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Commons Hansard for 8 February 2006 (Volume 442)

From the corrected (daily) version. Last updated 15 December 2025 at 8.54am.

Commons Chamber

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

House of Commons (item number 1) (id 85584477-b6a4-4adc-a6c4-d20f55e4b6fc)
Prayers (item number 2) (id 81dc3116-6bc2-43cb-80d8-b539eea42dbe)
Point of Order (item number 4) (id 9949f712-0e8a-42eb-a625-8fb4334efbe6)
Local Government Referendums (item number 5) (id b7765fe4-92ca-467f-9faf-210593ec2d0e)
Business of the House (item number 6) (id 338dc011-77b1-44d7-a83c-cd0f7e088b80)
Opposition Parties (Financial Assistance) (item number 7) (id f63151ff-03c3-43a2-a6f6-392f402a556f)
Deferred Division (item number 8) (id 90b7cbf8-3c07-4106-9ca0-ef8882bdf978)
Opposition Parties (Financial Assistance) (item number 9) (id b26877b3-f1a5-4917-b428-93d7a72b7315)
Support for Members who have Chosen Not to Take Their Seats (item number 10) (id faa14133-3ce5-48e7-ae6b-a58e53a66668)
Delegated Legislation (item number 11) (id 1607900b-7141-460b-a680-54ba13cd2e29)
Representative Democracy in the UK (item number 13) (id be786746-c2a3-444e-9f6a-aadfba5f48d5)
Deferred Division (item number 14) (id 30e0ee6b-5a5e-458d-8422-7fc9997fa24d)

Written Answers

Content for Written Answers.

Written Answers to Questions

Transport

A21 Upgrade (item number 1) (id 906b1a32-df25-418b-bb83-648e374a08d3)
British Transport Companies (Overseas Competition) (item number 1) (id b739f153-567b-4da8-9115-e7474cead83b)
Citizens Juries (item number 1) (id 64e247a2-aae9-43ad-8420-d0f1bd6e79c1)
Congestion (EU Support) (item number 1) (id 16464db9-68dd-4b97-af43-cdede3b2020d)
Departmental Entertaining (item number 1) (id 44a4c318-a078-4e13-8101-501c2e6d2ff8)
Departmental Expenditure (item number 1) (id 10d1cd2b-f098-4998-ba6a-9ad17ef16233)
Departmental Staff (item number 1) (id 3e5c7b73-314d-45a8-bfb3-d8aba3053067)
Digital Tachographs (item number 1) (id fdff4f42-ac60-4a08-a0c5-df54b604f76f)
Freedom of Information (item number 1) (id 9908eaca-7420-40fc-8776-b6b893172355)
Heathrow Airport (item number 1) (id ec90c9b5-aced-4a88-94a8-b188c4f0b656)
Jewish Festivals (item number 1) (id fb870f00-88a5-44a1-a818-b156a1c6584e)
London Mainline Terminals (item number 1) (id 8cf218bd-39b9-4eb0-b1d1-d00ea89767d4)
M1 (Accidents) (item number 1) (id c487b7f0-ed97-4286-b743-559d2c5a7c80)
M180 (item number 1) (id dd8e0ad0-b6fd-41fd-b328-7da14361f331)
National Trust (Road Scheme Objections) (item number 1) (id 3c52a467-decd-42b7-8267-e67381eca624)
Peterborough City Council (Road Budget) (item number 1) (id 20b7d0ac-e389-44ed-9734-7126cbe12cef)
Press Coverage (item number 1) (id 068b0482-da76-4232-b251-16b1a1367e78)
Railways (item number 1) (id 2d93fb79-7af4-462c-886f-fef2b2c65cda)
Regulatory Reform Orders (item number 1) (id e84ebbc1-08ea-4b6b-bd2b-04e6f3821b5f)
Road Building Projects (South-east) (item number 1) (id 7be5e63e-823b-4cbe-9ed8-c7dab08b6078)
Road Pricing (item number 1) (id a3a56fb0-5c9d-494f-8d50-d8972831f6d6)
Road Projects (item number 1) (id 26100f60-6a16-4f97-96f7-7ed3a2905f23)
St. Pancras Thameslink (item number 1) (id 720169a6-12c6-4523-b9c7-e06ed8065f0d)
Transport Demand Research (item number 1) (id e3371fc8-0b62-453b-9e4c-ef46c2ad4d31)
Transport Expenditure (item number 1) (id d63cc8f3-af93-4bf3-9536-23b392d84ddd)
Transport Innovation Fund (item number 1) (id f347de12-2d00-471b-90c8-2f76a766d2bf)
Transport Staff (Alcohol/Drug Tests) (item number 1) (id a0247dfd-0da5-438c-b95b-70561f67bf4b)
Violent Offences (Public Transport) (item number 1) (id 1b2f8c0a-d52e-4ebe-a021-c5c231d4b735)

