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Commons Hansard for 25 October 2005 (Volume 438)

From the corrected (daily) version. Last updated 8 December 2025 at 10.12am.

Commons Chamber

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

House of Commons (item number 1) (id 0920c74b-005f-49d4-97d7-4a42bf390995)
Prayers (item number 2) (id 4edaead2-d4c7-405a-b98a-34fc1f1dfedf)
Schools White Paper (item number 4) (id b3d71b0d-3014-4601-87b7-ef5ed64ec8b8)
Points of Order (item number 5) (id 5f1fbf87-aedf-4e00-83ad-9b3ddcc9db4c)
Licensing Act 2003 (Amendment) (item number 6) (id 5e360957-39fe-4a69-a1fb-3485e4eced02)
Orders of the Day (item number 7) (id d66ce878-a216-4a41-b82a-4ca2f1957f18)
Electoral Administration Bill (item number 8) (id a51a20e3-1949-46db-818b-42e5e486b5f1)
Delegated Legislation (item number 9) (id e6123a90-ebdd-4446-94e7-5ff60e4894e0)
Village Halls (Lottery Funding) (item number 10) (id df1157e7-92a6-4300-be97-cde85992c9a5)

Written Answers

Content for Written Answers.

Written Answers to Questions

Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

CAP (item number 1) (id 1ba4ef96-6ee8-4b52-ab7b-4f708064fd47)
Cattle Passports (item number 1) (id 1caf2a1d-3963-4a46-a82f-dd1dbcbea3c0)
Coastal Defences (item number 1) (id d8ebabee-342d-45a9-bc8b-f957565877c4)
Combined Heat and Power (item number 1) (id fbd2276d-1db2-46c3-ae20-91b99f2eeaf5)
Consultancy (item number 1) (id a90653ca-ac84-480f-be0f-45f52dcbda9c)
Departmental Vehicles (item number 1) (id b6a4f054-47b8-4de9-a363-a86086c619dd)
Farm Regulation (item number 1) (id 1e58f389-f6e3-4f84-9229-c8b4d4747722)
Farm Subsidies (item number 1) (id 68b50f8a-b0c0-4cdc-9af6-599a1f54ab9e)
Fuel Poverty (item number 1) (id 19167eb6-7962-42f6-a198-430ddfb07392)
GM-free Zones (item number 1) (id e37d7837-1eba-41dc-b411-f7d21ba85441)
Media Relations (item number 1) (id 20ce6166-af39-43cb-a962-23591aad0011)
Milk (item number 1) (id 8a38e09b-50ff-44b9-8316-aec342afff1f)
New Reservoirs (item number 1) (id be206cf0-0cf3-42e9-9983-3878f93ed11e)
Organic Food Labelling (item number 1) (id 5892eec0-d969-4657-8f93-675d4dd7f8af)
Pollution (Bystander Exposure) (item number 1) (id ce7b0227-b833-4551-9c0b-4467385bdd3b)
Queen's Flight (item number 1) (id a2f79df3-e245-44f9-a333-c0f07b31c567)
Regionally Distinct Food (item number 1) (id fb1c2435-a63b-4859-8df8-87ca998f28d7)
Rights of Way (Appeals) (item number 1) (id 523eb9e4-5771-470f-925a-0e1421fe644d)
River Minsmere (item number 1) (id 49881f75-2a0a-44e8-ab73-1c59174a91fa)
Sewage Odour Minimisation (item number 1) (id 4f810721-ca26-4dc0-8123-74f016b21254)
Sustainable Procurement Task Force (item number 1) (id 09d21bbc-84e2-4e41-8ffe-1ab48641848a)
Timber (item number 1) (id 3c2e492b-b3f9-41e5-bef5-abc34f49a6d2)
Warm Front (item number 1) (id 9f20a71f-c28e-4efc-8cb0-ca43659423c7)

