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Commons Hansard for 22 March 2005 (Volume 432)

From the corrected (daily) version. Last updated 4 December 2025 at 9.12am.

Commons Chamber

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

House of Commons (item number 1) (id 8f9b87ef-72cd-48ba-819d-7731b02e93d5)
Prayers (item number 2) (id 4229ae47-46eb-4709-9a97-3104a82b7702)
Private Business (item number 3) (id 4ca3b55d-8364-4467-9418-88492ae3c333)
Skills White Paper (item number 5) (id 2ead497d-3fc7-4fb6-ac44-2ccafeccd86b)
Indian Ocean Tsunami (item number 6) (id 9cfe5317-89dc-497d-bb48-89a2af641312)
Point of Order (item number 7) (id e4637f60-4495-4766-9a77-c780ad423e87)
Private Parking Enforcement (Regulation) (item number 8) (id 4c410424-7437-4a14-bea3-1b505ed21ae6)
Orders of the Day (item number 9) (id b6609cd2-0553-4318-a74e-dc1632237143)
Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation (item number 10) (id 0cb69967-e94f-4b9f-8120-7d03533ee0c0)
Delegated Legislation (item number 11) (id 13c574bd-fff2-415d-941a-02a9a86bf8fb)
Regulatory Reform (item number 12) (id 40038b84-da38-408b-b797-c700e35b6767)
Saneline Funding (item number 14) (id 98e73e31-64d9-417c-9493-b6ab37835371)

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 cec5a5a7-33a0-43c1-a37c-51db40ac8064)

Written Answers

Content for Written Answers.

Written Answers to Questions

Home Department

Airguns (item number 1) (id 8de0b390-3e4b-445e-a40e-b3d656cef82d)
Civil Servants (item number 1) (id f1b2f936-6256-45ae-b502-c0212f4c63a8)
National Offender Management Service (item number 1) (id 23b731a7-3744-4616-8039-59ce7eea9109)
Correspondence (item number 1) (id 5038ffa6-cbfd-4bf7-8d1e-c3a4f4294f2e)
Criminal Cases Review Commission (item number 1) (id a0441766-334f-4f93-a012-d38c9b35ae18)
Cycling (item number 1) (id 21254606-d8ad-4790-a040-518eda06a326)
Dangerous Driving (item number 1) (id bb6841ad-f252-454a-bc54-01a7a60f21d8)
Departmental Contracts (item number 1) (id 61cc09fb-d177-4e70-bb39-82063fba21d8)
Departmental Dress Code (item number 1) (id 735e6b1a-59ef-44da-a625-7e14f2164d33)
Drug Treatment and Testing Orders (item number 1) (id 5f7e1c33-01ca-498f-bbe6-ac75f000442a)
Drugs Crime (Leeds) (item number 1) (id 5ed26edc-591b-4b6f-b5af-296cd7c523e6)
Escaped Prisoners (item number 1) (id fb011984-5e2b-4eca-8167-292e68409bf2)
HMP The Weare (item number 1) (id 6605e810-c95f-4e22-a33e-fda5d91b1a23)
Adolescent Rehabilitation (item number 1) (id fd59969e-2448-42e1-8bb3-b00cd80ca7a3)
Persistent Offenders (item number 1) (id 65dee6ce-b915-45dd-ab88-cc34cb3051fd)
Prisons (item number 1) (id 79311938-fdda-4cae-9590-1087c6a761a1)
Probation (item number 1) (id aff0742a-031e-4594-a24c-ed6937656ea9)
Sentencing Guidelines Council (item number 1) (id f213aebd-fda3-4ca4-82fd-3f6d78b31443)
Prison Population (item number 1) (id c5e4719e-0ed9-4e63-830e-50efff696606)
Sexual Assault Referral Centres (item number 1) (id ed0c1d2f-96ab-47e6-9c12-bd60cdcdd5a0)
Stop it Now! Surrey (item number 1) (id 6547837b-e96f-4c30-be9b-ef86d76d85dc)
Witness Prepartion (item number 1) (id 15da7c30-d37c-4086-847b-a13a7b0995ee)
Witness Statements (item number 1) (id 0f4cb5bb-b267-44b8-a46c-118f8ab8816f)
Young Offenders (item number 1) (id fae7f088-4f1f-46e9-b162-0872131a7173)