Trade and Industry

Accountancy Profession (item number 1) (id 456df534-ab80-4ac1-bb0e-f912d8315f53)
Aerospace Trade Missions (item number 1) (id 3d878dbe-ee93-4c91-9d4e-db57b80ae5ba)
Anti-corruption Guidelines (item number 1) (id 476a7979-8b98-4a5c-98f5-bed4152b88ba)
Automotive Academy (item number 1) (id 88139582-8732-45bc-a956-170fda502a1e)
Bifrangi UK Ltd (item number 1) (id 141b7956-e581-47f0-89ee-87ccd5569e6d)
Business Insolvencies (item number 1) (id 424f2c31-f210-49e2-b02e-8c8a0bb67548)
Company Law (item number 1) (id f29bafb5-a052-44d4-a4ca-58f81db314cc)
Credit Cards (item number 1) (id 1849cc4c-9a3b-4eb4-b6a2-2f7e268f83ac)
Departmental Conferences (item number 1) (id 3d570b15-f860-46cc-94bc-b9b848cac16e)
Dyfed Postal Area (item number 1) (id 9a484c45-4f93-450d-b60f-0c78f2e42cd7)
Energy Consumption (Wales) (item number 1) (id 3c14630b-c565-4a7d-b7ee-32deb95b9d3d)
Energy Pricing (item number 1) (id 8001c4fd-f1e5-411a-88f6-aaf41f970404)
Equitable Life (item number 1) (id 4b7c2114-37bf-4fab-9cd1-f77001493007)
EU Accounts Modernisation Directive (item number 1) (id 7321f360-9ddc-498e-a2d2-ec22dc01b2a6)
Fireworks (item number 1) (id 42c1d803-5070-4194-949c-b0d2c39b9e2b)
Gas Supplies (item number 1) (id 6a4ceece-e30f-4f4f-8edd-7e0427a9d629)
Indian Companies (item number 1) (id 4422db3b-07c1-4b53-84d6-cd58357cb771)
Military Equipment (Exports) (item number 1) (id d33db430-2cb7-44b0-abeb-a6412bf27a99)
New Delhi Declaration (item number 1) (id cdee80a9-1212-40be-845f-4b2cb60929e9)
Nuclear Fuels (item number 1) (id 76477f6f-20fc-4ecf-9846-b898eead88f8)
Nuclear Power (item number 1) (id 0f1c3317-c8ab-472c-affe-eab2ca340b58)
Operating and Financial Review (item number 1) (id e18b078f-f73b-4922-b7c2-5755071903a2)
Post Office Card Account (item number 1) (id c02f1bb5-a1a0-47b2-aa88-45f644dea924)
Postal Services (item number 1) (id 07d2a326-95af-4b0e-800b-15297d7770cf)
Power Loss (Compensation) (item number 1) (id ea65e510-fc1b-43c7-9921-db86da912020)
Renewable Energy (item number 1) (id 14b3f0b4-ba18-438a-88cb-0b171b5264ba)
Special Advisers (item number 1) (id f2b155d1-68c4-4125-8efb-0a8d002681b4)
VAT Registration (item number 1) (id 11bd78f3-673b-408c-914d-b45b2a966776)
World Trade Organisation (item number 1) (id cb15cbcf-1dfe-4d92-a3f0-6ca065611b85)

