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Commons Hansard for 10 February 2005 (Volume 430)

From the corrected (daily) version. Last updated 2 December 2025 at 12.16pm.

Commons Chamber

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

House of Commons (item number 1) (id 1f3fbc67-aa4b-4aa0-8a24-7e6a7298d7f5)
Prayers (item number 2) (id a8e75566-16ac-4538-88e1-8d59d0b28bc5)
Speaker's Statement (item number 4) (id 7f19d7e1-8ae5-4e57-ae56-824b85d8ce34)
Business of the House (item number 5) (id 19d9575f-c7fc-477f-b12d-3e1f82e455f0)
Points of Order (item number 6) (id 15452f83-caee-4e53-b23a-c227c41baf30)
Identity Cards Bill (Programme) (No. 2) (item number 7) (id c1e264a3-41ff-464f-ba16-b3265b6efc57)
Delegated Legislation (item number 8) (id 03cf6cf3-e79d-4399-af7c-0343ed034027)
European Community Documents (item number 9) (id a170194b-afed-4967-8277-6ad304c8c72e)
Business of the House (item number 10) (id fb80bc2d-539d-4c3a-a4c2-22c25754bb70)
Electoral Registration (Northern Ireland) Bill [Lords] (item number 11) (id ccc756cc-08ef-4ae8-a447-b2500770b501)
Hospital Services (Paddington) (item number 12) (id 04b22fb9-110a-47d7-a3f7-c9aa8820f3c9)

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

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Written Answers to Questions

Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Commercial Waste Recycling (item number 1) (id 219718ab-00e4-4528-89b7-d221b76acf69)
Sugar Regime (item number 1) (id 006c60fb-3eb3-4da5-a1ca-22270b9ce97f)
Coral Reefs (item number 1) (id 802f09b7-6b8d-420c-b6ee-fed147eb30ae)
Energy Efficiency (item number 1) (id 12f62f33-5c4a-4cec-97df-7c2c297b9b5d)
Supply Chain (item number 1) (id efc99860-f544-48e6-94b4-08d0582ab082)
Illegal Meat Imports (item number 1) (id 8e9d28a2-5fd9-422f-900e-143ab39caf66)
Bovine TB (item number 1) (id eecc74fa-1923-4706-8596-2ac5d5e9f616)
Marine Conservation (item number 1) (id f606e4d5-69a2-43ee-98b9-d19b527dffc0)
Animal Welfare Bill (item number 1) (id 5d1c764b-4b6c-43c4-88ec-57504e086988)
Farm Animals (Compensation) (item number 1) (id 227aa8a6-ae8e-4f91-a8d2-2e144deedaba)
Agricultural Prices (item number 1) (id 7b551d9e-6f82-4a5b-b26d-bef3b272d8e0)
Animal Protection (European Legislation) (item number 1) (id 66818f5c-5d45-456e-8dda-810632dbca96)
Avian Biodiversity (item number 1) (id 7534b003-2882-4897-9acf-218f8193e9f3)
Bovine Passports (item number 1) (id c35c75b7-5793-49ae-9eeb-2de5c1b47cae)
Carbon Dioxide Emissions (item number 1) (id f34ab1f4-2faa-4592-a7f0-68db678c6efe)
Climate Change (item number 1) (id d4eb7596-a5eb-4ce7-8374-e15acaf9b7b9)
Clinical Waste (item number 1) (id 3e4a7283-7de4-4635-aff3-d619e2e29109)
Cockling (Morecambe Bay) (item number 1) (id 507997bd-9f6d-40d8-8702-4d29ecfbee26)
Combined Heat and Power (item number 1) (id 8e8315f9-acbc-44c1-8573-b47acb30525f)
Common Agricultural Policy (item number 1) (id 8529b0d0-7357-4101-8c1d-e745ec97b2cc)
Community Plant Variety Office (item number 1) (id cb7c52e0-f058-4dc5-b37f-51c09eb05a03)
Correspondence (item number 1) (id 477e7d06-d220-4c67-b2f8-f0580da1a23a)
Egg Industry (item number 1) (id 87718775-421d-40e8-89fe-ff1a2c60f422)
Environmental Treaties (item number 1) (id c7cb3040-ef2f-410f-9d75-d32e92aa818d)
EU Committees (item number 1) (id af8b7334-493d-478f-a7a7-8e27ee981e1f)
European Environment Agency (item number 1) (id bab65fa9-f650-4285-9ba4-f6158fe0faeb)
Farming Subsidies (item number 1) (id 6bfa0135-ff58-4932-8d88-c657d1e65f48)
Fish Quotas (item number 1) (id b5359112-6510-4ec6-b554-bf2bb9a7d97b)
Flooding (item number 1) (id 3e1d49bc-91f6-46d2-8155-19b97cd8dce2)
Foot and Mouth (item number 1) (id a751d2c7-66d5-44bb-9bec-61270c2f566b)
Fuel Poverty (item number 1) (id e966bba3-bacf-4bd2-acce-00e46166558b)
Intervention Prices (item number 1) (id f6bd9e2c-cc72-4543-902b-89bdf873adda)
Mobile Phones (item number 1) (id b12b9195-44ec-4e3e-a08f-36ca7f5ef558)
Parliamentary Questions (item number 1) (id fe8b3707-f3eb-4b40-b2f7-1a854c240d6f)
Sewage Discharge (item number 1) (id b417a2e3-bcbe-47b9-bd3c-4dd39fbfb404)
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Staff Training (item number 1) (id a24e80cc-dc4d-4d1b-96a9-1180501fd1f0)
Supermarkets (item number 1) (id 4e4f4fd8-3e43-41f1-8c35-adf50fb8774a)
Waste Management (item number 1) (id 9876fd08-c5bd-4b85-8dab-39c93b7a94dc)
Water Utilities (London) (item number 1) (id cb63782e-8169-4b1f-b76a-ca9d669ca65e)
World Economic Forum (Davos) (item number 1) (id ef4b73bd-6ceb-4b0d-94d4-92ebae35497c)

