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Commons Hansard for 8 November 2005 (Volume 439)

From the corrected (daily) version. Last updated 9 December 2025 at 11.47am.

Commons Chamber

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

House of Commons (item number 1) (id 9e64f087-2a6a-4a14-af1b-d211b0e9f478)
Prayers (item number 2) (id 6ff5203e-3ad8-4b39-afcb-0e4ead87607d)
Private Business (item number 3) (id 6c7c9e33-55d6-4015-a311-b5a5dce5a3a8)
Modernising Logistics Provision (item number 5) (id e7dd2761-7906-4675-9d29-807e6257aae6)
Orders of the Day (item number 6) (id 0f153f38-2ee0-44be-a056-271687c44776)
Electoral Administration Bill (item number 7) (id 5be45453-e6a8-4699-b3ed-552b4292b3ca)
Pensioner Poverty (North Belfast) (item number 9) (id 9407a85d-7749-4ca4-9162-6d258dc041fc)

Written Answers

Content for Written Answers.

Written Answers to Questions

Transport

Transport Infrastructure (Shoreham) (item number 1) (id ff891948-cf50-4be6-bcbe-d42a4f30e336)
Regional Airports (item number 1) (id c5973c35-6d71-42a3-ad82-785218f410c2)
A43 (item number 1) (id 92a8d0c1-235f-4ae8-96d1-45ca32bdfdc6)
Aircraft Pollution (item number 1) (id 474a455c-0e81-4cd1-97b6-301894361997)
Roadside Workers (item number 1) (id 0404c0b4-d2a3-4ad5-bc21-ef5e32fb25e0)
M4 (item number 1) (id 5241c779-5dc8-4275-8221-1a2c6076f41e)
Rail Network (East Midlands) (item number 1) (id 863e62b9-4066-4e32-a892-8de003c6c0bd)
Rail Services (item number 1) (id 026bff68-95b7-4329-9329-e3ddf7df5c55)
Sustainable Communities Plan (item number 1) (id 23f3cdfd-c91f-4bab-bed5-9a37d5e3aac1)
A5120 (item number 1) (id b7ac17e8-3bc8-40c7-b547-a7ac8aa5081e)
Air Carrier Insolvencies (item number 1) (id 92399cd6-37f5-455f-818c-13245e46417b)
Central Railway (item number 1) (id 8acfaa21-99c6-44e4-99a3-1f0585553d9f)
Concessionary Travel (South Gloucestershire) (item number 1) (id f255a6f5-c60a-4ef3-91a6-618038f564a5)
Departmental Estate (item number 1) (id 7960b684-cd03-4b2e-8d9c-53b9eb4dcc31)
Eurotunnel (item number 1) (id a142047d-9228-4410-9f48-9ba37c78d58f)
Highways Agency (item number 1) (id 3ecf9f96-a8a8-40f2-8a1a-172fdf388de0)
Motorway Crash Barriers (item number 1) (id fca372a9-8885-4485-94bd-fa514c7b90d5)
Night Parking Charges (item number 1) (id 1eb908f7-6654-42de-aa24-21a5fdf191b1)
Ports (item number 1) (id 6c4fefe5-bdf5-4a8a-b213-c2526d7e3b2b)
Rail Franchises (item number 1) (id 406e4adb-6601-4768-8abb-18b7d32693b9)
Railways (item number 1) (id 2cc0c022-0e62-45bb-baeb-2987447a4b49)
Road Usage (item number 1) (id a8d37a79-3309-4977-8655-31077cafc1b0)
Schools (Peak-time Traffic) (item number 1) (id 0f138eb6-b6e1-44ec-bec6-3a19ccf6757f)
Telecommunication Masts (item number 1) (id 3e451910-f104-4d82-86df-3c8e89a25550)
Transport Links (Essex) (item number 1) (id c82b9184-ce58-4f62-87b9-29472cc706da)
Waterways (item number 1) (id 1e8948ce-ecd2-4b1e-934d-3e4451297cb4)

