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Commons Hansard for 2 November 2005 (Volume 438)

From the corrected (daily) version. Last updated 8 December 2025 at 10.19am.

Commons Chamber

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

Written Answers

Content for Written Answers.

Written Answers to Questions

Defence

Aldermaston (item number 1) (id 903a23e2-34f0-4909-b9d8-0c8153c79656)
Armed Forces Deployment (item number 1) (id 53039b17-7754-4722-b734-71c51e5af69d)
Correspondence (item number 1) (id 20004582-d1b8-4fe6-83ba-6b2349d71471)
Departmental Consultation (item number 1) (id 90a91b70-bf41-48cb-95e7-493279c65bf7)
Departmental Property (item number 1) (id af6c0f05-1de0-474d-a0fc-e592dbf1feb1)
Future Aircraft Carriers (item number 1) (id 5590b46c-231d-44e4-aa68-46057229ee85)
Future Rapid Effects System (item number 1) (id 8248fdfb-6601-4618-a9c3-22f1246a90b9)
Gulf War Veterans (item number 1) (id 3243db0c-389b-4f34-8246-bf9ac63e6d42)
Hearing Loss (item number 1) (id 8cc50055-28f5-40aa-b146-ce9eac87f518)
Housing (item number 1) (id 4856f8a2-5b72-4c51-96f2-832be3ebeb40)
Iraq (item number 1) (id a3195bc9-6964-44b3-9558-6a8cda5ccfd9)
Irish Regiments (Posthumous Pardons) (item number 1) (id a257e035-b11e-4df3-b3aa-640007ba2244)
Literacy and Numeracy (item number 1) (id 7ceeb283-1ce0-4251-a0a1-037c5a1b7fb1)
Married Quarters (item number 1) (id 18166783-d822-49c8-b4ad-1caa0596e598)
Medals (item number 1) (id b62ec3f9-148b-4dcd-a4c2-f7520612cf20)
Patrol Boats (item number 1) (id 1f84ac07-2f76-469a-b3b1-ba5dc87e8ba7)
Personnel Transfers (item number 1) (id 6830833f-a820-44b2-bd73-1022b0e74d9c)
QinetiQ (item number 1) (id 72b65c4f-0bdf-4678-8a08-8007e45e148a)
Territorial Army (item number 1) (id 1cbe4749-24c9-4284-9bf9-6816d6383975)
Warships (item number 1) (id 30b30307-d35e-4b16-8fa4-5dddabab18bc)

Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs

Home Department

Acceptable Behaviour Contracts (item number 1) (id 5906bb62-da11-4dae-a47d-3fee41c281cc)
Airsoft Weapons (item number 1) (id 5892b88c-e2fb-4dd8-b8dd-36b40033e559)
Alcohol-related Violence (item number 1) (id 3866fef8-3c00-4c7a-9b79-add52f0b85cb)
Animal Rights Extremists (item number 1) (id 31480adc-4326-42fc-b08c-0e6bcba60ecb)
Antisocial Behaviour (item number 1) (id f91cc18d-8e69-4e4e-88f4-bc512d7aa328)
Bomb Hoaxes (item number 1) (id 663c8a6d-1efc-452b-8f69-d3f7d3b1abdd)
Correspondence (item number 1) (id 9be4ad0a-be8f-4718-a3a2-d6d7c1a71e32)
Council Tax (item number 1) (id 923e3269-3dd8-4839-8708-cf4a2290187d)
Crime (Easington) (item number 1) (id 8496d473-7f79-4f1e-b634-a6f12649a766)
Criminal Cases Review Commission (item number 1) (id 47924020-85c4-4d78-a935-b6c8a8bbe868)
Criminal Injuries Compensation (item number 1) (id 27cf34ab-4b0e-416f-86f9-2f5f3bacdf22)
Deaths in Custody (item number 1) (id a79bbfcc-e7fd-45e9-9bc5-1d7c6941d8db)
Disclosure Powers (item number 1) (id f4006f80-de72-4007-b442-70d8d4ba724d)
Dr. David Kelly (item number 1) (id 12ea4c1c-4c02-4607-8c32-d911b46af003)
Drug-related Offending (Braintree) (item number 1) (id bfdf7a3a-1bbf-4159-9cc2-4d246028b6ea)
Electronic Tagging (item number 1) (id 2eac6e45-09cf-4a25-80a0-a431fafa761b)
Equitorial Guinea (Attempted Coup) (item number 1) (id 064a7b04-5c8e-4dec-ad1e-0b5dc3c679ba)
Firearms (item number 1) (id e5a79fd1-d6fd-4430-a83d-da00a8e0a9d9)
Historical Sex Abuse Cases (item number 1) (id b2596cc8-18fe-4633-b5b5-1a256b1485af)
Illegal Immigrants (Kettering) (item number 1) (id 84ad5d2c-17c2-49fa-b180-0a8170d6a2d3)
Immigrant Labour (item number 1) (id b91e8c7e-0305-4685-8d34-abe9f9a3c2e5)
Indefinite Leave to Remain (item number 1) (id 8b98c4d2-c929-4a1a-a45f-046ee3dda74e)
Licensing Hours (item number 1) (id 9427d372-f4d1-4ea0-be0f-4a834c0747bf)
Missing Children (item number 1) (id cc0056a6-b2b6-4f08-b74c-2c0c71e40258)
Motoring Offences (item number 1) (id aa273438-5d55-4c99-9030-160a8a285f52)
National Offender Management Service (item number 1) (id e9c80a6c-714c-4deb-80ae-2363a2a3bcfc)
Payroll Giving Grants Programme (item number 1) (id f3326f65-f1f0-4fac-8f4c-c495bc361b70)
Police (item number 1) (id 05734720-a75a-418a-a8b7-fe4a550938f4)
Prisons (item number 1) (id feb10d11-107f-48ca-b3ac-90d60b655dc5)
Race for Justice Project (item number 1) (id de593b0e-28e7-4a2a-a33e-fa81d3f60463)
Reoffending (item number 1) (id 81d0302e-bb74-442d-8c7b-fb7093f4d464)
Replica Guns (item number 1) (id 9fbef9a6-6f0e-47bb-83c7-b18d28c79b56)
Secure Training Centres (item number 1) (id 95bc874d-d859-4b40-b0dc-12ba885099ee)
Sex Offenders (item number 1) (id 36f9c7ea-fa86-4556-ba09-d1a24f38ce5d)
Speeding (item number 1) (id 20e913ac-d8a9-4e9c-ac62-8edfbdd184f1)
Terrorism (item number 1) (id e992d90d-4f99-4d53-ba0e-f34883774b08)
Under-age Drinking (Gravesham) (item number 1) (id 7b696320-64c7-45e2-8256-db76f4f201c7)
Vandalism (item number 1) (id a85d4751-5beb-417e-947b-74b84bdb8858)
Victims Code of Practice (item number 1) (id 212ef8c6-d552-4a7e-a82f-a23e058af7da)
Visas (Poojaris) (item number 1) (id a08b7a4f-49d2-4208-9564-e062513dec58)
Young Offenders (item number 1) (id 9c9f8ac7-6725-433b-beae-90530c6805a6)
Zimbabwean Farmers (item number 1) (id ed95965f-ad0a-4164-96f9-f7ff54cbc15a)

