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Commons Hansard for 14 November 2005 (Volume 439)

From the corrected (daily) version. Last updated 9 December 2025 at 11.57am.

Commons Chamber

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

Written Answers

Content for Written Answers.

Written Answers to Questions

Transport

A14 (item number 1) (id 89e9fad4-9be4-4b89-b248-7ba10ff81c30)
A21 (item number 1) (id 90ceb505-86d8-4626-acfc-872d0d1797ec)
A27 Lewes Bypass (item number 1) (id 87d50a67-d6a9-4bde-aa1d-535ba80e63ec)
A43 (item number 1) (id 9bccc31a-55f4-4bda-b547-fcccbb327ccf)
A45 (item number 1) (id 91ce72b4-01fc-4ad1-8e33-6c149ca45eae)
A63 (item number 1) (id 4633ae93-d6b4-4c5b-a3e2-4a1fadfc995f)
Air Pollution (item number 1) (id d845e059-be42-4b67-93ab-c969d0be8812)
Buses (item number 1) (id 29f6d325-36e6-4f34-9c61-51e18e69aa2b)
Congestion (Urban Areas) (item number 1) (id 6ca7a778-a2f4-49f2-85e4-1e24d830cc30)
Correspondence (item number 1) (id 68774086-872f-4903-8178-be2cffb05560)
Driving Licences (item number 1) (id 8f4f143e-c2d4-462f-93ff-ecdd8b9f54a2)
Highways Agency (item number 1) (id 6ff88ac2-a2aa-43fb-b211-11be20a282f4)
Inter-urban Congestion (item number 1) (id 13b6f276-eb3e-4e54-9bd9-4a559e9b9d64)
Learner Drivers (First Aid) (item number 1) (id 0f5910d0-ccad-4d0c-926f-26153e963b3c)
Marine Pollution (item number 1) (id 0b5e0cce-9f8d-4287-8ec3-4a87c201c041)
Motorway Repairs (item number 1) (id 046b58c8-670c-4c34-b00c-2aae3c878e0e)
Ports (item number 1) (id c33c1e0a-4852-40fd-b10f-72bc96eb2056)
Private Motoring Costs (item number 1) (id 3101adc4-33c7-42cd-85e5-3a3fd01de64d)
Railways (item number 1) (id 68fbff54-ce65-45fe-9050-ecbd78e140eb)
Reversing Vehicles (item number 1) (id 6e1da899-fe02-4692-a995-b09a4e1386bd)
Road Accidents (item number 1) (id 813139f5-ef1c-440f-b6cc-b9d395a100e3)
School Transport (Cycling) (item number 1) (id 8581ce7e-6577-47d2-bf54-f1e3c6be01e4)
Seatbelts Legislation (item number 1) (id 11b097be-f865-4508-98d5-1ea5a9fe6b7a)

