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Commons Hansard for 18 October 2005 (Volume 437)

From the corrected (daily) version. Last updated 8 December 2025 at 10.04am.

Commons Chamber

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

House of Commons (item number 1) (id f06ee9eb-00d2-4cab-90fd-79488e51f7ef)
Prayers (item number 2) (id d2131f00-8c65-4987-baa9-1107d2bf18db)
Speaker's Statement (item number 4) (id 6f6d4974-4cb2-467f-a784-35f1162e6e38)
Identity Cards Bill (Programme) (No. 3) (item number 5) (id eb47856d-1f63-4bfc-ae8c-0ea8892ad3f7)
Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill (item number 6) (id 7da1574d-0021-480c-b394-da708c845b0d)
European Union Documents (item number 7) (id 0ed70900-348a-41ac-88df-fbcd0ef1a802)
Ministry of Defence Procurement (item number 9) (id 7b2c1482-1051-405f-9b1b-fa5f7c9016a7)
Mr. Speaker's Ruling (Quoting Same Day Speeches) (item number 10) (id 98c4c0fa-343a-4114-8fee-cd6d711f08c6)

Written Answers

Content for Written Answers.

Written Answers to Questions

Home Department

Defence

African Peace-building (item number 1) (id 7dab9e5f-0d01-411b-a89e-e5b58ef8ef50)
Aircraft Carriers (item number 1) (id 6065eb59-210d-47eb-be65-383adaebb40d)
Apache Helicopters (item number 1) (id 10c529ed-db31-4944-828a-010b9df0abcc)
Defence Exhibition (item number 1) (id 61532511-c49c-43a7-8a9e-9fb8ea528f86)
Departmental Expenditure Plans (item number 1) (id 0e40e348-ffd5-44ba-af8e-7f2a95f52e53)
Departmental Priorities (item number 1) (id ac1147c3-0716-40c0-a2c2-2f99fee256fc)
Hercules Crash (Iraq) (item number 1) (id fefa8ab2-a081-450c-99eb-8e102b46cbe1)
HMS Cygnet (item number 1) (id 166d7914-8858-4569-81f6-03b87ad92357)
HMS Intrepid (item number 1) (id 575c9c42-d88f-4103-9974-b64b3b327f6b)
Iran (item number 1) (id a123eae8-3870-4e17-8d4f-8bdefe9a5d4e)
Iraq (item number 1) (id 5f1a49e3-d17a-4c8d-875c-b8a8f1c3d048)
Joint Combat Aircraft (item number 1) (id 1e1d0e75-ff82-471c-b343-7a87f4ee4a47)
Members' Visits (item number 1) (id 4ed61435-aa4f-43e3-8ebd-f893046bf98d)
Military Airfields (Deportation) (item number 1) (id 11b3d48a-79df-4e64-a55f-83b319000357)
Nuclear Disarmament (item number 1) (id bbec10b2-d746-4e35-95c6-dc0fd1031013)
Procurement Review (item number 1) (id babeb206-9353-47fc-881a-eeaab434cbbc)
QinetiQ (item number 1) (id b928a564-3a79-4a15-b56f-66ca1cf247a1)
RAF Innsworth (item number 1) (id d84e63ac-79bc-48d7-a30c-b7eaa00db240)
Royal Irish Regiment (item number 1) (id 6fa852e1-23ed-4b7c-ac66-2526722d4b4a)
UK Maritime Industrial Strategy (item number 1) (id 8a37278a-0c75-48c8-8715-d30bbdbb2c6c)
Waiting Times (item number 1) (id 6ff88748-9dd3-4aba-945b-9bb630fb0f8a)
Welfare (item number 1) (id 2395e0df-2d2a-471a-a6d1-aef4b573a09b)