Health

Your Health, Your Care, Your Say" Consultation (item number 1) (id 9dccd473-e961-4c7a-9ba5-6ea1b5b01e3e)
Acute Hospitals (Bed Utilisation) (item number 1) (id 95e352a5-81c7-452f-8ab5-8fdd909024a7)
Allergies (item number 1) (id c35a065e-bbfe-4dfe-861e-11d5d22383a5)
Bed Closures (item number 1) (id d6aaf4c2-7538-4cba-ad43-e2160a6202ee)
Budget Deficits (Oxfordshire) (item number 1) (id d41c3c92-4780-4bef-87ef-a47399e81095)
Cataract Operations (item number 1) (id f47bb116-0203-4971-adf7-de204c1f28c1)
Children's Diet (item number 1) (id cb2fecd5-fc3d-4223-9f9f-0e813fed4869)
Clinical Negligence Payments (item number 1) (id be6dabc4-4705-4477-b5e6-08ddce5aaa9b)
Consultant Referrals (item number 1) (id 1c86e581-9266-4f98-933a-01aee4768c11)
Correspondence (item number 1) (id e62b0b22-458c-4ac6-9536-c174b3eb06a6)
Defect and Failure Reporting System (item number 1) (id 908c30a7-6a82-4be3-a91a-dd8424d8db05)
Departmental Records (item number 1) (id d07291fb-88ce-48a1-b2a8-9b5772fdfdff)
Design Pilot Projects (item number 1) (id c59522e0-6956-4b81-8b82-8443e60c5a1b)
Drugs (item number 1) (id 3d7a874d-8670-4afb-82d5-b87305278e9c)
GP Practices (item number 1) (id 17ff3b80-f08a-4daa-b9d6-cfc91b0f23e3)
Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act (item number 1) (id 1b21a182-fda9-41d7-9980-719ac5301926)
Health Services (Rural Areas) (item number 1) (id 981e5c0b-ed4f-4498-9b7d-4b5c525a68f9)
HIV Tests (item number 1) (id d8d0624c-0ffb-4ac5-bb17-cee0cffa2e72)
Hospital Admissions (Tariffs) (item number 1) (id 05f6daa0-2826-4969-a500-50e679010451)
Influenza (item number 1) (id 557c4a10-9635-4708-be55-7eacf697da6f)
Information Standards Board (Data) (item number 1) (id 45062f0d-2b7f-4d79-8ff0-d9f8d8a22458)
Lichfield Hospital (item number 1) (id 12dd0c42-b58b-46b3-9aef-7dbc348c16f5)
Lung Cancer (item number 1) (id d85839e7-2a53-4745-84ab-be671993bc86)
Lymphoedema (item number 1) (id 4a0959e8-73bf-4ff0-8347-0a2047d0ea4b)
Mental Health Services (item number 1) (id 6318f4cf-cc3a-4165-bc3d-72607956b0c2)
Myasthenia Gravis (item number 1) (id fe094564-1baf-4f88-ae8b-64b37ae75a07)
Neurologists (item number 1) (id e36f62b0-9690-4e0c-b57b-39b3119a6f4c)
NHS Productivity (item number 1) (id 6c974971-d068-4329-9ddf-c301434a013f)
NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency (item number 1) (id e7380619-7bff-4780-9fff-44920e838949)
NHS Redress Systems (item number 1) (id 94171b12-e48b-44e3-94e7-80cf21236e4e)
NHS Trusts (item number 1) (id e2087c5d-d372-4772-8068-90e5616862d4)
NHS Walk-in Centres (item number 1) (id 4e9263bd-aded-499d-a1ea-88b0c23edc9c)
NICE (item number 1) (id 2b5bed68-d052-47f1-b0ef-e02809aa5dc8)
Non-emergency Operations (item number 1) (id ab622b82-1085-47a4-9182-247b1eef1280)
Nurses/Doctors (item number 1) (id e3114037-7ce5-4333-b9d6-20024a390b2c)
Patient Communication (item number 1) (id 193e8f5f-5fda-4cc4-94c3-e83cfc5241c1)
Patient-led NHS (item number 1) (id 2558236d-b951-4193-a99d-9f906cbb7bd9)
Patients with Learning Difficulties (item number 1) (id 1f03013e-0dae-4312-a174-f888cfe32030)
Physiotherapy (item number 1) (id fb68afe1-1a7e-4425-b550-b5a5d35aae30)
Psychotherapy (item number 1) (id ba202353-ff0b-4335-9c79-3bf77a7e165c)
Rebranding (item number 1) (id 9d38dd2e-d5bf-4e92-bcab-9fce0838cc47)
Senior House Officers (item number 1) (id 115dc087-9a16-4d62-a352-55c9e5f592b0)
Skin Whitening Creams (item number 1) (id d8e753c4-7459-4258-bee1-4b9892e0287c)
Sterile Services Units (item number 1) (id 31b7fde1-b8d4-4c08-84dd-71332f3c6465)
Strategic Health Authorities (England) (item number 1) (id d4c4d184-0793-4f8b-abcd-72f3ec140514)
Volunteering (item number 1) (id 942385bb-11bd-462e-95c3-012665f9dcc2)
Waiting Lists/Times (item number 1) (id d7146262-23a4-4d7c-adfd-d687e9fddffe)
Working Time Directive (item number 1) (id 790a2777-0639-406e-998a-72e3a6cf6df3)

