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Commons Hansard for 24 November 2005 (Volume 439)

From the corrected (daily) version. Last updated 9 December 2025 at 12.05pm.

Commons Chamber

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

House of Commons (item number 1) (id 226cec5b-4d67-46a9-9a5c-b2460cac41df)
Prayers (item number 2) (id 5998339b-a2da-4730-b5db-8e8c10037bb6)
Business of the House (item number 4) (id 09f57fba-3830-468e-9c2e-577f08a1676a)
Points of Order (item number 5) (id 921a63d9-fbce-482c-9600-c923c1c75082)
Orders of the Day (item number 6) (id 2516c981-e4b5-478d-9537-23f36cacbd16)
European Union (Accessions) Bill (item number 7) (id 8ab9111c-c469-428b-98f9-7f3789d4e230)
Rights of Savers Bill [Money] (item number 8) (id 897f7bcc-c230-4d21-8e99-71ea510a731b)
Delegated Legislation (item number 9) (id 2ecf2c14-e342-4ec3-a0db-1ba3eb25997a)
Essential Drugs (Northern Ireland) (item number 10) (id 82c92a61-753c-4c15-8814-f8f307136c63)

Written Answers

Content for Written Answers.

Written Answers to Questions

Education and Skills

Adult Learning (item number 1) (id d2ff9786-c038-40ab-8e6c-4a68f3298d42)
Bullying (item number 1) (id 20e61b29-bb6c-4623-9c7d-05100aab75bd)
Secondary Schools (Wellingborough) (item number 1) (id 92a0bcae-e307-4dc0-b1e4-9a75d551c77e)
Specialist Teachers (item number 1) (id 33e93ae9-bc2f-403b-8003-6ec0d5ea46f3)
University Access (item number 1) (id 0c383933-0dd2-40a6-a2ae-a1b18fb3f1a2)
Further Education (item number 1) (id ab0f4a1b-382a-437e-92e8-84c5d24a58c4)
Local Education Authorities (item number 1) (id 087332fd-b18e-40e1-8af0-eda9b6b5bdce)
Education Maintenance Allowance (item number 1) (id e8b3819e-3fb8-4334-ae3e-0f2e1b3fee77)
Adult Education (item number 1) (id 9ec0624a-0295-40f9-954a-e873ffb3eb7a)
Children's Trusts (Hemel Hempstead) (item number 1) (id 6b3df431-c416-421f-a697-ade553239321)
Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act (item number 1) (id 04e3862b-19e2-4ba2-97d3-1d123ae965c5)
Education (Tamworth) (item number 1) (id 6d95354f-60b2-4020-8e14-d6edd868b565)
Education Act 1996 (item number 1) (id b8e12459-7733-4e01-ad57-3d3db8570901)
Education White Paper (item number 1) (id 2dd88bee-3aa9-4ed9-b7c2-cc0162e7c32c)
Further Education Spending (item number 1) (id ca5a4dea-219f-433b-880a-cca41753ace9)
Information and Communication Technology (item number 1) (id 7a5c5a44-ea6c-4959-a4a4-9137bf4f96ca)
Looked-after Children (item number 1) (id 13d3bc61-571e-497a-9702-ac190b44fc70)
Schools (item number 1) (id 7aa0e619-3399-4ea4-84da-9bd345215be1)
Sure Start Plus (item number 1) (id 3f15d222-3a6e-464c-8432-2e8498e085ab)
Teachers (item number 1) (id 7b48b6cb-5ee7-44ef-9c3c-c998cdca3ec9)
Teenage Pregnancy (item number 1) (id e430d9d5-aad1-4daa-ada0-3fe35db27219)
Under-achievement (item number 1) (id 0a098366-3f92-4c7e-a2ec-49a5b6cb0086)