Trade and Industry

Avient (item number 1) (id e48f8c01-ed60-4634-b616-79e74c0df36a)
Baku-Tblisi-Ceyhan Pipeline (item number 1) (id a9eea268-5281-4881-8f92-c584912bdaf5)
BNFL (Prosecutions) (item number 1) (id d5a392c2-c50d-4aad-8b5d-5ed0a142ef40)
Business Closures (Shrewsbury and Atcham) (item number 1) (id fbfb6df1-a788-4ca8-a528-3309146b0a9b)
Construction Industry (item number 1) (id 60c965d2-aaf8-4c66-b232-ac82b112ff8a)
Data Protection (item number 1) (id 621401bb-10ed-4bb5-a637-9faf527b0d1d)
Energy Act (item number 1) (id 4a0ec9ac-a0b0-4a8c-8231-8a204aacd98f)
EU Committees (item number 1) (id 50a35768-edf4-43d0-bdd4-4b965939980e)
EU Markets (Third World Access) (item number 1) (id fea1751f-a9c8-45ba-b415-8aadbf9a99f1)
Export Credits Guarantee Department (item number 1) (id 58fe43f3-6025-4757-b0d6-968f109e4aff)
House Purchases (item number 1) (id 9925d261-67b9-4328-b073-71a12c58c08e)
Israel (item number 1) (id 189a764f-ad8e-4322-9e36-22db7299f5d2)
Lyons Review (item number 1) (id 4a1b7923-ce09-4741-913e-a715eff68276)
Maternity Leave (item number 1) (id c6cc4f94-b97b-4aa1-8294-8504aa6730d4)
MG Rover (item number 1) (id 66cda022-6516-4bec-85fe-2df0bfd6f5f3)
Miners Compensation (Midlothian) (item number 1) (id f18fe602-bd17-4eb2-9bff-22cb06ac4aef)
Newspaper Distribution Regulations (item number 1) (id 38c2a908-67a1-4444-888f-79e4ec5c7ac3)
Paternity Rights (item number 1) (id 8803f2bc-40a2-4f72-9f07-4b705d1a78a1)
Pensions (Coal Industry) (item number 1) (id 8905396d-3ee6-45a1-884e-632ac93240f2)
Regional Development Agencies (item number 1) (id 56482f5e-281b-49d1-a420-b340f5599e73)
Regional Selective Assistance (Newcastle-under-Lyme) (item number 1) (id 0ca09e09-2f34-4182-bb51-a8c8d0d4f18c)
Renewable Energy (item number 1) (id 766c1313-ec0f-401c-9198-9c1de9136d7b)
Sellafield (item number 1) (id 1b52d085-ab48-4b6b-89b0-1e3b0356291c)
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South West Regional Development Agency (item number 1) (id 45e1561c-ef12-4e8c-aafe-1c6faa6cfbd3)
Telecom Services (item number 1) (id 60f692b1-98b7-43b1-9d19-99d15096fbfa)
UK Trade and Investment (item number 1) (id d8643996-b16f-4757-b0e7-da97d4624dc7)