Health

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Antiviral Drugs (item number 1) (id bc4e9b8f-23fa-41e1-8805-2730bb1f17fa)
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Childhood Vaccines (item number 1) (id 1af08846-cd38-4377-b849-fd8adf208f8f)
Engagements (item number 1) (id fbc6440b-16de-49b6-8b65-e10f2a42bcec)
Dentistry (item number 1) (id dfd0d8de-db50-4ae1-a815-fbfc78a76ae5)
Dorset and Somerset Strategic Health Authority (item number 1) (id 82a531d1-de33-4695-89b7-e30eb6734df6)
Draper Report (item number 1) (id 8122faa4-4a8d-4fd8-aebd-16a54b27b7b0)
Drug Addicts/Misuse (item number 1) (id ab42911e-3adc-4abb-9b97-a7159b27d89d)
Drug Treatment (item number 1) (id c81c67c9-cea9-4293-8ba9-b42d90161b01)
Elective Surgery (item number 1) (id 5c6ca245-015c-44a6-aabc-b422e8d96d43)
Infertility Treatment (item number 1) (id 3705a82c-25e5-42f4-ba08-f5b9f27aa3af)
LIFT Programme (item number 1) (id 99114e9e-5439-4390-9900-5f1545c5c146)
Mental Health Care (item number 1) (id 4d87e7e2-fed2-4a71-a424-ae39b3ec2258)
National Institute for Clinical Excellence (item number 1) (id 0710fc83-9d3d-46a1-920e-0594410746d2)
Parking (item number 1) (id 2496c0ef-830b-40a8-a8fb-64cfaa5db60d)
Parliamentary Questions (item number 1) (id 27fcdb78-6fed-48ba-9692-73a68bd060e8)
Performance Measurement (item number 1) (id 2217b3e0-e232-4f4f-afe2-c1ca1fdd8f07)
Prevenar (item number 1) (id b5568e8c-47cb-402b-8b0c-0d439a917562)
Special Advisers (item number 1) (id 7e682b07-e6b8-4590-b09a-7efd0b0ade79)
Teenage Sex (item number 1) (id d74e0cac-b5c3-47c3-8652-4b34f0337314)
Variant CJD (item number 1) (id 08ce7463-31f8-455c-9829-1c31341451f1)
Women's Bleeding Disorders (item number 1) (id cd0c0f1a-47f2-4c3b-a8e5-b9144c1fa292)