Trade and Industry

Broadband (item number 1) (id 0bd59bef-2a6d-4311-8d89-846782744030)
Rail Freight (Scottish Coal) (item number 1) (id 1aba07ac-3483-4098-a0f6-bbb3b9cd56a0)
Coal Imports (item number 1) (id 6fda9e80-56a2-4936-8278-45d5f3f474e2)
Coal Miners' Compensation (item number 1) (id 15a0d7e2-ec26-4ef5-b7fa-46645fc2be3b)
Coal Production (item number 1) (id 749c1d7a-398c-4354-b680-63ba80455e78)
Departmental Sickness Absence (item number 1) (id d02e2a08-f179-41b1-9c8a-280adb2011a8)
Departmental Staff (item number 1) (id 97adbcd6-60bf-4927-8aa9-9527b652855f)
Electricity Generation (item number 1) (id 285028bb-4d06-451a-bd8d-93cb7130305e)
Energy Review (item number 1) (id bf340537-e131-486c-9756-ffce6e6f7c42)
England-Scotland Interconnector (item number 1) (id 57ff5af4-1115-4a86-8837-27356a1c8268)
EU Directives (item number 1) (id 9587c678-5412-46b8-896f-ba3758a6ae95)
EU Satellite System (item number 1) (id f3548f9d-a52f-4003-9c6a-276fedbb4970)
Freedom of Information (item number 1) (id 379df1a8-b24b-4592-ac90-3df4d0bc8c7e)
Gas Supplies (item number 1) (id c5a10561-2a16-4ce1-a2be-ff68ecc13707)
Langage Power Station, Plymouth (item number 1) (id 51d34461-fd80-497c-a9dc-e8848daa9884)
Mr. Malcolm Hanney (item number 1) (id b7f74e61-3190-4564-bd9a-6f05b931c3d1)
Nuclear Fusion (item number 1) (id 64be223d-8ed4-44fc-95c3-2a62f136d5e9)
Nuclear Industry (item number 1) (id e619867c-b15c-4061-984b-b8a82a0c4596)
Power Stations (Carbon Emissions) (item number 1) (id 87d58810-c544-45d4-bd66-be4c1d0b597e)
Smoking (item number 1) (id 3edce860-78c4-45a3-b72e-004ec3266d2f)
Statutory Holiday Entitlements (item number 1) (id e5c41d18-65e7-45de-b9b4-25b62770933d)
Wind Farms (item number 1) (id 4c4cb4bb-0fb5-4506-ab00-ace58301f980)
Working Time Directive (item number 1) (id d216cd35-8497-47f4-b1ec-114ee1c95907)

Transport

Airport Security (item number 1) (id 0186d2c4-424d-4aad-8465-28dea5f38d0d)
Buses (item number 1) (id effd6c0e-c0a0-4edc-afda-da5c1216fa32)
EU Co-financing (item number 1) (id 4e84fc1a-b13c-4c7b-a5ca-eac70f469e9c)
Gatwick Express (item number 1) (id 37e91af7-0950-4f6e-b889-7e7259b33efe)
Merseytram (item number 1) (id 0aff7f38-563e-4544-b91e-c990a18454e6)
Motorways (item number 1) (id 7401e873-a353-4d89-ab6e-cdc97463ee94)
Network Rail (item number 1) (id d85f7c2c-1eee-4f9f-9803-04873ebcbc9e)
Project Funding (item number 1) (id e5bdba7e-eae8-427a-92f1-c6d09b770689)
Rail Franchises (item number 1) (id b099e4ca-6fb9-460a-b11d-48dfda9381c0)
Railways (item number 1) (id d4198f91-58d2-4fb4-98ec-e9dcdff3aa74)
Road Improvements/Maintenance (item number 1) (id c8c5af0e-1df5-4d29-b935-3b4851f94ba8)
Road Tolls (item number 1) (id 2430c1e7-5109-4edf-ad86-dc3cb785c249)
Road Traffic Legislation (item number 1) (id 2bab9654-68f3-4027-840a-77fd86a476fd)
School Crossing Patrols (item number 1) (id 949d53d4-9525-4162-a4be-34e1a5ca7486)
Surveillance Technology (item number 1) (id a6aaae48-ffca-477d-b391-5ae6932fa2d7)
Speeding (Prosecutions) (item number 1) (id 05091b32-1953-4b18-bd7f-bb7f64801617)
Train Journeys (Environmental Impact) (item number 1) (id 580ba2a9-3fe6-43e1-bbed-5fa00fc66fa4)
Train Operating Companies (Compensation) (item number 1) (id c3a0ce62-1735-4913-bff0-fa1820b2b3bc)
Trains (Security Measures) (item number 1) (id 6616c4a9-b7c9-4192-ac5f-f811db7cbd51)
Transport Improvement (London) (item number 1) (id 4af82c26-2757-4377-84ac-f92267a2c5b4)

