Select a date
Go to today
Skip calendar selector
Legend for calendar days
Indicator for Days with content
Indicator for the Selected day
Indicator for a Weekend
Downloads
Download content and documents relevant to the day's proceedings.
Commons Hansard for 26 January 2005 (Volume 430)
From the corrected (daily) version. Last updated
2 December 2025 at 10.33am.
Commons Chamber
Record of debates that happened in the House of Commons main chamber.
House of Commons
(item number 1)
(id a073c447-3cc9-4330-8605-bbc4cc3932c0)
Prayers
(item number 2)
(id 7b0c29ce-2579-4a28-8873-b41eed5aea7b)
Oral Answers to Questions
View all Oral Answers to Questions
Wales
Cardiff
(item number 1)
(id baa1fe63-eb4c-41ba-b561-0d57c6249087)
Wrexham-Bidston Rail Line
(item number 1)
(id ef3caaf2-86f2-4008-971f-81048b81c100)
NHS Emergency Services
(item number 1)
(id 9174a55f-738c-4114-9750-b9c76e26c484)
Regimental Names
(item number 1)
(id 0dc4ea85-55e3-416e-b5e8-dfdf9edc7f31)
Allergy Sufferers
(item number 1)
(id a73aee2d-a513-48e6-b024-07ca595a39f7)
Welsh Economy
(item number 1)
(id 4e95dac5-61d3-4658-9c9c-60cacd0c8a43)
Dental Services
(item number 1)
(id 4c8bb08c-9d58-4959-9490-b9050e2800e5)
Ministerial Meetings
(item number 1)
(id 2914c643-3928-4ea4-b102-76df7f443337)
Measures to Combat Terrorism
(item number 4)
(id 4330baba-2725-4c15-8efd-eb9196afc1f1)
Point of Order
(item number 5)
(id 5606f05a-1bc2-4e25-887f-138a57879522)
Regulation of Financial Services (Land Transactions)
(item number 6)
(id d453a0f0-6cb6-4e8a-8207-354c7a3907a0)
Modernisation of the House of Commons
(item number 7)
(id 76228e0d-7e90-4055-a31b-5e0ad30a1a9d)
Connecting Parliament with the Public
(item number 8)
(id bf8c08ee-ece1-47dc-a419-2884a7652f83)
Car Mileage Allowance
(item number 9)
(id bbe0eb09-0077-46a7-a6af-16b54485fa03)
Commissioners for Revenue and Customs Bill (Programme) (No. 3)
(item number 10)
(id f2d47bc6-ce3e-4897-abb5-24d3edd5d76a)
Orders of the Day
(item number 11)
(id 56762b23-5167-4f84-837d-2004b55c4a14)
Commissioners for Revenue and Customs Bill
(item number 12)
(id 87ce7943-a523-4302-a9ef-f527ee85e4e8)
Delegated Legislation
(item number 13)
(id 4f3b3952-5130-45c0-a7a9-4c83347b29b8)
Tuition Fees
(item number 14)
(id 7d87ebc0-6082-464c-844c-b01b9a91b9cf)
Westminster Hall
Westminster Hall debates give Members an opportunity to raise local or national issues and receive a response from a government minister.
Westminster Hall
(item number 1)
(id 5221ea62-6d83-4aea-ada1-5415036f6555)
European Union Fraud
(item number 2)
(id 424fceb3-596d-4ca2-ad38-04425f95746a)
Education Funding (North Somerset)
(item number 3)
(id 363a504e-ba21-4886-8b67-969cab212e6d)
NICE Infertility Guidelines
(item number 4)
(id 859387b7-b51d-48f1-97a6-bedc08e40255)
Children's Play
(item number 5)
(id 47301863-c1a2-4ea3-a152-caeff4bc13b2)
Vulnerable Passengers
(item number 6)
(id 30528145-5749-4e1d-a552-caaa3e149fea)
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 Answers
Content for Written Answers.
