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Commons Hansard for 9 November 2005 (Volume 439)

From the corrected (daily) version. Last updated 9 December 2025 at 11.48am.

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Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Abattoirs (item number 1) (id c7e424a1-ff72-414a-a4bf-ca70b2df5d14)
Agricultural/Horticultural Machinery Imports (item number 1) (id 2b21877e-0977-407c-99e7-c3e9a2730750)
Avian Influenza (item number 1) (id b240dc33-006a-4d4b-9eaa-5bb9b05a515a)
Biomass Industry (item number 1) (id 7d964397-ab5b-4772-a836-de80b75d425b)
Bird Trade (item number 1) (id 542eb987-51c1-4255-a26c-042021eae5a7)
Colchester Oyster (item number 1) (id 6fade91c-a49b-4091-9832-ed5e79a8d892)
Departmental Policies (item number 1) (id e9deafba-8b95-4fd6-9e63-02c9e34c2a22)
Departmental Spending (item number 1) (id 4c76ebb1-32a9-4bde-8727-28c43f458f84)
Environment Agency (item number 1) (id 223e2c32-4ce5-41b9-baba-f449977b585d)
Farm Plastic Collections (item number 1) (id 6806eaa4-fdbd-4bed-81de-8517895f5fbb)
Farming Co-operatives (item number 1) (id 8e48828e-69c6-46e1-be64-5343f47a0755)
Fly-tipping (item number 1) (id 0839f37d-cb5e-4b82-a833-523e7cd76de9)
Foodstuffs (Price Changes) (item number 1) (id b573b24b-2d4c-4786-bfb2-aa83b8ccb532)
Gershon Review (item number 1) (id a721d754-c865-45af-9567-fe10d9826655)
Illegal Timber (item number 1) (id 78d9499a-c1c1-4022-9292-180d73503d7e)
Local Government (item number 1) (id 1fce6d0a-2704-4ab8-b6e4-c49f2f33ccd2)
Lyons Review (item number 1) (id fd4755d2-9c84-4339-8b33-76b37c408f2d)
Pesticides (item number 1) (id 49035be9-77ad-4425-b278-0e464c46c8f6)
PG5/2(04) (item number 1) (id aaa7ddfe-31fc-4e40-8fde-84c439635bc0)
Recycling (Milton Keynes) (item number 1) (id 39d7c4da-5f5c-41d9-8191-ea483f07ebca)
Refrigerators (item number 1) (id 652f2634-682c-4235-8ebf-a62da2b37d87)
Single Payment Scheme (item number 1) (id 2dc5751f-b576-4df3-9def-3030b0c634ce)
Statutory Instruments (item number 1) (id 20093a13-9f28-46be-a781-2bc18cea3a1d)
Stewardship Scheme (item number 1) (id 403727c5-ef8d-48e9-81e1-122004465966)
Sugar (item number 1) (id d31e702f-e955-45c2-8f1c-9c3b21d30587)
Warm Front Scheme (item number 1) (id 766b08de-3244-46db-b7bf-7840e92a9020)
Waste Disposal (item number 1) (id 6c71ae90-2e88-4ac4-a75e-5c3a16fd0548)

