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Commons Hansard for 16 January 2006 (Volume 441)

                From the corrected (daily) version. Last updated 
10 December 2025 at 11.43am.
            

Commons Chamber

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

House of Commons

Prayers

Written Statements

Written statements are normally used to put the day-to-day business of government on the official record and in the public domain.

Written Ministerial Statements

Defence

UK Gulf Veterans (Mortality Data)

Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs

Nicaragua (British Embassy)

Northern Ireland

Hydebank Wood Prison

Trade and Industry

Construction Industry

UK Gas Quality Exercise

Work and Pensions

Benefit Fraud Inspectorate (Bromsgrove District Council)

Benefit Fraud Inspectorate (Falkirk Council)

Benefit Fraud Inspectorate (South Northamptonshire Council)

Benefit Fraud Inspectorate (Bridgend County Borough Council)

Written Answers

Content for Written Answers.

Written Answers to Questions

Prime Minister

2012 Olympics

Defence Decisions (Military Officers)

Downing Street Tours

EU Charter of Fundamental Rights

Homeland Security

Iraq

Little Haven Children's Hospice

Terrorism Victims (Compensation)

Solicitor-General

Crime Clear-up Rates

Departmental Expenditure

Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Centre for Ecology and Hydrology

Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act

Climate Change

Coastal Access

Coastal Erosion

Constituency Dispute (Leominster)

Departmental Property

EU Committees

EU Packaging Directive

Fisheries

Fixed Penalty Notices

Home Inspection Packs (Contaminated Land)

Fly-tipping

Greenhouse Gases

Illegal Trade (Wildlife)

Piers and Harbour Order (Bembridge Harbour) Confirmation Act 1963

Racehorses

Ragwort Control Act

Sustainable Development

Wildlife Rescue Centres

House of Commons Commission

Archiving

E-mail

Medical Facilities

Parliamentary Book Shop

Parliamentary Information Management System

Postage Costs

Strategic Plan

Vote Bundle

Defence

Departmental IT Equipment

Illegal Drugs (RN Seizures)

Lieutenant-Colonel Blair Mayne

Royal Navy (Surface Fleet)

Troubles (Northern Ireland)

UK-awarded Contracts

International Development

Palestinian Authority

South and Central America

Transport

Crime Reports (London)

Cycling

Departmental Staff

European Council

Local Transport Plan (Gloucestershire)

Motorway Resurfacing

Railways

Road Accidents (Costs)

Road Closures (Essex)

Road Deaths (Sunderland)

Road Detrunking Programme

Road Improvements

Road Safety

Road Traffic Congestion

Roads

Seat Belts

Speed Cameras

Transport Infrastructure (Sussex)

Transport Projects (Appraisal System)

Water-borne Pleasure Craft

Trade and Industry

Business Closures (East Midlands)

EU Structural Funds

First-class Mail

Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act

Illegal Broadcasting

Microgeneration

Military Hardware Exports

Radioactive Waste Management

Renewable Energy

Royal Mail

Shrewsbury Power Station

Culture, Media and Sport

2012 Olympics

2012 Paralympics

Administrative Costs

Art/Sport (Disabled People)

Big Lottery Fund

Consultants/Special Advisers

Correspondence

Departmental Expenditure

Digital Broadcasting

Elite Athlete Funding

Gender Equality (Sports Events)

German Football Grounds

Gyms (Disabled Access)

Historic Sites

Office Equipment

Olympic Development Authority

Press Complaints Commission

Theatre Audiences

Tourism

Violent Computer Games

Deputy Prime Minister

Brixham Council Proposal

Business Rates (London)

Correspondence

Departmental Estate

Departmental Expenditure

Departmental Jobs (Regional Distribution)

Departmental Targets

Engagements

Home Information Packs

Private Rented Accommodation

Regional Government

Right to Buy

Single Regeneration Budget Scheme

Town and Country Planning Act

Waste Management

Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs

Airspace (Extraordinary Rendition)

Belarus

Burma

Caps Committee on Missing Person

China (Arms Embargo)

Christian Minorities

Correspondence

Departmental Expenditure

Departmental Functions

Diplomatic Immunity

Embassy Function (Incident)

Energy Supplies (Russia)

EU Military and Policing Operations

Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe

Pakistan

Palestinian Authority

Public Diplomacy Review

Sharm El Sheikh Bomb Attacks

South Africa (Chemical Weapons Data)

Spain

Staffing Costs

Sudan

Terrorist Suspects (Guantanamo Bay)

Uganda

UK Ambassador (Buenos Aires)

UK Embassies/Consulates

US Administration (Rendition)

West Papua

Wouter Basson

Northern Ireland

Health Boards (Agency Staff)