Defence

Afghanistan (item number 1) (id 9044813b-c731-484b-9ffa-230f73e1ea22)
Deepcut Barracks (item number 1) (id 3e6b2cab-bad7-4128-b5d4-a0e35f3365e2)
Shipbuilding (item number 1) (id 23410009-8c9b-4b85-a95d-85a6abb03009)
Arctic Convoys (item number 1) (id e19e2212-89ac-48f9-8b2c-5b0befe6de0e)
Recruitment (item number 1) (id b09b7046-7027-4b18-bfb2-48e760df8320)
Cadet Forces (Kettering) (item number 1) (id 18edb365-446e-4c84-9a2b-cec5a026eb4b)
Royal Regiment of Scotland (item number 1) (id 68106a75-da96-4fa5-889d-d97b08719273)
Defence Industrial Strategy (item number 1) (id c18c4f99-73b5-48cb-b473-6049668d082d)
Reserve Forces (item number 1) (id 60e2b6a5-fb00-4ae0-98d3-c62e49671995)
Service Family Associations (item number 1) (id 17e68a8f-7232-4fc3-b294-417f151c382d)
Iraq (item number 1) (id 3f303a16-6de4-43ad-ad1c-65bdfd1e776b)
1st Battalion Royal Highland Fusiliers (item number 1) (id 4a3ba075-6d2d-4802-a687-8b8f782e3355)
Advisory Bodies (item number 1) (id 21384498-acec-483b-a26f-107bfab375d3)
Armed Services (Training) (item number 1) (id 1aedc5bb-5438-4335-8502-c259b74d64f9)
Armoured Protection (item number 1) (id 04d6f6ef-b793-4e7c-8152-48216c098134)
Bullying (item number 1) (id d03f6160-cf59-42b9-8a25-e767c527be40)
Civil Contingency Reaction Force (item number 1) (id 60eea42e-adf7-490c-8334-80ebfbe16cca)
Courts Martial (item number 1) (id dd3f746e-a63d-4053-a310-b00c5222e969)
Damages (item number 1) (id ff906a58-0805-4895-80b9-aa078a799ee9)
Defence Aviation and Repair Agency (item number 1) (id c25e7fe7-eb30-4041-9928-f27c19e2b90d)
Departmental Consultants/Special Advisers (item number 1) (id 19398748-ba8e-47df-92b3-42cc1e3f2011)
Departmental Staffing (item number 1) (id ae155a9c-d518-4b3a-9033-a9247f9a9f69)
Future Aircraft Carriers (item number 1) (id 64ae28b3-0589-457c-8e78-91a90a3fb538)
Generals (item number 1) (id 158aaab0-d1f1-41c9-bc28-2df5ea0e7d2e)
Gulf War Immunisations (item number 1) (id 59336524-cd3c-41af-98e9-0553c92078b2)
IT Projects (item number 1) (id 37678d68-a575-47d9-8073-d6a6c46e9cbf)
Landing Ships Dock (Auxiliary) Project (item number 1) (id 3b7dac8c-4da2-4d12-adf4-4bf4d42fae5a)
Married Quarters (item number 1) (id 569d326f-277f-4d56-915f-8dc0a7bb4970)
Medical Negligence (item number 1) (id 6b3e958c-1cc9-4879-83e6-2e4669c2088d)
Military Afloat Reach and Sustainability Project (item number 1) (id 33134b6f-02f9-408a-9aa1-0c5aa69a99bf)
Military Bases (Designated Areas) (item number 1) (id 3705ed03-5c3f-403c-8e7c-d3b69eceaa1f)
Military Establishments (Incidents) (item number 1) (id 446f795b-8df6-435a-a411-d7f29c950d09)
Military/Police Assistance (item number 1) (id e018504b-6960-4cc9-b90f-c659bac6e34e)
Missing Weapons (item number 1) (id a56ca0ff-e23c-4763-8bb9-a8a844f4510f)
Noise-induced Hearing Loss (item number 1) (id 67255b39-989c-48e0-957e-4bf10ce81d71)
Royal Anglian Regiment (item number 1) (id 7e7c91b4-3668-4505-bbcc-f8b750c7ff81)
Royal Military Police Historic Investigation Team (item number 1) (id 57530670-f3b2-47d6-bf03-fa3ec5836a38)
Royal Navy (Caribbean) (item number 1) (id 702607be-a2da-43f3-ae4d-2fda3f5f274d)
Royal Ordnance (item number 1) (id 0c5c5bde-3595-4984-a853-f46ae5180756)
Staff Relocations (item number 1) (id 90555ad9-a776-4e92-be07-1fa576c6408d)
Terrorism (item number 1) (id 5936cc2e-ac91-42d8-bbaa-371849989dad)
Type 23 Frigates (item number 1) (id 52dc1e5f-5913-4ee1-b81f-2815d8b3651e)
Yorkshire Regiment (item number 1) (id e5852103-1521-4faa-9f28-125ac836f74c)