Transport

A21 (item number 1) (id 004614ea-ca55-4288-94d3-f9c2d9fc390b)
A41 (item number 1) (id 7ee81443-fa9f-4aa2-b883-b7a17c4d0ff0)
Air Carrier Insolvencies (item number 1) (id a12ef4f2-1cfd-44c9-8296-83f3331e4133)
Aircraft Emissions (item number 1) (id 99b6ee41-990a-4b00-ae56-7e6d958a395f)
Antisocial Behaviour (item number 1) (id 6cdb512e-2539-4610-a0d4-f83301185519)
Bald Tyres (item number 1) (id f88e7dd8-cd21-416f-aaa4-b8957c7e1b52)
Bathside Bay (item number 1) (id 5649e4ba-7897-47a6-9d26-2aa80bdfa517)
Coach Seat Belts (item number 1) (id 28948c6e-48ea-41a2-93dc-02ce1a116dd6)
Coastguard (item number 1) (id 9b5defe3-e6db-49c8-9022-8b9c80c52195)
Concessionary Travel (item number 1) (id 7624216a-5043-4520-a5ec-c2084662d9b1)
Crossrail (item number 1) (id 0aa77477-3ba2-44af-84a9-31f1e908933c)
Departmental Staff (item number 1) (id 11c179fd-3f8b-4968-a1d7-50f8c9655063)
Electric Cars (item number 1) (id 36a4d167-e22d-4a02-b286-4e25a7fc2828)
Felixstowe (item number 1) (id 38a1a10d-63da-480a-8185-ee50321f5ef3)
Departmental Funding (item number 1) (id 4a302b0f-0606-4b9f-9266-41e408a47bee)
Humber Bridge (item number 1) (id 443573f4-b7e1-4f39-b891-299de26f6c5b)
Left-hand Drive HGVs (item number 1) (id d65379a4-7e6d-4272-8f6a-64f2430274b4)
Light Rail and Trams (item number 1) (id c137cbd6-9c03-4928-bf7f-fe7e8504d145)
LPG (item number 1) (id 67dca059-391b-43a9-a788-cc2900e89679)
Merseytram (item number 1) (id ec7ef9d4-fe50-4df2-b0f0-08884b2b6b01)
Motorways (item number 1) (id 4aa49beb-9638-42a9-997b-8b8507af0763)
Multi-modal Studies (item number 1) (id cc43b515-fe76-414c-8425-ed3ad416310b)
October Clock Adjustment (item number 1) (id f76e62e5-d4a7-4e76-85a5-3ff846b67f64)
Pedestrian Crossing Deaths (item number 1) (id 4f098a9a-6330-4d5e-ae3b-bf7f6687094c)
Port Capacity (item number 1) (id a091a831-e5a3-48e6-b54c-bb877c582d19)
Public Sector Relocation (item number 1) (id 2af08995-4a1f-4333-b457-54d6668c8903)
Public Transport (item number 1) (id f7073b2b-58de-47c1-873c-a3ba32050821)
Railways (item number 1) (id 70f52ab6-5d44-4ae4-88c4-de607ca5b138)
Road Accidents/Safety (item number 1) (id 7cf609d5-8b61-4e21-847b-a0bf2313c09c)
Road Schemes (item number 1) (id 7f5b9608-c9ac-4657-902c-869bd3f6c118)
Seat Belts (item number 1) (id c15748eb-047a-489a-b485-cbb134e6659e)
Transport Security and Contingencies Directorate (item number 1) (id 166cc73c-cfb9-4534-aec0-b06665857ee6)
Transport for London (item number 1) (id 9455301a-7aa8-4868-86e9-6766191f1b02)
Transport Investment (Eastern Region) (item number 1) (id e097ea3f-de84-44bc-806b-89491410e059)
Transport Projects (item number 1) (id a9347481-cdde-4548-b034-5a7ce31f8b35)
Transport Security Directorate (item number 1) (id dad42caa-44d9-48ef-865b-11ddb64d2a74)
Vehicle Licensing (item number 1) (id 3c67b422-6553-43fb-8e93-db859ff80ed1)
Violence against Transport Personnel (item number 1) (id e9be8d9e-58f5-4ee7-8acd-e170326d5173)

