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Commons Hansard for 19 July 2005 (Volume 436)

From the corrected (daily) version. Last updated 8 December 2025 at 9.37am.

Commons Chamber

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

House of Commons (item number 1) (id 40a9ea3d-da61-46a4-90f7-8b47a587c3f4)
Prayers (item number 2) (id b3385051-4a38-49f0-bc0c-1f3a7951d77d)
Private Business (item number 3) (id 9e53216c-a6dc-4455-945d-251bb1467bbf)
New Member (item number 5) (id d3d60fd4-bc59-49d9-9b41-09f4afb2714c)
Bill Presented (item number 6) (id 7e793ba4-324b-45a0-b823-f3c4df70094f)
Local Government and Planning (Parkland and Windfall Development) (item number 7) (id 7d3107a7-a24e-4784-a3cf-05ba1ef97d0a)
Business of the House (item number 8) (id cc33661d-2c33-42eb-99d0-d700f6d5ae6b)
Orders of the Day (item number 9) (id 531cb1a4-e122-457f-ab4c-71d7ea182783)
Crossrail Bill (item number 10) (id fff5f776-5f13-4fa2-9d93-6ccafbc8883c)
Business of the House (item number 11) (id dfb514c6-4947-4cc3-98f6-6b52ff7c71f6)
Delegated Legislation (item number 12) (id 3f57f6d8-e4cf-4737-a361-d86163f37af4)
European Union Documents (item number 13) (id 867bf447-174f-483b-8084-a6a44b5c53a3)
Antisocial Behaviour (Micro Bikes) (item number 15) (id 17ff8f76-21c7-4240-b32f-90e56ae05b62)

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 d52974ce-d43b-4f16-8956-121b0e4a96d8)

Written Answers

Content for Written Answers.

Written Answers to Questions

Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Bottled Water (item number 1) (id 2a4a9f14-95a7-4590-84df-b72a6bc1d49b)
Bovine TB (item number 1) (id 98606080-514e-40f8-a98c-3e8123015eb0)
Common Agricultural Policy (item number 1) (id d6f6580d-af11-4dd8-a904-4d24745656cb)
Departmental Publications (item number 1) (id 2bf10d7b-7d20-459b-9483-ea9e6ba9e29b)
Departmental Purchasing (item number 1) (id 5589a908-23ae-42b0-9f34-daef56c29147)
Departmental Staff (item number 1) (id bf42fc8e-1877-4f30-908c-012249012b7f)
Departmental Travel (item number 1) (id 75b45570-b0ef-4680-be1d-d00a50d7238e)
Energy Efficiency (item number 1) (id 43b39a74-13ef-417e-9e7f-3b4f384830b6)
Fallen Stock (item number 1) (id bab10167-d677-480f-81da-01f327aab6a3)
Farm Animal Welfare Council (item number 1) (id df64a739-dea3-4e7f-8702-8c35121ab9d9)
Farm Subsidies (item number 1) (id a0724526-cfa5-42b7-ba08-28cb5e70ea34)
Farm Waste (item number 1) (id b26522aa-38a1-4f07-a3f5-0b2a2ce1e025)
Farming (item number 1) (id 9c696559-6055-43d6-b56b-9f78e5082d61)
Gardens (Biodiversity) (item number 1) (id 7a712c99-53f4-441a-8286-10c8cf5076d4)
Hydro Electricity (item number 1) (id 3faba96f-7f6e-4132-a50b-9476844b323b)
Labelling (item number 1) (id 9ff1b62e-4d13-41c3-ba7d-5ac167d11446)
Licences (item number 1) (id 8eaca0c1-36db-4840-8610-1f39c554d300)
Milk (Primary Schools) (item number 1) (id 32117134-fcbc-404c-a2da-7e5a5c4d0365)
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Police Authorities (Stray Dogs) (item number 1) (id 73611b89-4b03-4a8c-bca8-596f7bc99393)
Red Tractor Logo (item number 1) (id 7455cbbc-aa1c-4d90-adce-41efbfab2ba5)
Single Payment Scheme (item number 1) (id 7a3760ca-5f5d-4028-8d9f-ae1cb1c40f61)