Treasury

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Civil Service Personnel (item number 1) (id 3e6453b6-1aca-4128-960e-e7e9b1b4900e)
Correspondence (item number 1) (id 8e9de804-9ed2-4376-b070-4d503c3b78a9)
Departmental Rebranding (item number 1) (id d21785f0-fe8e-4ae4-b685-2275dc35a1b9)
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Electorate Size (item number 1) (id 809d2724-376f-41a1-b791-c16ede0c2ccf)
Financial Services Authority (item number 1) (id 9d1d04bd-6b16-4c07-b3bb-1da1faee0069)
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Identity Card Scheme (item number 1) (id fce0d967-f4cf-4071-bc3f-d4fd3eb3d8ce)
Income-related Benefits (item number 1) (id db24f70a-f60a-4cb5-8f38-2c97c6c65410)
IT Projects (Gateway Reviews) (item number 1) (id 49b414ae-ae50-42d9-9b60-3e4f28a73400)
London (Population) (item number 1) (id c7c958e0-b24f-4229-8ba4-214e530e48ce)
Lung Cancer (item number 1) (id e7a9fdeb-662e-4617-a384-4eacd5e9cf12)
Manufacturing (item number 1) (id d77f018a-5283-42df-b6bb-0481a18e9c8c)
National Insurance (item number 1) (id c3b0fcfb-a178-436b-af3a-fc29b69a6259)
NHS Trusts (item number 1) (id 236f8d85-5fca-4594-bb3b-dd8f182a3e1d)
Office for National Statistics (item number 1) (id 2bfce7a2-5810-49bd-88c5-5feede1bd62f)
Pensions (item number 1) (id 55bca008-3168-4f1f-85d3-093219d99366)
Population Changes (item number 1) (id 5c855c92-a83e-4437-98ca-fa903be9e335)
Public Services (Expenditure) (item number 1) (id 50c3a087-3523-48ef-b2d0-b503abd103e5)
Regional Price Indexes (item number 1) (id d4bb4c66-f93c-4c76-9863-298e3fc8089d)
Self-employment (Tax Returns) (item number 1) (id b15aa681-1d38-490b-9ea7-b685f96ff705)
Stability and Growth Pact (item number 1) (id 777e8cfc-decd-45cd-9943-381293b42aa3)
Suicide Rate (item number 1) (id 625be317-ca92-48c3-bbff-9e9fa30ff076)
Tax Credits (item number 1) (id d8ac067c-ee5e-438a-a9bf-b0f5750afa04)
Tax Evasion (Northern Ireland) (item number 1) (id ae0f8713-c2a3-4970-bc70-64cc7ac3ea35)
Unemployment (Pudsey) (item number 1) (id f5e82fbd-bf1d-4151-b470-9c645af991bf)
Vehicle Emissions (item number 1) (id bcd7bcf3-8a2d-4423-b22c-17b6dd3b3a15)