Defence

Afloat Craft (item number 1) (id ea5d4739-9d87-4bce-a7a3-9de827eec667)
Aircraft Carriers (item number 1) (id d0b591d0-2f21-42b3-b547-abc1dfb6f697)
Angola (item number 1) (id 75757de6-89b6-41ee-ac7f-fe773ed0d622)
Armed Forces (item number 1) (id b1b75adc-146b-4db1-879a-1bb9e7017d2d)
Bowman (item number 1) (id f51b1bde-ab55-4348-81f1-c750562bc699)
Buffalo Armoured Vehicle (item number 1) (id 16fb3cea-5ac2-4681-8ce4-1087f1e05192)
Civilian Staff (Redundancies) (item number 1) (id 00c1714f-993c-4b2a-8564-ae5738f8fca4)
Complaints Mechanisms (item number 1) (id 5d8b309b-8e92-4b92-8bc9-a498c0fab925)
Defence Export Service Organisation (item number 1) (id 60b8dd95-3499-4659-89fb-1232639eb1cf)
Departmental Expenditure (item number 1) (id 22d10d30-3149-46d8-9bb5-acd495bdb2f5)
Employee Reductions (item number 1) (id f01f1728-38f4-4a52-b012-94cc374dccc3)
Equality and Diversity Centre (Shrivenham) (item number 1) (id d0e5f155-e6e5-4f60-bdf0-c109f1e3d037)
Fraud Investigations (item number 1) (id 478e120f-6cbf-4d5c-b23d-b1db271f5deb)
FRES (item number 1) (id 82df93aa-22e4-47c7-addf-38cdeb976b04)
Hemel Hempstead (Funding) (item number 1) (id 42c85e87-e27f-40a3-a01e-68db3f61aef5)
Illegal Drugs (RN Seizures) (item number 1) (id c43f4789-e62f-4322-85a7-8f0639287f4c)
Iraq (item number 1) (id 7221e939-d64b-4511-9c1f-930f0e6a3b79)
Landing Ships Dock (Auxiliary) Programme (item number 1) (id 9754e424-59f6-4897-9b75-c01cad17df8f)
Married Quarters (item number 1) (id ecbf47ac-83e8-4251-8ffd-93dafd4dae39)
Nuclear Deterrent (item number 1) (id 1a3f3230-0c60-4b17-88e4-95640fe84340)
Nuron Programme (item number 1) (id a8bd4bc0-30bd-498b-aab2-6be9374e7155)
Reverse Auction (item number 1) (id 17011f3b-ee0d-4e0c-9212-c2d80a59de1a)
Royal Ordnance (item number 1) (id b7bdeada-8355-4798-92de-39c86a76fb4d)
Scottish Constituencies' Statistics (item number 1) (id 63294869-f7ab-4c35-a600-ca9f877c58d8)
Spectrum Review (item number 1) (id f74ebf65-ec07-4345-b946-3b6a886478d4)
Tomahawk Missile (item number 1) (id c9040d0a-3f85-4b61-8a45-34002f0c2db3)
Type-23 Frigates (item number 1) (id ef645c20-5dce-4936-bff7-15e5cee3a720)
Typhoon Fighter Plane (item number 1) (id 5ad9e4cf-7e8c-47b7-9d37-226b6f6472cd)
Urban Warfare Training (item number 1) (id cb08fa58-0308-4e00-bc1d-51f554e8ad29)

