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Commons Hansard for 31 January 2006 (Volume 442)

From the corrected (daily) version. Last updated 15 December 2025 at 8.31am.

Commons Chamber

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

House of Commons (item number 1) (id f6d35ffc-c75c-44a9-899d-c0cc709093b4)
Prayers (item number 2) (id f91fd911-a12b-450e-b43e-2cf888dbfe63)
Private Business (item number 3) (id acd772c8-e058-4c89-b0b0-1eab4ea898bf)
Prospects for the EU in 2006 (item number 5) (id 3adbe027-201a-4e93-9bda-3897b4f702ad)
Trade in Endangered Animals on the Internet (item number 6) (id 43442b8d-2d88-475e-a035-90cab467bae7)
Point of Order (item number 7) (id 486f8880-a1f6-46f3-8d01-f307b750df53)
Orders of the Day (item number 8) (id af8a0c6f-9a8d-48fb-af4d-29dcc73934a1)
Racial and Religious Hatred Bill (item number 9) (id abfe3a3f-b931-42e2-8317-eb10fb78bb99)
Pensions (item number 10) (id dbb2ca53-3768-4dd4-bb9b-f3c756ea2557)
Business of the House (item number 11) (id fcb12e47-9e24-4137-9514-afd9aa6e6858)
Standards and Privileges (item number 12) (id d0bae159-7a11-4b47-9ca3-9edba14f5207)
Bullying in Schools (item number 13) (id 9df61ac2-d451-4bf9-8189-d717d424eb8a)

Written Answers

Content for Written Answers.

Written Answers to Questions

Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Abandoned Vehicles (item number 1) (id 557017d8-bb04-4517-ba1e-d0e96360671b)
Animal Welfare Bill (item number 1) (id c4d6e3bc-caff-4c99-b7b3-fe61e201e7ff)
Avian Influenza (item number 1) (id 10c57828-695a-4b20-8863-1487e26b3078)
Bovine TB (item number 1) (id 89ddb00f-8e72-46fe-8de1-e9d843370ee6)
Brazilian Beef (item number 1) (id 0f9ea447-13de-4d87-939b-70e56fdaa64c)
Climate Change (item number 1) (id 4cc2ad20-ab8d-4897-89d4-c18f68892cfe)
Departmental Vehicles (item number 1) (id 0b2680c2-5f10-42f5-bf5f-3a9b50b332aa)
Domestic Water Rates (item number 1) (id 7a75ef16-12f7-45ea-8f9f-7484c92d4003)
EU Committees (item number 1) (id 2106ec20-ae0d-4b91-8e33-476c2440da38)
EU Emissions Trading Scheme (item number 1) (id 9f1aa714-317a-4b1c-a8b6-8112c0737054)
Fallen Goats (item number 1) (id 520feeb1-a2d2-43b2-8fad-7c2b4860e694)
Farm Subsidies (item number 1) (id 38667e80-ab99-4252-84cc-d8a9023785d8)
Flood Defences (item number 1) (id a740a121-8daf-4470-ba1f-1cebf8c34342)
Forest Law Enforcement Governance and Trade Processes (item number 1) (id d0e33ba7-23cb-4c73-95ba-23aa04c96239)
Horses (item number 1) (id 485594dc-99b3-48b6-aae6-13d7b6df26db)
Illegal Timber (item number 1) (id 29ce0ff4-50d8-4bcc-998b-1ff077933ebb)
PG5/2(04) (item number 1) (id c4fcdca2-dd23-4835-a905-f1428741587e)
Public Procurement (item number 1) (id e4c95574-49b9-4a48-9600-c9631363a74f)
Sea Bass (item number 1) (id ea86e3f9-2b8d-4b59-903e-de1180ae4020)
Solid Waste (Thermal Processing) (item number 1) (id bfc4d4ca-bb42-41f1-8e6c-8519470facf6)
Space Debris (item number 1) (id fac3eafb-b575-4a43-925d-37b8fc4e4fb7)
Whales (item number 1) (id f85dd98d-e5ec-4a3e-b393-be8b13ca047b)
Whaling (item number 1) (id cc1fd731-cc72-445b-add2-5706e7e23fca)