Education and Skills

Apprentices (York) (item number 1) (id 8af565cc-e25f-4204-b034-e8758eaf13cb)
Catering Costs (item number 1) (id a4997ace-a0cf-4d22-9f99-496c748895f5)
Child Care (item number 1) (id 9a732b31-0f3d-4934-880e-0ffe83f916f3)
Departmental Expenditure Breakdown (item number 1) (id 4a8713a9-59f0-4efe-9955-ece24c0e22bb)
Dudley College (item number 1) (id 2832c1b8-7acb-4df4-82d4-60b28fb22921)
Education Funding (item number 1) (id 004eab34-7bf7-4b96-8694-320951dd0246)
Education Maintenance Allowance (item number 1) (id 72970702-9319-4538-ae34-5cdb353e2acf)
English Examinations (Key Stage 3) (item number 1) (id 516c86e0-0311-4809-aabc-798536baef85)
Further Education (Blyth Valley) (item number 1) (id 0ea97228-c812-4ace-8c37-82fa4b81937b)
Geography Teaching (item number 1) (id 744ab515-0ae6-4934-b195-2c4026dc1c30)
Higher Education Funding (item number 1) (id 7a600718-4759-46f0-88bd-7ed09b029e99)
Learndirect (item number 1) (id be74de81-1a6a-4489-98ee-f603c3299082)
Local Network Fund (item number 1) (id 846de0ca-8ce1-4042-b9fc-e7edc4613dab)
Mature Students (item number 1) (id 05f0ce70-50ab-41db-9f11-a35d47525e76)
Medical Schools (item number 1) (id 4118f06e-1bce-42d8-a55c-b36160818e88)
Mobile Phones (item number 1) (id da3379e0-e35a-482a-9971-99d2c89cf976)
Non-school Playgrounds (item number 1) (id 58d2c338-a2b6-4851-8739-a274549c99bc)
Outdoor Learning (item number 1) (id fafac88f-2521-4a1c-9a8f-bc9da9a688c7)
Parliamentary Questions (item number 1) (id 9e76b888-f946-4965-8174-3bbb5a74fb95)
Pelham Infant School (item number 1) (id 9d939065-9b01-4278-99ab-9ac6b454773b)
Staff Surveys (item number 1) (id 6b0cd234-1fd5-42e6-8918-0cbd01194c1d)
Student Encouragement (item number 1) (id a19f5592-2a64-4d5b-90f6-e8f8960413d6)
Students (item number 1) (id c2d689a6-088c-46e0-89ce-db37ea6c232e)
Sure Start (item number 1) (id 239ba808-91f6-40d5-a7f0-0ecd6d1a0d08)
University Admissions (item number 1) (id 9bcde620-c417-494f-a2c0-256c3f6a5913)
Work-based Learning Report (item number 1) (id 79c81066-88be-4699-8621-c3912e3ff0f1)

Treasury

Age Exemption Forms (item number 1) (id f79e2db9-52bc-4ce0-a50c-6dae612c6126)
Benefits Claimants (item number 1) (id 54c0858b-6bd3-4762-852f-d337c40aad12)
Burmese Imports (item number 1) (id 80ad8dc9-8b08-4e21-a4f5-5c2629bb6ac7)
Buses (item number 1) (id a7f04218-86c8-42a9-a1cf-4dd7f084cc5b)
Child Trust Fund (item number 1) (id c2300b48-3a0e-46af-ba4a-510cc32d9a8e)
Correspondence (item number 1) (id 4a4c6c8d-743b-4b5b-a6e6-2e410d8f7fa3)
Defence (item number 1) (id e296100b-698a-4db3-a372-0326f18fbe7b)
eBay (item number 1) (id f5fd8b06-748e-4252-bd86-a05498c761e5)
Employment (item number 1) (id 585e64af-2a5b-4864-9298-7c0137e03319)
European Anti-Fraud Office (item number 1) (id c3fb5e66-2b25-4ad0-b966-ffd18b87c61d)
Pilots (Flat Rate Expenses) (item number 1) (id cddf45d6-bc13-404e-98ec-f6c650a9be38)
Income Tax (item number 1) (id 9e116224-0e60-45ec-a0a7-aca2b6e85885)
Motorcycles (item number 1) (id 545b8d8d-999e-45cb-bc59-873893829d4c)
MRSA (item number 1) (id c9d753cb-ddee-487e-905a-9c6f7ace87f7)
Northern Ireland (item number 1) (id 268b21e7-fd0a-4638-9e83-7a7325314808)
Private Equity Industry (item number 1) (id e455d5a7-0304-45e5-9b21-9c89b229c0e4)
Red Diesel (item number 1) (id 56cc6357-93eb-4832-beaf-e2704fd1959d)
Stamp Duty (item number 1) (id 1e363371-ee09-4c78-8396-9cd7146e34ca)
Stamp Duty/Air Passenger Duty (item number 1) (id 711b0256-e3ff-44fd-84da-a15f986be654)
Surplus Assets Sales (item number 1) (id 682ad4e3-1fa9-4af5-b7d2-e33890c3fce0)
Tax (Administration Costs) (item number 1) (id 1d1aa350-281d-4d9b-8cec-83155503c828)
Tax Credits (item number 1) (id 7f673d4a-c610-4783-a234-7547d571ad35)
Terrorist Assets (item number 1) (id 401776be-5d8a-41f6-9f0c-609028f45163)
Transfer Pricing/Loan Relationship Rules (item number 1) (id 55572188-e1ed-49ae-8e63-18315911a39b)
VAT (Universities) (item number 1) (id 0d701e07-9fc7-4285-b9b7-f4e18d8979a8)