Transport

A303 Improvements (item number 1) (id e3499f2b-352d-4cb0-9980-43023b91a8a7)
A5 Closure (item number 1) (id a64229fd-b3ea-4434-82fa-bbba9e4b7f14)
Airlines (Subsidies) (item number 1) (id 216aba88-8464-43fd-bb5b-c111c4bb311a)
Blue Badges (item number 1) (id 6e102d44-a654-4452-a091-6849d84543dd)
Conferences and Seminars (item number 1) (id 39a3a09b-62cf-4927-aff7-c2a0fac35c92)
Crossrail (item number 1) (id 1490a585-d7ac-4228-a954-38753a3aaf06)
Cycle Lanes (item number 1) (id 21b0d3b7-c495-4dce-9693-78cce686538b)
Cycling Accidents (item number 1) (id 72aea239-a4a0-42ba-bdcc-e57800c4a239)
Departmental Finance (item number 1) (id b91d49cc-6452-4cf0-9297-051b07e9c2aa)
Departmental NDPBs (item number 1) (id fc49cd46-82ec-4a4b-9f20-f60152957c87)
Departmental Staff (item number 1) (id bfed25b4-b944-46fd-8922-4d9c5fd0610d)
Departmental Websites (item number 1) (id 6308480c-9beb-4e9a-9e4d-44bcd3956890)
EU Aviation and Emissions Trading Conference (item number 1) (id e1c22d8f-b992-4894-943e-9c4507e25625)
EU Directives (item number 1) (id 62826f33-e6a9-4a22-9ded-04783816a9af)
European Council Regulation 2407/92 (item number 1) (id c83cfecd-0094-45d9-8645-94d9e74a655e)
Ministerial Travel (item number 1) (id e3b9cdf5-218a-4c60-9818-1ed16d70bfc1)
Motorways (item number 1) (id c9945b3b-0e83-4479-ad15-ad1ec39f7145)
Pedestrians (Car Accidents) (item number 1) (id 81a27e70-7f59-4fff-823c-d34ef6df0504)
Public Transport Schemes (Lancashire) (item number 1) (id 6fe2738c-2901-4413-98d1-76f643d0fddb)
Railways (item number 1) (id bc8cbbd5-9cae-4d49-b410-0b52bd88abdb)
Rebranding (item number 1) (id 65e8c755-5a55-4e69-ba0e-6abbd11f2850)
Regional Transport Schemes (item number 1) (id ab10f887-370d-4075-858a-78dfd3a357f4)
Road Safety (item number 1) (id 045f8f6e-49bb-4ecd-95e0-85f74786b130)
Road Traffic Offences (item number 1) (id 5749b3dc-fb74-4843-afa9-86c4b5210dfe)
Speed Cameras (item number 1) (id 797c1827-b172-495d-91e9-984d5c40cbc2)
Thames Port Development (item number 1) (id 68170982-03fb-4474-9425-c0b0cd59e4eb)
Travel Concessions (item number 1) (id 5dfb68b9-416e-4f6d-b231-153f45f147a3)