Home Department

Alcohol-free Zones (item number 1) (id e4bdc913-2ed3-43ad-83ec-a9055f25ac03)
Asylum Seekers (item number 1) (id 55590d3e-22aa-4441-a6b3-367959dc989f)
Community Safety Officers (item number 1) (id 28134762-7ec3-4998-ad45-cb10299f3999)
Computer Misuse Act (item number 1) (id 88ae4bf0-1c64-488e-9bfa-f607b2d4c205)
Correspondence (item number 1) (id d6f13624-2a71-41cc-9c65-281dd1015e3d)
Departmental Staff (item number 1) (id 0ff87f5a-bfc1-4ece-a3ab-5383b30ba413)
Departmental Website (item number 1) (id 18af0570-afbb-45d6-8b27-03e21795c974)
DNA Database (item number 1) (id 1429bd25-7480-44d3-a508-171f9fc1805d)
DNA Profiles (item number 1) (id d2471ab2-fbad-468d-b156-cc1d47b6e06d)
Drug Seizures (Livingston) (item number 1) (id 8be46b79-b477-49de-bf12-cb6d84679687)
Exclusions (item number 1) (id 1fa6dcad-c2a5-47d0-a565-d213c731e671)
Identity Cards (item number 1) (id f7a20356-8653-4325-b0e0-5cbc9afd8df6)
Identity Fraud (item number 1) (id d6a58169-e3cf-4df9-8c5b-9da6b2d3ae89)
IMPACT (item number 1) (id 4676094a-d413-45fa-aec9-5ebcbe791a11)
IRA Deaths (Gibraltar) (item number 1) (id 7f9f1caa-98db-445b-a282-406f95c3218f)
IT Systems (item number 1) (id b7beda2d-4005-4485-b53e-2c8e4bff8d2b)
Khat (item number 1) (id 5a519e8e-c1cb-439d-9c34-8d4a47376a79)
Life Sentences (item number 1) (id 5fdc67ce-5a19-4e9a-b371-31b2c9e7b00e)
Ministerial Visits (item number 1) (id a78cb238-1f75-47e2-b368-fd330fe922e2)
National Policing Agency (item number 1) (id 080d3788-99f5-48a1-bb40-3780f7f2e8d1)
National Wildlife Crime Intelligence Unit (item number 1) (id 550e87eb-18ae-4836-b77a-95e261ff14e6)
Police (item number 1) (id c008db31-0aa2-46f7-a3a9-e6ce526566fc)
Policy Reviews (item number 1) (id ddb99c47-8c25-41f9-a416-97d58d3aba79)
Prisons (item number 1) (id d04b4053-2f47-4794-bbd7-63fc0f523aa3)
Prostitution (item number 1) (id 00130f6e-11cd-4a31-acec-3514374428ab)
Racial and Religious Hatred Bill (item number 1) (id c8f6cc21-abfb-4b33-be5d-cecee21ea088)
Railway Enthusiasts (Anti-terrorism Legislation) (item number 1) (id a40718ed-f730-4d0e-b451-d3b0937c2fc6)
Rape (item number 1) (id e0dd5894-fe25-4f60-9ea3-125536c1a401)
Rates (item number 1) (id 47716505-3ba5-4a7b-ab3d-563d6d9a8462)
Rental Costs (item number 1) (id e501ff26-2ba4-4d6f-86f1-c7269e185c63)
Reoffending Rates (item number 1) (id eced687c-b4e7-4004-a216-e7bae8f20e95)
Security Clearance (item number 1) (id f495ea84-7e98-45e2-be7d-6371199447de)
Substance Abuse Offences (item number 1) (id e0f7801c-3674-40ca-98f9-b433be4ff3d9)
Tasers (item number 1) (id 39dc7257-5df3-4be1-a17a-c830e7eec92b)
Telephone Tapping (item number 1) (id ce218112-8e39-49d4-a878-ee6adedea24a)
Under-age Drinking (item number 1) (id 15d77371-6ac7-4cd6-893d-12f2b61499fb)