Education and Skills

Adoption (item number 1) (id 5050baa8-1938-45df-9353-b8935f0d5348)
Adult Further Education (item number 1) (id c008aab9-8d6f-4b33-b8d4-1e41b43ee0df)
A-level Grades (item number 1) (id 2e5bd2fa-d9e0-42f1-a855-44a0224ca641)
Anti-bullying Initiatives (item number 1) (id 2387a4aa-0eb4-42ba-ac15-a96f4633ad00)
Apprenticeships (item number 1) (id ba172db1-42b0-4277-827a-f9b25da431a9)
Basic Skills (item number 1) (id 797df362-e065-4a4b-8d69-2f7f88e636b5)
Child Care (item number 1) (id 8b65bf73-2b0e-475a-989b-144b08eabe64)
Children (Parental Access) (item number 1) (id b3376969-106c-4175-8bbe-a2694eec679c)
Citizenship (item number 1) (id e12a9ce1-19da-471d-a428-96258a696c0b)
Class Sizes (item number 1) (id 269634b5-27f8-488d-acdf-29b4c3ba0d78)
Classics (item number 1) (id ca1d936d-a0b7-4999-8bb3-61929fd20bcb)
Counselling Services (item number 1) (id f3f32121-70fc-4455-9c3c-26b3c89d9c59)
Departmental Skills Development Plan (item number 1) (id 62730295-3385-4f6b-b106-0eb3d45cccdc)
Education (item number 1) (id 322d14f1-f348-4bb3-8a55-07c5ed692779)
Foreign Language Teaching (item number 1) (id 667b7c85-7c5d-4e19-b6b1-e03f5cd95383)
Free School Meals (item number 1) (id e06628f1-b5fa-405b-b319-b4aaa58a92bb)
GCSEs (item number 1) (id 99953f36-4eec-4140-93ff-da0da30d0e32)
Geography Development Fund (item number 1) (id 7e192725-4a78-4529-a0bd-4e8d5e19ceee)
Gifted and Talented Youth (item number 1) (id 952d6190-0ffd-441e-a48d-a209c24528c4)
Holland Park Secondary School (item number 1) (id 9b2bd4ca-e64f-43b1-adf5-77bec23e4f78)
Learning and Skills Council (item number 1) (id 3189b9b5-606e-40ea-8f84-2ced5c057eb2)
Offender Learning Schemes (item number 1) (id c7213e2a-2702-4360-9f73-77f00f228e32)
Parenting Contracts (item number 1) (id 04cebd67-640f-4dab-9cd1-878ded70f134)
Positive Learning Environment (item number 1) (id 9906ecb0-03c8-45e7-b85d-e5ec560bfb07)
Predictive Diallers (item number 1) (id 088fdd5e-1d03-4b90-a3f8-9e9eb51bd625)
Prison Education (item number 1) (id 2a62af05-5bca-47c3-bc0d-26932205197e)
Public Service Agreements (item number 1) (id 1ffb21cd-2bd4-4ebc-956a-a14215fc6491)
Register of Learning Providers (item number 1) (id 1d887504-ee0d-4211-973b-71606778ae88)
Schools (item number 1) (id fa550220-cc92-47f5-b1ad-718d6dc375d0)
Science (item number 1) (id 3c70e4a4-8a3a-41b4-8d3d-cc157b274f18)
Selection (item number 1) (id a77be155-ef84-4a93-b993-26f286436163)
Sure Start (item number 1) (id 59c9f6f7-8ddc-4a2f-a4f9-b39418830ae2)
Teaching Standards (item number 1) (id 87d8432b-32d4-4703-a4fb-6b09f88508be)
Under-achievement (item number 1) (id 562c5ff0-c726-4ea3-9d53-10687ee3f869)
Universities (Bureaucracy) (item number 1) (id 3dcf6a25-8d68-4b8e-9f4e-58563e255875)