Written Answers to Questions
Defence
Aircraft Carrier Project
(item number 1)
(id d966bfb6-c6cb-4a0c-8722-c80ed579e919)
Cash Machines
(item number 1)
(id 0afdb0b4-7a24-4f12-a0d7-9170206beb1e)
Chinook HC2 Helicopter
(item number 1)
(id c15a8f99-1ebf-4823-ac64-a471d58a4aa0)
Civil Servants (Opposition Policy)
(item number 1)
(id dac15abb-3d17-41bc-8aac-e57448d7cd63)
Cluster Munitions
(item number 1)
(id cc76732c-89a7-4470-b481-9a2d888db723)
Disposal Services Agency
(item number 1)
(id 930cae72-95ac-4e18-8c65-f1fdac56c19f)
Hawk Advanced Jet Trainer
(item number 1)
(id 609a433d-6cbf-4b95-9a77-f197f01fba8f)
Interceptor Missiles
(item number 1)
(id 7054caaa-cc40-4f82-8808-4fe96abfd2d2)
Iraq
(item number 1)
(id 07da4e63-4410-47ef-9d49-3ba82a3cb908)
Military Exercises (Deaths)
(item number 1)
(id 517e15d1-6870-4345-ba72-e794b9b08d08)
Procurement Budget
(item number 1)
(id aef2a7d2-4f39-4c1c-ba5a-20c4b364deba)
Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment
(item number 1)
(id 3a9351b6-4d6b-4757-a253-d77aa0f8f14e)
Submarines
(item number 1)
(id deb5fbaf-c800-4281-9711-c3ad7db131ba)
Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Boscastle
(item number 1)
(id 360300e4-d259-42f2-bf8c-94cc44f5167d)
Bovine TB
(item number 1)
(id 138c2495-fa7d-4bff-8e10-c9ad422942cf)
Departmental Advertising
(item number 1)
(id 438d8b34-fb71-4a51-9580-16ce7a5a3b25)
Environmental Scheme Costs
(item number 1)
(id a3848c03-89cd-4b16-878f-2ce79ca92a6a)
EU Emissions Trading Scheme
(item number 1)
(id de194074-9718-4ca9-aca6-67a3e96d0bca)
Farm Payments
(item number 1)
(id 435e64e6-9e0c-4962-8d20-7e6d166c3889)
Farm Plastics Recycling Schemes
(item number 1)
(id 9fba7977-be05-4846-a9e8-745e05514dcb)
Freedom of Information
(item number 1)
(id 488b9522-4cb3-44b2-9259-97d2d32d1289)
Global Dimming
(item number 1)
(id 890f0c84-6080-4e5d-8713-6b6d704e76cb)
Growth Antibiotics
(item number 1)
(id b491c181-6e43-43f0-bb17-1ecd267a0184)
Lead Pipes
(item number 1)
(id f745e538-db62-4f81-9dba-05db47924aa8)
Metered Water
(item number 1)
(id f96087be-1b8e-4295-8caf-72f8cea7e649)
Mobile Phone Masts
(item number 1)
(id 60df83a5-a1d7-4eec-b5e3-5b42df0a66c9)
Nuclear Waste
(item number 1)
(id 48445e24-e191-41d4-abf1-be1be181bd12)
Oil Contamination
(item number 1)
(id e36bff55-3eae-4c1e-b2f1-a96a59cea850)
Pheasants
(item number 1)
(id ac0f30ff-6883-4208-b223-196ad204072b)
Research and Development
(item number 1)
(id 88bc08d8-a104-43ed-8233-34c66fbba48c)
Fairshare Scheme
(item number 1)
(id c8e1f632-8153-48b2-ac38-d2434ede89a3)
Wood Waste
(item number 1)
(id e7aea4cd-8553-47a4-b37f-9f744f517b9d)
Wales
Dental Services
(item number 1)
(id 5dff7856-fbcc-4bdb-956c-bcdd2f62a4a0)
Pupil Referral Units
(item number 1)
(id baa47329-5dfe-4987-a3b5-f3b0084d1a00)
Manufacturing Industry
(item number 1)
(id ef44417d-f00c-4476-b0e9-8b336b08c0a8)
Child Trust Fund