Northern Ireland

Antrim Area Hospital (Pain Clinic) (item number 1) (id 9ec35c7b-9fb3-4fad-aaa2-f5f412057263)
Children and Young People's Funding Package (item number 1) (id c922dc88-1a9b-4318-996d-45c8f898412f)
Crime (item number 1) (id 0a5c4e74-c4a6-4721-ba69-d8370c6f883d)
Dentistry (item number 1) (id d4506e3e-e23f-488a-9b85-72a9d1b7a41c)
Departmental Staff (item number 1) (id 7c9a506a-9570-43f5-882c-0bb946351e0f)
Devolution (item number 1) (id 16334427-6540-4c89-8325-6ede0a805e60)
Digital Hearing Aids (item number 1) (id 355145a9-912e-4c01-a1c2-5ff28bdceb7f)
Long-term Unemployment (item number 1) (id 34085d4f-80ee-4870-a22e-b08be8429e78)
Meals on Wheels (item number 1) (id f1d4e676-69c1-4d3b-8464-9fddb3071cba)
Mobile Phone Tracking (item number 1) (id 348f6756-e7dc-4be6-9dd2-ad70103639a2)
Physiotherapy (item number 1) (id 4411fc08-35ed-48eb-a121-12fb3dd91792)
Police Officers (Criminal Convictions) (item number 1) (id 15ce4c07-c3ca-4cec-a52f-4ca3fac50fe3)
Prisoners (Nationality) (item number 1) (id 62b71f6b-7310-437c-898a-f9d9dcc4eb0a)
Sexual Health (item number 1) (id 579a6f09-73df-410e-a5e0-aac67b442baf)
Single Equality Bill (item number 1) (id 26e61a06-4139-403d-8fb8-74ec72df99bf)
Speech Therapy (item number 1) (id b406da92-0e4b-48f6-a228-f40b9e23435c)
Statutory Instruments (item number 1) (id e944f46b-e614-4fea-b448-32a030afbf12)
Suspicious Deaths (item number 1) (id 38525aad-b5cf-4da9-9c84-e03dc300434a)
Waiting Times (item number 1) (id f0f6bcdc-0b68-44f2-93dc-623c3c631e42)
Water Supply (item number 1) (id 7609b18b-9ad9-4cb5-9218-4349ca093213)

