-76e9-4827-8e53-ba6183c20197)
Primary Care Trusts (item number 1) (id 82d7dad3-d8b3-4ee8-87f4-6c6ec98d717f)
Pulmonary Rehabilitation (item number 1) (id 4da0c4eb-96f1-426c-9a34-ea9e7abe6b26)
Smoking-related Illness (item number 1) (id ab6c56a7-affe-4edc-99c0-7d100eacdae8)

Home Department

Community Support Officers (Detention Powers) (item number 1) (id e22783fb-a8cf-443d-bd06-67a605058ae2)
National Offender Management Service (item number 1) (id a1da4593-a5b1-4fc4-8c76-2833743e6fb7)

Solicitor-General

Departmental Websites (item number 1) (id 42b27c53-8d65-4433-bf18-196d93ad1f23)

Trade and Industry

Broadband National Aggregation Board (item number 1) (id cd924fb3-608f-4d62-900e-c2921e358a71)
Concessionary Coal (item number 1) (id ae7c5ad0-c915-4c36-bf2a-3815ed210459)
Departmental Training Courses (item number 1) (id b23fd45d-ebd8-496d-8c74-0d097f962d2c)
Departmental Websites (item number 1) (id b9194c17-a1c1-4e47-bb00-24ae8b95bde3)
Gas Prices (item number 1) (id 945fe205-f8ef-4f91-825b-7aa3621f6354)
Large Combustion Plant Directive (item number 1) (id 9ca1c7bd-6b4d-40d5-9020-44f3c9e75345)
Research and Development (item number 1) (id 285e1eb2-8347-4b57-9bf6-9beb5f6918a9)
Written Questions (item number 1) (id 50bcbafd-31f6-4b7c-99f0-143febe5ba8c)

Northern Ireland

Republican Sympathisers (item number 1) (id 07061a32-b8c8-4870-88ad-d26d3e181eab)
Belfast City Airport (item number 1) (id e2629e5b-0ce2-4ea0-b892-90c126d6b80d)
Devolved Government (item number 1) (id 6b9590e6-37a1-4e19-9ede-2076d67c476d)
Peace Process (item number 1) (id ebe5fa98-7b6e-4c0a-8965-3e372585a1b1)
Education Funding (item number 1) (id 6f9b63e7-4637-4555-a1c0-084c0aa5b09c)
Employment (Public Investment) (item number 1) (id 39e45d2e-6a36-4870-8394-0549b1f7039b)
GDP (item number 1) (id d17cddce-1e90-47e1-b60d-789e890a2a6c)
Inward Investment (item number 1) (id 9d2e76e0-3b88-4da7-880d-aa4c6d47b987)
Legislation (item number 1) (id be50450f-9b61-4599-8133-c0f325eabe22)
LMS Scheme (item number 1) (id 01580ced-c819-45dd-9b4c-2652302383a4)
Political Situation (item number 1) (id 39f1eecc-833c-4566-9304-939b4c970215)
Racist Attacks (item number 1) (id f4a918a9-2226-423d-9f4a-d883e934656f)
Security Situation (item number 1) (id 4d40b23a-865b-41f9-b19e-fa9ecb30c119)
Worktrack (item number 1) (id e40a30da-68ba-4a94-bdfd-a19e20072f68)

Prime Minister

Parliamentary Questions (item number 1) (id 41a760cb-ae0d-4c17-8d26-3a7494ef7cca)
President Bush (item number 1) (id ab23793e-60df-4627-b26e-3fd13cb8d98e)
Sir John Day (item number 1) (id 72a7517d-6c12-42c5-8f3d-f2540ce32ccb)