Health

MRI Scanners (item number 1) (id 305dbdf1-3c9e-4523-aa33-63321c17ea69)
Neurological Intensive Care Beds (item number 1) (id 884554d7-799d-49b9-b259-c82fcf7e3028)
Dementia (item number 1) (id d09d2f4a-5d88-4232-b908-df5b2e5bed75)
Bluebell Surgery, Colchester (item number 1) (id bfb4c5c6-a1d7-4f30-b221-a2cba785a5b7)
NHS Staff (item number 1) (id 05b2b6fa-0b26-43c8-b8e7-97f83772451d)
Primary Care (item number 1) (id 5c7b82b4-9cc0-4692-b3b0-184af9a3776a)
East Sussex Hospitals Trust (item number 1) (id 50d4005b-e917-49ff-ad9e-d0d77f834afd)
Solvent Abuse (item number 1) (id 32b74233-fc9c-48d2-9e77-2b5e6c0b9236)
Chiropody (item number 1) (id c5b6607f-de2f-47f3-86cf-5ce6cde9edc0)
Speech Therapists (item number 1) (id bf865f24-1dc9-4c99-9fc3-1f5b5d29b981)
Abortion (item number 1) (id d3d417d4-9447-4b15-8e7c-dece333beef4)
Advisory Committee on Cancer Prevention (item number 1) (id 17ab285c-f1ca-4960-a436-7787b0abdca3)
Alcohol (item number 1) (id d8f53304-93ee-400f-a692-6b08914fa27a)
Antibiotics (Farms) (item number 1) (id a8699af4-d3f6-418c-acb1-efa67d3f718e)
Cancer (item number 1) (id b1703857-c68a-4b6d-883a-8897678f650a)
Cardiac Arrhythmia (item number 1) (id 6aad86ae-2a77-4dbc-9295-bd6e5f88d3c4)
Cardiac Health (item number 1) (id a877d4c7-d416-4482-839f-7df393dab4c7)
Care Homes/Social Care (item number 1) (id b831f92b-67d9-42ac-b5d2-f5608ba5186f)
Carers (item number 1) (id 65398fa3-c483-4d6a-bc13-325a33c7966c)
Chorley South Ribble Primary Care Trust (item number 1) (id f3393632-1201-4f5f-9361-206c765c2af0)
Contaminated Blood Products (item number 1) (id cc81a004-7c66-4fcb-a74b-ce7c1ca91b67)
Deep Vein Thrombosis (item number 1) (id 4beb211e-391d-4b68-8b20-3e9c616444d0)
Digital Hearing Aids (item number 1) (id 7f2aa8bc-ea62-4a3d-99bb-fb8ba17e84d7)
Disability Equipment (item number 1) (id 94a6bf3e-60cf-459f-a8c7-622f818d1768)
Drug Addicts (item number 1) (id 4bab6072-5ed7-41ac-b2bb-a587ee46be94)
Drug Rehabilitation (item number 1) (id b0c40158-536b-4843-b109-a5e254c2e454)
Food Hygiene Regulations (item number 1) (id 134bfa85-95db-4536-ae47-5f43eaa69543)
Food Poisoning (item number 1) (id 1502960c-1a31-4644-96de-c67b3973d7f7)
Foreign Patients (item number 1) (id 1ca5a603-03ad-45a4-a240-fdb80119e1f1)
Great Ormond Street Hospital (item number 1) (id 3ba47232-020d-4d6b-bac6-05213ac63765)
Health Funding (Leeds) (item number 1) (id 6809500b-5551-40ae-bab8-6ca04ddc44e8)
Health Services (York) (item number 1) (id f3d1c186-d2c3-4bd4-ac87-e28fc175b911)
