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Commons Hansard for 8 December 2004 (Volume 428)

From the corrected (daily) version. Last updated 4 December 2025 at 11.03am.

Commons Chamber

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

House of Commons (item number 1) (id d76f7c63-89cd-496e-a626-5d5ffe4125da)
Prayers (item number 2) (id 83ca4442-75d8-48d5-8a9b-cf6f918c9c62)
Orders of the Day (item number 4) (id 7c0b4477-0c96-46b1-b530-43c073afca89)
Commissioners for Revenue and Customs Bill (item number 5) (id fe9556b5-8e34-45aa-a70c-9586f5faebcb)
Commissioners for Revenue and Customs Bill [Money] (item number 6) (id 416b89f9-31d2-49ba-a95c-692d88c33b40)
Delegated Legislation (item number 7) (id a33ec38c-13d0-410f-a0aa-1dbd0c45c6e8)
Eye Treatment (item number 9) (id 4068b271-7bd4-4302-8e66-e05eb0067abb)

Written Answers

Content for Written Answers.

Written Answers to Questions

Trade and Industry

Accountancy Services (item number 1) (id c85dfa1f-197f-499b-b5ea-93ed1933fd7e)
British Summer Time (item number 1) (id ae4663a4-0d0d-48a2-b861-348268e05401)
Business Support (item number 1) (id b6413dc3-68c5-4151-962e-5f538214a46b)
Butane Fuel (item number 1) (id b028a565-008c-44be-9bcb-bc2465871df3)
Competitiveness Council (item number 1) (id 238c2aa0-db89-4506-8396-c783d0c2be7d)
Consumer Direct (West Midlands) (item number 1) (id 0dadcb19-0671-4771-b1e5-7b49e7f13630)
Correspondence (item number 1) (id 9e3b3ea0-e594-4f6d-ba53-3ccfa300ac73)
Departmental Estate (item number 1) (id f4f31436-5c9c-4d2f-a67c-e337a6102cdc)
Departmental Expenditure (item number 1) (id 95bb9304-fbdc-455c-9a2e-7402d839b53a)
Departmental Mobile Phones (item number 1) (id 2cf7bfc2-8f68-432c-8189-22fb28354cf1)
Electrical Accidents (item number 1) (id 1ace7ee6-3c1c-4c09-aeab-bd5fffc7cf44)
Electricity Generation (Renewables) (item number 1) (id d8749af7-316c-41e5-937a-82a48e7f0421)
Emissions Trading Scheme (item number 1) (id c96bc7ef-b761-4492-9d90-a5b416a22e30)
EU Social Chapter (item number 1) (id 5066b513-5527-4cc8-94c3-ba8b25ce4ee8)
Faraday Partnerships (item number 1) (id 6e26ad27-b25b-4dc3-a7b3-34ecc1d2d1ac)
Fuel Poverty (item number 1) (id adcb1d8d-8904-4e78-8318-8c7db1a7a885)
Iran (item number 1) (id 17bae258-d47e-4538-8da7-28fc913a0d13)
IT Graduates (item number 1) (id afde6312-bc1e-4357-9f75-1d08d621a660)
Ministerial Meetings (item number 1) (id 025ab6c7-2336-43c7-a689-5a18c9bfaf99)
National Minimum Wage (item number 1) (id a01fd24c-8279-4d2a-9910-6200efa7c9ae)
Paternity Leave (item number 1) (id 3ea274cb-0de2-4adc-ba21-61e1c16fc294)
Plutonium Shipment (item number 1) (id 7a276fd6-e9e1-4b0d-969f-f804c5f8e5e4)
Post Office (item number 1) (id a98be299-b3db-44de-9a1c-928a14889b08)
Power Stations (item number 1) (id bc6fc418-c070-4d7d-93a0-530f4caee408)
Radioactive Chocolate (item number 1) (id e806a27d-5778-4fca-a84f-917dae860841)
Science and Technology Select Committee (item number 1) (id 6a7957a4-f07e-4bb9-a48d-c5caaee002eb)
Telephone Preference Service (item number 1) (id 8a1e0d55-7c84-48ff-9854-f672c2443a66)
Transport, Telecommunications and Energy Council (item number 1) (id 6b71aeb0-4ff9-40cf-b0a4-5fa0143b748b)
Eurofighter Typhoon (item number 1) (id 3b051ec4-bf5e-4174-9d98-89f6d050ab18)
Wind Farms (item number 1) (id 7b8e9ae0-1f24-4aa4-bf84-407605c2bb2c)

Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs

Northern Ireland

Agenda for Change (item number 1) (id dd43086d-9467-40eb-bdf8-d13f3bf94594)
Anti-TNF Medications (item number 1) (id 6f24835f-4403-4b1c-9982-96d35874519d)
Asbestosis (item number 1) (id af1a274c-6bbb-4cc7-87ca-68e1a5e59ac4)
Audiology (item number 1) (id db4e7cba-1e9d-4a60-bc6d-583807d19567)
Belfast City Airport (item number 1) (id 1cb4df23-5845-448b-afee-9494a3ceeefb)
Bowel Cancer (item number 1) (id 8e4d2778-9e5d-427a-82fc-3c666265119b)
Care Costs (item number 1) (id 5c5d52e4-cd05-499c-9055-d39213303a42)
Child Protection (item number 1) (id 88464df4-e1ff-418d-9956-af7170357745)
Children in Need (item number 1) (id f9b7599c-7271-4bac-99a2-3ce35a794a45)
Commissioner for Children and Young People (item number 1) (id 61ee8313-7b82-419b-8a8b-0c348a1322d6)
Community Care Packages (item number 1) (id 4be66038-4a2f-4d42-8e5c-cb8929a98ac5)
Community-based Health Professionals (item number 1) (id 6a2292c8-6300-454a-a31a-d2a3a227808e)
Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety (item number 1) (id 558de1a0-cf43-4cc4-8e51-8c2c1808db6b)
Digital Hearing Aids (item number 1) (id b79f314f-d2c6-45c8-b667-da58eebf20ea)
Disabled Children (item number 1) (id e8f33e26-fc0e-43ba-a374-507ee46784a1)
Eating Disorders (item number 1) (id 8d42bb01-bfca-46e3-b09f-828a7c5b7ff1)
Emergency Services (item number 1) (id 22900ebb-1143-4644-8bc3-819413f0004a)
General Practitioners (item number 1) (id 94bfd8d1-7341-45bb-836b-0865ef7fbb2c)
Health and Personal Social Services (item number 1) (id a407d26b-6667-4001-bade-9cd26d10a4cc)
Health and Social Services (item number 1) (id 3e17c604-ead1-471d-b6f2-4e398526d539)
Health Expenditure (item number 1) (id 9922eefa-808e-47fa-b613-59e813ab52c8)
Health Service Agency Staff (item number 1) (id 7615c04a-4f0a-4a38-ad76-c732b4dbb5d2)
Home Help Services (item number 1) (id f16fa097-d0cd-4495-88da-105d9f0171c9)
Hospital-acquired Infection (item number 1) (id cfdc1a07-7006-41b7-90bc-e08a703d0ed1)
Housing (item number 1) (id a5b9b00d-8ee2-4410-89a8-530e65a91b07)
Junior Doctors (item number 1) (id a2f76496-e3f1-4d01-a857-229cdc97e77b)
Looked-after Children (item number 1) (id 4b82ac1e-b6d4-4d64-9960-73aaf3c73b12)
Meningitis (item number 1) (id 6fa31a37-8bf2-4ea6-a4bd-3416b745c90b)
Mental Health Services (item number 1) (id 37dd01e4-6a77-4ba6-a330-3964412fabfb)
Multiple Sclerosis (item number 1) (id fb19854e-7faa-4113-a1e7-f1ec770fd8f4)
Necrotising Fasciitis (item number 1) (id 5d3a1f27-00db-4e0a-a434-e059fa631f2a)
NHS (Treatment Eligibility) (item number 1) (id 374be5ac-fdfc-49f1-b509-4827b30bb7ef)
NHS Dentistry (item number 1) (id 5bcd238b-5ddb-4ee8-a9cb-8ddbbb62fffe)
Prescriptions (item number 1) (id 95697784-835e-41b7-a024-51f218f9c6fc)
Priorities for Action (item number 1) (id 9fb0c276-07ba-43e5-b098-07c20fabec8e)
Priority Treatment (Ex-service Personnel) (item number 1) (id 1cf8e0c9-e2b1-4acd-9fd8-bea7bbeaeedc)
Psychiatry (item number 1) (id 0c278247-8f87-4649-96e9-c6961ba6a62a)
Toxin Pollution (River Strule) (item number 1) (id c49ba2ba-1cfb-4a67-915c-07b1437db73d)
Wounds (item number 1) (id c5325a9e-cc3f-46bc-a4dc-6581aa78f4bf)