Education and Skills

Child Allergies (item number 1) (id 654075a7-5a3f-4e0d-ad12-a617e20e29ed)
Connexions (Prisons) (item number 1) (id 34c88699-d978-48dd-ab6e-8fdeedb5799b)
Early Years Education (Somerset) (item number 1) (id f2531dfe-c4cf-4e76-88d1-a5de40b60034)
Entry to Employment Programme (item number 1) (id 2b8d3b83-5dfc-4273-a4ee-8a9639b5fe21)
Education Maintenance Allowances (item number 1) (id 14fc1648-a32f-4778-a3b2-54f269ddbf90)
International Student Assessment Study (item number 1) (id 34689994-a511-4c47-8f05-26138a0533ac)
Internet Access (Schools) (item number 1) (id fbbf7b6a-fa06-4ebf-800a-6cf4ddab0321)
Jarvis (item number 1) (id b74de523-fa64-4874-a6b5-c74261efb98b)
Programme for International Student Assessment (item number 1) (id 37e06d27-1d68-489f-bb86-b6e0ddc45c57)
Sector Skills Development Agency (item number 1) (id a7ae6d0e-565c-43b0-bfac-c8a587a01cc8)
Selection (item number 1) (id a2e42437-42c2-4c1b-9830-f83852fcad13)
Single Sex Schools (item number 1) (id 5b616fde-9d70-4e98-9175-4d64f676dc8a)
Young Mums to be Programme (item number 1) (id 5e6f50cc-1b31-4d5f-ba59-12e568227837)
Young People (item number 1) (id 95a4af92-1f85-4e6f-a852-02f63aa70627)

International Development

Departmental Websites (item number 1) (id a3540253-6547-4faa-b93f-4d9c03616c16)
Developing Countries (Debt) (item number 1) (id e4fe2d92-f3d5-450f-9fdf-c41214237ec1)
Energy Efficiency (item number 1) (id 40bdf993-1b42-46a2-9955-a5dcb67b5c26)
Ethiopia (item number 1) (id 2e196b77-32ea-43fc-9516-bc76865df767)
European Constitution (item number 1) (id eef3d157-f356-4eb3-a942-564864c0d854)
European Water Initiative (item number 1) (id 10af2500-a72f-4496-b525-78bb71923a95)
Haiti (item number 1) (id 69691424-29f1-4464-bc1a-64dae41ea22b)
Russian Federation (Children) (item number 1) (id 0407fbd8-e055-430d-805f-5ecf787425aa)
Water and Sanitation (item number 1) (id 3684e53f-a3d0-4174-9658-909b626f41f5)
Yasser Arafat (Estate) (item number 1) (id 89b42d43-04f2-4649-b896-ace9b7bf7a0a)

Scotland

European Constitution (item number 1) (id 55524af2-08af-4fb9-9e52-05c5c6024c72)
Parliamentary Questions (item number 1) (id e637f251-4dda-4d05-af64-79af03c55fc8)

Defence

Asset Tracking (item number 1) (id 4e70c57f-af6e-4543-b06d-cf0e095243a4)
Battlefield Digital Information (item number 1) (id cf38ca95-344d-4ca6-a8d6-f6e1250f5bfa)
Certain Conventional Weapons Convention (item number 1) (id f695c984-91e7-4906-a592-3bbcc190ea93)
Cooneen Watts and Stone (item number 1) (id e0ee7bb0-4960-4168-acb7-dcec60f2e1ac)
Correspondence (item number 1) (id 4a2b8d80-b09d-4c36-84d6-0d675b78b45c)
Defence Contracts (item number 1) (id cd7ed67b-a7d2-4205-a766-5b0c3ab818d1)
Departmental Account Codes (item number 1) (id b181a8ad-5389-4347-8e52-64a3311d28eb)
Departmental Costs (item number 1) (id bf1b0304-a7cd-4d65-800b-3f96750656d8)
Departmental Websites (item number 1) (id 7251866a-da9b-45f6-b81c-b4595e28efd7)
EU Military Staff (item number 1) (id bd14e320-d262-448f-99cb-0954e7e30983)
Human Rights Act (item number 1) (id 4f12aaff-3cad-4b6c-a905-afabd448e220)
Lost Flying Hours (item number 1) (id 5a870335-c7c6-45e1-8c8e-1779bf3a7ec3)
Red Reflection (item number 1) (id 1aff85f7-82a1-4434-b640-c31be31a6774)
Royal Irish Regiment (item number 1) (id c4553d85-83cd-4c33-9cfc-780fb8b11fb1)
Runway De-icing Chemicals (item number 1) (id c03e0e48-6598-4306-8e38-351d04ab3c7c)
UK Eurofighter (item number 1) (id c4b03db0-4b4f-4692-86ea-e0d37e17e4e3)
Uniforms (item number 1) (id c5f0a559-d12d-4681-a3f7-32f3d7f33cf0)
Warship Command Systems (item number 1) (id b4279b0d-735c-4938-ac86-2ed96d7f42c0)