Healthcare-acquired Infections (item number 1) (id e8b0f0c4-08e0-4843-8d49-5d91be2739b4)
Healthy Eating (item number 1) (id 95054e9a-d848-4ad5-b589-3ae231080e01)
Hepatitis B Vaccine (item number 1) (id 3f5a2ccd-7cc5-439e-8e21-76508d287611)
Herbal Medicinal Products (item number 1) (id 8d260f62-ec8e-4c0b-a87d-3b88034a0714)
Home Care (item number 1) (id fe5500d6-fd88-4c09-82e2-376baf453ce5)
Hospital Parking Charges (item number 1) (id 73c3d4a9-924a-4601-a76f-d2f524e33aa6)
Hospital Readmissions (item number 1) (id 89027de0-fddc-4b4b-9e37-91c1872fab6a)
Influenza Pandemic Plan (item number 1) (id 82c58e86-4bf1-4948-a76a-a0269444bbbe)
Isotretinoin (item number 1) (id d763a3da-3afb-436c-8142-e8219da6555d)
Long-term Care (item number 1) (id 8b2cbb54-07bc-4b33-bf1b-0450496781ac)
Mental Health Care (item number 1) (id 5e037d1f-36ef-4715-bd89-119681e654a3)
Midwifery (item number 1) (id 0ec98918-dbd5-4553-bea3-c919af8f596b)
MRSA (item number 1) (id f2c9fb81-9e34-46ec-b548-b1c6b8516dff)
Nevirapine (item number 1) (id efa9c3df-7078-477b-ba81-ca8d332e8324)
NHS Estates (item number 1) (id 843b54d0-efe1-4868-b94c-35fe03bb7b4c)
NHS Expenditure (item number 1) (id 8234fc3d-7b2b-4f77-b0d1-949410333c04)
NHS Research (item number 1) (id a892ebf6-3775-46c0-b059-3b4005afee19)
Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital (item number 1) (id 1edd54a6-2f52-4734-a40a-948dd5912c0c)
Nurses' Uniforms (item number 1) (id b2e0acc2-5b70-4f11-9424-2cf8332b6b10)
Opticians (item number 1) (id fd197b53-ae3e-4378-aaff-35eb5e7b0883)
Paluvizumab (item number 1) (id 9e013c22-34e7-478a-9626-69ad7dc1566c)
Personal Care (item number 1) (id 28b8ec9c-ac60-4bcf-a165-32efe5a207db)
Radiologists (item number 1) (id c2c4f138-a1e3-461d-865d-a3b3fdca1ae2)
Respiratory Syncytial Virus (item number 1) (id 9c1b440d-edff-423b-a491-480775b34732)
Sexual Health Services (item number 1) (id fe093027-13c5-4bd3-b123-55ba90ec056c)
Social Care (item number 1) (id 2856b7d8-5496-4207-a9be-90b6ee038e8a)
Springfield Mental Hospital (item number 1) (id 03062fec-649c-46d4-973c-3cc05098173e)
Targets (item number 1) (id 2de975a6-83c4-47ae-8a7e-71c87e717db0)
Telecommunications Masts (item number 1) (id d8ce7ec2-eb3c-477b-a230-7f2d41265b61)
Toxic Waste (item number 1) (id 76e134f5-c618-4313-b832-0603e09d07a9)
Visual Impairment (item number 1) (id d2eb5906-1d7d-45f4-b7c9-12a2b408d0b3)
West Suffolk Hospital (item number 1) (id aa60b928-55f9-44ac-ab39-33673365c26e)
Wirral, South (item number 1) (id 05360e15-7ef4-44dd-a023-c089b00eeaef)