Northern Ireland

Road Traffic Accidents (item number 1) (id fe2a8314-df8e-4bd0-9abe-76fe17b010c5)
Paramilitary Organisations (item number 1) (id 826d22f3-ede5-42e1-9bbc-8c6c79b8f9f3)
Child Sex Abuse (item number 1) (id 1105df1f-c633-4413-a56b-d1a4639bd3bc)
Smoking Ban (item number 1) (id 8435308f-50c3-4ddd-b1f2-4919856da128)
Fuel Smuggling (item number 1) (id 294b86ae-19c4-4cc8-b505-b9aeba017fd1)
Security (item number 1) (id 3344df5d-3fda-45fe-b0c0-b8850ffe5d0d)
Breast Screening (item number 1) (id 062f39a4-7dfd-4e48-9e61-4a29a556bcf5)
Coastal Erosion (item number 1) (id 9b7cc90b-7684-4e83-ab1b-a551646d24bf)
Drugs Seizures (item number 1) (id e04768a4-ac40-44e5-983a-389384034362)
Dungiven Castle (item number 1) (id 23d8867f-9909-4b22-b294-71942353b6b7)
Floral Displays (item number 1) (id 52d35675-f2d6-42d9-b06c-f8a21f98ee52)
GCSEs (item number 1) (id 6aa3e672-bf5c-46b3-a882-5cbcd687485b)
General Practitioners (item number 1) (id 650f9d1a-40f9-401f-b50d-5f64f5d4a9ec)
Health Commissioning Bodies (item number 1) (id b6ea7973-b448-457a-8897-74be905a9ea8)
Hospitality Costs (item number 1) (id 22491572-2bbd-4955-a990-167096cb4d30)
Martin Kelly (item number 1) (id 21bb841b-2568-47dd-a60f-c1cb0d4fb805)
Ministerial Car Fleet (item number 1) (id 9852798f-e3b0-405a-a3d0-88ba39e18497)
Northern Ireland Development Agency (item number 1) (id 0a598fdd-6439-407e-b2ea-f5ffe5e64160)
Saville Inquiry (item number 1) (id f0290d15-b9a1-40d8-b940-657ecf15c00c)
Shorts/Bombardier (item number 1) (id 87cd51ad-3ae0-4e27-a2a3-8dce7744946b)
Vaccination (item number 1) (id 9c91006d-23ab-4d64-8313-dcad627f5475)

Home Department

Antisocial Behaviour (item number 1) (id 398e7136-01ec-459b-b8a9-5e1b6d4b9ce3)
Asylum/Immigration (item number 1) (id c0b087ee-8e4a-4eb3-aae1-d9a0cf1107e1)
British Citizenship Test (item number 1) (id 43b4a56a-8abe-4d27-972b-a7ef3ab21102)
Charles Munyaneza (item number 1) (id 00c7826a-e3e5-4477-aa54-c3f54486dbb5)
Child Protection (item number 1) (id 41cb7510-2f10-49aa-8773-e7227a7538b2)
Correspondence (item number 1) (id d7b8fbd1-0d1a-433d-831e-24602276a6c7)
Criminal Records Bureau (item number 1) (id cdc10851-847c-4ca9-8bf3-4598f6866b32)
Detention Centres (item number 1) (id 86e05679-96e4-4417-8281-41033b9f29e6)
DNA Profiles (item number 1) (id 41a972b4-998f-46b0-ac72-9443060d1a3b)
Identity Cards/Verification (item number 1) (id 2543f2df-8636-4ff5-860a-3828d18ba6cc)
Illegal Immigration (item number 1) (id 68bf72d9-5ca0-4790-ae31-68300694779f)
Immigration and Nationality Directorate (item number 1) (id 004380d6-af8d-40bc-8df7-89bff9b7987b)
Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Bill (item number 1) (id dd3ba313-dd47-4aa1-a9a4-c1bf0eb47abb)
IMPACT System (item number 1) (id c1bbca57-0000-47db-9ae3-c7adc7e8c4ba)
Methylamphetamine (item number 1) (id c8ca51b0-bc28-44d5-84ff-95888c6daf32)
National Asylum Support Service (item number 1) (id ebbcc461-8189-4e77-a883-d546f8ea977c)
Police Finance (Hertfordshire) (item number 1) (id 8cf0dc59-ae8d-4e97-8472-1e064137de05)
Police Force Reconfiguration (item number 1) (id 0cf12286-d9c5-4f1e-869b-21d4e88560e5)
Prisons (item number 1) (id d8c58a66-1ce5-4058-86d6-2034a09fb747)
Respect Agenda (item number 1) (id 61819ede-ffec-491a-9ab2-c80f35dbc859)
Security Industry (item number 1) (id 9a2516c4-4c13-4104-af20-b5b0ada5f128)
Special Branch (item number 1) (id b91e2dfc-2dc0-42e7-8fc8-88aea15d64ed)
Work Permits (item number 1) (id 8c33c9eb-07bb-43fc-a13a-265c27890ff4)
Worker Registration Scheme (item number 1) (id f0c422d8-3548-4441-a545-944668393b84)