Trade and Industry

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Animal Health (item number 1) (id 38dc5c01-363a-465e-9fcc-e950eb1e9bb4)
Carbon Dioxide Emissions (item number 1) (id 4e73d3f7-9c0e-4251-a989-d272405cafea)
Development Agencies (item number 1) (id ddbd8496-6c01-4a3d-8371-8e1e3b3b6fed)
Global Interactive Entertainment (item number 1) (id c5f9bf6b-b47e-4e3d-8032-4efb478f6f62)
Home Credit Providers (item number 1) (id 94274f9a-fcb0-4d8b-a5d1-39fd37b6762f)
Household Energy Bills (item number 1) (id fa388f6a-e346-4f8a-aa58-ff0bb35dc9da)
Land and Vertical Agreements Exclusion Order (item number 1) (id 4e77f8ad-7515-49b4-b087-b5b4ad825a7a)
Magazine Distribution (item number 1) (id 60016c94-2cc2-4d45-b229-eecb1a2601c1)
Martin Benfield (item number 1) (id 59b7dcf7-0560-40c9-a410-72276ee0a52f)
National Minimum Wage (item number 1) (id 64c4e719-45f0-4d84-8aac-aac026160584)
Natural Gas (item number 1) (id 7c468d3c-723b-496a-9096-67341950a4f3)
Nuclear Power (item number 1) (id d1a3211f-ee6a-4cb8-941b-cf814f8f1fcf)
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Nuclear Waste (item number 1) (id 30d77bf9-14a9-481f-b1cc-b23b5bc0857e)
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Self-employed (item number 1) (id 7ace2ee4-704d-4ea4-9d8e-627d913cab98)
Solar Energy (item number 1) (id 3ac0194b-6a6f-41ca-a111-e8e62af69a8e)
Telecommunications (item number 1) (id c2003298-d1e6-48b7-a261-e68625a4c2e8)
Uranium (item number 1) (id 5a874a7b-3007-477e-8737-6729ae4daef5)
World Trade Organisation (item number 1) (id 02f4fe18-fca0-475d-b8ad-f6d40baf8048)

Home Department

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Domestic Violence (item number 1) (id 7356c7b6-0c50-43c0-acba-8f2130cac47b)
European Return Fund (item number 1) (id 3e1b5db9-e021-4a13-bb1d-862c6905f1d6)
Identity Cards (item number 1) (id 859e157d-f2e5-479a-9c8e-3b2ff0087a2d)
Immigration (item number 1) (id 76820054-be45-40b5-8544-8ee09cef101d)
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Police (item number 1) (id 2ae31723-3132-40d4-9758-83c34ddbe7f6)
Prisons (item number 1) (id 66e3276c-3148-462e-bf9a-f3932dd53635)
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Refugees (item number 1) (id ecd725ce-4fbe-4613-85c4-4210b6d00392)
Schlumberger Sema Ltd. (item number 1) (id 2e36c751-57fc-448f-9f3d-31a7f350dc90)
Sex Offenders (item number 1) (id ba493128-9610-4a47-8fdd-6b1241d065de)
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Visas (item number 1) (id 8a0f5e44-a1cc-42fb-8fdf-3cc245a90b73)
Young Offenders (item number 1) (id 17691953-8a10-4e39-9482-550ae0d9a954)
Zimbabwe (item number 1) (id 2b60ee58-0bed-49a9-aed1-b3f4f488d387)