Defence

Afghanistan (item number 1) (id 8ba1e411-be86-41ec-98e4-d6df5c8bf417)
Army Uniform (item number 1) (id 19939e29-9d3c-4455-a812-2cbd41bb5145)
Body Armour (item number 1) (id 87491a96-55c4-4d74-be19-30a3e4565bfc)
Brigade Strength (item number 1) (id 61d6297d-7718-4d99-9ce6-e2b92e8c8bc3)
Dean Hill Arms Depot (item number 1) (id 9ed23245-fe07-4ffb-b5dc-f96049f84b08)
Defence Export Services (item number 1) (id 2b493e4c-6537-4476-839c-bfdc1f34bc6b)
Defensive Aid Suites (item number 1) (id 3bae31e4-4cc2-4d02-b27a-d4a47d0f66f6)
Departmental Budget (item number 1) (id 9ea9ab9d-ed93-4ddf-9887-adc2dbcbc1d7)
Future Rapid Effects System (item number 1) (id 0a305ce4-8312-40fe-b235-1d8fe8abd6e0)
HMS Invincible (item number 1) (id 80c7fae6-7a34-4114-80dd-ad0f26845492)
Iraq (item number 1) (id 3ff080e1-79f4-4af8-8f5a-77efad72366a)
Japanese Internees (item number 1) (id d937b60d-0fe0-4607-9f11-1dbc6a09932b)
Military Uniform Contract (item number 1) (id ec5c1c9d-78a2-47cf-a8ad-f85a4a848811)
Natural Disasters (Military Assistance) (item number 1) (id c65a8483-ff1b-44e1-8efa-cfe57a37055f)
Negligence Discharges (item number 1) (id 65496b18-3f73-4399-bd78-c2fc19a074db)
Project Aquatrine (item number 1) (id 550c4462-2eec-43d5-b1df-137eb95ea7a2)
Queen's Lancashire Regiment (item number 1) (id 12576cd7-6db5-484b-b3d5-7e496c839b41)
RAF Innsworth (item number 1) (id d82bc1f6-46c1-4997-9845-717147b3411a)
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Royal Navy (Personnel) (item number 1) (id 78fc01b5-0ceb-404a-a6f1-53ca9ad5c72e)
Royal Ordnance Factory (item number 1) (id a74e3e67-1895-4bdc-a24a-505afbdadbc0)
School Fees (item number 1) (id 92fe7c4a-fa7b-41bb-ae9e-251d457d14aa)
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Sickness Absence (item number 1) (id 5ff7946b-9dfa-4578-a0a5-da366f86a6d0)
Surface Fleet (item number 1) (id 17c71bf1-dff3-40e8-ae5e-44909bd354f1)
Taxis (item number 1) (id 5e625d4a-617b-416f-826a-0403f9154d16)
Territorial Army (Chorley) (item number 1) (id 24f32f71-b6fb-4812-b270-23e9fd5c1ab8)
Troop Redeployment (item number 1) (id 9c2243cd-c573-4bee-9fe8-14dbb2ce60b7)
Wormwood Scrubs (item number 1) (id 36808be9-90b6-411e-9daf-48082d5edfb1)

Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs

Drugs (Afghanistan) (item number 1) (id b21439ac-1b71-43b9-9aa4-fec52b4b7065)
Israel (item number 1) (id c31ee170-13f8-4ef7-b864-08eddb659f59)
Iraq (item number 1) (id cfc41c5a-bb31-4ed4-9772-d5578bcdd298)
Lebanon (item number 1) (id 65bea3c4-e005-43f5-86d2-40fb73c1c8c3)
EU Budget (item number 1) (id 72d99781-9fd8-41a7-b10a-31f159e39c2e)
Zimbabwe (item number 1) (id 71a6f23d-cc81-4fb0-93bb-5659306908f5)
UK Visas (item number 1) (id 592ce4a6-d58f-4e9b-979c-141473e8bf34)
Uganda (item number 1) (id 7883dcf9-2dd1-43d6-b284-8c7c97142565)
Iran (item number 1) (id 9d5cdccd-360f-45f1-ab50-a47baae856f0)
Darfur (item number 1) (id 792ba75d-761e-46d0-a04e-a252dbfb4ce2)
India (item number 1) (id e4f1bb20-91ad-42dc-ada3-d8aa751107db)
British Mercenaries (item number 1) (id 945e90f8-0fda-4d96-bcf7-7041461338e2)
Bulgaria (item number 1) (id c51a5273-ece3-4c0b-82d6-2be9dfbc49cd)
China (item number 1) (id 8e526e9b-ccfe-45ba-a842-35907cc9ac32)
Embassies (item number 1) (id a6b09d2f-4408-4617-898c-b92b89ed4015)
Equatorial Guinea (item number 1) (id 647d03bc-8467-4311-83b6-34e5d10462dc)
Eritrea (item number 1) (id 3806c063-16ae-42b9-8d27-6483b05f4485)
EU Committee of the Regions (item number 1) (id 113267e0-9d83-49e9-a42b-e2b89bf78e1f)
Guantanamo Bay (item number 1) (id cda25465-a6f5-48a5-86d3-6505310da453)
High Commissions (item number 1) (id 5bcbbbea-2db5-47a8-8b60-950f5db7266a)
Management Consultants (item number 1) (id 2d4432bd-2b1e-4b67-a88e-e1c9a88dcdb8)
Nigeria (item number 1) (id 79d88762-c7a3-476b-ae22-62635a945103)

