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Commons Hansard for 7 December 2005 (Volume 440)

From the corrected (daily) version. Last updated 10 December 2025 at 10.04am.

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International Development

HIV/AIDS (item number 1) (id 7d839ef1-b132-4b6c-a846-6cb572d9ab41)
G8 Commitments (item number 1) (id 98c18122-4748-4b0f-91d1-fa26e64a3710)
WTO Negotiations (item number 1) (id 12794e22-7aa7-4346-8cc3-d4260a67ee08)
Afghanistan (item number 1) (id 167a9842-62ea-4874-8f7d-fcd032b79a80)
Latin America (item number 1) (id f2b617fc-4252-4fd3-b9a5-9c94b0d4ab7e)
Gaza (item number 1) (id b0421b27-7e1a-4113-9806-5d31d1e4bfa1)
Africa (item number 1) (id f8e20eec-21ec-41c9-be80-521c144be14c)
Asian Tsunami (item number 1) (id 10310969-4f42-4192-ad4d-950797d38584)
Bilateral Aid (item number 1) (id c9066ede-988e-494e-86ce-463ee39d5c3f)
Commonwealth Development Corporation (item number 1) (id c4a88454-4370-4c9f-8f8f-d75e6623e28e)
Departmental Expenditure (item number 1) (id d6fcf76e-4289-4715-9b98-731b4e5d5de9)
Departmental Projects (item number 1) (id 00082509-a2d8-4731-ba4e-680cad3c167e)
Departmental Tendering Policy (item number 1) (id 13444395-c5f5-449a-9d9a-3a97c0db822e)
Free Trade (item number 1) (id 3a3cc6bb-a73f-4981-9cdd-fcbdc0c4efb3)
Global Fund (item number 1) (id 37e8fbfc-2a88-4310-8e15-83f549047e1a)
Global Tariffs (item number 1) (id d9068d4f-b226-41d2-a46f-a6a4171eacd3)
Humanitarian/Reconstruction Assistance (item number 1) (id 0c6dfcb4-45ec-49d7-b64f-673b6fbaaaa7)
Maladministration (item number 1) (id 411ab65f-6f71-47ff-b162-06fe232e06ef)
Malawi (item number 1) (id b6434d61-7932-438b-b475-1abb57cc5496)
Millennium Development Goals (item number 1) (id 8e5a70b9-438b-4b51-9f4c-3cbef7569ab3)
Pakistan (item number 1) (id f676aa39-d196-4ddf-9923-d7ae3b571e8a)
Race Equality Impact Assessments (item number 1) (id 9e8836a1-3979-463d-8848-452ccc4fe8e3)
Sick Leave (item number 1) (id ad19e24b-33dd-463f-a532-24829e136bb2)
St. Helena (item number 1) (id 2d433d84-b839-4202-a248-adc77ba0b429)
Trade Barriers (item number 1) (id 69433388-ddc1-402a-a175-8be6392a350c)
UN Population Fund (item number 1) (id 230a5521-ecef-4439-97c5-545626a64dba)