Education and Skills

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Bullying (item number 1) (id d77350ad-aa40-4cb6-a2f0-524b7f638b15)
Child Care (item number 1) (id 1960e4f0-8861-41d4-80a3-8109765a2730)
City Academies (item number 1) (id 20901119-074d-4593-a881-7e5ec801eb8b)
Class Sizes (item number 1) (id 481a51e8-8a23-4ebb-adeb-95c92228ed6f)
Cumbrian Literacy Strategy (item number 1) (id 8a3f4e33-b306-4c9a-8de7-4c34942e5c8e)
Departmental Guidance (item number 1) (id be787af6-a7a2-447a-9342-6521392020fe)
Education Institutions (Brent) (item number 1) (id 9a6da282-e0d6-45e4-9349-71cd196755a5)
Essex Pupils (item number 1) (id 0bd80c1f-54ad-46a5-83a4-99c0b7a10a8e)
Examination Markers/Results (item number 1) (id 495dbf7f-5471-460d-b152-86b05fa66d97)
Excellent Schools (Incentives) (item number 1) (id 1b899892-9074-4337-8784-26d6eb443301)
Extended Schools Initiative (item number 1) (id 5c6e5d24-6ae4-4c2c-949f-34357f26bddc)
Foreign Languages (item number 1) (id 66802fbb-48ef-4ed7-a2b8-799bef6a6cbc)
Foster Care (item number 1) (id ba0de333-3b70-4a15-aae3-1816a2e6d359)
Home Economics (item number 1) (id 8f448560-fa7a-496f-b347-050ec66f35f3)
International Baccalaureate (item number 1) (id 15a31388-4bcd-4ca5-a24c-8464fafc2365)
Key Stage Tests (item number 1) (id 0828d526-f1d9-4cd0-90f7-58962ed865c2)
Learning and Skills Council (item number 1) (id 0ca27e8e-9254-4f41-9e6b-cc5a23871b10)
Nutrition (item number 1) (id 51ed3604-ed09-4b33-9e97-01e0a0b9369f)
Reading and Literacy (item number 1) (id 46b47c01-b880-46e3-a386-348ce044c088)
Safe Driving (item number 1) (id f25a0a9d-cea8-45bc-b367-777580fad499)
School Budgets (item number 1) (id e102f449-483b-4fef-8450-1be178b7f915)
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School Curriculum (item number 1) (id fec49aeb-661b-4bbf-962b-ae1093b91dba)
School Meals (item number 1) (id 13bbabda-8725-43b1-9cda-6e277b5fab4d)
School Refurbishment (item number 1) (id c1b6bf5a-d2d3-46d5-bd7b-45c5ae991086)
School Uniforms (item number 1) (id 662872b5-c62b-41ee-8e4c-b6a375c7b4f1)
Schools' Capital Funding (item number 1) (id 1adfa228-f8aa-46a9-9a60-7c1a41f6bfb6)
Science Education (item number 1) (id 152a0208-7603-4a34-adcd-936c1c71d544)
Second World War (item number 1) (id 8c8c063c-c465-4832-8fd0-07aa31e81bfe)
SEN (item number 1) (id 3d397732-0563-4d9a-aac5-f38fd50b5f6e)
Single Parent University Students (item number 1) (id 85be26ec-bdb5-4472-a1b2-44fbb4fda218)
SEN (Tooting) (item number 1) (id 82f6dcc5-2242-4a6b-b9de-3e331f312cc9)
Sports Colleges (item number 1) (id 584828ff-9343-4116-bf66-2c0cac19dce1)
Student Finance (item number 1) (id 6819b92f-44c2-4ebd-a069-897413d818ca)
Sure Start (item number 1) (id e275ce7e-1dd6-48d5-9c10-cdfe8ba4689c)
Teachers (item number 1) (id 1852a563-9c31-48eb-bc55-b32ac2fb189a)
Visual/Auditory/Kinaesthetic Learners (item number 1) (id 9191dc7a-deaa-4208-b6a0-7b35173b88cb)
Youth Services (item number 1) (id 04370a74-64fb-4390-a44b-e1776ceab897)

Northern Ireland

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Avian Influenza (item number 1) (id 5fbfcb7c-fd53-4965-bd62-6b68728fff59)
Cancers (item number 1) (id 786925ce-01f7-447e-b9a7-3d6de460b85f)
Cardiomyopathy (item number 1) (id a4ec470f-4d02-45ea-ae05-458b378cc8b9)
Care Homes (item number 1) (id f54352c6-e797-4da6-a2e1-a94c27658c93)
Child Deaths (item number 1) (id e2723344-ff42-4f24-9ee7-0b884cc57494)
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Domiciliary Care (item number 1) (id 4d270b44-c146-4010-b6fd-b8192de30fd8)
Education and Library Boards (item number 1) (id 581fb51c-7754-44af-8814-99f2964862a6)
Farm-related Accidents (item number 1) (id f05229e2-06c1-48e3-8fe8-ce5f192fba00)
Fireworks (item number 1) (id c60e09d5-95a3-43cb-ae98-c07bfed5c8c7)
Health Services (item number 1) (id 276cbb67-6fdb-4d88-b73e-453f67ae29c0)
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Hospital-acquired Infections (item number 1) (id 114d2e61-b54c-4cb4-8cab-b8df766f2729)
Infant Mortality (item number 1) (id 9193fd79-e926-4539-8ac9-3006d703789e)
Jim Gray (item number 1) (id d8b1337a-a82f-4d69-8663-e395b07abea4)
Local Government Finance (item number 1) (id 6303f5d9-2900-47d3-84dc-59456ea76a07)
Maritime Safety (item number 1) (id 78048d61-63ae-48ba-98a0-e700ab972773)
MRSA (item number 1) (id edc6cead-63ac-4088-ad43-c2452cd3197f)
Multiple Sclerosis (item number 1) (id abaa3124-aa96-4884-b648-44c3fa76e1e4)
Operations (item number 1) (id 072a5dfc-3af9-4dc8-a5c3-7d9825950eec)
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Vehicle Excise Duty (item number 1) (id a54e25d3-33a1-4c50-9d5c-b1b949fd191a)
Warm Homes Scheme (item number 1) (id d763b3f2-cded-4f48-a7cf-967f214c40e9)

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