Health

Advisory Non-departmental Bodies (item number 1) (id 32cab122-6c0e-4adb-820e-bc73c68f1dfa)
Agenda for Change (item number 1) (id f84c25df-9d2e-49d7-a2b0-7c7403b2bd00)
Ambulance Service (item number 1) (id fdd2cc7b-3d88-419d-9550-cc4506cb173b)
Ashford and St. Peter's NHS Trust (item number 1) (id 147ae7cf-6503-43d0-b1e7-8feeb4d9bfb0)
Authority Boundaries (item number 1) (id dfab9d81-22eb-4c50-9172-1b92e7cdd5c5)
Avian Influenza (item number 1) (id 270ca483-a9aa-4b66-9581-7b9274a6fd7a)
Breast Cancer (item number 1) (id 7a59720e-76c9-474c-839f-71abc37245f5)
Cataract Operations (item number 1) (id 5ba44dbe-4bd8-435b-ac21-75575a3cdbef)
CCT Costs (item number 1) (id 4c60f8d9-239d-433d-aa45-10f28f7c3b4a)
Chase Farm NHS Hospital Trust (item number 1) (id 655d994c-ec54-4ab6-a8c4-8bd0b0522445)
Cheshire and Merseyside SHA (item number 1) (id e727586a-7c31-4167-a20e-37e2c8fef0da)
Child Vaccinations (item number 1) (id 57bda0a8-b251-4b79-82c1-3bf5ffd1c35e)
Chiropractic Treatment (item number 1) (id 96c73440-22c7-4bc7-9879-e7f5da620310)
Communication Staff (item number 1) (id 0e9af9d8-d68e-435c-8d8e-5ad22939c156)
Community Hospitals (item number 1) (id a35e283f-ca61-4d86-9a0c-5a2e9f78099c)
Continuing Care (item number 1) (id 5a0f14a8-c344-4392-a898-79e3e70865a3)
Dacorum Primary Care Trust (item number 1) (id 93816efb-397d-4978-b4ef-781e8ab2afe6)
Dartford, Gravesham and Swanley Primary Care Trust (item number 1) (id c893afc2-be9f-4ed0-876c-23c0d4c30cef)
Departmental Assets (item number 1) (id d098318f-aa0e-4200-9b8a-1fac6bda0d8f)
Departmental Land (Tamworth) (item number 1) (id f8634013-e762-47cc-8178-e709f7ac2b9d)
Departmental Spending (item number 1) (id c4a1109a-438e-4fe7-99e8-f752abe58d96)
Diabetes (item number 1) (id 4c2e0dc4-6630-4732-bcf9-fabb3b888398)
Drug Addicts (West Lancashire) (item number 1) (id a305c4e7-68c5-4464-b5c2-27f77bf8a784)
Emergency Services (item number 1) (id 8c9576d1-a20f-468c-82d1-e809712b3520)
Eye Health Services (item number 1) (id 1c775e28-68b8-47b0-8690-029fed68414f)
Foreign Travel Vaccinations (item number 1) (id 9d78c137-d470-4274-a8e6-5f41dff9ceaf)
General Practitioners (item number 1) (id 7679d4c2-c619-4b87-bf15-5d0be557f4a7)
Gershon Review (item number 1) (id 00f90977-e662-462a-bb36-be14a2a02bf7)
Health Service Reconfiguration (item number 1) (id d54a49e7-bc1a-4772-9fc3-e2e2c175f0e3)
Health Trust Guidance (item number 1) (id 01aa629d-ebf3-471c-ac75-9e72af1fc29d)
Hearing Aids (item number 1) (id 80da8ee9-87e0-42c7-81b6-62ec3fd399eb)
Hepatitis C (item number 1) (id 67709964-93dd-4193-afea-dcf264e35d00)
High Blood Pressure (item number 1) (id fdfdf553-2932-475c-a306-1703bd4cdeeb)
HIV/AIDS (item number 1) (id c9e52410-6f9d-42da-920e-5068cd29b045)