Health

Alliance Medical (item number 1) (id 1bb1da5a-cda3-464f-b056-ebae7fc09850)
Carbon Monoxide Poisoning (item number 1) (id e2f2111b-8b35-406f-a4fd-6ed8db6a7a1e)
Correspondence (item number 1) (id 2bb337be-b555-4e52-87b9-7e47a23f8351)
Data Protection (item number 1) (id d8861c0e-765a-435b-8148-af66ead00879)
Departmental Estate (item number 1) (id 9e9acf4a-1b76-4c0b-83f3-4158bf15939e)
Departmental Skills Development Plan (item number 1) (id f4b4f4c2-030f-410b-a9ca-75f14dbcdde4)
Departmental Staff (item number 1) (id 28e4a4c5-b55b-466a-9907-b84abf76ac6f)
Diabetes (item number 1) (id dccfc120-6935-44a8-81de-7dec2344566f)
HIV/AIDS (item number 1) (id e53b794b-982f-4386-a05e-72ad66ffb7d7)
Hospital Acquired Infection (item number 1) (id 6b83b9ea-bc6a-4f01-9832-9389fd122105)
Hospital Closures (item number 1) (id d81d2107-2ce0-48a6-b8e4-297f59fa98c6)
Hospital Restaurants (item number 1) (id 09e59ccf-6944-4ffa-b757-6a70052ebb73)
Literacy and Numeracy (item number 1) (id 2a5b8069-38ee-4d52-9a6e-c87a419c4c41)
Locum Doctors (item number 1) (id 2773bbec-b00f-4e0f-b1c5-274cea5bfd65)
Lyons Review (item number 1) (id ed7c01c7-1013-45dd-a686-2a7ec56c452b)
Malnourishment (Portsmouth) (item number 1) (id 34f479fe-7f5a-4ee4-b3f9-cd90dc5da6fa)
NHS Direct (item number 1) (id c73383a3-6a3a-4175-9db5-68346efe92a4)
NHS Property (item number 1) (id a96ab276-af1e-4dd5-826d-d8f4d8c6ad1a)
NICE (Drug Approvals) (item number 1) (id 7fd32e7d-250c-4b42-9c99-dfc8ce6c7fee)
Obesity Clinics (item number 1) (id 9171ad3a-0346-41dd-a8f1-58617e0bc762)
Primary Care Trusts (Oxfordshire) (item number 1) (id 2ab1de3d-07fb-4dac-9d01-2610dc759f3a)
Primary Schools (item number 1) (id 4bafa4e7-e90e-4c6c-b6f4-0aec4692d7a3)
Silicone Ankle Foot Orthoses (item number 1) (id 8a9ac759-2eed-4f8a-84f6-3859deec97ce)