Culture, Media and Sport

Arts Council Funding (item number 1) (id 3ab7c8d2-a83c-4993-bb99-101eac653272)
Athletics (item number 1) (id dadf91c6-4653-4a2d-92df-a9cdfc6c2de1)
Commonwealth Institute Building (item number 1) (id 1fbadd29-8d5d-48f6-9d6d-fff36cccd14a)
Correspondence (item number 1) (id 79cee82e-7ed7-446d-a869-ed28f3e8012d)
Cricket (item number 1) (id dae75f23-4ffd-41b8-85f5-2eff034ff9df)
Departmental Staff (item number 1) (id ea70d61c-4af8-4aef-b7ca-7ecc3a5104bd)
Departmental Telephone Use (item number 1) (id c3107c39-6f8b-40df-a6ca-456c2c221663)
Digital Television (item number 1) (id 530539c6-12ae-499f-8fa5-2e8d441e9098)
Free TV Licences (item number 1) (id 534792bd-bed9-462c-8787-d38cb8ecd4f6)
Horseracing (item number 1) (id bede43db-d821-4ad6-b818-8003383f6c0a)
Olympic Games (item number 1) (id 0a8b6d8f-4de3-4675-85c0-5d9b6cf80d26)
School Sport (item number 1) (id 1755c9fd-ad5a-4ddb-b984-4215e7c69db5)
Tourism (item number 1) (id 29ea8ef2-10f8-477c-8ac6-cd4ef97209a9)
Training Courses (item number 1) (id e3484791-a141-4aac-b113-1b2bf52f5073)
Video Conferencing Units (item number 1) (id 1c0cd97d-cb32-4fb0-96a0-e56e50fbb38d)
World Heritage (item number 1) (id a0aeb082-2416-4426-bf37-9299f8106868)

Wales

European Constitution (item number 1) (id 6a32047b-c83b-43c5-a129-bd5e6d901346)
Parliamentary Questions (item number 1) (id e542176c-c0a1-4e48-b55a-4438ac2d20d5)

Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs

Equatorial Guinea (item number 1) (id f3589b7a-78c4-4fab-973b-aaeae871ea02)
Hamas (item number 1) (id be0fc059-cb79-4c0b-ad9e-faef29b97a84)
Iraq (Elections) (item number 1) (id 58bd4e9c-616f-4f74-a519-302f22ad9aad)
Middle East (item number 1) (id 50ed4945-e7bc-4dc1-b057-d7c0036cef11)
Overseas Contracts (item number 1) (id d1620020-bb14-4379-9c1c-15ad732b4617)
Palestinian Authority (item number 1) (id e7abf20d-1d26-4fc3-832d-bf1d4e2446a5)
Sudan (item number 1) (id f346741a-73a3-4057-bde3-73b1756287a8)
UK Embassies (item number 1) (id 03106ea1-bb78-4ca4-a517-39b844646dea)

Work and Pensions

Financial Assistance Scheme (item number 1) (id 64efba25-6039-4b4e-9c27-3a1b58c16f73)
IT Systems (item number 1) (id aefb4f56-fa9a-4f23-b166-6943351155de)
Myasthenia Gravis (item number 1) (id 76e73a34-e205-40b5-a48d-105aa26cb93e)
Parliamentary Questions (item number 1) (id da78a00f-9984-49f2-959c-b9684065b1f0)
Theft and Fraud (item number 1) (id ef652f0a-3c7a-474e-b263-94c6071c3ca3)
Winter Fuel Payments (item number 1) (id 894d8ba7-4877-4765-bb7f-d6e8798f6bd6)

Constitutional Affairs

Court Closures (item number 1) (id 7403849e-15fa-47e0-8e73-74aafa90aac9)
European Constitution (item number 1) (id 3413851e-5c42-4d34-8bb8-19161fe77bb9)
Fines Enforcement (item number 1) (id 4528d4ab-0872-44a1-8809-a01e9b7392f8)
Royal Charters (item number 1) (id 8e9d8cc4-08f8-463c-aac8-9aabffeaf8fd)

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