Hospital Doctors' Pay (item number 1) (id ea2aa9b9-30c4-494e-b5bf-2c229e12fec4)
Hospitals (item number 1) (id 077a7827-5632-459c-9236-f3cb5e159fce)
Household Products (Health Effects) (item number 1) (id 4948f99b-10f7-46b8-8abc-44ae13c85a1e)
Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act (item number 1) (id d9d15fa5-1a47-4b02-9e75-89457091251b)
Influenza (item number 1) (id 9d2681c2-8ace-4afe-a749-b527a2e9d0d3)
Information Technology (item number 1) (id 4dc5d8a8-1fa6-4018-a48f-df99d8d155e3)
Junior Doctors (item number 1) (id 39d0ff0b-d065-4441-a044-3b5cc764d926)
Literacy and Numeracy (item number 1) (id 397a4a24-cb65-474b-879f-59d10224bc2c)
Members' Surgeries (NHS Premises) (item number 1) (id 7257ff71-4c93-4af4-856f-a75ef5727f84)
Mental Health (item number 1) (id dc12da06-a773-46b3-8a42-32a670d6c591)
Midwifery (item number 1) (id aa507f7f-4342-48e2-a180-b9dbea9f9c79)
Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (item number 1) (id f9437257-633b-419a-aeb8-0bd843f9b0d3)
NHS Commissioning (item number 1) (id 7f362b1c-0dc0-4839-bbde-859c61ba9241)
NHS Finance (item number 1) (id 446d7791-1e12-4091-9b3b-ed494a6c558b)
NHS Finance (Surrey and Sussex) (item number 1) (id f5791aee-f63b-45d3-9882-4663bad93ec5)
NHS Land Sales (item number 1) (id fda775c5-004e-4681-a19d-a1374807a49a)
NHS Pensions Agency (item number 1) (id 07f92728-8040-4513-8171-d3600a959b02)
NHS Professionals (item number 1) (id 11240218-f0e5-4a74-bf1c-72918145c99e)
NHS Reconfiguration (item number 1) (id 2964de5d-3756-4795-b842-902b17d70ac6)
NHS Staff (item number 1) (id 26a93ec9-e8e4-4de2-9e8e-8ed4d82d2825)
NHS Suppliers (item number 1) (id 3d864bca-8efe-400d-9d7e-274d23c3974c)
NHS Trusts (item number 1) (id 291ae05b-1567-482c-904c-6cccb6f0702c)
Overseas Doctors (item number 1) (id 9402e521-b35c-4fdb-98d7-b7bafb5b949c)
Parliamentary Questions (item number 1) (id 99274036-cb82-4d37-9147-d9d65776d168)
Primary Care Trusts (item number 1) (id 653f41a3-8a5f-4fe2-858e-355f72084c80)
Radiographers (item number 1) (id 1939940e-2d42-4e93-9fb1-0913b2b1dada)
Ambulance Service (item number 1) (id 354e73b7-6c96-41d5-9c87-8dc7d962478e)
Sexual Health (item number 1) (id 51591805-05a7-48dd-88a5-423604115217)
Smoking (item number 1) (id 067d26a0-fcd6-47ee-9a68-5f76bfa47c1d)
Social Care Services (item number 1) (id 423d4397-1163-4236-8efa-b7725d1b0b27)
Tobacco Advertising (item number 1) (id e0d93de1-5a92-428c-9184-f89991211798)
Vanguard Proposals (item number 1) (id ba6c81a8-a468-42e0-af8e-b97b06575691)
VAT (item number 1) (id c948de7f-93af-4d4a-8ff0-aa05bfadc1b0)
Waiting Times (item number 1) (id c6afcfe2-8b21-4937-86ce-d47776028f6d)
Your Health, Your Care, Your Say (item number 1) (id 5ea8d286-da7e-4f46-953a-09b3e8055b75)