Home Department

Alcohol-related Violence and Disorder (item number 1) (id fa00b61f-bebe-4c9c-934a-f66ea2afed7d)
Animal Experiments (item number 1) (id 16156f02-5d10-4f67-9188-c56c05e8eb21)
Anti-social Behaviour Act (item number 1) (id a86d6e20-8b95-4006-b10c-67706ba7c5ec)
Community Safety (Funding) (item number 1) (id 0c9f256a-004f-44fb-909b-f5a9090856ba)
Community Safety Officers (West Midlands) (item number 1) (id e7057ca3-1e8b-4b8e-8c58-5f165f993c63)
Correspondence (item number 1) (id eb5ba992-3c9f-47d2-bf6f-e69b747e151f)
Crime (item number 1) (id 95678550-0949-4cb7-9640-51ec6ae92457)
Crimes Against Young People (item number 1) (id d15784cc-8133-45f9-a082-a3c5f5de78ae)
Drivers (Mobile Phones) (item number 1) (id 40f5010f-5698-49c0-bb15-fdd1638762e4)
European Constitution (item number 1) (id d293f7a9-0e36-4470-9f10-53543e423402)
Fingerprinting (item number 1) (id b9205fa7-5106-4a74-a15b-08fc383d6517)
Firearms (item number 1) (id d786f423-9e3a-4d56-b1eb-8f91561d3b20)
Fireworks Act (item number 1) (id bda3751f-79de-4f56-8619-7cc8a16df071)
Road Traffic Offences (item number 1) (id e55af3ee-fa0b-4dff-b2e5-fba0c99ec99d)
Knives (item number 1) (id 1f24f727-c03a-45dc-8088-97aa6216a0d0)
Metropolitan Police (Travel Allowances) (item number 1) (id 6240acce-5070-4b67-a7bc-00e747dcc66f)
Police (item number 1) (id 789a38e2-18eb-42d8-8335-690719c4dbdd)
Police Advice Bodies (item number 1) (id 5f46265c-3727-48d6-8ca6-6dad2607c171)
Police Authority Funding (item number 1) (id 70490b33-2092-4600-abc5-ec2717595b1c)
Police Detention Powers (item number 1) (id eb33cb77-e975-4b2e-8fd2-40ee8b7e167c)
Police Numbers (item number 1) (id bbe413cd-59df-450d-af97-b719ac2ca729)
Police Paperwork (item number 1) (id dadc2fde-9138-4b70-9e28-13044952d6e5)
Police Training (item number 1) (id f7d6cd16-46f8-41dc-9f41-dacd3be5434d)
Police (Lewisham) (item number 1) (id b5ec6a44-012d-4c2b-9a85-2839f6d11374)
Prisons (item number 1) (id 2929a769-f2d3-4037-b873-7d50117750db)
Seizure of Property (item number 1) (id 3314b9d9-7db8-4a0e-81d8-7957bf068b6b)
Sex Offenders (item number 1) (id cd444f33-349f-4adb-961d-430b7dc1af74)
Special Constables (item number 1) (id 9aa96bad-cea4-4462-baa0-58e028f4bf61)
Street Crime (item number 1) (id d6f25c15-b87c-404c-9d5f-a39ce68195d5)
Terrorism Act (Searches) (item number 1) (id 97e59e54-2bb6-49e7-afa1-e7ff2dedaaf0)
TETRA Airwave Project (item number 1) (id 5ebc3272-70f6-4d09-bf6f-65b0e4b497d4)
Wildlife Crime (item number 1) (id 90abe131-94ae-4f87-8f7c-058b2813ad95)

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