(item number 1)
(id fe916eee-c5ca-4508-8c03-664cb891208b)
Pensioner Poverty
(item number 1)
(id 1242282b-9444-4945-8080-0fabdeb22504)
Freedom of Information
(item number 1)
(id c97e6cdd-1f66-48ad-b422-6f7ce7b90146)
Welsh Economy
(item number 1)
(id af1b5115-8199-43fa-abcc-7f511f4488a3)
Transport
Concessionary Travel
(item number 1)
(id 1dc742e6-f409-4280-82a8-f7709d272e3c)
DVLA (Fines)
(item number 1)
(id 2ee2faf4-798b-4491-8ab2-2ae7693766be)
Departmental Expenditure
(item number 1)
(id 85fc05dc-6219-4f28-ad59-81a821fc2439)
Freedom of Information
(item number 1)
(id 2aa9b738-6427-4fc4-8d52-baf2c0451791)
Railways
(item number 1)
(id ff9f1ffc-7872-4701-9e6f-20c2acda80e8)
Roads
(item number 1)
(id 6c63529f-0163-4ac5-a4fd-1b02be62d311)
Secondment
(item number 1)
(id 0f3edc31-0eb3-4afb-98f4-d34f38d86471)
Single-hulled Tankers
(item number 1)
(id 994e2bc3-0ea7-417f-bec2-a7c796a99200)
Education and Skills
Child Abuse
(item number 1)
(id eae73725-9cd3-41b7-9964-98a9faff160d)
Childminders
(item number 1)
(id 9359f279-bae1-44b8-899b-b6201d799d53)
Departmental Staff
(item number 1)
(id 4ed78ae8-f149-4a48-bd58-1609ad9095ef)
DES/EU Co-operation
(item number 1)
(id 9d4bf4ca-abed-469d-ad7a-cb5c2f3c33e7)
Education Funding
(item number 1)
(id 86e65032-8a5b-4578-afba-104b6d324c41)
Education Maintenance Allowance
(item number 1)
(id 9ed69806-f825-47f0-8b60-0fd9e49d7ced)
Education, Youth and Culture Council
(item number 1)
(id 1268c810-2edd-4a92-bc1d-e0fda63282c4)
Free Nursery Places
(item number 1)
(id fd02e328-96ea-4aa9-8e94-22768fcc9255)
Freedom of Information
(item number 1)
(id 33c3fce8-b2e7-4453-939b-0285c9d932aa)
Higher Education
(item number 1)
(id 053c742e-bd77-44ae-838f-11fa939c1227)
Non-resident Parents
(item number 1)
(id ac0a9a0b-9a43-42c4-8b74-394653167a7c)
NotSchool Project
(item number 1)
(id 2af2357f-b08c-40c0-aa4e-1caf33fa1d26)
Parking Spaces
(item number 1)
(id 2df69373-6ddd-4ba6-a7d6-b70c0f51fb34)
Post-16 Education
(item number 1)
(id 4d5c3959-f6a9-4444-8911-64a85d439fb9)
Post-graduate Certificate
(item number 1)
(id b3bad586-ddef-429a-85e8-807833f06a84)
School Governors
(item number 1)
(id bd058aa1-8efc-408e-a9e5-dce2e96ec306)
Secondment
(item number 1)
(id 2a53f98d-a636-4256-80d0-ed52954476a7)
Sixth Form Colleges
(item number 1)
(id 1b3f9e48-7ce6-4fa3-b7fe-6c4c1fe76d2b)
Special Educational Needs
(item number 1)
(id 83b03ad6-dcbc-4c92-a130-1fe0fc1b03b7)
Staff Vacancies
(item number 1)
(id 21965171-455b-4735-82db-b9ac923d6cdf)
Student Loan Company
(item number 1)
(id 154c71bb-2507-4539-8501-f3ac547669ad)
Sure Start
(item number 1)
(id 9232003f-56b1-403d-8bd7-08c968605a58)
Home Department
Country Information Policy Unit Reports
(item number 1)
(id 557caa13-4c48-47f5-b0f9-8bdd733926cd)
Animal Experiments
(item number 1)
(id a5ae21cf-297d-453d-b155-c6f6dff7ad37)
Asylum Seekers
(item number 1)