Education and Skills

Academic Qualifications (item number 1) (id 32593117-76ca-45a9-abb6-0da2061b3dea)
Attainment Standards (item number 1) (id 2a977ecf-0f0c-4e5f-923c-ba3a6cb52348)
Authorised Absence (item number 1) (id 78be03bd-4fb1-4587-8611-f87ad7bd9f6c)
Best Practice (item number 1) (id 98d112bf-abad-435b-8748-63524dfc2e46)
Bullying (item number 1) (id 5e2f3247-077d-4e19-8fd6-0e1521a20d96)
City Academies (item number 1) (id c6cb9971-72ff-44ff-be4e-7b4dee42e94b)
Counselling (item number 1) (id 580f8061-b03a-4e55-b2d7-ae110ceef1da)
Departmental Initiatives (item number 1) (id d08bc8cd-e1c1-49a3-8b23-59f62a390f49)
Education (Bedfordshire) (item number 1) (id 17721c58-2998-49f3-bd9a-7b2c59ef984f)
Education Funding (Hartlepool) (item number 1) (id 2d9959bd-3ff4-4593-b92a-96f1b6981491)
Ethnic Minority Achievement (item number 1) (id 563ce41e-15d5-4d27-b615-9698f23ced75)
Examinations (item number 1) (id 718cc24c-8522-46c5-bfc0-d69e5ee610b7)
Foundation Schools (item number 1) (id 43d94fcc-9e5f-45cf-8650-c49d2cdccaae)
GCSEs (item number 1) (id 27f95b43-033a-4b33-9ba2-10e6d8842a7c)
Geography Teaching (item number 1) (id 1aa71822-c3dd-4182-a578-ff7ebc20e173)
Gifted/Talented Young People (item number 1) (id 6f595172-61a0-44ac-83b1-e86e3a8c8288)
Good Practice (item number 1) (id cbe25b05-9525-4e9e-a9a3-e70864f5bdc8)
Havering Borough (item number 1) (id 9bb04e91-4a9b-4379-a626-cd08b7add97d)
Head Teachers (item number 1) (id dc406629-1537-4db0-85d5-0648ee6fa390)
Home Education (item number 1) (id f0f6a6b0-2e20-4b67-a401-33e9be7aa00a)
Homework (item number 1) (id 1f90976c-8c23-4c7c-8096-d88ae070e73a)
Independent State Schools (item number 1) (id 9b698be7-4314-4417-b299-239e34a24bc3)
Labour Statistics (item number 1) (id c954e15d-d81c-414f-8afa-023277c3be29)
Learning Methods (item number 1) (id 017860ac-079c-4b2b-a90f-a200959be2c8)
Music Teaching (item number 1) (id 19556ebb-87af-4668-a268-77ebcb28b05d)
Non-contact Time Obligations (item number 1) (id b36740ea-4324-4b4a-a335-9ccc64ed9cc3)
Non-departmental Public Bodies (item number 1) (id c0da5723-6490-45d7-9f49-8ab576e535d6)
Ofsted (item number 1) (id d19da131-f32f-4cd8-a184-8251e588a681)
Parents' Councils (item number 1) (id 1be3c438-82fa-4afa-a6d9-b62abafae277)
Prince Henry's Grammar School, Otley (item number 1) (id 24e05242-f5d8-4e44-934b-73ed30c79258)
Pupil Attainment (item number 1) (id bb15c13a-6300-4d17-9c87-277ac313906b)
Pupil Expulsion (item number 1) (id 178f0255-ca78-40e9-ae30-8e7406160d4b)
Pupil Grouping (item number 1) (id d8fb5794-8a37-4385-a4c0-881515a9a6a8)
Pupil-teacher Ratio (item number 1) (id e0077fde-67ce-44cd-9c02-a085a6346284)
Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (item number 1) (id 93de6932-1b92-4bb8-a99c-955ca6a29ec5)
School Admissions (item number 1) (id 6ef8cdc1-5914-4586-be96-ab8deb6549b5)
School Closures (item number 1) (id 62d9f82c-b29e-4680-a152-653a056e60f0)
School Discipline (item number 1) (id 491521e5-e81c-4130-acac-79a2fb3e68f6)
School Meals (item number 1) (id 8fa4b91d-cbdf-4960-8c30-10868c977307)
School Expulsions (item number 1) (id e898414e-318d-4911-8ccf-208a3eb20686)
School Playing Fields (item number 1) (id ceeef8a7-bad1-47a7-b222-edbc712f063e)
School Sport (item number 1) (id 941766e3-0b5e-43ab-938b-de1466cdef2f)
School Teaching Methods (item number 1) (id d969036d-8777-42fa-863b-d3b9072196f6)
School Travel (item number 1) (id 748752fc-5232-4c69-9e20-8086954504fe)
Schools (item number 1) (id 06ae36a2-d0a0-43b4-bc56-f0d056d0bf50)
Schools White Paper (item number 1) (id b505cc48-43e0-4425-88cf-6521fe2f2413)
Science (item number 1) (id 019594f9-f8ae-4644-b85b-006dffba795d)
Science Curriculum (item number 1) (id dbe17f89-7ea1-497d-bfd9-b7c731e15db9)
Selective Grammar Schools (item number 1) (id b2e780d0-be1e-4aef-b5b8-616c10ad46c3)
Specialist Schools and Academies Trust (item number 1) (id 5a974a1a-7bff-49da-b56b-540f71e274f3)
Summer Schools (item number 1) (id 5999c8bc-2d14-434e-9005-506cc0277d1b)
Truancy (item number 1) (id e8398509-e5ed-4ef0-a902-da083eb8c31b)
Trust Schools (item number 1) (id ed882861-6b2f-4e00-b0ca-2ec3f03f1bf4)
Vocational Qualifications (item number 1) (id c0b0d1f0-f55b-43a8-a356-ab1ad75d2469)