Defence

Afghanistan (item number 1) (id bcb835d9-a02b-4a17-b8d3-d96fb2bd23a9)
Armed Forces Discipline (item number 1) (id 451c9068-d0b5-4d4d-8097-efe318b27248)
Army Medal Office (item number 1) (id dcb1a0fb-0bf3-4000-a89b-9fc9008e4f9c)
Army Recruitment (item number 1) (id 396571cb-e7f1-4bd1-9b32-516c2bfeee6e)
Chinook Crash (item number 1) (id f26aa54e-8e26-46cd-b560-ba26e4857fe6)
Christmas Cards (item number 1) (id 3366eb10-3676-4e46-961f-08fa22c3608a)
Civilian/Service Jobs (Scotland) (item number 1) (id fa19e6ee-19c4-42b3-86f4-9196e20cde7c)
Defence Information Infrastructure (item number 1) (id 6f2802b2-dfc7-438c-aa45-a0bc671cb9b7)
Departmental Efficiency Programme (item number 1) (id c301239b-d0a6-4529-81d7-76b9d23fcca7)
Departmental Records Office (Hayes) (item number 1) (id 268eca2f-2be3-4a14-9de4-38ab028e9813)
Depleted Uranium (item number 1) (id 4eaff32a-ef1d-4711-93a7-ec91b852cd8c)
Edinburgh Military Tattoo (item number 1) (id 68a6ec96-f2e4-4bbd-9baf-2955be792cd9)
EU Intelligence Sharing and Co-ordination Service (item number 1) (id 0e860e36-82a4-4bbd-b54d-b05e334035fc)
Flight Plans (item number 1) (id e5c78878-aa40-4bcb-ab65-a28af49e9bc4)
Historical Records (item number 1) (id 40a9e45b-0002-4b82-bac2-c59bad1a16c0)
Infantry Future Army Structure (item number 1) (id eef2b6c0-8c63-4cfb-a436-1f36549edaf1)
Low-flying Training (item number 1) (id b1a8c3ab-a1e9-4254-a3b8-25481c63a418)
Medium Sector (item number 1) (id 9b00b9c1-f0ad-493b-8089-c1b81ac67fc3)
Military Aircraft Crashes (item number 1) (id fb435c6d-5974-4131-a9ac-cfc752e09728)
Military Bodies (Funding) (item number 1) (id 07c13d30-0ec8-4ffe-ac93-b614c686553d)
Military Deployment (item number 1) (id 8eb6aae9-3ec8-4f5c-9a09-6b7b738a8005)
Ministerial Travel (item number 1) (id e2a9d1d3-9875-489e-a2b5-73795074873d)
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Project Allenby/Connaught (item number 1) (id 7f5403b1-65b0-4656-8f3b-bcfb8581e54f)
RAF Recruitment (item number 1) (id 5f1bd263-5a4a-4489-a721-030e0143d5eb)
Regiments (item number 1) (id 75d24cc2-d320-4ce5-95b0-71b17f7ee2c6)
Regional Offices (item number 1) (id 99a9e823-ce8d-4fda-a8fb-92c4322562e9)
Scottish Regiments (item number 1) (id ab8a0b4d-8abd-4ca7-b344-f537ca2fb9e3)
Sikh Employees (item number 1) (id 42f34f3f-2b8f-4caa-aaea-ae4d47dfec4c)
Trident (item number 1) (id 3fcd7872-c8ee-4072-8c29-41ce3d03caf3)
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