(id d453760c-8719-4f8a-a1eb-08528c9397af)
Botox
(item number 1)
(id d4c5ac97-3de4-4dd6-8833-eb0076b59b6f)
Class A Drug Arrests
(item number 1)
(id 687bbd99-5218-421d-9177-ac2f6d5c892d)
Country Information Policy Unit Reports
(item number 1)
(id 7df3531e-73b2-4ce3-ad25-30a6bc8e73aa)
Departmental Electrical Equipment
(item number 1)
(id ac212a62-46c7-4fff-b76b-edb59b7d8285)
Departmental Expenditure
(item number 1)
(id e2bfde48-141c-4cc1-a84e-bad6f55be3b0)
Documents
(item number 1)
(id c5657785-f46e-4b56-a9e2-1842a13117b9)
Drug Trafficking
(item number 1)
(id 82d855fc-bad7-4e67-8c9f-ae953e6f42f9)
Drug-related Crime
(item number 1)
(id 61f0d22b-69ff-4ce5-91ab-9fced5488047)
External Supplies
(item number 1)
(id 7ff213f0-f6ce-4d5a-baa6-50a096392122)
Firearms
(item number 1)
(id 381e11f0-bde6-412e-a24a-a38b71e7ad49)
Football Banning Orders
(item number 1)
(id a8d0a96d-2ef6-4d69-8f72-bce3ee5713e0)
Identity Cards
(item number 1)
(id 5299cd66-347a-481b-9012-08c2bb3622a6)
Biometric Passports
(item number 1)
(id 09524dad-bdb5-4980-a4f8-7482f21e7255)
Knives
(item number 1)
(id e03042d6-dafa-454f-b7c0-dfd5e3b6250e)
Managed Migration Directorate
(item number 1)
(id eadfb172-a347-44e7-9156-ece7345e3f42)
Motoring Offences
(item number 1)
(id 9f4274c0-59be-421e-bc9d-872c27603d15)
Parking Spaces
(item number 1)
(id 034ab69d-6800-4495-908a-1ad919334f9c)
Parliamentary Questions
(item number 1)
(id 7e15c5bb-7773-40b1-9691-683cdbdbb2a0)
Police
(item number 1)
(id faaae6f9-e75f-45f3-9f0a-dd8fb3586c83)
Police-Immigration Service (Joint Operations)
(item number 1)
(id 1a317852-5ef8-4487-985c-256882b2e9a9)
Secondments
(item number 1)
(id 96e6c0c4-5dbc-40a6-bafc-07ed7e556109)
Street Crime
(item number 1)
(id 37a6dc6e-5fc3-4832-8c25-2264e714f36d)
Yarl's Wood
(item number 1)
(id 4bd066fb-72ba-4765-8caa-dce68b0a518b)
Scotland
Departmental Equipment/Property
(item number 1)
(id 95d89f73-3d50-441b-a16a-d301bcbfeb32)
Departmental Expenditure
(item number 1)
(id ebdaf3ed-f627-4750-bc0e-24d08793da6a)
Special Advisers
(item number 1)
(id 6d600c12-6cb5-45b1-a0c6-c127bb2637a4)
Staff Vacancies
(item number 1)
(id b0b9a084-b357-47ca-8db7-e1b0d40c8c73)
Parliamentary Constituencies Order
(item number 1)
(id e55c2748-3541-4e88-87a8-0e4218368c1d)
Treasury
Alcohol-related Deaths (Lancashire)
(item number 1)
(id f9021e8e-d1e1-4c6e-b875-9e1d1644bb12)
Cancer
(item number 1)
(id 98cfe888-920a-4731-8b35-04d4aa07b394)
Child Trust Funds
(item number 1)
(id b0922a47-6446-488e-84c1-bcde54189354)
Departmental Policies (Preseli Pembrokeshire)
(item number 1)
(id d01f1a01-4a81-40ba-bebd-fdfe63caf8c8)
ECOFIN
(item number 1)
(id 94715e91-3d11-4520-ad03-c73e7cf6e95d)
Freedom of Information
(item number 1)
(id 853ee161-b813-499d-a6d4-81dae19ec8cf)
Iraq
(item number 1)
(id a7b0411a-3c39-49f1-8335-0fddb466f47b)
National Minimum Wage (Lancashire)
(item number 1)