Health

Nursing Degrees (Placements) (item number 1) (id 1e9fab83-8d1b-4a78-af26-437c373be3ed)
Ambulance Service Trusts (West Midlands) (item number 1) (id ec058e12-1523-4c75-bdbc-4909160cb3bc)
Avian Influenza (item number 1) (id 9ac0bcb9-7bbe-44cc-8d4e-8b1b727f3b77)
Blood Donation (Leeds) (item number 1) (id 9abe426c-a68b-425d-bd4c-88f2c3f22d37)
Breast Screening (item number 1) (id fca99a18-d9bd-4413-b698-377ee9486bfc)
Cancer (item number 1) (id f271eeb1-3750-4192-b0ca-9768f07df0b2)
Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (item number 1) (id 3984900d-7f8f-444a-98c8-3228c56e5d79)
Dentistry (item number 1) (id 6770458b-206a-4536-b066-d0a4438cfd8a)
Departmental Consultation (item number 1) (id 3797a3c6-3a52-4e0c-9edf-240e7b671667)
Generic Medicines (item number 1) (id fa17a609-2cb0-4ba6-8532-a574de2574c6)
Hand Gels (item number 1) (id 0ddc314d-cea6-4084-b0cb-356e09e42de8)
Health Care Recruitment (item number 1) (id d633dfeb-981a-498a-b4ac-393d235a98b5)
Hospices (item number 1) (id ef69d7ee-3a50-48c1-9838-e0a692662ea8)
Hospital Beds (item number 1) (id 5a26701a-fb1a-4169-91de-99f21239c810)
Hospital Construction (item number 1) (id 652995d2-de28-42e4-bd39-114b8284348f)
Infection Control Report (item number 1) (id b689d341-457c-4856-b612-770beaf0def3)
Influenza (item number 1) (id 01eff7d6-0b8f-47e1-b2c3-01e4ae960e98)
Lupus (item number 1) (id 010aaf63-7b6d-4d3e-87ff-8a08c0de9a0f)
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Mental Health (item number 1) (id f2cbecc9-d376-43c7-ba89-92f414beedde)
Motor Neurone Disease (item number 1) (id 753028b4-48be-4dbe-97bd-426fa51aff57)
MS Therapy Centres (item number 1) (id 30ffa6ea-3a7f-42fe-83b0-cade7ba275ae)
NHS Budgets (Oxford) (item number 1) (id 5cd2226c-104c-4cab-b8ed-90ecf04bf9eb)
NHS Commissioning (item number 1) (id 31196ab8-3af8-44b2-a49a-d2095c7b0735)
NHS Deficits (item number 1) (id eb436d3f-b257-49af-a957-36ad354d7cfa)
NHS Trusts (Sickness Absence) (item number 1) (id 1e4d588d-66d3-41df-be2c-5eb9179188f8)
PET Scanners (item number 1) (id 87b0fbdf-9364-4543-9f94-e55caa802b19)
Podiatry (item number 1) (id 5140715c-2a60-4ac0-8695-07105d651995)
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Primary Care Trusts (item number 1) (id d269398a-4d42-4bd7-b8cb-f8931fd659cf)
Public Consultation (item number 1) (id c0677d9b-ca63-454e-a84c-ee34385f482b)
Pulmonary Disease (item number 1) (id 09f35590-f077-4080-8ded-97fa1cfba63f)
Radiotherapy (item number 1) (id 65e33c67-4954-4574-a678-d71f70a2bc82)
Schizophrenia (item number 1) (id 3ca633a2-daf4-4bf5-9d6b-6a35e4c31848)
Shropshire Health Authority (item number 1) (id 431f4767-6db9-43c7-9c71-1ef02aea4abc)
Smoking (item number 1) (id 8db1c588-f12a-4b45-b83d-c00f82e42073)
Social Care Services (item number 1) (id 94ec2da4-e088-4ef8-b154-f382f7d4354c)
Sun Beds (item number 1) (id cb3389d6-6dd6-4b2b-894c-28787e919047)
Swale Primary Care Trust (item number 1) (id cba7a929-a51d-4f74-8c66-e429f0cfd03a)