Transport

A5 (Dunstable) (item number 1) (id 90324ec8-76ab-476f-8a62-9320751b5ed7)
A628 (item number 1) (id eb382e65-99e8-403d-851f-3809f1111b7d)
Aviation Emissions Tax (item number 1) (id 7e0dc7c9-1a59-4723-a15f-8793e43c5466)
Car-share Scheme (item number 1) (id 1e520369-4aae-4fa4-8cbc-bb5c2424be86)
Civil Servants (item number 1) (id 59338fb3-d309-42c6-9df3-ad531aead7d4)
Coastguard (Swanage) (item number 1) (id 1a69bfd0-eced-41a4-a8c3-d5e4d06a6ae2)
Consultants (item number 1) (id 76b03922-1494-4e64-9d69-63cdacdc9636)
Freedom of Information (item number 1) (id eb21481b-1a6a-4c6f-a34c-5525a4816e51)
Great Yarmouth Harbour (item number 1) (id c6aa06a7-dd80-4ac8-a936-366b6af36121)
Hatfield Peverel-Witham Link Road (item number 1) (id 83850d50-eb76-4f96-b5ae-6fbb280d95d2)
Hauliers (item number 1) (id 50c9440d-6a18-4128-af95-d6db2ce1032c)
Highways Agency (item number 1) (id 422d90a0-8659-424f-ba10-2a71db0cf611)
In-house Magazines (item number 1) (id 8fb2ba71-c4c6-4bcb-b3ce-76ec01373f68)
M40 (item number 1) (id 67fe5b92-d3e8-492b-bef8-e370d7877504)
Motor Toll Systems (England) (item number 1) (id f0d6368a-67c6-4942-acdc-b39509d7e76f)
Private Car Parks (item number 1) (id b669d11b-51f2-45c7-8d57-802c225a380e)
Railways (item number 1) (id 7bb7fbca-8a41-4047-aa45-f5812c034d51)
Road Maintenance (item number 1) (id e077ca0e-7ceb-4122-b6cb-b81043f005cc)
Speed Cameras (Accidents) (item number 1) (id 521e28d0-6a0b-4ede-b3a2-bf684f51013d)
Staff Training (item number 1) (id 89a52a0e-48d1-4b63-8a18-00e82a946045)
Traffic (item number 1) (id fd1042b8-8687-4d97-bf9d-a4d833fb05fe)
Travel Costs (item number 1) (id c1729592-ba9a-4814-8590-4b3396e4340d)

Culture, Media and Sport

Aircraft Charters (item number 1) (id 2378714e-631a-4a8f-baf2-9fa5e065eade)
Betting, Gaming and Lotteries Act (item number 1) (id eef158e8-f12e-411c-874e-c80a36f1c939)
Burnley (item number 1) (id 3caa8211-1f72-4ec9-9927-76c555779526)
Cleaning Costs (item number 1) (id d3979c5a-05a7-4d8f-b1f6-f9b63c3ef215)
Correspondence (item number 1) (id 0cc47649-8bdc-49a3-aac4-a271e014724f)
Design (item number 1) (id d2b784eb-ba2a-48b9-bda7-3ea59ffcdb7c)
Digital Switchover (item number 1) (id b75b773e-95e4-412d-bf2c-901f1cd02bb7)
Free Television Licences (item number 1) (id 0b82ab0e-4e8b-4e74-9d04-7e32df900ee0)
Government Art Collection (item number 1) (id 774f6fd9-a675-4c8e-9fb4-1f28ee9165e3)
Licensing Hours (item number 1) (id 35b49763-2f74-4103-a014-5147457c34d1)
Mobile Phones (item number 1) (id f22ad173-8175-4353-af21-7e0239a46855)
Museums (item number 1) (id b164934e-16bb-435b-b299-eb29b1ff84c3)
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PE Teaching (item number 1) (id 69ebefb0-d66c-47f6-9f41-7c4413456ff9)
Postage (item number 1) (id f3e55362-a5ba-4694-942f-59cfbb12afe5)
Publicity (item number 1) (id 56a95c46-3ef5-4f7c-ac50-12519f9377cb)
Sports Funding (item number 1) (id 4d6ae55b-9991-4ff1-acec-2a1286a9fc41)
Staff Identity Passes (item number 1) (id ebc01933-696d-4c95-bda6-faf18d159ac6)
Staff Training (item number 1) (id de99fd01-16e7-4745-9666-e9e2b5f1a7cf)
Stationery (item number 1) (id fd122c71-fb50-4201-b206-e45e9efce0a9)
Television Licences (Fines) (item number 1) (id 5e836138-423c-40ee-80f5-e09089fcad61)
TV Licences (item number 1) (id 556223b2-5618-426e-bd2f-d6877c8f569a)