Treasury

Basic Bank Accounts (item number 1) (id e1489d43-6f96-48a2-b7a2-24cbd73f0f1f)
Bio-fuel Discounts (item number 1) (id f3b165a3-c6be-4b1d-82c6-e4a9c1cfc75e)
Capital Gains Tax (item number 1) (id 15d7b428-3a78-4b46-b2a2-1bbea56686fd)
Christmas Cards (item number 1) (id a107e65d-a8e4-4734-8824-bc970cb3c595)
Cole Layer Trumble (item number 1) (id da5f1efd-4c99-4479-b97e-2171f1f34140)
Data Protection Act (item number 1) (id ba17d8ad-8da3-44d7-952c-a49c05b2a69b)
Departmental Assets (item number 1) (id 420fe73c-b299-4813-bfdf-6d349f94d345)
EU Budget (item number 1) (id 52599ed0-457e-4b35-a889-f7dfba271ac9)
European Commissioner for Trade (item number 1) (id 3340da96-f6e8-4c98-b141-6c8f6d16eb48)
European Court of Justice (item number 1) (id e8f46b98-dc8b-423f-8360-e4f5cf1a9e0c)
Financial Services Authority (item number 1) (id cb54b82a-a759-41fc-8db0-6fc906a98f2f)
HM Revenue and Customs (item number 1) (id e0b76590-952f-4009-bdaa-7df00156fba3)
Identity Theft (item number 1) (id 893edc0b-52b3-43ab-ac96-9133f828c2b0)
Inheritance Tax (item number 1) (id 33106b79-efd8-44af-9692-380cdd76e454)
Insolvency (item number 1) (id b6d6bcc8-d412-41a0-91a1-b433d7356ff0)
Master Netting Agreement (item number 1) (id baa59ba8-a227-4b0c-af65-d6cf0afa28b2)
Ministerial Visits (item number 1) (id e91cbb77-a4b2-4c07-b58f-b7c1d418f277)
National Insurance (item number 1) (id 067c5787-c95a-4e0b-96b6-d15e36f88431)
National Lottery (item number 1) (id 1fd22570-ded9-4275-855b-50be6501fd94)
Payment Protection Insurance (item number 1) (id d1f46a05-4b14-4563-9296-9c7aef042e75)
QinetiQ (item number 1) (id 608637eb-80b3-4353-8778-c6165b3596ca)
Self-invested Personal Pension (item number 1) (id 3fbdbd60-842b-4cd1-afd1-7ddaf735a432)
Stakeholder Pensions (item number 1) (id 5d5513c0-eb4a-4a75-ab38-44bd24e8dc7a)
Statutory Instruments (item number 1) (id 7190afc3-f83f-4453-8e00-56f9bb4edd4b)
Tax Arrears (item number 1) (id 4dd124aa-a130-47a4-bcca-58762dde3110)
Tax Credits (item number 1) (id cb537871-051f-4241-b79f-5fdf160aa172)
Valuation Office Agency (item number 1) (id 58ac469f-6265-4cb0-a5d3-779f9b3b8511)
VAT (Charities) (item number 1) (id 4204518b-9d6a-4c89-9361-87f9f428efdf)

Deputy Prime Minister

Bedroom Standard (item number 1) (id cbdbb2ac-c33e-408a-8c76-ac2fc4774a5e)
Citizens Juries (item number 1) (id 876772b4-fcc3-4cf3-b334-d76e055d2ee9)
Concessionary Travel (item number 1) (id 55afbf66-2ca0-4775-90a6-c2d02e6724f1)
Consolidated Fund (item number 1) (id f46928cd-2184-4672-a60e-52fd53851d9c)
Correspondence (item number 1) (id f0e8bf20-22e1-49c5-8ab8-e82884919309)
Council Tax (item number 1) (id 4d8183c4-38a2-4f31-b278-1896a8cbe777)
Departmental Accounts (Irregularities) (item number 1) (id 467493b1-1666-4be9-ae2d-2cf1eeb0d197)
Departmental Losses (item number 1) (id a2d38842-df95-4d75-99de-89c3c612c353)
Departmental Website (item number 1) (id 22e6f5ec-7ff0-4207-81e2-7e0daea58ec5)
East of England Plan (item number 1) (id fb3d44d4-9d22-48a6-b0bc-6204b992620b)
Flag Masts (Planning Permission) (item number 1) (id a729a772-9f6e-4865-883f-307c24b42887)
Formula Spending Share (Peterborough) (item number 1) (id 795f358a-fb35-475e-935e-54b8060b6d60)
Funding (Lancashire) (item number 1) (id baf63815-0232-46ff-983e-32a817f033fb)
Government Office for London (item number 1) (id 66d24956-b5b5-4d49-b9de-5a947aebf4ac)
Hereditaments (item number 1) (id e33df896-e9be-4840-9486-a710930c5fba)
Housing (item number 1) (id 896ad855-bcab-4986-a201-5f6a77811918)
Mobile Telephone Masts (Hammersmith and Fulham) (item number 1) (id dd00a04c-5587-4af4-b814-cd2f011c178f)
New University (Peterborough) (item number 1) (id 4b8062d2-fda4-4699-9a61-d62cc2b17473)
Planning Controls (item number 1) (id b62f032b-663a-49f7-8b27-147867feb340)
Regional Fire Control Centres (item number 1) (id 6becba00-6458-4079-bbf5-bf37a45c4b35)
Standards Board for England (item number 1) (id f8e604f0-e3c5-4987-b704-980497fd50af)
Town/Parish Councils (item number 1) (id ab3b589e-ab5f-4426-8e6d-c23fcc9b17b3)

