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Commons Hansard for 25 May 2005 (Volume 434)

From the corrected (daily) version. Last updated 4 December 2025 at 9.49am.

Commons Chamber

Record of debates that happened in the House of Commons main chamber.
House of Commons (item number 1) (id 2b7b4c99-d45e-4a16-9330-b7bf223a1e4e)
Prayers (item number 2) (id 732aff60-8caa-4a0e-9a9a-ce81066626fe)

Oral Answers to Questions
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International Development

Maldives (item number 1) (id ea43502c-d6e9-4dd8-97d3-b0038351c453)
Tuberculosis (item number 1) (id f8b9e20c-e216-4221-8f79-121f61ff75a3)
Fair Trade (item number 1) (id 7c4005f0-2f8f-461c-8add-c09ba796d34e)
Nigeria (item number 1) (id dcf47214-07fc-47de-b914-cd142d971842)
AIDS Orphans (item number 1) (id 3b08c7cc-21dc-4bf1-bb24-113bda50f4bd)
Debt Relief (item number 1) (id a27002a8-7fdf-4e08-8810-fb3c603c88de)

Prime Minister
Engagements (item number 1) (id 4537a121-9c30-44a1-8565-74f5cc432609)
Written Constitution (item number 1) (id b93902b1-a314-4274-b2a4-f4e983e8d59e)
Engagements (item number 1) (id ce10e6b9-ec50-4b00-ba9f-908fa158697a)
Points of Order (item number 4) (id 11b14825-92d4-4cac-87a5-325cde816535)
Bills Presented (item number 5) (id 0dc2cd7e-fedd-4976-a85f-eb542954c0a7)
Orders of the Day (item number 6) (id bb4c8dd9-8086-4e0b-ae66-4250bf2aa32b)
Debate on the Address (item number 7) (id 639f345d-5844-48d7-af65-8655f933bc32)
Business of the House (item number 8) (id 65e62918-5ce7-4134-86c4-48839d08b2d6)
Ways and Means — Amendment of the Law (item number 9) (id 55057655-edcf-46e1-ae74-175335df5d83)
European Union (item number 10) (id 2407be68-d5d2-4148-b3dd-4ded8897a8b1)

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 a98a705d-823e-46a4-bf2d-c1f1b0cb59d9)

Culture, Media and Sport

Lottery Transformational Grants Programme (item number 1) (id aec8b892-146c-497c-a4a6-4eeb4a564d51)

Defence

The Duke of York's Royal Military School (item number 1) (id 58d5a7ba-a82f-4591-96a4-a8b03d59a940)
Defence Analytical Services Agency (item number 1) (id 0c4c4e4f-dee5-4225-b180-61f4e4ddb124)
Defence Communication Services Agency (item number 1) (id 2f0e01e8-0312-4f4e-b900-1b9ea374efd5)
Infantry Regimental Headquarters Review (item number 1) (id 200bd4cc-f705-4ee7-964e-32a451ba9894)
Iraq: Roulement (item number 1) (id 8cfc5934-603a-4b12-ba79-0a5bb4217460)
Service Medical and Dental Officers (item number 1) (id 0f5cd0e5-0907-4034-8704-1c59c2792a44)
Tornado Future Support Strategy (item number 1) (id f1fea7cd-a65a-44c2-99c4-3798b10d94a2)

Deputy Prime Minister

Bellwin Scheme (Carlisle, Cumbria, Cumbria Police, Allerdale, Copeland, Eden and South Lakeland Councils) (item number 1) (id 223a6edf-0f57-4f6a-a344-789c050ff9f6)
Home Ownership (item number 1) (id aa1abd92-32ee-47ee-a970-7c0776bf7f74)

Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs

Nepal (item number 1) (id 9557de85-66b5-44ce-8715-5ca0fd891781)

Trade and Industry

Windfarm (Scout Moor) (item number 1) (id 75bc7049-1452-40ad-beea-ae01be37d2a2)

Work and Pensions

Employment and Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council (item number 1) (id 2ea35e68-d44b-40e7-851a-8eb89ff285d7)

Written Answers

Content for Written Answers.

Written Answers to Questions

Education and Skills

Further Education (item number 1) (id 4869b70e-1662-4fe6-aad5-cff70a92b8c4)

Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Dairy Cattle (item number 1) (id 6443ed56-3f7d-4647-8af1-86ff98f7547b)
Motor Sports (item number 1) (id 48708692-9e24-4af6-85c4-7fdabf57a154)

Solicitor-General

Rape Trials (item number 1) (id 94203762-7f14-463e-a0a0-9048eb5c1ded)

Defence

IVF Treatment (item number 1) (id 755cd545-ea6b-4147-a54c-11ebf05dd1c7)
Royal Air Force (item number 1) (id 7a7bdfc6-b717-4251-99da-42cd703589b2)