Health

IVF Treatment (Hampshire) (item number 1) (id a2536d2e-51f6-4c2e-915b-86152199e4e2)
Haemophilia (item number 1) (id 06c2f5e2-9b4e-450d-8c7c-23a453e7462f)
NHS Beds (item number 1) (id a3591560-f8bf-428e-bbdb-eb64a07b5150)
Emergency Care (item number 1) (id fd8ac7ff-fc12-4699-87de-c49b899b7c74)
Avian Influenza (item number 1) (id 0e95d33e-b54a-4a19-a824-005b57873e19)
St. George's Hospital, Tooting (item number 1) (id 4ba0ab1a-cbf5-4867-854e-0b32a745d31d)
Mersey Regional Ambulance Service (item number 1) (id 49ddde51-5dba-4fd4-b5bd-6e778d48e6d2)
Abortions (Overseas Residents) (item number 1) (id abc53372-9a86-476f-8823-79e8bbe3846e)
ADHD (item number 1) (id 84b21fbe-d49d-4bb4-b54c-219336d52687)
Adverse Medical Incidents (item number 1) (id fca306a0-9fc3-4784-93b1-1e7a540c64a4)
Allergies (item number 1) (id f6c03889-d3c7-497a-9897-f31038f2f80e)
Cancer (item number 1) (id ea4d09fa-34b2-43cd-b963-cb2880243d2e)
Cardiac Specialists (Kent) (item number 1) (id a4e6626d-9d11-456e-9fca-9188a053d5d9)
Darent Valley Hospital (item number 1) (id 503431bc-f863-46be-838e-e2ce1eaf8a52)
Deanery Funding (item number 1) (id 322c9d3d-fafb-449f-987e-09b070b7d244)
Dementia (item number 1) (id 7b589e52-743e-4750-b629-b5fb1024ef81)
Dentistry (item number 1) (id 784f84e3-421c-4aca-8dd0-a2f7f2dd5c3b)
Diet (item number 1) (id 4ca44de4-e2ee-4e26-8e9f-a5098aa172cc)
East Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust (item number 1) (id d9f4794e-81d9-45bf-b56f-45ae91c3a5ab)
Food Standards Agency (item number 1) (id d79d2cd1-558a-44f4-bab1-cc96a17c66dd)
Genitourinary Clinics (item number 1) (id 958339ea-2635-4263-8ee8-c42a57f9fe34)
Health Services (Leeds) (item number 1) (id ab53b052-0c2a-473c-90f5-0d6b33be586f)
Herceptin (Devon and Cornwall) (item number 1) (id 742b276b-97a4-4d9d-933d-48c850b772d0)
Hospital Closures (item number 1) (id 444f76e9-7b6c-486c-9fe2-d5f83b97bd1b)
Hospital Treatments (item number 1) (id 7875efdb-1f27-457f-aaea-49fac307e92a)
Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act (item number 1) (id 0bf0da9a-d659-402c-93d8-f0ef6c718821)
Mayday Health Trust (item number 1) (id ba25eedf-57b2-48ba-a5c8-ac912867c3a7)
NHS Commissioning (item number 1) (id 1e95ac27-6917-491f-baef-ba25320cdf22)
NHS Continuing Care (item number 1) (id c019ae70-90ef-4db8-9b7c-25a5728d3303)
NHS Finance (Gloucestershire) (item number 1) (id 7ace3b9a-ff1a-4dba-be2e-66210b02494b)
NHS Services (Pudsey) (item number 1) (id 46919620-d1ed-4de7-867e-502baa94934a)
NHS Structure (Essex) (item number 1) (id c45ef53d-ed84-459b-a620-110e062e4c84)
Obesity (item number 1) (id 0b857c54-0296-40fa-856e-afbc420ec22f)
Out-patient Appointments (Gravesham) (item number 1) (id c2915527-787f-41c3-b238-068fc44939fe)
Paediatric Nurses (item number 1) (id 0cf9d43d-1bf3-4eec-b6fb-25eed705b9ce)
Patient Records (item number 1) (id 07d37403-905a-4c64-9af4-a92a7843dc2e)
Pregnancy Health (item number 1) (id a117751f-2556-4e4f-b085-6a50f154b753)
Pressure Sores (item number 1) (id df810d83-b2a5-4aa3-a388-b4a767813ccc)
Progress Educational Trust (item number 1) (id a92d0af0-87ae-48ec-ba4a-3111d35c2de8)
Smoking (item number 1) (id b61ba18e-057e-46c7-8567-83a643a92f91)
Struck-off Doctors (item number 1) (id 01f5420d-5e60-4b5e-8f36-0474de3107f9)
Students (Alcohol Consumption) (item number 1) (id 8fcf833b-a638-413c-b335-fca3f724da88)
Surrey and Sussex Strategic Health Authority (item number 1) (id 46de8001-990e-41ca-b905-e4bfa22d4679)
Tuberculosis (item number 1) (id 09e1dc8b-74dc-445a-b295-04bccf65087f)
Ulcerative Colitis/Crohn's Disease (item number 1) (id 1b81a4d4-9bf8-48ad-b3fc-334e8139187a)

