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Commons Hansard for 22 November 2005 (Volume 439)

From the corrected (daily) version. Last updated 9 December 2025 at 11.05am.

Commons Chamber

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

House of Commons (item number 1) (id 39247753-016e-4cb7-8dbb-8f727b69d01e)
Prayers (item number 2) (id 5f6ae563-f34b-4b7b-9ae8-ca26a38abcff)
Seasonal Influenza Vaccine Supplies (item number 4) (id e7046d94-e24e-4441-a500-88901c07dc95)
Points of Order (item number 5) (id 78445442-79e0-495c-82ef-5a99ce15a36c)
British Subjects (Registration) (item number 6) (id b4c469e4-3a80-4e27-89ec-b323fe456ef4)
Opposition Day (item number 7) (id 434065fc-d33d-4eb0-8bee-2a15b0012ffe)
Climate Change (item number 8) (id b02ae88e-eaf3-4010-bde9-ea2ed2fc7164)
Delegated Legislation (item number 9) (id 9d8b1e07-bf13-4a70-8e74-b7583b78f01f)
European Community Documents (item number 10) (id 4db0641c-f184-4d4a-8e38-e55b9cadb0df)
Travellers (Middlewich) (item number 11) (id d610a7b2-90da-469a-be5f-95dcdff82994)

Written Answers

Content for Written Answers.

Written Answers to Questions

Health

Mental Health Bill (item number 1) (id 84cc73a1-95b8-4d2e-a863-a53aa149ae23)
NHS Dentistry (item number 1) (id 9d3616e7-c5be-4cfb-b4db-591e4f9b466c)
Mental Illness (item number 1) (id 2f3fe205-8517-422b-8986-6f0e4f4cf8ed)
Chlamydia Screening Programme (item number 1) (id 09845e92-1d08-459b-8ef3-e9b4dda69797)
Paddington Health Campus Report (item number 1) (id 2f2a684a-97c2-4548-8f06-d8b312c61cd0)
Blindness/Visual Impairment (Rehabilitation Services) (item number 1) (id 2fd71d3a-3805-42f9-92c7-6468cf2527c4)
ME (item number 1) (id ef6db334-bfce-40cc-8db7-3d982f07794e)
Primary Care Trusts (item number 1) (id 85015bf5-8e6d-4299-b0b1-61e8f38dbe88)
Nurses (item number 1) (id b1df77cb-fd31-4d6a-bdd8-36044352c22d)
Abortions (item number 1) (id 81b85968-afbd-43e5-a3ec-9a466d21726f)
Alzheimer's Disease (item number 1) (id c92d210a-f9ef-43f9-97f4-9250c46b13bc)
Anti-depressant Drugs (item number 1) (id b6074c42-8b89-4e52-a50c-088554071826)
Anti-tumour Necrosis Therapy (item number 1) (id 3b534f97-835b-4087-90f5-d18f99a9ce7e)
Audiology (item number 1) (id d7dbd78c-e7af-4f7e-b6ad-d77267cebced)
Avian Influenza (item number 1) (id dc959398-97e3-4af9-889e-804f33aacf07)
Child Health and Social Services (item number 1) (id d83f9ec3-9d58-4f2c-b71c-68bd349fe3a4)
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disorder (item number 1) (id 060b0aaa-1202-4d99-a7b8-50d3910c5595)
Clinical Negligence Payments (item number 1) (id d2f1cee8-eabf-468c-9707-1507093bc92f)
Complementary and Alternative Medicine (item number 1) (id a18671ff-3e63-4363-bce6-891b89426754)
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Doctors (item number 1) (id a5b1f73d-a53a-4285-9173-42e69355ffc5)
Eating Disorders (item number 1) (id 76bea83c-5efe-41bd-be13-5dad68fd96fe)
Equal Pay Claims (item number 1) (id 37c6c5eb-2ac9-49dd-ab34-0f15b5b60bf2)
General Practitioners (item number 1) (id e58f9d00-0a9c-49ab-ae94-806069452536)
Healthcare Recruitment Agencies (item number 1) (id ff1e9791-10bd-494c-8632-3d40699c69d8)
Health Protection Agency (item number 1) (id a3724a58-3f48-4744-9e73-2cb94cd0a2f1)
Healthcare Commission (item number 1) (id a848d729-e001-46fd-b041-3ba2bdacff7c)
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MRSA (item number 1) (id b7be8f92-4825-494a-b46c-85d6e2f89b0c)
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Parliamentary Questions (item number 1) (id 81b3ff94-73cc-42d4-bfc6-37734b3caa5e)
Pesticides (item number 1) (id 5ba1f690-0e97-4c84-af60-21171e94efb5)
Podiatry (item number 1) (id b5de3f69-41ee-4af8-bbbc-16927d49a840)
Prostate Cancer (item number 1) (id 31d46c01-4205-4429-87ef-58ec0cb60f62)
Scans (Poole) (item number 1) (id 2bc14309-a407-43a7-b50d-a6025d6d2496)
School Nurses (item number 1) (id 8b3db073-9cc8-4e92-a6cf-2250407613f0)
Sign Language (item number 1) (id 6734242d-a766-44f0-9d3f-19085dcb368e)
Social Care Services (item number 1) (id 5a518841-38fe-4507-89e7-3ca0cfe6155c)
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Sudan One (item number 1) (id 706c889f-bb93-45b9-ab2e-036bcfb7ad9a)
Your Health, Your Care, Your Say (item number 1) (id c80e203c-fe95-42ba-a4ed-6b958e9ce21f)