Northern Ireland

Ambulance Service (item number 1) (id 2db592da-de7d-40c5-8c4c-eef8a15bb91c)
Assets Recovery Agency (item number 1) (id 0aa8866e-0fa0-45c5-a589-435f02cd65a0)
Attacks on Teachers (item number 1) (id 1e3c0833-2604-4941-8df6-2accdf572aeb)
Breast Cancer (item number 1) (id 16620df5-3180-44aa-a943-5d414ff5dcc2)
Class Sizes (item number 1) (id ff7c0753-4b5b-42a0-a3fd-13e5a89c5a15)
Domestic Regional Rate (item number 1) (id ba1c1b4c-fd50-4d75-a212-5266350a9949)
Education and Library Boards (item number 1) (id f4a4d760-79ee-41e3-9bee-3a32ffe983fc)
Fair Employment (item number 1) (id 2517aef6-7f9b-4453-81a3-633973c1e692)
Fireworks (item number 1) (id 2d4b8b34-f821-40d9-8955-b54d62c4d8b5)
Harbour Investment (item number 1) (id e8bc4c10-3628-4393-a80d-98cb90673a0c)
Home Detention Curfews (item number 1) (id a1da1f90-a897-431d-9954-5dfcd7423346)
Income Statistics (item number 1) (id d3131fef-27f9-443a-b0a2-a2dd4cde8735)
Integrated Schools (item number 1) (id daf33fce-a0f9-4168-8a07-284d00354a33)
Lysosomal Storage Disorders (item number 1) (id 43bd7c68-0115-4cd1-a3b6-9012389cd229)
Mental Health (item number 1) (id 98f559a1-ca30-4514-bcb4-4c44b895c7a7)
Pensioners (item number 1) (id 80d71885-24c7-4cc0-8d7e-3d7b687ee375)
Police Service (Religious Affiliation) (item number 1) (id 5d193d84-44d0-417a-8a10-d116fe1e9f0a)
PR Consultancies (item number 1) (id c70dcf86-1a3d-476b-ad3c-9133832cbfdb)
Pupil: Teacher Ratios (item number 1) (id 1691e643-c187-42ff-85ee-a982bb366509)
Resource-releasing Savings (item number 1) (id 1f63ad1d-840a-42ac-95bd-597d35725036)
Respite Care (item number 1) (id 34ed61d4-f723-4a36-bb4c-0182c22a0006)
Schools (item number 1) (id b40d2211-ffc4-4c62-b286-71b79eba765c)
Student Fees (item number 1) (id 5234b3b3-37b3-426d-bc04-93f07961ce64)
Teriparatide (item number 1) (id 06d2635b-23ec-4640-bf1d-f7c352ed77c1)
Translink (item number 1) (id ec6a2976-197c-49ee-910c-f08bacbfdc35)
Vacant Teaching Posts (item number 1) (id 481e4db2-2156-4640-ba5d-8babafb5c338)
Water Charges (item number 1) (id 3fefffe9-0731-4e82-9038-988e29ada272)

Education and Skills

Careers Advice (item number 1) (id aba30bb6-25a6-4ead-af70-e5822d8e90ec)
Childrens' Diets (item number 1) (id c3f97dce-e8a5-4e3a-b0d0-b4a0b086399a)
Citizenship Education (item number 1) (id eeac4780-fe74-48c7-8a13-146e487ed26d)
Community Schools (item number 1) (id 3fa5b3e3-87d6-4da3-9316-452f266ad7c5)
Disabled Students Allowance (item number 1) (id 5a75cb3f-b80a-4662-bdb4-19f1defadbc5)
Education Maintenance Allowance (item number 1) (id a6951e61-19bf-41eb-a789-7e10b1979008)
Exam Standards (item number 1) (id 64ae761d-4e8f-4333-8397-1af3bc2903f6)
Failing Schools (item number 1) (id 94634ec8-2533-4b36-ad8a-e092b8492bf1)
Faith Schools (item number 1) (id abb48569-7770-4ae3-aa94-b5faf4a5d4d2)
Further Education (item number 1) (id 87741132-f547-44c7-81d4-25cfaa4e250e)
Gershon Review (item number 1) (id d18179af-f3dc-4a70-adb6-5fcb2c02eb1a)
Highly Skilled Migrant Programme (item number 1) (id d5911f54-439e-431f-acd0-7cc9f36b397d)
Key Stage 2 Results (item number 1) (id 094187b0-8530-413b-af1b-2edc16a41146)
Learning and Skills Council (item number 1) (id 162c4b91-f0cf-4ddd-84dd-3f58b451e2be)
Literacy and Numeracy (item number 1) (id 539511fe-0fd4-4079-847c-04ea1229cf10)
Maintained Schools (item number 1) (id 66773166-144f-48c1-8628-d35b0ae463a9)
National Employer Training Programme (item number 1) (id 8227c8e7-17d5-4084-9537-46169c3b8ab7)
Non-essential Learning (item number 1) (id 121a56e3-2d11-40fa-9dbd-24ab862e7545)
Parenting Contracts (item number 1) (id 8c221533-4c2f-4c28-aef4-969ee6a34f33)
Qualifications (item number 1) (id 8faf7fd1-b00e-4e31-9e2c-89802fbc33d2)
School Building Programme (item number 1) (id 116b469f-4e44-4de5-90f5-11331930da8b)
School Expansions (item number 1) (id f979bf6e-a1bc-420a-8de4-942f4dd82910)
School Food Trust (item number 1) (id 4abaab27-f437-498a-a4c9-44b0cebf89e1)
School Funding (item number 1) (id c727a0ea-4e97-412b-b66e-8c03a453ac0f)
Schools (Hemel Hempstead) (item number 1) (id cb43a3b9-ad0a-4231-8cf7-6861bd019522)
Science (item number 1) (id 4de3895e-661c-490d-a91d-a5089f5ca2d2)
Secondary School Pupils (item number 1) (id b4abbdb6-aa76-461e-b7eb-2824e25ac9d3)
Sex and Relationships Education (item number 1) (id fdefad1b-c95d-4498-b2c9-0e8d1aeaff11)
Social Mobility (item number 1) (id 43dd86bd-8231-45fc-bdda-0789ff223550)
Special Schools (item number 1) (id 1ce30646-d187-4f62-9942-466aca50e979)
Student Finance (item number 1) (id 11bc1746-d1f9-46e0-9c7b-7389d0e83522)
Student Loans and Grants (item number 1) (id a706b586-fbfc-404a-9372-3731d3f3889c)
Teaching Standards (item number 1) (id 4273d1c1-3535-4db8-a43f-58a124a8fc9b)
Truancy (item number 1) (id 5b609c4b-8f32-43f2-be33-1355deeb4894)
Under-achievement (item number 1) (id 8ab8baa5-f1f8-4c29-9457-bbb2ecfcf435)
Underperforming Schools (item number 1) (id 16430bce-b8d5-4c45-89b6-c7e9adbb272f)
Veterinary School Lecturers (item number 1) (id 7e75c7be-3dcc-46fc-9bc0-494010826ceb)