Home Department

Antisocial Behaviour (Lancashire) (item number 1) (id 50858d20-8343-4a6a-b256-d13c0db85104)
Demoted Tenancies (item number 1) (id 2b7ec1a8-5121-468e-80ec-f69ea1c4bb41)
Anti-terrorism Measures (item number 1) (id b9216b9e-c340-43cf-a55c-ab7b441fc965)
Asylum and Immigration (item number 1) (id 34cbecfd-b7b8-499d-8623-a1c48f89bcdd)
Black Offenders (item number 1) (id 2b7f04d7-e711-44c6-812e-e48c646948a8)
Chief Constable of Lancashire (item number 1) (id 6f92b8fd-427a-49d6-86b4-a21a46cc0073)
Correspondence (item number 1) (id 38e9200d-1d74-482b-aa53-da5eb50fb004)
Deportation Orders (item number 1) (id 982f0a58-ab96-4233-bbcd-1c4ba0580f39)
Dispersal Orders (item number 1) (id d0e83081-7022-4dd5-887a-62c8fad4b0fd)
EU Committees (item number 1) (id 8b544446-90f5-4b8e-8670-126b7372080c)
Fixed Penalty Notices (item number 1) (id 836302a9-7a4d-4336-9fa9-55a16821bb16)
Gurkha Soldiers (item number 1) (id 23dce37e-b1d0-4942-9e21-58cdb18a814c)
Holocaust Memorial Day (item number 1) (id 1cb0cb03-69c0-4c3d-a66f-3422694718d9)
House Arrest (item number 1) (id 46db035f-6205-4077-b3c7-d44041d42740)
Identity Cards (item number 1) (id 3fa37468-3440-4577-8bb2-28d2bfa42c7d)
Initiatives (Funding) (item number 1) (id a02b3c62-25bd-4afc-b464-84144820ff09)
Magic Mushrooms (item number 1) (id 8294cd86-16df-4a07-b440-fe16a4293628)
Ministerial Residence (item number 1) (id 7e13c574-68d1-4863-9e81-10fcc27ca2e8)
National Offender Management Service (item number 1) (id 7898cc5b-a44a-450f-ae53-5395f22bbe7c)
Neighbourhood Watch (item number 1) (id b4d01237-8c74-4502-af96-dae0104a8944)
Passports (item number 1) (id b9224bfb-ffab-4cbf-8086-bc7630f95d5e)
Prisons (item number 1) (id 3ab7fb34-ccfd-45a3-a660-f82e19ec088d)
Queen's Flight (item number 1) (id e7ed34b2-191b-450e-9e17-ff95196a1594)
Research and Development (item number 1) (id b44ab2ac-72bc-4f74-87c4-404a43cab2cb)
River Police (item number 1) (id ef30be68-238f-48ef-9dfa-157c88210ab2)
Secure Juvenile Units (item number 1) (id 723e0c5f-23fb-4133-b3aa-25a4609f1754)
Visa Extensions (Students) (item number 1) (id 384b288f-0933-402f-bc95-093e5eb4989e)
Work Permits (item number 1) (id d9348c5c-6cc9-478e-93de-4a0854b7e2a5)