Trade and Industry

ACP Countries (item number 1) (id 2b3ed35e-5cad-4cdf-95c3-7ec33c4298b3)
Auditor Liability (item number 1) (id 5e7d4d0b-9f92-4ba9-b718-ac5e7f40be74)
Bain Report (item number 1) (id c3dd72f4-97a7-4608-a6f0-bf5689e804e7)
Developing Countries (item number 1) (id 93158737-4761-4e7f-8f97-d693b0ae40a9)
Employee Shares (item number 1) (id 0c4bf0d7-f3b2-4a64-9949-a1e2cb10992a)
Energy Costs (item number 1) (id f553c112-b00e-4c14-b96f-360bdd4ca744)
Export Controls (item number 1) (id 9a4b3cc6-ca81-4150-bb4e-230154587dea)
Football Broadcasting (item number 1) (id 8f968f75-2e58-48eb-8d60-f41527c670e2)
Minimum Wage (item number 1) (id 55e2baa3-e506-473c-a8b7-efe09d7f5d8b)
National Grid (item number 1) (id 0ee45fdf-ef6d-4698-b22f-bf1c28313593)
Newspapers and Magazines (item number 1) (id 5de3dd68-b55c-4d08-a206-967f851a0739)
Nuclear Power (item number 1) (id 0023c177-ab26-4bb7-a2aa-29730008d8e1)
Post Office Ltd. (item number 1) (id 29922be0-7b79-4cd8-997f-052acc2fac6e)
Power Cuts (item number 1) (id 1145cce6-4df5-40b6-87ca-c8763ef36063)
Property Searches (item number 1) (id 2e13b63d-d109-45e2-891f-cb377f7cced0)
Radioactive Waste (item number 1) (id 8170a85f-43fe-44bc-a56d-53e1957113f4)
Renewable Energy (item number 1) (id 39087acf-051f-482d-b178-f356faa07848)
Rosewall Sculpture (item number 1) (id 715233ba-baf6-47c7-bb67-00a473609acd)
Severn Estuary (Tidal Barrage) (item number 1) (id a3fb0d25-e6e8-4c48-8538-67709c3521ff)
Small Shops (item number 1) (id d44a6892-902f-4c0d-909e-7bcd3888f1b3)