Home Department

Alcohol Sales (item number 1) (id 6e9cb925-0a35-4435-b1dc-f1fd036f5983)
Asylum Seekers/Immigration (item number 1) (id 5db7171f-394b-4ae5-9e34-fc3bce91bccd)
China (item number 1) (id a439d6fe-26a2-47c2-832f-543368c990ca)
Correspondence (item number 1) (id ecf27000-feb3-4f1e-98f8-88a74b695d98)
Court Orders (item number 1) (id ffbd17a2-aa1b-4869-b58c-4dd50056a17c)
Crimestoppers (item number 1) (id 1bd8a12b-ec61-4d2f-8026-5bc3461dfa4e)
Departmental Staff (item number 1) (id e372df49-73e9-451a-9ecd-93a3c649dc88)
Departmental Consultation (item number 1) (id ce76b72c-06e7-4d53-8999-aeeefe7cc4d6)
Departmental Vehicles (item number 1) (id 72f75f35-0372-47af-9da3-664bb0b4be77)
Departmental Energy Consumption (item number 1) (id 7e613c2d-c373-449b-be88-8dc05e3a4233)
Detention (item number 1) (id f761b678-83bf-483f-b34f-0fd704cea65a)
Driving Prosecutions (item number 1) (id b0ba04b0-df5f-4c65-9c52-08e65f74c2be)
E-borders (item number 1) (id 41aec150-9693-470e-ba9f-9bc2df56c41a)
Fixed Penalty Fines (item number 1) (id 4b74f17a-3c7f-474f-aa13-7a97034de175)
Literacy and Numeracy (item number 1) (id 7aff67ad-11ed-4645-b9a4-763334c72d6c)
London Bombings (item number 1) (id bb2d79c6-2cb7-4f42-8fc4-e7e7e3c022cf)
Management Consultants (item number 1) (id b217c024-40c2-4072-8131-311c46d6088b)
Ministerial Travel (item number 1) (id 3c463b43-2863-480f-821b-d7a7c0f4c4d5)
Neighbourhood Policing (item number 1) (id 0462c704-905b-4367-9491-e6a5fdfc7b79)
Non-departmental Public Bodies (item number 1) (id 4137dafa-f1b8-42f5-8892-1301b8469c61)
Offensive Weapons (item number 1) (id 596436f3-4af5-4a4d-805c-1d9096cdc324)
Party Conferences (item number 1) (id cd499ea0-221a-4cc2-8fc7-de73aa07a40f)
Passports (item number 1) (id 511f5260-5a07-4242-912c-57b92a13e805)
Police (item number 1) (id c5cabc85-a339-4261-bff2-184097562f29)
Police Employees (Muslim Women) (item number 1) (id 699bd3e9-d051-4bc1-9756-80c02b5e7943)
Prisons (item number 1) (id 11c150ce-531b-4158-af07-da85cfe3fba5)
Private Members' Bills (item number 1) (id 67c53cff-0649-4e43-9576-ab80a1fb5a69)
Road Safety (item number 1) (id 6e153d4b-3d84-4cad-a756-0e5e9426fef1)
Sex Offenders (item number 1) (id a6d0ca1d-6f48-42fc-8a1e-2b9f8eae1193)
Terrorism (item number 1) (id 2bb4d9d6-69a6-4884-8ace-f86333e5f517)
Visas (item number 1) (id 156859b1-e81e-4e7a-a251-1dd8081c58f1)
Work Permits (item number 1) (id 51f79544-487d-4e9b-9494-585aefd8b44c)
Worker Registration Scheme (item number 1) (id 23388025-424e-4161-8d28-0a2f878093df)
Youth Justice Board (item number 1) (id 601e09c6-f18d-4a8e-81f7-204ec2d44d6a)

Northern Ireland

Agenda for Change (item number 1) (id cb79d488-331e-4457-9df7-3dc83b1f30cf)
Antisocial Behaviour (item number 1) (id 1bba7284-2055-4979-a1b0-181bcc26518e)
Arlene Arkinson (item number 1) (id 77e912ac-7095-4403-a0ee-2ce07ab10a0b)
Artefacts (Irish Parliament) (item number 1) (id f52baf02-81ee-41f3-bbfd-7b16aa957e00)
Teachers (Assaults) (item number 1) (id 3c748e83-a86f-4a62-898c-3fbced2d206f)
Brownlow College, Portadown (item number 1) (id e9462303-9bc6-4ce2-87b4-bfe231b84d50)
Business Aid (item number 1) (id 0830aaa9-2d61-43f2-b4c7-ca4ee6f1a8f4)
Civil Service (item number 1) (id 25fef111-cf27-46c7-90e9-895259366815)
Coroner Services (item number 1) (id c9a28c1f-a8d0-4098-80a3-86a5ffce4e49)
Disability Services (item number 1) (id 01b8d436-0c1f-44e1-8b2d-2de2ba9d2abe)
Early Release (item number 1) (id d158d136-07ca-4054-bff7-46484fc2cd38)
Eglinton Primary School (item number 1) (id 32d312a1-102b-49f4-87b2-a9d4ab28ba52)
Grammar Schools (item number 1) (id 0e601476-6d20-47d4-a709-dd242a64bc8b)
Housing (item number 1) (id e5bfc696-19c7-4551-8de7-d260d1de8997)
Insurance Premiums (item number 1) (id fb076b34-8e7d-49f2-b400-95525b6018a8)
Irish League Premier Division (item number 1) (id 74e6d340-616a-466a-85e7-fb8a544c80d3)
Literacy and Numeracy (item number 1) (id 5ef9fac1-ebae-44c7-ba72-bbbf1ab80bed)
M2 (item number 1) (id a701a4d7-f5ba-4558-8309-97e0170f870a)
Medical Students (item number 1) (id 629ccd2d-81d0-4c36-9dc2-0cda1a454fbc)
Non-departmental Public Bodies (item number 1) (id fe281d9d-8ccf-4464-bb74-730cca97bd1b)
PFI Schools (item number 1) (id 9f525d97-2dea-4973-acae-9a7eb808bfb6)
Procurement Policy (item number 1) (id 2139477a-1a4a-4ba8-9414-3e040a1d4f16)
Regional Rates (item number 1) (id cbb5b1ca-3fc6-40f4-b0e8-ed49fe755a4f)
Royal Mail (item number 1) (id 06dba6bf-59f6-4bec-a580-4d9d487f85f5)
Sentencing Framework (item number 1) (id 4763effb-6767-4628-bc89-27a7fa049e5c)
Social Care Studies (item number 1) (id 666e1a7b-a743-4ad4-9b2d-d32087203747)
Truancy (item number 1) (id 75d89f39-f698-44da-b04d-0ea1639ad396)
Unfilled Jobs (item number 1) (id f437c1d5-5d2b-46c8-9496-94cb46498a4b)
University Entrants (item number 1) (id 05dceeda-5240-484d-9cf9-bf9a00b240e3)
Youth Services (Funding) (item number 1) (id 1efb064a-b51d-4c7d-8b08-a0dfbca223d3)