Northern Ireland

Perverting the Course of Justice (item number 1) (id 50c95883-82e4-4900-9440-ea4177b4f72e)
On the Run" (item number 1) (id fe70b476-6c0f-4f06-8045-ae6225dfd9b0)
Accident and Emergency Staff (item number 1) (id faa75522-3498-469b-bb98-2250055ad30e)
A-Levels (item number 1) (id 03483c4d-70cd-4796-b14e-0878f7713467)
Antisocial Behaviour Orders (item number 1) (id 07e70a50-28dd-44a8-8318-5323942741fe)
Aphis Database (item number 1) (id 7a063e7e-b864-4dc4-a555-3f3229b084cf)
Avian Influenza (item number 1) (id d5710b55-5520-4401-9db2-a3f1b2aaedb9)
Bombs (South Belfast) (item number 1) (id 74151de5-20e0-4bba-bd85-63667ae4372c)
Breast Cancer (item number 1) (id fd69bec2-a328-4ffa-96bb-a19157add0d3)
Conviction Rates (item number 1) (id 12a6c839-a45d-4701-a01e-7baf6fd6eb0e)
Departmental Refurbishment (item number 1) (id 1e8b75b7-ce94-4506-b657-7e7545fd82d0)
Departmental Staff (Annual Leave) (item number 1) (id 32ebb8f9-e592-46d0-91fe-f3247dd0257d)
Discharged Patients (Deaths) (item number 1) (id a994831c-c4ee-478f-a17d-44be4ac5bad2)
Dyslexia and Dyspraxia (item number 1) (id 570aad18-b016-41a7-ae66-7288b04bd235)
Education (item number 1) (id 3bb4d7e0-b9d7-4071-8653-521ad1fc2049)
Energy Efficiency (item number 1) (id 6c3478db-dc59-43b1-9e79-48a0ad8a8f41)
Football Grounds (Arrests) (item number 1) (id ef394e7b-d60a-433d-8f16-2f5ed7374337)
Illegal Fireworks (item number 1) (id b2ca0b57-cc2e-4e3f-bbf3-21e03f1c7c80)
Mobile Phones (item number 1) (id 36e97321-843d-42a4-a77d-a1e468fde8e0)
National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (item number 1) (id 71ad96ec-4927-4ab2-99f6-1f078d62b7a1)
NHS Agency Staff (item number 1) (id d857acde-888a-44c1-9445-bb5724dd425a)
Northern Bank Robbery (item number 1) (id 8f1ff580-122a-4ed7-b676-eb1dee5e9f3c)
Northern Ireland Prison Service (item number 1) (id b74d675e-6035-4df3-9d53-75dfb5f22163)
Occupational Therapists (item number 1) (id f924acc6-f68c-437a-a8d3-a64e64f436ed)
Paramilitaries (item number 1) (id d38827e6-4f09-4837-b854-0e37f458086b)
Police Vehicles (item number 1) (id 9ad674be-07c7-46ae-b892-276d9e0989ef)
Gershon Review (item number 1) (id c8b23962-312a-4dc2-8e39-fc29cea856dc)
GPs (item number 1) (id 0512caef-0526-4801-a14e-61a662a4ba00)
School Crossing Patrols (item number 1) (id fa87c069-249d-4f1c-ad65-816adc2e2ddf)
School Playing Fields (item number 1) (id f5fc9ea0-5352-4603-8171-86484e6dc3c4)
Surplus School Places (item number 1) (id 844e04c3-e6d7-4c28-a583-e0a6cf34d9fb)
Sustainable Development (item number 1) (id 891a09f6-f8f2-49e0-b6f9-e6603c1400ec)
Teacher Assaults (item number 1) (id 73600777-b543-43cf-8df9-b63f1de4c8a8)
Waste Disposal (item number 1) (id bf8e1363-6395-4039-adf2-fc64932a08a6)

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