Health

Abortions (item number 1) (id bbfd8e7a-b057-4db7-b04d-ea0064098396)
Assaults on NHS Workers (item number 1) (id 43514eea-a832-4b05-8eb8-6a142a120d17)
Breastfeeding (item number 1) (id 7e35dcf0-c3e6-476d-9769-ecc2164fd925)
Cancer (item number 1) (id 2743afcd-8afe-42ed-a5d9-ce19f3be7637)
Children's TV (Advertising) (item number 1) (id c5b44977-80b4-4e1b-92bb-3cacbe3fc216)
Dartford, Gravesham and Swanley PCT (item number 1) (id 7f0b91db-c45f-4b11-a052-c65b49f32467)
Dentistry (item number 1) (id f54fb004-1535-46c2-969f-cbf2b15850eb)
Departmental Call Centres (item number 1) (id 1f583967-0d9e-4930-a1cd-95837c5f27c8)
Health Protection Agency (item number 1) (id f2f20b01-41af-42d7-acc7-1f16a0a1f5af)
Health Services (Tooting) (item number 1) (id d53deac7-5a85-4e3d-8277-9df4ae662efd)
Hip Replacement (Waiting Time) (item number 1) (id f6790d3a-eb24-423f-bdcd-35cf4f335aba)
HIV/AIDS (item number 1) (id 7a29f885-86e6-414b-a347-f75dd820f9f8)
Infection Control (item number 1) (id 26e37a81-977b-4ead-aadc-6de979407ba6)
Influenza (item number 1) (id 0649bdc4-420f-40d4-8874-c8797e9f2f2a)
IT Projects (item number 1) (id 278c090f-fd0e-48f1-b027-c82d4663c979)
MRSA (item number 1) (id 8b00fa54-c87b-4eef-b2b6-55e019597938)
NIHCE (item number 1) (id 2bd97d9f-b60b-4c0d-9cd5-2dc4b1a15a69)
Sterile Services (item number 1) (id 06d8888c-875b-4508-b5ce-ee4a5e1b57fb)
Road Accidents (item number 1) (id 87b32e9c-28e9-4850-8e93-9d7dcbe23d2a)
Waiting Times (item number 1) (id 585ac524-59c4-4475-b529-e4ac75ebb57d)

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