Home Department

Advertising (item number 1) (id 907461ce-2005-4af1-a4ff-f6af234466ac)
Anti-terrorism Legislation (item number 1) (id 2f51adf3-38fe-4bab-bca6-f31851425777)
Asylum Seekers (item number 1) (id b06cf8ce-c870-435b-bbf8-0d03daf695ea)
Child Abuse (item number 1) (id 2608f025-7210-47b8-9f9e-e71e1837a9d9)
Criminal Records Bureau (item number 1) (id e057dbe7-9118-44b0-9542-209a38c93adf)
Departmental Bills (item number 1) (id 6b1ad463-0565-40d1-9c8f-94593e602c0c)
Domestic Violence (item number 1) (id 92aa3840-b40d-465a-a576-889414f17c2c)
Drug Rehabilitation (item number 1) (id 0a34023d-f1fd-46d5-a090-fcbe49f4c380)
English Wine (item number 1) (id e5f5bbc4-1023-45a5-9f47-2a9759ea0e1f)
Full-time Staff (item number 1) (id 75211cef-c675-42b1-a71c-16438a08b5fe)
Identity Cards (item number 1) (id 5e30d9a4-8c1c-47dd-969f-29d4710bfcf1)
Illegal Immigrants (item number 1) (id 8c6f3939-ca00-47b7-8569-8eac27ce1451)
National Identity Register (item number 1) (id 28c982bd-5ece-4a20-866c-ed2b079be477)
National Police Improvement Agency (item number 1) (id ddabb2c1-935f-4d7f-9a14-cf377f795776)
Parenting Orders (item number 1) (id c41fa7df-4cd6-439f-9d5d-ed155ad88140)
Police (Sickness Absence) (item number 1) (id 768da646-9566-48df-a573-ee7e9aa8990d)
Prisons (item number 1) (id da1f7afe-55f3-490f-9834-77f38706633b)
Scanner Technology (item number 1) (id 6a9eaf02-7785-48f0-88f6-83734fad27d3)
Sectors Based Scheme Review (item number 1) (id 843635a3-721c-44a3-83e2-2477925a5fb9)
Secure Training Centres (item number 1) (id b94f286c-d077-4179-a001-fc904a0079f0)
Sexual Offences Act (item number 1) (id ad42105c-f438-4bf3-af8b-953eedc17e51)
Uninsured Drivers (item number 1) (id a453a628-76bc-4e27-9bd6-ff8e4ab1b971)
Victims of Crime (item number 1) (id 7ccb77c6-ac4f-494e-8955-d6423fd47733)
Work-related Stress (item number 1) (id 5fa95334-11b0-4c8a-9a33-1e98c6f671c0)