Health

Drug Treatment Testing (item number 1) (id ccb19564-8cc4-4aba-b881-2d0c89bea023)
St Bartholomew's and Royal London Hospitals (item number 1) (id 18e9a8d1-12dd-448b-8000-da1fd1ba02f5)
Community Hospitals (item number 1) (id 37a7c955-f6c6-4861-ac98-a84b1d1e3c57)
Sexual Health (item number 1) (id 0d277fc1-709b-42f5-8509-d6f5dd5408b8)
Nurses (item number 1) (id b7e6a57b-243e-4a2c-afd8-e34803105ecd)
Community Health (item number 1) (id c260a5dd-7cc6-4f9c-9de3-6da3f44e16e4)
Mental Health (item number 1) (id 216cd980-bd32-4c50-81bd-38ce41b3ab53)
Private Finance Initiative (item number 1) (id 666526a1-8d9f-4eb1-beec-af4c613c0992)
Mileage Allowances (item number 1) (id 3705c47d-4c6a-4d39-95ee-5f249b368eed)
Detoxification Units (item number 1) (id a7fc2bbd-3cc8-45ba-953a-936de9e95c0c)
NHS/Primary Care Trust Deficits (item number 1) (id dc32b184-649c-428e-b882-52039989d880)
Accident and Emergency Departments (item number 1) (id b74366b2-bf97-40bb-90a1-20cf3aaa5592)
Agency Staff (North-West) (item number 1) (id d7d6de2e-9d49-4bf7-a292-94c6ec4dca8d)
Ambulance Service (item number 1) (id 6ebc1943-4088-4641-b803-c44a0bd8e60f)
Brain Tumours (Treatment) (item number 1) (id 8551ec22-cc0e-4aaa-9b03-beceaca1324f)
Breast Cancer (item number 1) (id b9af37c0-32dc-4c91-ab5f-7e90e7e1c5ac)
Cancelled Operations (North-West) (item number 1) (id 51249c4e-c4b3-449d-814b-b22718964162)
Cheshire and Merseyside Strategic Health Authority (item number 1) (id 76c377d6-fa35-4f68-b9f4-86448624ac90)
Choosing Health White Paper (item number 1) (id a288348a-ea85-49d3-a22c-3e26f8e193cf)
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (item number 1) (id 25a95f43-d917-4223-b9d9-2a273a9059e8)
Departmental Advertising Campaigns (item number 1) (id 7fbb5e18-7161-44a5-9ab1-8b38e50bbd13)
Departmental IT Systems (item number 1) (id 28a30469-4985-4f2e-889e-8145a476de6b)
Diverticulitis (item number 1) (id cd921f21-1034-4902-95e3-9092e7e8e39a)
Drug and Alcohol Detoxification (item number 1) (id dcb37864-3237-409c-99cf-037193a73d2a)
Fertility Treatment (item number 1) (id 3504df7b-fcce-4f15-9c7e-b0dc77408147)
Food Labelling (item number 1) (id c33deab7-05e4-42fb-bbe4-a781ee384b11)
Foundation Trusts (item number 1) (id d88f05d4-445d-45b2-a0b6-7a97a2deb784)
Gambling (item number 1) (id 4048272c-8118-42df-bdda-562d7f858cb5)
General Practitioners (item number 1) (id c058141e-6e5c-4f5a-b102-329a5078cdc1)
Gershon Review (item number 1) (id 8a66103d-9961-45e1-8dba-7a2e0870e04b)
Haemophilia (item number 1) (id 9a9f22c0-8b82-4230-8117-4ea3ab133853)
Health Workers (Checks) (item number 1) (id 187f6881-386b-4226-b1f3-0269157c13f2)
Herceptin (item number 1) (id 278d2b06-aba0-4b5a-b883-d6f4cd6fd9b5)
Hospital Beds (item number 1) (id 03991dd4-8749-4157-b1e0-96120deb5f75)