Work and Pensions

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Disability Employment Advisers (item number 1) (id eda06b48-e77c-4441-9d11-17efa4917453)
European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (item number 1) (id bc4a84b2-8c6b-4291-ac6c-838ab69e3419)
Financial Assistance Scheme (item number 1) (id 09039b38-0238-41da-a1ea-c1f4e3ea3ccb)
Five-year Strategy (item number 1) (id 4938d9af-b84b-46c5-94a1-974c6e159c7a)
Free Television Licences (item number 1) (id 8dc6c6f6-a059-4bd3-9ef6-8e6ea335c2be)
Incapacity Benefit (item number 1) (id 4ae37c64-4c36-4889-a923-a7f13b37dbdc)
International Labour Organisation (item number 1) (id 1e4c50ed-1e17-4521-b621-eb575a7c11c2)
New Deal (item number 1) (id 50d39617-db7c-4c9d-82af-0688dd807b59)
Pathway to Work (item number 1) (id 6c4c751d-d460-4525-8528-3346e454ccfd)
Pension Credit (item number 1) (id ce7c0a4f-2531-4e4d-9952-021af95e9f71)
Pension Payment (item number 1) (id 75d9540d-acb9-4bb9-b853-122f29e1387b)
Personal Capability Assessments (item number 1) (id 2527656a-13c1-4fc1-a1c7-4c57ae9ab27d)
Return to Work (item number 1) (id a6c6cfc4-0647-4328-bb1e-cc6459353582)
Secondment (item number 1) (id c1a6569a-4bcc-48f9-b3db-ef3ed9805bd9)
State Pension (item number 1) (id 72f4dde0-484f-4172-857a-95225139bb0d)
Winter Fuel Payment (item number 1) (id cfc7e979-712e-42af-ad93-5b09f32348cf)
Workstep Scheme (item number 1) (id 9578afb0-732c-4bd5-9935-d40205760861)

Trade and Industry

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Biomass Power Plants (item number 1) (id 64e9f84e-732f-4ea5-b00d-80bd2053290b)
Business Start-ups (Warrington) (item number 1) (id 12fd6070-452c-420e-a939-f866cdfe7a87)
Charities (Employment Tribunals) (item number 1) (id 1094005f-be60-4c3c-ba2a-32655276eb8f)
Debt Recovery (item number 1) (id 832ff4da-7b25-4621-9d15-dc2cd93bddd8)
Departmental Policies (Clwyd, South) (item number 1) (id d94f443a-a6e9-4ffe-99d0-ac088e5595fe)
Enterprise Capital Funds (item number 1) (id 6e9298b0-91f9-4d36-b26a-d1be0fc6611a)
Enterprise Fund (item number 1) (id 71fa3816-4841-43cd-8fec-373ccd240acc)
EU Committees (item number 1) (id 346414ee-6be1-453b-bd3a-a926d458c845)
MG Rover (item number 1) (id 4b18d86a-830c-475b-ae98-5c0ecd6bf1c5)
Gas (item number 1) (id 96e01379-e376-455d-8ac7-399b05808e18)
Miners' Compensation (item number 1) (id fd3c968a-9840-4c18-8a65-c700e641fd58)
National Minimum Wage (item number 1) (id 83af6117-f9c3-4108-9638-faf3ea9ef3f4)
Natural Gas Imports (item number 1) (id dda0dedf-5104-4241-b873-289085f0e954)
Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (item number 1) (id 61831437-1660-4858-8b5a-4cc468b52498)
Post Offices (item number 1) (id c01210af-ece8-4dc5-b544-81996d87158c)
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Trade Associations (item number 1) (id 357411e5-b207-4b8d-bf3c-4a1dd127cf7e)
UK Atomic Energy Authority Constabulary (item number 1) (id 81910493-57d3-4bd5-8516-a4f05a9a1217)
Vehicle Pricing (item number 1) (id 5b1d54d2-025b-4929-b5d8-34d573426edb)
Wind Power (item number 1) (id 8959127c-9108-4b05-ab97-97dc99c54753)

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