Work and Pensions

Access to Work Scheme (item number 1) (id 1b53fdaf-0ce1-47bf-b2d8-d4965e171f16)
Administrative Costs (item number 1) (id 80d58191-7ade-4d77-a2a0-605c75c134f9)
Benefit Fraud Hotline (item number 1) (id 82cfb013-b824-45a3-98ce-ce286383a9d9)
Benefits Payment (item number 1) (id 592b4d72-5c55-4b31-8712-1710284eaf37)
Carers (item number 1) (id c50b97cb-a447-4189-a53f-83e8118fa44f)
Child Support Agency (item number 1) (id da7ecbd7-e10f-4b3d-8172-deb09d0ff4eb)
Disability Discrimination Act (item number 1) (id 047ea44e-9997-41c2-9070-6c72a9423e2f)
Disability Premium (item number 1) (id fc0f1c7a-9c3a-4fbe-beae-34a91e6c17f4)
Housing Allowance/Benefit (item number 1) (id 43283068-733f-4233-8d85-536140f73f65)
Incapacity Benefit (item number 1) (id 644e53b4-afe7-4686-b503-0a8b9f307c89)
Jobcentre Staff (Attacks) (item number 1) (id ee8a1875-9044-4240-94f4-e40141d1ce2d)
Lone Parents (item number 1) (id ccd12234-f640-4ab5-bccd-a8c01bddda63)
Medical Examination Centres (item number 1) (id a41ffcb2-236c-427a-a708-f1d576838de4)
New Deal (item number 1) (id 051e0069-ebe5-4c65-a4c8-62afb6dbfeee)
Parliamentary Questions (item number 1) (id 82d2ab4c-4e4d-4b0f-89b0-c07e5f0ccad8)
Pathfinders Evaluations (item number 1) (id e274bbd2-192c-40f1-afe6-8d69d192fc69)
Pension Credit (item number 1) (id 71d0a3c6-97cb-40f8-9bb5-3d3bf1d440e2)
Pension Protection Fund (item number 1) (id d432d94d-1c4f-499b-a9eb-6197190f3e0a)
Pension Schemes/Service (item number 1) (id e43a38c9-c3c8-4360-bd75-6d0d5c0540be)
Return to Work Support (item number 1) (id 9004e302-b911-41f3-b82b-7d407c4b0cdd)
Strychnine Hydrochloride (item number 1) (id 87f22337-1b49-4d9a-96f3-db11169cdf7c)
Winter Fuel Payment (item number 1) (id ad7e5530-e3e8-4c45-a929-8d776d69ab5a)
Work-related Stress (item number 1) (id 2ad6dc4d-9f24-4259-b93f-5b7e0b527c65)

Health

Abortions (item number 1) (id 0150b363-a1a8-4e15-9249-5d3c7d8b0246)
Alcohol-related Illness (item number 1) (id 852a91cb-45d6-4097-af02-ac7210ac1d91)
Arrhythmias and Sudden Death Programme Board (item number 1) (id 10e5fda9-5483-43d1-9660-d3ead8c68f9d)
Asthma (item number 1) (id 920a5abc-a890-490f-921f-55f73270c65d)
Bedfordshire Health Spending (item number 1) (id 3386238e-a0f7-4c26-b08b-cbdb80ecea95)
Breastfeeding (item number 1) (id d6463fcd-f11d-4832-9039-d4fdc711381a)
Cancelled Operations (Southend) (item number 1) (id 073254ae-4e10-40c6-8aad-4433cd0bbc95)
Cancer Treatment (item number 1) (id 6458b889-a672-4850-8d97-7e03bcff08e6)
Care Homes (Essex) (item number 1) (id c1e347db-fccf-4067-8856-2d472a66a0b7)
Chlamydia (item number 1) (id 36ab5b48-8a78-4c9d-b89f-2ba02577e7cc)
Clostridium Difficile (item number 1) (id fbec3695-df99-4b2e-aa07-4e8975a40685)
Consultant Vacancies (item number 1) (id a8e1fa67-b7fe-4a64-a894-d186a1dc26c5)
Contaminated Blood Products (Ex-gratia Payments) (item number 1) (id d3931068-bca5-425a-b751-4dd601540e14)
Contraceptive Training (item number 1) (id 799b1fec-7a47-43bf-9d2e-3c434a0b575a)
Dentistry (item number 1) (id 6e8faf99-06cf-439d-ba2a-85b3888c5cab)
Emergency Contraception (item number 1) (id 0e82b7ac-6a7a-4d71-a02b-c7f7d852be72)
Food Labelling (item number 1) (id bd433fff-64e2-4774-b8af-38a2dc41d2df)
Food Preparation and Cooking NVQ (item number 1) (id 12b86ce6-ecd0-4b65-930d-281277d1dc66)
Genito-urinary Medicine (item number 1) (id f3d407ba-b916-405f-9b0f-35d036f9ca8d)
Health Services (Milton Keynes) (item number 1) (id a8c046e3-76c7-4c55-8490-b9503b778e61)
Hip Replacements (item number 1) (id a28f31a1-cc2c-4b32-ac2a-bc086e865b19)
Influenza Vaccinations (item number 1) (id fd45d383-bf43-463f-a71b-07373352f130)
Liquid Eggs (Food Poisoning) (item number 1) (id 2073c0ce-adee-44f4-a314-0563f4dcc0f8)
Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (item number 1) (id 4383d251-6628-43c4-b98a-a6abbbbc1df4)
Mumps (item number 1) (id eb2b3e42-2a5a-46e8-9ca3-5927d46c3d32)
National Alcohol Needs Assessment (item number 1) (id 055af762-d93b-4943-a70b-6d07b272e33e)
National School Fruit Scheme (item number 1) (id 46a1bcde-f278-41b3-90e5-2f1da7599f9c)
Obesity (item number 1) (id fe745ca4-9053-454e-99d4-69a3708b59f3)
Orthopaedic Prosthesis (item number 1) (id 8ebc1b85-ecf2-4333-9d48-8c33d7f6943e)
Positron Emission Tomography Services (item number 1) (id 8812e470-9b2d-4347-b303-bcb8017d5aa6)
Prisons (item number 1) (id 03a09a2a-38b1-4809-9e6c-1271c929c26c)
Processed Food Industry (item number 1) (id 97f61f5e-ebea-4591-98d2-3306b04d5746)
Public and Patient Involvement Forums (item number 1) (id 282b9a3e-2a42-4f9b-b306-7291c814fa2b)
Section 64 Funding (item number 1) (id 0734a71e-cda1-4cf4-88c4-fb48d151d423)
Smoking (item number 1) (id ac4a9118-dd72-4379-8b22-e05051a35b3f)
Surrey and Sussex Strategic Health Authority (item number 1) (id c437bea0-fd02-43ff-9c3a-def1ec6bb382)
Walnuttree Hospital, Sudbury (item number 1) (id d4bc7245-259e-4dd6-9e90-2a93128a8d88)
World Health Organisation (item number 1) (id 0ceb2c92-f735-42c2-974f-6bccbd071054)