Culture, Media and Sport

Aircraft Fuel (Taxation) (item number 1) (id 0a6292e1-b407-4aa3-9bb4-0abacbdcfcaa)
Airport Expansion (item number 1) (id 83ba8615-70a7-4642-b7c5-d6349bf97899)
BBC (item number 1) (id 4a57e08e-d595-4258-94de-1d17f79ffdb3)
British Grand Prix (Policing) (item number 1) (id 646732c5-af4c-4f63-8836-0a3a73687359)
Casinos (item number 1) (id be30785f-dc2f-45e2-a588-c64aad021fb6)
Category C Gaming Machines (item number 1) (id 3b176485-2bc4-4dff-b446-63f3fee5ec20)
Christmas Cards (item number 1) (id 412666dc-5404-482d-b961-4544b0f846df)
Circus Industry (item number 1) (id f493de19-6695-4f50-8108-cf0093bda0e0)
Departmental Expenditure (item number 1) (id d92a6cd8-9b7a-4d02-b932-359e97de0380)
English Heritage (item number 1) (id efff68bf-ba11-4d4e-8718-583511786513)
External Consultants (item number 1) (id dd2dd2d7-61dd-44ca-9854-15e1ed598949)
Film Council (item number 1) (id 16ee3bb9-ef77-420a-b964-b43f12145618)
Freedom of Information (item number 1) (id 56489754-6aed-44f6-a833-c1f723bb0f31)
Institutions (Assets) (item number 1) (id 6ecf810a-44e0-4990-b844-659c21069a2c)
Licensing (item number 1) (id c91109ad-d016-4a05-a4b4-8ff0903c9116)
Marine Historic Review (item number 1) (id d7992a66-a75d-48a8-9dff-db75f8256637)
Media Relations (item number 1) (id f326da75-d366-463e-959e-5a1f642a9c81)
Schedule of Ancient Monuments (item number 1) (id c7ea9935-ce5e-4d97-9dd0-c8a26044c794)
Secondments (item number 1) (id b610edc7-85cb-4d10-9e35-193f42a831e6)
Television Licences (item number 1) (id a60ff839-7f54-470d-93e2-54f3c3bb4de7)
VisitBritain (item number 1) (id 8d32a3f9-f080-4bfe-a227-395e12264bb6)