Culture, Media and Sport

Active People Survey (item number 1) (id 33d334c6-e7e8-463b-a60e-9044bfa46083)
Arts Council England (item number 1) (id 90b3984e-0e82-459d-a6b8-577516d10d05)
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Digital Television (item number 1) (id ebd37087-f030-4c53-bf29-a5e9b8e70ab2)
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Olympic Games (item number 1) (id ea7df0cc-1ee4-41ae-8167-022bd763f7e7)
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Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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Beef (item number 1) (id 168cb3b2-2587-4945-b277-51ac2b19b3d6)
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Criminal Offences (item number 1) (id 4027a5ee-fb63-48d6-a758-863425de4b48)
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Direct Mail (item number 1) (id 2a020ca3-97bf-4a0d-a6e0-be953d4f0990)
Energy Efficiency (item number 1) (id b46d983c-13e2-4a29-b1ee-4dad5c6fbb12)
Environmental Health Officers (item number 1) (id 881c1bef-6ae7-43ec-8d9d-6b03182242ca)
Environmental Protection (item number 1) (id 8cd5ff07-27a1-4d3d-8e93-41632f73a8f8)
Farming (item number 1) (id 30bee89d-197f-42bb-a2cb-9eb59a9553b4)
Flooding (item number 1) (id 36448d60-0cc2-474a-8ae2-1d051fe4f4f2)
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Food Security (item number 1) (id f58723c4-74e4-4b50-a48a-b8a99435930c)
Forests (item number 1) (id de3b17bc-0260-48c5-af40-aa9771a4d1fc)
Freedom of Information (item number 1) (id 39f5028d-22eb-4397-9ae6-814a4f192da8)
Fuel Poverty (item number 1) (id ca9ddf8c-0f04-4368-b1cd-dcd27871c502)
Hunts (item number 1) (id 34e793b6-4761-4dc5-ba64-bc761b0ecef2)
Litter Abatement Orders (item number 1) (id f0d76017-e414-45d8-98c8-3c33ff744b8a)
Milk Price (item number 1) (id 508c037c-abf6-4342-9ec2-b2e143083a85)
Ministerial Travel (item number 1) (id bd07f5b9-e418-43ee-a654-513a26a18a3e)
Nappies (item number 1) (id 4951277d-dce0-4d72-a612-c5593167b04b)
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Palm Oil (item number 1) (id 9a824720-064e-4edb-9abf-00c6fa37f455)
Single Payment Scheme (item number 1) (id 0e330058-3aac-4216-969d-41427de6c4c3)
Sites of Special Scientific Interest (item number 1) (id a192e456-88e5-46ed-900a-098b3c93ac76)
Special Advisers (item number 1) (id 21149659-e8c3-47d5-9a7e-cd2109287140)
Staff Discipline (item number 1) (id 8ace0a92-f3a1-4e09-afa2-ec225f3d6dcd)
Stewardship Scheme (item number 1) (id 86834bab-29f4-4b04-bebc-ab51d4bb4ee2)
Sugar Regime (item number 1) (id 52b21efe-fc85-4e1c-8070-b1d07ec7386c)
Vulnerable Persons Regulations (item number 1) (id 62c44b82-c05a-4068-bde7-6aaddddc835b)

Treasury

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Charity Collections (item number 1) (id 58c56379-2492-4894-a869-da258fbb9e6f)
Construction Industry Scheme (item number 1) (id 47e7081b-4cc5-41cc-9744-642e0da9d0ee)
Departmental Performance Reports (item number 1) (id 6519c566-5336-4142-8964-87d79c2bc796)
EU's Financial Services Action Plan (item number 1) (id 5d01aaa0-dfbe-4d4b-8b70-430793cda795)
Financial Ombudsman Service (item number 1) (id 38f673b5-4ad2-4720-88f5-7ba9196e1529)
Insurance Premium Tax (item number 1) (id 2862a158-e520-4fa4-b7f3-28961cb7be52)
Low-income Households (item number 1) (id fd8b4d4c-dfba-4bc5-8659-6fc1e254db61)
Media Relations (item number 1) (id 93fcd781-28c8-4e22-be42-ba5f04baad78)
Ministerial Decisions (Dissent) (item number 1) (id bf37d6a9-038d-4019-b5bd-98beb8b722e4)
Ministerial Visit (item number 1) (id 194cbff5-9a70-40d8-bac1-71e8f919945d)
Non-EU Immigration (item number 1) (id 77863dd7-bd6f-4c8d-99bc-caee578dfc69)
Overseas Public Assets (item number 1) (id b2af2373-2e03-468a-86c4-5c6fae31c7b0)
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SIPPs (item number 1) (id a303eafa-ea8c-4b00-a075-54691f44b272)
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Special Advisers (item number 1) (id d5762550-73bb-4dc5-93b9-d6873fb6e81b)
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Wales (item number 1) (id ca424624-ad09-4226-8d52-c7395f694b37)