Home Department

Under-age Drinking (item number 1) (id d61bced3-53fc-4781-b001-b617daf55f83)
Alcohol-related Offences (item number 1) (id 0a51ca77-310a-4cdd-bcb8-c187af40a4e0)
Algerian Nationals (item number 1) (id 9f681e06-322d-4042-9f88-589eadf87df9)
Asylum/Immigration (item number 1) (id f09298c9-1ded-4196-8298-0ce386290662)
Biometrics Trials (item number 1) (id 2b459b24-ed66-4687-b508-8f8e4f334e15)
Border Police (item number 1) (id 64caebba-82d2-4ffa-b0ec-93bb9757e45e)
Child Safety (item number 1) (id b307fb25-3fe8-4fce-84e6-0a6d0db7df3b)
Child Trafficking (item number 1) (id 5e36d48a-2f79-4943-8d90-ce29622fd287)
Correspondence (item number 1) (id 2e443e06-dfa3-4e27-80cc-eb3afc00b909)
Crack Houses (item number 1) (id 46eba3d4-1636-4a2a-a24c-e5ea48a0f2df)
Crime (Hemel Hempstead) (item number 1) (id 7a0c407f-4588-417c-a99a-9857218c0b0d)
Criminal Records Checks (item number 1) (id c452cf4d-b682-4aef-83fe-0e22cf5a2d39)
Departmental Staff (Sikh Dress) (item number 1) (id e961720f-a5ad-4644-a9e2-aca7469baf04)
Deportations (item number 1) (id 03891323-d346-4412-82bf-654b59ba6459)
Drugs Offences (item number 1) (id a2c39c34-0972-4996-bac4-9271265c49e4)
Forensic Science Service (item number 1) (id 12ef8c27-1464-449a-9ad6-4659573fc4be)
Freedom of Information (item number 1) (id 6a3afadb-c1cb-466d-b6d4-29e46b4cd908)
Heroin (item number 1) (id 3247f2c5-4d9e-44be-b201-7f564cbce54a)
Immigration Checks (item number 1) (id f42c9529-798f-4328-b2a4-f8ce47d92a08)
Leave to Remain (item number 1) (id a971d5c7-9754-405b-8bcb-bf75c2235897)
Major General Almog (item number 1) (id 71c86ccf-d70a-464a-bbec-3511486d0fc0)
Non-asylum Immigration Services (item number 1) (id df35cdb9-3901-4132-badb-b39501696c44)
Non-departmental Public Bodies (item number 1) (id 98af40e0-47f8-445d-b364-6d4eb65c5aba)
Parliamentary Questions (item number 1) (id 1166c4c2-0603-443c-85c2-0785612a93ad)
Passports (item number 1) (id 24ccba2e-14d4-479a-bb39-86980de94020)
Police and Probation Officers (item number 1) (id 615eeb4e-0da4-4eb3-b782-e4808d586846)
Police Reform Act (Schedule 4) (item number 1) (id fc8f94f4-805c-4ed6-abee-617a3bbfc765)
Politically Exposed Persons (item number 1) (id faee7ce6-b27d-4582-9f55-d98b5993f4e4)
Proceeds of Crime Act (item number 1) (id 187cd58f-42eb-4d3d-a755-133d9f4db81c)
Public Appointments (item number 1) (id 173797d5-481a-461a-9799-0244046d0e19)
Security Industry (item number 1) (id e6097cb2-ea7e-4144-8254-4a1ee48e75cf)
Shrewsbury Prison (item number 1) (id e201c508-2680-421c-920e-5838ef41aaaf)
Timber (item number 1) (id d8438e76-30fa-4c66-909d-80488e46ee29)
UK Borders (item number 1) (id c7400681-89b7-4f2f-bcff-7fee15d3e7b6)
Yarl's Wood (item number 1) (id da97160e-3f83-49a9-b59c-55bf5c1f07f1)
Youth Justice (item number 1) (id 87c5e149-8236-467b-be39-839a31e252f0)
Youth Justice Board (item number 1) (id 0e615c36-fab3-4e51-a72d-bfbba14f1a2a)

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