Northern Ireland

2012 Olympics (item number 1) (id 691d6aab-c25d-4d2c-8cff-8335be1f94c1)
Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (item number 1) (id d3f632b0-65a2-4add-bbd6-e608c6da4f9b)
Ards Hospital (Psychiatry) (item number 1) (id e6c41603-bb9f-47c6-8c11-42ad7e4a03c8)
Benefit Fraud (item number 1) (id a4150ff6-33de-4bf3-a6b8-a9eb90b04483)
Breast Cancer (item number 1) (id 439f723a-1074-4635-8863-5cbcdd9cde85)
Buckley Report (item number 1) (id b9086cc2-8803-486c-8b5e-0ffb346b4078)
Child Protection (item number 1) (id d5d26955-e2e9-4d25-ae61-e28fecc96df4)
Class Sizes (item number 1) (id 4d6298dc-41f5-42d0-b9c4-ceb0bc1c7250)
Community and Voluntary Sector Funding (item number 1) (id 4b4be79a-f071-48b2-a4e8-2deacdc3a95e)
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Contraceptive Advice (item number 1) (id c3e03fa3-53e5-4a60-b2df-f18c2d662ce8)
Council of Catholic Maintained Schools (item number 1) (id 3e056aa3-f436-4403-9588-af057506e69a)
Departmental Recruitment (item number 1) (id f17bbbee-81ff-433b-8b27-9e25587fc87b)
District Councils (item number 1) (id 81d8c932-05a0-4dd3-9293-1cc737d53b90)
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Electronic Human Resources Contract (item number 1) (id f8b9eff0-806d-4a7d-8902-9215cca28bd8)
Enzyme Disorders (item number 1) (id 92be9873-1f64-40df-b57b-feb4f89759ea)
Fuel Poverty (item number 1) (id 086fb3d3-717b-4757-914e-81460b36a054)
GCSE Qualifications (item number 1) (id e5ef1173-219e-4b7d-bba1-3de73b5458c3)
Hospital Beds (item number 1) (id 7ce70580-7b92-4eda-93f8-c72bc6f8bbad)
Illegal Waste Disposal (item number 1) (id b1bea221-2996-46dd-ad0a-5a9d6392288a)
Lagan College/Millennium Primary School, Strangford (item number 1) (id 7a5a890e-997e-4ab7-b002-7121c1468f3d)
Marriage Licences (item number 1) (id dc5d615c-83e8-43e4-8d13-52cd5c3764c6)
Mental Health (item number 1) (id 334a62d1-b51a-46bf-8aa9-855ab816b35e)
MOT Vehicle Tests (item number 1) (id e81cdd7e-b214-4d1a-abc2-6da2329f46fd)
Multiple Sclerosis (item number 1) (id e08d59e6-aecb-40c1-9bce-d1776c336999)
Nurses (item number 1) (id 1e26161d-191c-440d-98d9-8f2d6acfc2af)
National Match-funded Money (item number 1) (id 2d06d51a-21e1-4f13-8a60-6cc95d779700)
NHS Complaints (item number 1) (id d327626b-e37d-4bd6-b1f7-55facacf1b91)
Northern Area Plan (item number 1) (id 64331fb4-ee4d-48e2-b8e9-5bf876a4e892)
Planning Enforcement (item number 1) (id a11463e0-5aa1-4563-85fb-a7a0170437b5)
Police Service (item number 1) (id 2139a587-7e22-4dc8-9fd7-da287f62a9f6)
Porphyria (item number 1) (id 4399489d-c379-417b-a931-387f8e9880d7)
Prisons (item number 1) (id 7770be4a-874c-4007-9583-433a7ad07912)
Property Valuations (item number 1) (id 6dec84a6-ff9e-460b-8389-4855b50e874b)
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Railways (item number 1) (id 964c6dd6-8d43-4532-8c23-e545b6da6374)
Road Safety (item number 1) (id 45146cde-a9af-4233-a496-4888ea96bcb7)
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School Transport (item number 1) (id a1f828a2-6fa7-45d6-a945-5063f7e39f45)
South Tyrone Hospital (item number 1) (id dba4284b-89da-44f0-a8a4-1b93c8255d42)
Road Safety Bill (item number 1) (id 0db155d5-3f3f-4d10-9c99-9e5455875e99)
Staff Absence (item number 1) (id 065081ae-2f22-4201-a5e4-2d6a63b8997e)
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Appeals (item number 1) (id d0d0ed35-87be-4383-9778-606d1e853800)
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Telecommunications Masts (item number 1) (id 077003d5-278c-4116-8eb6-307c837defcd)
Vehicle Certification (item number 1) (id 87c206de-c55d-47fc-b12b-abc5a313fb7b)
Warm Homes Scheme (item number 1) (id c69539fa-6b34-4237-99f2-7c2195b2e371)
Water Rates (item number 1) (id a1c97021-6e03-4704-9e47-f12517b57807)

Education and Skills

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16 to 18-year-olds (item number 1) (id 8841d28f-d0ce-474d-a0f6-532b00dd2bef)
Ability Grouping (item number 1) (id 4eb43df2-ef0e-459f-86a3-580eae4782cf)
Academies (item number 1) (id d773f57c-4541-480a-8f11-4837003ba691)
Admissions Code (item number 1) (id f49074ca-fe1d-4626-9888-20a386858e96)
Avian Influenza (item number 1) (id 7cdad1ac-2ac4-4b73-bc63-7e19b912c5c3)
Call Centres (item number 1) (id c683b938-5701-4e61-9e03-5000db33cfe9)
Child Care (item number 1) (id 3b94e02b-a317-414d-8a3f-9f1fae2e27f7)
Disabled Students' Allowance (item number 1) (id 522de08f-4cb1-4cbb-980f-7696cbcf5a7d)
Education Funding (item number 1) (id 6bfb17d5-b66c-48d5-bed1-5679b79b5430)
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Foreign Language Degrees (item number 1) (id dda73e0d-5396-470c-805e-32818d6282d6)
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Olympic Games (item number 1) (id 635529f0-9dc0-4e79-8741-48d026ff7cf9)
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School Sports (item number 1) (id dc80ad49-0b63-4d1e-8573-bdbe4359b7dd)
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Schools White Paper (item number 1) (id b351bc46-a6d1-4e35-b6dc-ed07ad2a6640)
Scottish Universities (item number 1) (id 1934820b-253c-4db4-80b1-7b105f4cf76f)
Social Care Staff (item number 1) (id ce452276-691a-4a08-b863-8b82bdf84f62)
Sports Hubs (item number 1) (id a01a3414-2c9e-432f-844c-c7a864088660)
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Trust Schools (item number 1) (id 5f568285-3347-4865-82f0-d50211c3e8de)
Under-achievement (item number 1) (id 28108533-cf84-4560-963b-a1f9af8aec95)

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