Deputy Prime Minister

Call Centres (item number 1) (id f4cbcd64-7647-4e6b-a74c-35548302982b)
Council Housing (item number 1) (id 081b8f59-4dcb-4beb-b091-a7b83061c631)
Council Tax (item number 1) (id a9e8d39b-7187-477e-95d9-aadde5d2088f)
Departmental Skills Development Plan (item number 1) (id 42f57185-d9b0-45f7-abaf-f3c15c760657)
Domestic Violence (item number 1) (id ccd80848-1f48-40da-9e4f-2bd221d7e25f)
Energy Efficiency (item number 1) (id dccd3d10-b375-4f55-87a5-b5546ee3fff1)
Fire-related Deaths (item number 1) (id d9880f6d-6bb0-412d-9a28-15e88193172d)
Home Information Packs (item number 1) (id 19b3cfab-4c4f-4c7c-b14a-5d844c6a6a29)
Housing (item number 1) (id cdf7801d-c242-454e-9e8e-187431a04cc4)
Housing Act 2004 (item number 1) (id fe653956-8707-474b-bad2-835d0c8e74ab)
Lea Valley Park Authority (item number 1) (id e882de91-22d3-41da-88c6-336a9c58de84)
Local Area Agreements (item number 1) (id 2a840876-ff69-48c9-960d-a1f051ba11c8)
Local Government Finance (item number 1) (id eaa16b35-a128-4cc7-8e47-40e4b15e23fa)
Local Government Pensions (item number 1) (id 9974c808-f5ae-49e5-bcc9-c189e4b3aa27)
Mobile Phone Masts (item number 1) (id d59d4774-68ab-4611-aadd-b9c6ed77cc20)
Outdoor Advertising (item number 1) (id e11e7e79-944b-431a-872a-1f03a1c2ce02)
Park Homes (item number 1) (id 6952836e-e3b9-424d-9aeb-3108ea919e9a)
Pathfinder Projects (item number 1) (id 81e71d62-046e-488a-a5e9-784d493cea5d)
Planning (item number 1) (id 530c29c7-dd74-460e-915b-13a43bb8de7c)
Regional Fire Control Centres (item number 1) (id 9e7e4324-6eb1-45a4-9fa1-0e1bdd5069aa)
Respect Unit (item number 1) (id 2cf18e97-4a1d-4540-8561-100a44c767d7)
Self-invested Personal Pensions (item number 1) (id 34446963-0701-481a-8f78-fb60b9088407)
Smoke Alarms (item number 1) (id 11319671-7259-40ef-8479-d1e74450cd07)
Regeneration (North Northamptonshire) (item number 1) (id 3c989d88-7369-4a68-942f-6646607b9fcd)

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