Hospital Patients (Liverpool) (item number 1) (id ef00a9cf-3ba2-4d59-a39f-93a06bed39de)
Housing Development (item number 1) (id 9f778aa7-680b-4701-8a1c-48719327d6fe)
Improving Working Lives Standard (item number 1) (id cd51d767-fc7d-4f6b-b448-c42960c0648c)
Independent Sector Treatment Centres (item number 1) (id 37410bec-9673-4b71-93bd-f3cdc401ab8d)
Influenza (item number 1) (id 6b8142c1-9d1f-4642-9ae9-6ecc283ca728)
IT Costs (item number 1) (id 735df40d-593f-4d70-9520-4b2e71b7203f)
Khat (item number 1) (id 0e252c17-8318-49ef-921c-9356b681671b)
Lung Disease (item number 1) (id afec7454-3296-4874-9793-888e90dd55a0)
Mental Health Services (item number 1) (id 7bdcb46e-6575-4fdf-9f6d-a512cb985542)
Midwives (item number 1) (id 0b7dca70-edb1-44ab-a33b-f7f595b0a867)
Naltrexone (item number 1) (id 6917011e-deda-4791-90f4-c6dac23fd336)
NHS Blood and Transplant (item number 1) (id 9ec75007-e4e9-495d-b0b8-a53ab4dec493)
NHS (Oxfordshire) (item number 1) (id 9c21c8be-3844-4afa-b633-f557a9417740)
NHS Direct (item number 1) (id 6411e312-76dc-4ead-b75a-9e23a0ace0dd)
NHS Finance (item number 1) (id 7d0bca8b-c2f1-4ed2-9bd6-eed644584b55)
NHS IT Programme (item number 1) (id 2dc1f666-9c37-4342-86e2-ae283a3b3e5e)
NHS Professionals (item number 1) (id da01e9f3-cd0c-47ee-b94b-d98d3f861396)
NHS Trusts (Chartered Accountants) (item number 1) (id e988d8bf-dd09-4379-8b2b-f18b6f03a6eb)
Obesity (item number 1) (id 893b957d-38db-42f7-8d2a-ebfb41c92a5c)
Ostomy Care (item number 1) (id aad3addc-8d8b-4117-a9a8-abe626ecb033)
Patient Records (item number 1) (id c0f15f4f-ce83-4d6e-81f7-21aff34bb702)
Patient Safety (item number 1) (id 1bde8854-0357-4677-a631-7f052ebabee0)
Primary Care Trusts (Sunderland) (item number 1) (id aca04d22-528d-4a98-ab0e-b7e5767d24b5)
Private Finance Initiative Schemes (item number 1) (id 8f32884b-cb6a-4eef-ac62-d30e343295b8)
Psychiatrists (item number 1) (id c7d40487-5fce-4f92-9817-d3c3c41ee1db)
Queen Elizabeth Hospital Trust (item number 1) (id 40b553fd-4720-428a-88b9-3fa0a359c79e)
Respiratory Health (item number 1) (id 0e5a2cea-2525-4f51-af7e-13b19ae38ddd)
Ridge Lea Hospital (item number 1) (id 919183f5-c127-43aa-9e28-824fc7e58a11)
Sexually Transmitted Diseases (item number 1) (id 3a7cc4d3-35a6-4540-83d7-fa8c5daca9f6)
Southport and Ormskirk Hospital (item number 1) (id 867c6502-2aa3-4328-ac3d-c882e4156bbb)
Specialist Gastric Care (item number 1) (id 541bbd58-a696-4b23-92de-321c9c6cdd9b)
Standish Hospital, Stroud (item number 1) (id a42b4776-6245-4dfb-84d3-af18197a8a86)
Student Grants Unit (item number 1) (id e4a09f8b-67a8-473a-8224-efde4a10a94a)
Vulnerable Adults (item number 1) (id c100cde8-1c00-40af-a125-35635601c7c1)
Young People (Culinary Ability) (item number 1) (id d96ad900-92e1-46f5-adbf-2a5cfa30f445)

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