Hospital Parking

Hospitals (Delayed Discharges)

Invest NI

Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency

Pathways to Work

Police Training Centre

Premature Deaths

Pre-School Provision Report

School Transport Costs

Sports Stadium

Temporary Housing

Water Charges/Service

Education and Skills

Constructivist Approaches to Learning

Degree Courses

Departmental Estate

Departmental Expenditure

Disabled Children (School Holiday Support)

Education Maintenance Allowance

Education Spending

Educational Psychologists

Falling School Rolls

Foster Carers

Further Education

Graduates and Postgraduates

Learning and Skills Councils

Level 2 Qualification

Local Strategic Partnerships

Medicine

Ofsted Offices (Refurbishment Expenditure)

Parliamentary Questions

Physical Education

Post-16 Education

Postgraduates

Qualifications (Gateshead)

School Budgets (Shrewsbury)

School Curriculum (International Activities)

School Swimming Pools

School Transport

Schools

Schools White Paper

Schoolteachers and College Staff

Sector Skills Bodies

Social Mobility

Special Educational Needs

State Schools (Selection)

Summer Enterprise School

Specialist Schools

State-funded Education

Work and Pensions

Civil Service Relocation (Scotland)

Claimant Behaviour

Child Support Agency

Departmental Data

Departmental Expenditure

Departmental Research

Departmental Staff

EU Directive on Working at Heights

Gershon Review

Habitual Residence Test

Job Vacancies (London)

Pension Credit

Post Office Card Accounts

Stakeholder Pensions

Winter Fuel Payments

Constitutional Affairs

Court House (Colchester)

Criminal Justice (Statistics)

Crown Court Hearings

Departmental Expenditure

Electoral Administration

Judicial Pension Schemes

Magistrates

Voting Systems

Health

Cancelled Operations (Devon)

Cotswold and Vale PCT

Countess of Chester Foundation Hospital

Dentistry

Emergency Calls

Equity Audits

Healthy Living Centres

Hearing Services

Hypothermia

Influenza Vaccinations

IVF Treatment

Mal de Debarquement Syndrome

Maternity Centres

Mobility Equipment

MRI Scans

New-born Children (Low Birth Weight)

NHS Finance

NHS Rationing (BMJ Correspondence)

NHS Staff (Overseas Recruitment)

Non-emergency Operations

Obesity

Paymaster

Pesticides

Podiatry Provision (Gray Report)

Polio

Pre-term Labour

Primary Care Staff

School Nursing/Health Visiting

Yorkshire Wolds and Coast PCT

Leader of the House

Parliamentary Questions

Home Department

Wildlife Crime

Police

Respect Action Plan

Parliament (Protests)

Probation (Private Sector)

DNA Database

Cannabis

Antisocial Behaviour Orders

People Trafficking (Sex Trade)

Closing the Gap"

Acceptable Behaviour Contracts

Aliens (Removal)

Appeals (Foreign Evidence)

Asylum/Immigration

Cannabis

Children's Commissioners (Child Asylum Seekers)

Cocaine

Community Service Sentences

Correspondence

Crime Detection Rates

Crime Statistics

Criminal Injuries Compensation

Drunkenness (Coventry)

e-Borders

EU Migration

Forensic Science Service

Immigration and Nationality Directorate

London Bombings

London County Council (General Powers) Act

Offences Against the Person Act

Organised Crime

Press Releases

Preventing Extremism Working Groups

Rural Police Stations

Serious Organised Crime Agency

Under-age Tobacco Sales

Visas

Work Permits

Worker Registration Scheme

Yarl's Wood Detention Centre

Young Offenders

Treasury

Alcohol-related Deaths

Arm's Length Management Organisations

Common Agricultural Policy

Correspondence

Council Tax

Departmental Equipment

Departmental Estate

Departmental Expenditure

Departmental IT Systems

Departmental Publications

Diabetes

Earnings

Electoral Registration

Electors (London)

Employment (Beverley and Holderness)

Environmental Projects

External Consultants

Family Size

Gross Domestic Product

Illegal Fuel Smuggling

Landfill

Leaked Letter

Lone Parents

Lung Cancer (Doncaster and Barnsley)

New Jobs (Wales)

Older Workers

Pensioners (Cause of Death)

Private Members' Bills

Public Bodies (Income from EU)

Red Diesel

Registered Unemployed (Barnsley, East and Mexborough)

Registrar Offices

Sustainable Development Action Plan

Taxation

Unemployed People (Gateshead, East and Washington, West)

Untaxed Wine and Beer

Unclaimed Assets

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House of Commons Commission

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Deputy Prime Minister

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