Trade and Industry

British Energy Ltd. (item number 1) (id ebb8c495-a4ad-4c25-ad33-bc0b21cda632)
Energy Policy (item number 1) (id ceb2e357-09ae-40e7-8ee8-822fe86063ca)
Gas (item number 1) (id a11d6acf-8df8-4da5-8a67-11fc625698be)
Hydrogen Energy (item number 1) (id 18728fb6-f813-4fe8-84a6-c617936512cf)
Miners' Compensation Scheme (item number 1) (id 6b2226f5-ebf2-499a-a60f-edd097995dde)
New Businesses (Coventry) (item number 1) (id 558154b0-8357-4388-a858-9ac1f6a1b5a7)
Nuclear Industry (item number 1) (id d6e01d6f-f483-43b8-b7f9-730b0680c59c)
Phoenix Fund (item number 1) (id 501e75ba-6fef-47b5-8cc9-8c979271a271)
Yorkshire and the Humber (item number 1) (id 15e4ac28-012a-4123-8b8b-41703b3b1cdc)

Culture, Media and Sport

Correspondence (item number 1) (id 013c58a0-dfd2-411e-866f-b64261eb6819)
Gospel Choirs (item number 1) (id e7bb6fbe-9a29-4d8f-a494-fdc1b43b8693)
Licensing Act (item number 1) (id 42fe1204-93a0-422b-b787-da453adc7c98)
Norfolk Sport (item number 1) (id b61abb15-becd-4724-a82a-bb7ccd0ea0c5)
Sport UK (item number 1) (id a792dd6c-fe5b-49bc-9e36-d6e55cb7c9be)

Cabinet Office

Office of Public Sector Information (item number 1) (id eb154117-01a4-4c06-b9a3-d4695282ebd8)

Northern Ireland

"A Shared Future" (item number 1) (id b20e1e19-8faf-483f-831d-847ae7e5d0e3)
Costello Report (item number 1) (id 86b448bc-222b-48f8-899c-44860d54ec7c)
Domestic Rates (item number 1) (id 1fd13a10-b37f-4b87-8cc9-0c942a52476c)

Work and Pensions

Benefit Payment (item number 1) (id 2d4e564c-c283-4c83-9abc-40096064a998)
Incapacity Benefit (item number 1) (id c07c979a-c86c-4491-9b89-b0ed3c47d421)
Pathways to Work (item number 1) (id 30d3fddd-d7cc-47ce-b4ef-384f50d0b4a3)
Work Experience (item number 1) (id 510ac89d-7de7-470e-b43f-322626f7d977)

Health

Diagnostic and Treatment Centres (Private) (item number 1) (id 336dcf81-3c4f-4d74-8234-d01ded94da2c)
Health Service Expenditure (item number 1) (id f127f088-5f61-4986-a833-32096747fab2)
Heatwave Plan (item number 1) (id 68e5081f-087c-403a-8fea-fe4e116c309e)
Hospital Site Sales (item number 1) (id fe041524-dd2a-440f-b508-0e67a8472bed)
Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil (item number 1) (id f72216df-4372-4a63-b689-d863db757498)
MRSA (item number 1) (id f4d5e783-0187-4ef3-a829-945ae07b1adc)
NHS Direct (item number 1) (id 00a7f6f8-3d2e-4fe5-b945-e6837a1a2478)
NHS Staff (Assaults) (item number 1) (id ab5c9689-3381-4786-9895-58d46d4f9c05)
NHS Staffing (item number 1) (id f0580781-b7ee-4a7e-ad7f-cd04923c0c3b)
Scottish Medicines Consortium (item number 1) (id aaf5c83c-3185-40f1-aaf0-ff40dbffdc36)
Trafford Diagnostic and Treatment Centre (item number 1) (id b1f434f4-3c37-4aaf-b388-701e830d8592)
Waiting Time Targets (item number 1) (id 7a23de30-f3a1-4a7c-9f4b-b90a5b10f83d)

Transport

Aircraft Noise (item number 1) (id d8a22d77-7de5-4f2a-9c1f-c8ccb44b2112)
Branch Line Rolling Stock (item number 1) (id 420d7cd7-a600-4a36-931f-fead8e6a8fb1)
Bypasses (item number 1) (id 0b18c8e7-1108-4ba6-b80a-6a61fbf306d2)
East Coast Route (item number 1) (id 1c577453-8837-4c71-9397-792c58bc3d0b)
East Midlands Airport (item number 1) (id 76c4709b-4eae-4e3e-bb7d-64884068b0ac)
EU Committees (item number 1) (id d873dc90-2575-4f89-accc-9921930b4ab3)
EU Discussions (item number 1) (id 7c03206a-47d4-480f-8115-1b7e73d12b7b)
EU Working Groups (item number 1) (id eed776ae-c2f9-48da-b9e4-6d9a401256ad)
Graffiti (Motorway Bridges) (item number 1) (id 6d850c8a-f027-4c77-b1c1-912c956532c4)
Motorways (item number 1) (id 6b33a2d5-3ef0-4015-9238-654c13d7dc1d)
North East Regional Transport Board (item number 1) (id 57b0a47a-6c49-4c17-96d2-aa33319cad71)
Overseas Drivers (item number 1) (id e0692cba-0894-452a-9fd3-8f2a5d7ad218)
Road Congestion/Construction (item number 1) (id 7cb17f74-1dd6-44e9-948b-a0eaeaa3330e)
Speeding (item number 1) (id b0f80db0-8909-4de5-8ba8-3fe7dcc6f429)
Temporary Speed Limits (item number 1) (id 15fb09c7-19ac-4ff4-96b1-8acf2d1d12bd)
Thameslink (item number 1) (id 11bc6a36-a021-4fdf-ac6e-7a196c391593)
UK Merchant Marine (item number 1) (id f742f19c-2db9-46e3-8f0f-63eac655328f)

Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs

Burma (item number 1) (id 6baa0e13-2d45-4bcd-8754-d422f264795e)
Consultants (item number 1) (id 8775d6ce-43d2-4c5a-8750-c6f709ea6d0a)
Darfur (item number 1) (id 6ec9e4cd-3bb7-420b-ae16-0a4c4b809bdf)
Northern Cyprus (item number 1) (id e1fb14a5-f47c-4834-8962-c94a9dc21641)
Sudan (Peace Talks) (item number 1) (id 33bb6681-338b-4aae-b4bc-7619ebe7d322)

Constitutional Affairs

E-government (item number 1) (id 5dbb6a47-1b3c-4cf9-ba3d-b5585e1ced49)
General Election (Costs) (item number 1) (id cf9e90ce-9ece-4c3b-bcf3-eac0e55a99b8)
International Private Law (item number 1) (id 6d0be5a7-3544-4376-bf99-81e0ca006844)
Marked Electoral Registers (item number 1) (id b66ed614-fe85-4856-9414-caf7134c7a06)
Parliamentary Campaigns (Use of Children) (item number 1) (id 0897feaa-7184-40a7-9190-438b515178ae)
Rape Trials (item number 1) (id 4fbcf267-80ac-41c3-aa84-33e1bb1aa36a)
UK Judges (European Courts) (item number 1) (id c58b333d-672e-42e3-8f08-178827fc8167)

International Development

Yemen (item number 1) (id 91b426c8-7373-450a-8345-dae7a8c30d97)
Sri Lanka (item number 1) (id 762f5995-7ba7-44ab-93c4-677f6bfb222b)
G8 (International Development) (item number 1) (id 167964aa-9322-4481-bc34-99f4c7596b67)
HIV/AIDS (item number 1) (id e7c706d9-77b2-4652-8dcf-811411272464)
Global Poverty (item number 1) (id c32c3cf5-828d-4fcd-8e46-7fcca9d04fb1)
Balkans (item number 1) (id 74e28a02-df43-4864-9ec7-14414694a91e)
Zimbabwe (item number 1) (id e5dcd741-70a9-44e2-8f0b-467528ce8b24)
Ghana (item number 1) (id 2ed4e5df-546e-4a8e-8663-8ec4f2accd6a)

Treasury

Emigration (item number 1) (id 82d5e57b-fdfb-4da9-b1eb-152d3e494302)
EU Committees (item number 1) (id 71ca4990-a72d-4c03-8094-f29afcd0fa01)
Orkney and Shetland Businesses (Crown Estate) (item number 1) (id 4587365e-bb7c-470b-8dc9-98e7b3f9b2bd)

Deputy Prime Minister

Coldeast Hospital Site (item number 1) (id 23279661-f1ea-48e3-aab6-7dc1a9a8e548)
Development (Hertfordshire) (item number 1) (id 36e32394-6f4e-4b9d-a3ae-41ed0e10a421)
Housebuilding (Redcar) (item number 1) (id 324ced90-135e-46ed-a76a-956a9335bac6)
Housing (Gloucestershire) (item number 1) (id 1bdea6fb-5a48-49f9-8719-2034002d4204)
Ministerial Responsibilities (item number 1) (id cd31b684-7dbf-4403-bd0a-605d0185dfd7)
Negative Subsidy (item number 1) (id a5124de7-bf50-4ab8-bb61-6904ccd8aed6)
Neighbourhood Funding (item number 1) (id 93991301-1138-476b-b89a-748eccb0a7a3)
Parish Councils (London) (item number 1) (id c2545290-0fcc-4ef5-8f55-13d649ba61b5)
Retail Precincts (item number 1) (id a4382b6f-c360-46e6-8a5a-df638ed86fa6)

Prime Minister

Rented Housing (London) (item number 1) (id 537f91d8-b7ff-45a4-bbc2-c50d57546fd4)
Antisocial Neighbours (item number 1) (id 81f47a48-6adc-42dd-9a17-43039d38aac3)
Consultants (item number 1) (id c90a69bd-6547-49d9-be6f-1d78319e251f)

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