Treasury

Child Benefit (item number 1) (id bd57f052-d6a8-4f6e-9fa0-623e22d385b5)
Child Poverty (item number 1) (id 70531a75-9654-48e3-95c6-9fe5251c6677)
Debt Relief (item number 1) (id 71080c26-ce32-4be7-98ad-4c88a25de499)
Departmental Staff (item number 1) (id 43a86e5c-1395-4d7c-8ff9-49a60ec061a3)
Financial Services Authority (item number 1) (id e4440185-5398-4630-bb5e-9c9f909781cd)
Financing Negotiations (EU) (item number 1) (id c7d0ecd2-fd4a-4f5c-8a80-469ad6572a5b)
Fiscal Reform (item number 1) (id ad0cbc6e-458c-48eb-a040-94eb797be241)
Income Tax (item number 1) (id 11247e94-b82d-4a9a-a1d3-2b3e0598d46e)
Investors Compensation Scheme (item number 1) (id eb3a6a79-3491-4646-bdc4-7f40e72ef4bb)
Local Tax Offices (item number 1) (id 3f19ac0d-5835-44c0-843a-0675fb39ace9)
Low Value Consignment Relief (Jersey) (item number 1) (id ae6c48b3-c815-4c40-a8a6-3f007451a2ad)
Malnutrition (item number 1) (id 3036f9d4-63b9-44ce-b49d-eb51809c31ed)
National Lottery (Duty) (item number 1) (id aaf189b9-afb9-477c-821f-e10d07490bd4)
New Deal (item number 1) (id ac8e8275-beed-42a8-9b1f-f90cf73b59dd)
Northern Ireland Housing Executive Tenants (item number 1) (id a909c243-1b87-40b5-ad1e-81ddee861db6)
Pensions (item number 1) (id c42139b4-6f78-4562-9f8d-4a265bb90eab)
Public Borrowing (item number 1) (id 4dc0f790-a7a4-4ecd-9acd-12f29df4599c)
Secondments (item number 1) (id 695799c2-88e0-4188-b8b3-d2e00deb9afa)
SIPPS (item number 1) (id 3f902859-e58b-4d6f-a279-cd7ef56c6c7a)
Stamp Duty Tax Relief (item number 1) (id ff59d298-e481-4797-88db-7e02d2f93e07)
Sustainable Development (item number 1) (id 604a04b5-51da-44e9-b537-eb25e2b05f9f)
Tax Credits (item number 1) (id 05e04938-a621-48e1-b01a-0879a4c364e1)
Tax Statistics (item number 1) (id 5a33a124-1ad8-42c3-954c-c4eadadb5d60)
Unemployment (item number 1) (id 7dca43e4-ddd6-46f0-82e4-b1082fc8ea95)
Workless Households (item number 1) (id 09567168-a731-4fb3-8faf-5fb12b1f19dc)

Deputy Prime Minister

Architects Registration Board (item number 1) (id 14817306-26a7-42a5-a087-cfe4c9b12222)
Admiralty House (item number 1) (id d63d96e6-4e8d-4786-8669-a9ad60aa9aa3)
Council Tax (item number 1) (id 145b74af-2ad3-42fb-ad03-849c9c3d259b)
Departmental Finance (item number 1) (id 6896a4ab-6a95-4617-b290-668788971f9e)
Empty Homes (item number 1) (id 16ea81b1-7ff8-40af-a711-71b8e431a34c)
Fire Control Centres (item number 1) (id 900346fb-aaa9-4b90-9be1-72ff00e12faa)
Fires (item number 1) (id 35c14f9a-0807-4d76-a386-992b62ad8ce5)
Greater London Authority (item number 1) (id e880885f-6f2b-439c-929b-f62b51bc2221)
Green Belt (item number 1) (id 3d96c0b0-5479-454d-8a8e-cd5159b25441)
Homelessness (item number 1) (id 5be51524-8c1d-45af-aede-e58ac5836bf0)
Housing (item number 1) (id b31c9edb-2db7-4d08-90ff-3f0279ec825e)
Key Workers (item number 1) (id 2e4a7a1a-647b-48b4-abed-535c275364f8)
Local Authority Expenditure (item number 1) (id dfb0ce47-2fd4-4541-9495-d1306ac497aa)
Local Government Cabinets (item number 1) (id 092dcd18-14eb-43c6-9dd7-d4f2e5c07605)
Local Government White Paper (item number 1) (id 5e102e0e-db5b-4333-be98-ad51d4677bb6)
Micro-bikes (item number 1) (id 8079ba26-bfed-4952-aec7-ecbd62c86ef9)
Mobile Phone Masts (item number 1) (id 8f0fb1ca-0b46-445c-81e8-56027bc0e1ab)
Pathfinder Renewal Project (item number 1) (id d1d17769-260f-440e-97b9-9ca2268fc828)
Planning Delivery Grants (item number 1) (id 6aa1b45e-1f96-4a15-97a3-b850c32c25b2)
Public Open Space (item number 1) (id 475705a0-f300-40ad-91a4-34730662b496)
Regional Assemblies (item number 1) (id e415fff6-bd8d-4417-bcb8-cb6a35d84116)
Sex Offenders (item number 1) (id 0ebc31c0-2f2d-4f09-89c4-62ab661a3cc6)
Solar Power (Buildings) (item number 1) (id e5e9c08f-825a-4a7b-be88-ab81e13c5b37)
Supporting People Initiative (item number 1) (id 510faae8-21ad-49ec-95ed-67f5b70ba035)
Telecommunications Masts (item number 1) (id 276d0ba6-e162-4143-9855-ae7bf7bd281d)
Traveller Sites (item number 1) (id 6e69ef65-f2b7-4cbb-bfcd-bacf244bb62b)