Home Department

Alcohol and Drug Misuse (item number 1) (id d4d72b86-31d1-43a4-a5d2-fa7256832578)
Armed Police (Rules of Engagement) (item number 1) (id 70052ee5-70a7-49df-af8a-cb7a4e8f17a4)
Arson (item number 1) (id 3f2d9b69-96e3-4a17-be4f-f468888efd24)
Asylum and Immigration (item number 1) (id 05c2786d-40a9-41e4-aff0-587ff71bb93b)
Court Orders (item number 1) (id 336b3b87-d54a-4435-a7b3-00eedf353e0a)
Crime (item number 1) (id 91d2a7ba-d970-43e7-ba0d-9d37e502e4a0)
Criminal Records Bureau (item number 1) (id e3bb8162-fe2d-483e-93ed-9b48846f4323)
Deaths in Custody (item number 1) (id a17b262d-a5ca-4541-a31d-da9019213f0d)
Departmental Legislation (item number 1) (id 46088861-a31e-49b0-b3e1-8993143849a2)
Domestic Violence (item number 1) (id 753a2562-d095-4187-9295-9bb63f4bec13)
Drink Driving (item number 1) (id 015cf07a-2e82-43cd-8011-5432e85eed9b)
Firearms (item number 1) (id a93d0543-4c8e-4b3d-8d3c-f2777f9f4e60)
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Forensic Services (item number 1) (id c1ab9c79-d640-4a9a-8e9a-edd1b2e9fdf4)
Hunting Act (item number 1) (id ec64e499-6271-43f9-9eef-af6140f3ca2f)
IT Systems (item number 1) (id 6091cca3-0343-4a9d-a708-c9a29d276d95)
Licensing Act (item number 1) (id 713e1920-6b24-43a9-8e13-5b61fee0ab36)
Murder Investigations (item number 1) (id 58ad5da7-68cc-43d0-8b33-a5964500f668)
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PACE and CPI Acts (item number 1) (id 02141fdc-534e-4067-8051-1ba13e28181f)
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Police (item number 1) (id 8a37f769-6f94-489d-8528-140b5a34fd60)
Prisons (item number 1) (id f14b0eb2-dc09-4bf3-bbf4-cf58df1a8009)
Rape Cases (item number 1) (id c07d000c-ddff-4718-9edb-d61bedcc6a40)
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Under-age Product Sales (item number 1) (id 965c9f52-4c06-4d80-8904-64acae62aae8)
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Wildlife Crime (item number 1) (id bbfb3022-6b52-4e1b-a3d2-650d4075a309)

Education and Skills

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Ability Grouping (item number 1) (id aea33135-d516-4629-bd59-c828f1856470)
Academies (item number 1) (id 7673c976-d88a-4694-be80-9735fb94173b)
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Children's Trusts (item number 1) (id 7ba934e4-ec41-4c23-bbcd-253bac5e120b)
Class Sizes (item number 1) (id 8b127aad-af78-4910-989f-72fa49fc3cd9)
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Education (West Lancashire) (item number 1) (id ad179cad-0a14-48c3-8955-156b394dc2c5)
Education Act 1996 (item number 1) (id 6ddf6cc5-a414-4c67-9110-be45a827ef8c)
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Free School Meals (item number 1) (id 32244224-7261-46db-8548-46471dcb3b2b)
G3 Academy, Chelmsley Wood (item number 1) (id 269f85d5-b37d-4f0d-97f9-1a8593fc9641)
GCSE Results (item number 1) (id b61fee05-28df-4c2e-bd44-34372a9521a7)
ITT Students (item number 1) (id 153a4f71-ffb0-413d-b8bf-3a0581330429)
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Primary Education (item number 1) (id ece503bd-77ac-4b6a-b777-8b716b4d83b5)
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Publicly Funded Courses (Drop-out Rate) (item number 1) (id ac36d65d-68d1-44bd-9e4a-7b9eaf63b399)
Schools (item number 1) (id 576892d6-9a3a-458f-b4ac-16de0d683280)
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Sex Education (item number 1) (id 260ceb02-b3af-4a2f-8857-5440dc5639fc)
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Undergraduate Student Grants (item number 1) (id 81363a70-35e7-4166-b350-572f05be511a)

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