(id f6dfc173-71f5-4e8c-9f11-c8839e5f6c1d)
Pay Television Subscriptions
(item number 1)
(id 25f04720-90a4-43aa-98aa-79965efa90a5)
Productivity
(item number 1)
(id 7fcaef07-b7bb-412b-8861-c3411c6a4351)
Tax Credits
(item number 1)
(id 6b8e81ae-38d5-483b-9e37-6faf451a5ef4)
Teenage Pregnancies
(item number 1)
(id 4d9c0f61-804a-4a63-bbb7-7fb37bca46b4)
Health
Adverse Drug Reactions
(item number 1)
(id 31e41034-156f-4abc-b282-7d3d52d66021)
Burns Units (West Midlands)
(item number 1)
(id 5f9818a9-fafe-421d-b6e5-8491f9b710a4)
Care Homes (Pension Credit)
(item number 1)
(id 854441b5-7107-4f16-a44a-a68b4429ab45)
Continuing Care
(item number 1)
(id ecebac25-3123-430e-a5d6-dd37189fb133)
Digital Hearing Aids
(item number 1)
(id 31909482-48bf-491f-8120-4c52c8a4718d)
Domiciliary Oxygen Supplies
(item number 1)
(id 301dc887-8d1c-4faa-b1dc-8fad4047ceef)
Drug Misuse
(item number 1)
(id 9b9facfa-262f-4330-9287-2bf38136296c)
Eastbourne District General Hospital
(item number 1)
(id bd95def3-e913-4cdd-a2af-6940a37bdae6)
GP Surgeries (Lancashire)
(item number 1)
(id c3117633-4dc5-4dd3-92d8-a7fb35681be0)
GPs (North Yorkshire)
(item number 1)
(id 7f76159c-ee5c-4cd4-8ff0-b2f5d1d9718c)
Health Care-associated Infection
(item number 1)
(id 5f750a24-7efa-459e-b1ad-b85744b52288)
Laser Eye Surgery
(item number 1)
(id e9a30fa9-ff56-404a-89d0-debcc2b9803c)
Methadone and Buprenorphine
(item number 1)
(id 2ba5c504-1996-4815-b301-594552a09ebe)
NHS Personnel Costs
(item number 1)
(id 6af2d2ae-4b54-404e-b68a-2ccd920b07dc)
Skipton Fund
(item number 1)
(id fdd9c29b-4ec8-4711-8ad7-f8517c543042)
Special Hospitals
(item number 1)
(id a0f1920d-d892-4c9a-85f4-72334c071a52)
Teenage Sex
(item number 1)
(id 39570e8b-2f0e-43eb-9dd3-2902edab8848)
TETRA System
(item number 1)
(id b6852165-a61f-4f15-894c-a8d7d8812e7e)
Walsgrave Hospital
(item number 1)
(id 9e8f8cf4-74c0-4f4e-b63a-0345c8a22091)
Northern Ireland
Beef Export Ban
(item number 1)
(id 9cb92c13-3c54-412f-8a52-07273ae9de9b)
Counterfeit Pharmaceuticals
(item number 1)
(id 19532fbb-a34a-4e3a-bb7e-a7985b06936b)
Fall-related Injuries
(item number 1)
(id e69c4b07-d700-418f-a9ce-dac9d5923ad5)
Haemophilia Services
(item number 1)
(id 43c34d7e-bcb8-4f02-a99d-6c02e6da05f4)
House Sales
(item number 1)
(id 1b7d945a-1dab-48b7-91ba-19f74033089a)
IT (Disciplinary Procedures)
(item number 1)
(id 620c7fe9-cfa7-4368-89fb-4f2f122ea6b9)
John Lewis Store
(item number 1)
(id 3af64211-dfc5-4cf1-b574-77664b25ef9a)
Listed Buildings
(item number 1)
(id 456d2a0d-496b-4a83-af6e-4b86e4fc9ee2)
Ministerial Visits
(item number 1)
(id 7c2e5d6a-fe94-488e-8061-b16c91c0977c)
Waiting Times (Orthopaedic)
(item number 1)
(id 83eed7c5-6dad-4e7c-aef2-e39a5c3675b2)
Peace Funding
(item number 1)
(id 45a6bbd7-b8d3-4b6b-aa53-5a8d620b373f)
School Transport
(item number 1)
(id 52fb6b65-bc73-41eb-920d-572871b11554)
Special Units
(item number 1)