Home Department

Alcohol Sales (item number 1) (id e216459f-feea-46ee-9e62-17ab9a2af3f4)
Antisocial Behaviour Orders (item number 1) (id 38fd82b5-a155-4761-b73e-22fb803c1a6f)
Anti-terrorism Legislation (item number 1) (id fa0fc210-d613-4d61-832a-2a75ca905ab2)
Arrest Warrants (item number 1) (id 50337eb0-586f-408e-85d3-d3cde1254dc1)
Asylum Seekers (item number 1) (id ad7be3ba-4ce6-47f2-a66d-a229bf34c4aa)
Bruche Police Training Centre (item number 1) (id 74d20028-19d0-4aa8-b349-d6e42582eb98)
Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act (item number 1) (id e9d0fc75-b389-4efd-bb29-eb42c07862c2)
Community Legal Service (Scope) Regulations (item number 1) (id 570b3940-019b-441d-9f58-3036782a802f)
Correspondence (item number 1) (id bf303c57-1f0b-4e8f-b7d8-e9b334d3f207)
Crime and Disorder Statistics (item number 1) (id c8a31a60-e61f-4bf7-90a1-9792d74caf65)
Detection Rates (item number 1) (id 40e20ac8-3779-4224-954b-e2fe5a523397)
Emergency Numbers (Mobile Phones) (item number 1) (id 1c263f27-ad46-45ad-92ba-13b53f674718)
European Refugee Fund (item number 1) (id 43dcf0aa-be77-4287-bf8c-4570f412ac76)
Extradition Requests (item number 1) (id 46435f69-0c95-42f9-9099-7b2067b17fad)
Historic Sex Abuse Cases (item number 1) (id f3ebb087-ec2e-4dc4-82fa-7fe9f13b0617)
Identity Cards (item number 1) (id eb6e604c-9425-4a72-9668-ca0986231fff)
Illegal Alcohol Sales (item number 1) (id c2e0aab2-3102-42c7-9a17-f42e67f3e33e)
Micro-bikes (item number 1) (id 9e9202e0-f0dc-450a-8c6d-aa160249fafb)
National Identity Register (item number 1) (id 590e52dc-3c47-4960-8279-1eb12ac9f53b)
Parliamentary Questions (item number 1) (id a2ad9c59-f9a2-488b-84f9-70195f95b070)
Passports (item number 1) (id 3b77c580-fab9-4bd1-a7e1-b27b9abd015b)
Police (item number 1) (id e683ca43-86dd-42d7-aa76-0c571f317cf3)
Psychics (item number 1) (id 3d681e87-189e-4a6a-bb5e-acceee4ae6f3)
Retina Identification (item number 1) (id 4030337d-4108-4678-a8cc-088d34bc3046)
Sexual Offences Act (item number 1) (id 4f4d6815-03aa-4932-a374-5d9179f47fba)
Street Drinking (Wales) (item number 1) (id a99416c3-d9a2-48b6-ad66-130e32821df0)
Student Visas (Deportations) (item number 1) (id 8325c7ca-382d-4355-b649-897013b1a5ce)
Telecommunications Mast (item number 1) (id c93d649b-540f-4314-9b70-e23114230890)
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