Treasury

Child Trust Fund (item number 1) (id 0485d7a0-aef0-40ae-b5de-b7d6c32a148e)
Childcare Vouchers (item number 1) (id b44d6e23-284e-4605-8919-47ae30d76e01)
Class A Drugs (item number 1) (id dc92d7ac-d355-4aee-b17c-e8b28e88532b)
Cost Recovery (item number 1) (id f4c4d2bd-6aba-4f7a-92e6-6c805a5c30f0)
Council Tax (item number 1) (id 4965a983-7290-47a9-a944-d3cd5c053879)
Drug-related Deaths (Teesside) (item number 1) (id 33588588-870a-4bee-8c25-0ffe20a8ef2e)
Economic Conditionality (item number 1) (id fb1bd93f-8d10-4abb-b56e-49dbd1191bdd)
Economic Inactivity (item number 1) (id 615fb67c-ea85-4780-a34c-9f4e68ba974b)
Energy-saving Products (item number 1) (id aacd14d6-bfa6-4721-b853-c267ef6d2a50)
Gift Aid (item number 1) (id c38f1a19-6baa-4951-8128-dad77015d1c9)
Handcuff Exports (item number 1) (id a040f984-f0f1-4ed6-af23-1c9d5d297aa3)
Import Duties (item number 1) (id 15e245f9-c0b9-4a3b-b71d-afa4664b47f8)
Income Tax (item number 1) (id a020afb0-619e-4e19-95c4-16b2a8234a1d)
Inheritance Tax (item number 1) (id 5b1b2eac-b7da-451f-a038-628ff19629d7)
Lorry Road User Charge (item number 1) (id fad620dc-5c3b-473f-b791-231f3070fadb)
Money Laundering (item number 1) (id f0f5f590-e14e-426d-9b51-149f38a3999f)
National Insurance (item number 1) (id 42deb0e3-3006-4dbf-bc11-c6f2c796a14e)
National Statistics (item number 1) (id f7b7230e-0539-47d8-a192-0259e31b73b3)
North Sea Oil Revenues (item number 1) (id f72b5c0f-28fc-4a76-bfb2-bbdd784c7310)
Offshore Tax Avoidance (item number 1) (id 017abd0f-6ed3-400d-9f22-fa5c06fa9c21)
Oil and Gas Revenues (item number 1) (id ce36d6eb-f2a3-4f8b-82c5-0730eb16c8b6)
Overseas Civil Service (item number 1) (id 34c5508c-e85b-4dd6-86da-ae73308caa66)
PAYE (item number 1) (id 9e6a3372-0a59-442a-b7e9-808ab134d927)
Pension Funds (item number 1) (id ecd1149c-14d7-4873-855f-82472fa7e712)
Pension Savings (Tax Relief) (item number 1) (id a652ef2f-c1cd-4deb-8a93-f729a454f821)
Pensions (item number 1) (id ba1065b7-e6f3-41b4-a0ec-819de1634422)
Revenue and Customs (item number 1) (id bc62cd2a-f519-4574-8179-67683f474063)
Science Investment (item number 1) (id 65cdb889-2e37-48e4-bb4d-7d02807e48ea)
Seal Skins (item number 1) (id 70835232-d3cb-4ed1-9ccb-f9d18dd78588)
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