(id 5587aadf-d50d-48e7-bc3b-1142d98936f8)
Suicides
(item number 1)
(id 7a460062-f29d-42cf-8bb2-f2ae464da576)
Theft and Fraud
(item number 1)
(id 1220a429-b294-4f4e-a848-3bfeccb634d9)
Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
Armament Sales (China)
(item number 1)
(id 15823309-8e42-446f-9aa3-c2699390ae5b)
Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention
(item number 1)
(id 3ed34037-db42-4c41-98cc-3a3dc80a816e)
Burkina Faso
(item number 1)
(id 47bdc1de-32bf-4656-8194-4a8865d34b73)
Burma
(item number 1)
(id e0c112cd-da9f-4035-b5ef-5764126127bf)
Chechnya
(item number 1)
(id e60c48e3-d0fb-439c-9330-8dc123441fda)
Democratic Republic of Congo
(item number 1)
(id 3a61feeb-a95e-4b75-9cf7-6724ad144f15)
Co(r)te D'Ivoire
(item number 1)
(id 09fb4617-cc4f-4778-9020-a4bf2f5d7ca7)
Cyprus
(item number 1)
(id 3cbd62c9-2eb3-4aab-b549-a417f11db9d8)
Diego Garica
(item number 1)
(id fe75c11a-599d-4715-adfd-79a11000115a)
European Constitution
(item number 1)
(id cfc5eab8-b4cc-4421-9866-b9e249ffec37)
Iran
(item number 1)
(id b94e62c8-30a2-4d6f-a98f-4678f2ff7ef3)
Liberia
(item number 1)
(id f63de6cf-4819-4362-b9aa-19785958708c)
Non-proliferation Treaty
(item number 1)
(id 4d1fd7c4-8f11-49d8-9b4f-3dd2bb83870b)
Palestine
(item number 1)
(id 5a8fce30-d723-4f2a-a906-bf5eae4a2ff8)
Serbia and Montenegro
(item number 1)
(id 1f3b1ae5-cb21-4b65-b5e4-56b3bf4fcd51)
Sir Mark Thatcher (South Africa)
(item number 1)
(id 08e1f15d-50b2-4d9d-8b15-17e750c4a8b5)
VE Day Celebrations
(item number 1)
(id 892f9ca8-2833-4720-b35e-38190f068b38)
Constitutional Affairs
Antisocial Behaviour Response Courts
(item number 1)
(id 7c5d4b33-5de5-42c7-b7ad-6c649c8e9ef3)
Asylum Seekers
(item number 1)
(id c068c974-0127-43d9-b7b7-815c7d58f6ee)
Correspondence
(item number 1)
(id 49c96d4e-4d5a-4a96-8060-91363b86e31b)
District Judges
(item number 1)
(id 4c435e1d-dbac-4723-9aa4-01d7d42e8025)
Royal Charters
(item number 1)
(id f634e355-4be5-482c-be73-dfe63551a417)
Deputy Prime Minister
Building Regulations
(item number 1)
(id f945f13f-c7b4-408b-8162-ddfe39717ff4)
Council Housing
(item number 1)
(id ef66c9d5-3a26-414b-b3a3-99d8e5c213af)
Criminal Offences
(item number 1)
(id a1017699-7e8d-40be-9d8b-ed311900d7ef)
Flood Risks
(item number 1)
(id 6add0947-316c-4c84-80ec-572dcb767daa)
Government Grants
(item number 1)
(id 632bf649-dff2-44ba-bcd4-cecca17af7e4)
Housing Associations
(item number 1)
(id b2060964-d220-42a0-93d9-7fd571b89aa7)
Housing Benefit
(item number 1)
(id 7a5bbd81-c099-44b5-8a72-6abfe2ed9474)
New Charter
(item number 1)
(id d56e8b06-659b-48c3-98c3-389b3f532f35)
Regional Chambers
(item number 1)
(id 80443514-57c2-4a39-aaf0-e8fca71251d2)
Social Housing
(item number 1)
(id 52f3cb5f-9d38-40db-a569-3910b17e13a3)
Staff Vacancies
(item number 1)
(id c05f1a33-28fa-4773-a17c-5e42c8b5fdec)
Downloads
Download content and documents relevant to the day's proceedings.