Transport

0870 Numbers (item number 1) (id 6602c270-5bde-406b-8193-c78ff53f2910)
Accountancy Firms (item number 1) (id fc5cfd1b-494c-429d-8a6d-74abf7f25676)
Airport Runways (item number 1) (id d353c3c9-92b1-430e-8117-b9324b40670f)
Bedfordshire Transport Plan (item number 1) (id 4f67c20a-9d84-4da6-b753-edd7e3fe764b)
Damages (item number 1) (id ba66d3ae-3e79-4a1b-875f-11b42e78578d)
Departmental Contracts (item number 1) (id 4e70db2d-671b-4df8-9954-4048532f998f)
Departmental Estate (item number 1) (id b1d00073-daf9-4896-87d7-fa3d530ffd82)
Departmental Finance (item number 1) (id d3043d67-b435-4154-811b-e47881d0c55a)
Departmental Relocation (item number 1) (id f000460d-00f7-4722-a3f9-d96532ab2252)
Departmental Tendering Policy (item number 1) (id 9da1b3d4-d6b0-4358-acaf-3a887c93f4b5)
Disabled People (Transport Access) (item number 1) (id a5c525b0-2b09-48f9-b54e-46c7e62c36e4)
DVLA (Clamping Companies) (item number 1) (id 9cc6a549-b581-424a-bc68-bb46287fac56)
Identity Cards (item number 1) (id d8c11db3-143f-4a8b-a9cf-d45a69b699e8)
Lamberhurst Bypass (item number 1) (id c566804a-210b-4d44-84c5-f44eaa647014)
Light Rapid Transit (item number 1) (id 38419a54-b6d9-4a88-961e-70f062b4d9be)
National Road Pricing (item number 1) (id e7ec67b0-e35c-4e24-b970-29a97386cc81)
Olympics (item number 1) (id 2e7a5aad-0433-419c-bd31-aaa2e6402d67)
Public Service Agreements (item number 1) (id 72182b84-4b0c-4c40-a497-5d1a11d44506)
Railways (item number 1) (id e55ddd45-c412-4866-bd45-92164e4e52a1)
Roads (item number 1) (id ef24d1bb-8f44-41ab-b703-b41b4834ba5a)
Staff Discipline (item number 1) (id b4bc8685-df70-4d9e-90ee-e88000c27ab0)
Stretch Limousines (item number 1) (id 985a0bd5-05f9-48d7-9686-229dbc93ad56)
Transport Staff (Abuse) (item number 1) (id ed3c9f1a-37da-4ebb-9dbe-74a98a529359)
Travel Subsidies (item number 1) (id 9e8009be-9d35-4baa-b02e-32adee898c9f)
Tyne and Wear (Financial Bids) (item number 1) (id 98c4d93e-f5de-499f-8985-916b3df7371d)
UK Air Passengers (item number 1) (id c432e461-cf9e-4562-a55c-3918bc44a780)

Treasury

Alcohol-related Deaths (item number 1) (id 3c77f29d-59c7-4d6f-86a9-8f13da7d5b73)
Benefits (Leeds, West) (item number 1) (id 00efe3b5-8041-47c3-b98f-a848808f91fc)
Breast Cancer (item number 1) (id edea81e8-0bbc-4ccd-82da-0e00daeb22b9)
British Film Industry (item number 1) (id cbc83071-34ff-4800-8147-facf636eb640)
Departmental Assets (item number 1) (id 2f73f27a-780e-4255-b0dd-3c5905e047c0)
Departmental Estate (item number 1) (id 8b5d3013-c27f-4013-89a6-cf2a18228323)
Departmental Tendering Policy (item number 1) (id 4735daf3-7973-4efc-acdc-06b70b69ec0d)
Drugs Overdose (item number 1) (id 35fc4058-de17-4bde-98b1-2be1fd714da4)
Earnings Statistics (item number 1) (id ec7e0dea-13ca-4e97-91fe-1f6e8281d18d)
HM Revenue and Customs (item number 1) (id 69d35f3e-2b09-483f-bc55-571833b172b4)
Income Tax (item number 1) (id 70981bbd-45d1-4e9b-9d3d-8e09ef222a6c)
Infant Deaths (item number 1) (id 49bf2d8b-aa42-416a-ba99-f061801022c2)
Inflation (item number 1) (id 7c46b459-d554-4baa-b89c-076d684cb521)
Maintenance Service Charges/Sinking Funds (item number 1) (id 76737847-4b17-4e6a-8aaa-50cd12f8cd59)
Manufacturing (item number 1) (id d61f8e86-030c-4aa5-8df5-44fd042030b0)
Politically Exposed Persons (item number 1) (id 60c5570c-a20d-4eba-8364-8c9da10d5e9c)
Research and Development Tax Credits (item number 1) (id 23b4bc95-8b6d-4941-a7af-b4942c735ee4)
Revenue Evasion (item number 1) (id 2f391b02-df23-4e62-ba77-e0f074d4d56e)
Sick Leave (item number 1) (id 56b06835-79db-4aad-9665-501c91bd72bf)
Southend West Economy (item number 1) (id dfe0b7e6-5c96-416e-90c3-d3aff4e6eb19)
Tax Allowances (item number 1) (id 85b82cb3-67a4-48fb-a389-a04ad32df0a4)
Tax Credits (item number 1) (id 9745d5d2-934b-46e5-b227-ba9770158867)
Taxation (item number 1) (id 202ba83b-0b54-488f-8d96-6ed5cd3a39f8)
VAT (Demolition Costs) (item number 1) (id 699c528c-d35e-4d8e-9901-1e0fe39829b5)
Vegetable Oil (item number 1) (id 5da475f3-5a95-448d-80b9-3b1f5929f141)

Defence

Afghanistan (item number 1) (id f0d33135-5b36-46dd-a049-c84b5b49b380)
Aircraft Carriers (item number 1) (id 1938bbf5-8796-4881-bf53-c23329ffa339)
Ammunition (item number 1) (id 434828c7-633f-4572-8569-cc96c03a6256)
Army Uniform (item number 1) (id b5610d1f-1b6d-47ab-bd6d-a5b5d9fceeb5)
AWE Orion Laser (item number 1) (id f0a195f6-9f2b-4f4c-a289-cd85e587f877)
Chinooks (item number 1) (id c35b05ae-f1ed-4102-9d2d-ac6010172ce2)
Departmental Tendering Policy (item number 1) (id 36ef64cf-0e97-4553-b77e-28ee77e2148e)
Falkland Islands (item number 1) (id 177b8328-2ca9-4945-831f-9e0ce412b5d1)
Fire Fighting Duties (item number 1) (id 74678354-5cfb-4740-b356-36dc52c54d7d)
Flight Lieutenant MacDonald (item number 1) (id d8f457f4-5d95-4828-855c-b1248017d1da)
Future Aircraft Carrier (item number 1) (id abd41874-01fc-4197-8ad8-540cd2be8b98)
Landing Ships Dock (Auxiliary) Project (item number 1) (id 80eb6113-d86d-43e9-be87-252f7faad6cf)
Panther Command and Liaison Vehicle (item number 1) (id 20af2554-1e7d-4735-806b-63212f4819e9)
Puma (item number 1) (id 1a8b6dab-f60f-4272-b7dc-52527fc44767)
RAF Bases (item number 1) (id 0ac6216c-1576-4570-a4da-d75842d1a0b6)
Royal Navy (item number 1) (id ba3f2061-d886-4db5-97fb-b8afe3df038f)
Service Medical Personnel (item number 1) (id 1d2d35aa-36fd-4e6e-83a0-7e8049522286)
Service Schools (item number 1) (id 0e01b66f-d1de-4e4a-abbd-ef2b82f88761)
Trident (item number 1) (id 2a88737d-90e4-49c3-ad5e-aab115a74a0b)
White Phosphorus (item number 1) (id 167ebb4d-ec1b-4375-a774-118e04eb2b90)

Home Department

Appointments (item number 1) (id a2240b70-2150-40db-9488-0779ccc086a4)
Asylum/Immigration (item number 1) (id cb058281-644c-48ec-a5af-5ada04f00644)
Council Tax Valuation (item number 1) (id 7a73a7ec-2b86-4447-b75a-68fd9b3780e2)
Basic Command Unit Fund (item number 1) (id 96d690eb-c10a-43b1-83f6-d90b0cc517d6)
Cannabis Possession (item number 1) (id 46685c1b-f10b-4638-ad78-33db236e880a)
Correspondence (item number 1) (id 681314bb-6b86-4a5e-86c1-4c8441fc45c2)
Criminal Justice and Public Order Act (item number 1) (id 84a84313-8617-4328-9d5d-3705601dda1b)
Deaths in Custody (item number 1) (id b96f869a-0dad-4d77-a746-faef43a6459d)
Deportees (item number 1) (id 1d06fc7a-449c-4708-b3fd-ec5b1c2e98f1)
Domestic Violence (item number 1) (id d6c7a0ff-3b6a-4db1-8dbc-9de7a8f1d28a)
Drug Interventions Programme (item number 1) (id 3edd7a05-8c7a-4f6d-ba31-ef0f51db275d)
ECHR and ECJ Judgments (item number 1) (id 9024dcc1-8c7a-439b-b8e3-c89fe75b2e58)
EU Travel Bans (item number 1) (id dffbfbc2-e1a0-4a09-9adf-b45e3b1ee08d)
Hunting (item number 1) (id 03d6b06d-f825-4c09-b8ee-c48672f408c8)
Identity Cards (item number 1) (id b9378e21-602b-4272-b1d1-6d7551b84a30)
International Arrest Warrants (item number 1) (id 2fb11477-5357-4b95-996b-b3b3896dd33d)
KPMG Review (item number 1) (id 586debbc-d6a2-497f-b64e-c083ecfa3604)
Migrant Workers (item number 1) (id 95927f4a-46f7-49d7-b4ba-ffb7283fc3a6)
Passport Costs (item number 1) (id 967b7042-6c80-4d3f-851a-637d30e3d33c)
Penalty Notices (item number 1) (id 44177881-33c4-4aa7-b995-1f0d25868770)
Police Reorganisation (item number 1) (id 675aa476-6dd6-4f6c-ad37-338117551fde)
Ports (item number 1) (id f8939b9b-dca9-4b49-8a76-663a7d065ab2)
Serious Organised Crime Agency (item number 1) (id e321e05e-abc9-4392-9595-d30c4bfe9f38)
Stop and Search (item number 1) (id d5ebcff2-5bce-46f2-b723-de4667156943)
Terrorism Bill (Police Lobbying) (item number 1) (id 099b9d71-dc99-4308-8bf7-1cb85fe3816c)

Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs

Arab League Reconciliation Conference (item number 1) (id 82ebd46e-b4bd-4602-8bf1-e1275701f5e8)
British Citizens (Overseas Detention) (item number 1) (id 720a5b0a-a974-471b-8010-1b78599bd41e)
British Virgin Islands (item number 1) (id 511bb823-21d4-4b23-8aa1-e171f2018e81)
Chad (item number 1) (id cc374805-b040-49f7-94f5-ce6275b1d3ce)
China (item number 1) (id f8078f68-267a-4eae-890b-86f716a454e0)
Damages (item number 1) (id 21933218-430d-4352-a3ff-f08892690c42)
Dayton Accords (item number 1) (id 9684cf40-74ca-47c3-8e6f-87b48633026e)
Democratic Republic of the Congo (item number 1) (id d1d2ceeb-207f-40cc-b0ca-82fad7eb8275)
Departmental Staff (item number 1) (id 3043a371-f972-40e4-a631-01bb0785c1e0)
End-use Monitoring (item number 1) (id 5430b9f7-4c8d-4d80-a47a-16ee104f9173)
Equal Opportunities (item number 1) (id f1fdf558-91a6-415a-a872-bc973b900bc8)
Ethiopia/Eritrea (item number 1) (id bc0d198e-8a8a-47c9-99f3-64d09ea9bd7a)
Falkland Islands (item number 1) (id 81c17536-cf28-4b9b-b704-016d5ce34de8)
HIV/AIDS (item number 1) (id 18d5c7d7-059e-4c6f-b30c-c63b9a90152e)
India (item number 1) (id 49ebf5c6-c5c4-49cd-af93-c7b127ad08bb)
Iran (item number 1) (id 52c02428-0e0b-406a-937a-27124ba9c870)
Iraq (item number 1) (id 8223969d-e5ca-4137-b5bd-9ff32cdb3396)
Opposition Spokespersons (Formal Visits) (item number 1) (id a6f4a11d-0ea9-4915-82af-6a3fe1513639)
South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation (item number 1) (id 3d8048ee-1b7d-497d-ac8d-28af8a5aa1c6)
Special Advisers (item number 1) (id d17a2a7b-86da-43bb-9012-7c6baf5399b2)
Syria (item number 1) (id dde1fc00-6006-490e-8a5f-6d3e0c364bc6)
Taiwan (item number 1) (id b758e945-b958-41e1-af2f-6886b1ed2cfe)
Turkey (item number 1) (id 433f3a24-8ecf-4c91-b2d7-bb5c909d6f40)
UK Arms Exports (item number 1) (id b4993dc2-3b19-4203-bdbb-e16c71ad6bf8)
UN Small Arms Review Conference (item number 1) (id e920073a-2056-4d52-9d94-c2292ad955d5)

Health

A&E Departments (Paediatric Care) (item number 1) (id a56e4924-b194-426e-b93e-f3d8fe47da35)
Alcohol-related Diseases (item number 1) (id fed3555c-baca-469c-8b17-f26e017929fd)
Ambulance Trusts (item number 1) (id 7caeedf6-29c6-4115-b0c5-93aa5e58a69b)
Asylum Seekers (item number 1) (id 77cf92a5-91fa-4c65-983c-7ef25b278ee0)
BCG Inoculation (item number 1) (id 057dcc09-de4a-41ac-bf43-8f2169cc1016)
Bed Utilisation (item number 1) (id 7f24aca5-0d41-44f3-97f0-55849dcd695f)
Cancer Drugs (item number 1) (id 0d7b0283-8632-4881-8c06-5f7c89b4c1f5)
Castle Hill Hospital (item number 1) (id 196ba7ba-68ca-4d8c-8064-bdb59a6cc8ee)
Cheshire and Mersey Strategic Health Authority (item number 1) (id 2083c4ab-6d2c-4cb0-84ce-6fc934aa1e23)
Child Protection (item number 1) (id 613fe21d-9c02-40a9-93a0-d861a9d2852f)
Creatine (item number 1) (id 87ac409d-3de5-4dff-91b0-89768524c750)
Criminal Records Bureau Checks (item number 1) (id c14399ad-b8a5-460f-975d-01cdc34638a2)
Cystic Fibrosis (item number 1) (id 5f853a86-477a-47fa-99c3-f381aa5eeee8)
Departmental Staff (item number 1) (id 832ed1ca-f683-47a9-98e1-6d49f8d3ce10)
Departmental Consultation (item number 1) (id 9a6e7d26-64a6-402c-be8c-f9d1eb5821ca)
Departmental Website (item number 1) (id 509f8133-d427-4dbb-b51c-9d8317f290b2)
Doctors (item number 1) (id d6a390ed-e82c-4dcf-ac49-6340e7848e3b)
Flu Vaccines (item number 1) (id 48a5a5ec-ba3e-4723-9bd7-2815f57329af)
FSA (Salt Campaign) (item number 1) (id 79b05132-c66e-4e90-a04d-e54cc67a0191)
General Medical Services Contract (item number 1) (id 4ccf5329-39f8-4f35-87a9-44e71ca353c0)
Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust (item number 1) (id e5760706-4c83-41e3-b365-64761d12fc59)
Health and Social Care (item number 1) (id beb02b98-3d59-4cc1-8c61-e64d179dfd53)
Health Services (North Yorkshire) (item number 1) (id b4982cce-1607-4de3-9cdb-937f17f0da92)
HIV (item number 1) (id 5364b7c1-37c2-4389-b945-843c699f3519)
Hospital Admissions (item number 1) (id a0fb8c14-103a-481e-b0a0-5476f7c798f5)
Hospitals (Catering/Parking) (item number 1) (id 87d6a783-d583-4a35-99a7-31c89377c32d)
Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals Trust (item number 1) (id 40160928-ba14-40ee-b5ec-1b83451be3b9)
Hull Royal Infirmary (item number 1) (id 5929e279-5f56-4542-af4a-d78add8211e5)
Immunotoxicologists (item number 1) (id 713a701b-7c2d-45a5-8905-038ef5b001a6)
In-vitro Fertilisation (item number 1) (id a04827da-1f4c-4898-a3c5-b1a284dc3075)
Isle of Wight Ambulance Service (item number 1) (id 8492d3e0-6bcc-4cbc-89a1-88db4ab56036)
IT Projects (item number 1) (id b51d74ee-2b28-4a1a-bd8c-16790f893f9a)
Local Authority Wards (item number 1) (id aebdd92b-6a85-40fa-be5e-167e4412e909)
Maladministration (item number 1) (id 2a89b693-db1b-4fb5-b501-4dbd3359a8ea)
Medical Care Practitioners (item number 1) (id 16473fa8-63c4-4cd7-9cae-f4dccfe79120)
Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (item number 1) (id 3318aaaa-8c1e-4a74-b317-69b5b9f6b828)
Mobile Communications (item number 1) (id dcffcb8e-a060-4c6a-94e6-4cf2d14b0e57)
North Yorkshire Area Health Authority (item number 1) (id 68200ea6-67a4-4d08-8333-9feb4b9d462b)
Obesity (item number 1) (id a73d4359-8567-4a45-97ce-c70ebe4797d6)
Oesophageal Cancer (item number 1) (id a4f8f379-d974-4061-8bd0-06d5840aa61a)
Parliamentary Questions (item number 1) (id 000416ce-1e11-497a-be93-e0e932db5a00)
Pesticides (item number 1) (id 5633b165-5e86-4135-bf19-14a76706cfbb)
Physical Activity (item number 1) (id 1cbf4997-cba0-4a48-a33d-7b61ac135c6f)
Pressure Ulcers (item number 1) (id 386ade54-449a-4da3-9c5f-e8cac024f226)
Primary Care Trusts (item number 1) (id ff632838-e9d4-4040-8d16-167475b7ac72)
Private Patients (item number 1) (id b81885db-83fa-49f7-afd5-57b801ef011a)
Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (item number 1) (id be13acba-c9ea-4889-9e91-9305b93cd244)
School Nurses (item number 1) (id f611f532-d286-4f1e-942f-55beea4044a0)
Sexual Health (item number 1) (id 33853b23-28d4-4af1-97f6-2bb69de7caea)
Smoking/Alcohol (item number 1) (id 546e593c-2d35-4c7c-be63-d94a36f3e5e2)

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