Health

Abortion (item number 1) (id 01390b27-ff55-4996-ad7e-408d1fef5f72)
Accident and Emergency Departments (item number 1) (id b60bdc30-1213-48d6-b0b5-635a126031b8)
Agenda for Change (item number 1) (id 440198a8-e8b3-4377-891d-6d9a67781aad)
Ambulance Service Trusts (item number 1) (id fe1cead8-7a17-4ca9-a4c0-e8af6c30a71e)
Benzodiazepine (item number 1) (id fc79f23b-605d-461e-bdfa-0e93b826aaf0)
Breast Cancer (item number 1) (id 74a97962-531d-49ce-b957-ee7e272b0b3e)
Cigarette Packet Warnings (item number 1) (id 790341b3-8a04-4038-991d-ee6f739bc6da)
Crack Cocaine (item number 1) (id d894a7e1-146f-4172-93a2-6289d7b52d5f)
Dentistry (item number 1) (id 73c341e0-11f1-48d8-8701-730652ee3a49)
Departmental Performance Support Team (item number 1) (id b001e46c-66eb-4cf7-8820-029394c2ac62)
Drug Prescribing (item number 1) (id 3913e0d1-860a-457d-b440-1905af6b2483)
Drug Treatment Programmes (item number 1) (id c8b10ca7-9900-43e9-ae62-3a6fdb3a7d79)
Financial Targets (item number 1) (id 6aea2aca-7501-4e5c-a8c1-1130b4eabdeb)
Genetic Testing (item number 1) (id 4f42e3e8-0d3a-4e14-bc50-4347af639299)
Health Service Initiatives (Costs) (item number 1) (id 11d34734-30b7-4900-a090-5339a6beeecf)
Health Worker Pay (item number 1) (id d7064226-0211-4175-809c-9aab2afc1ef2)
Heart Disease (item number 1) (id 8e3e9d6e-af51-4f2c-8939-6aa00a038fd5)
Hospital Bed Occupancy (item number 1) (id 9a47f5a5-14f4-4c31-8eef-d43fa2e97263)
Influenza (item number 1) (id eaf5b95d-e0a6-49f0-a6d6-aa8a471ba342)
International Recruitment of Health Workers (item number 1) (id 6ba729ef-50ff-4330-9e39-252f9b89fe23)
Lyme Disease (item number 1) (id 342544b4-9c09-4170-9b2a-ef7f3e308dc9)
Mental Health Services (item number 1) (id 8ac9b826-7a92-4a05-9f68-eb2c6bdcf5fa)
Midwives (item number 1) (id 62d726a8-0082-4444-ae8f-ed7f5c2207c2)
Ministerial Meetings (item number 1) (id b5866757-c9a8-42da-855c-51627d09f0af)
Mobile Phone Masts (item number 1) (id 2a12b5c5-4f2d-4d97-ad10-ec90c2ce5da5)
National Carers Grant (item number 1) (id 871a171f-980e-44f8-ab19-cd3bf1fba7a2)
NHS Chemotherapy Budget (item number 1) (id d8d7aa1f-712e-4bd8-b6d8-fb6eb94b76b7)
NHS Finance (item number 1) (id 9a0cafa1-8a1c-4616-8ecd-b4b369eff1c4)
NHS Financial Deficits (item number 1) (id 1a39fd61-27bc-4c94-a224-cd98f4fff639)
NHS Staff (Attacks) (item number 1) (id 3630f858-9626-4e5b-a30f-6830d787bb17)
NHS Tariff Uplift (item number 1) (id ea4a8652-f492-4089-a38d-223610e0323d)
NHS Trusts (Invoices) (item number 1) (id 2edba481-d2d0-4537-a193-d65a736fe06e)
Parkinson's Disease (item number 1) (id abf30e4c-1c71-487c-857c-09bd0be67cdf)
Parliamentary Questions (item number 1) (id 5ca2b421-f53f-4929-a2ae-71753036141f)
Pension Liability (item number 1) (id 5cedb382-150f-4ecd-aaf5-a4edb9d45a22)
Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (item number 1) (id 9dddc410-b7e5-48ed-af5e-4e3be25761f1)
Primary Care Trusts (Financial Deficits) (item number 1) (id 14261d5c-61aa-47e2-a580-c9dee3e39de9)
Private Finance Initiative (item number 1) (id 17084c8f-c40e-41ca-8268-7ea92f3e1034)
Sleep Disorders (item number 1) (id 2a61a59e-a2f1-4ca6-be29-1d681fb1fc01)
Ward Closures (item number 1) (id 6f81f857-7110-42a5-a5d5-9500b5f6fdbf)
Research Funding (item number 1) (id 449353bd-a9f0-43c2-b858-6dc57c1953ae)
Retinal Screening (item number 1) (id ab739bbc-aa21-4e23-babc-c693a47c0303)
School Nurses (item number 1) (id e8044dc8-6d69-421a-88f7-f7980a736460)
Smoking (item number 1) (id f280bdc9-6d04-4a5d-b3f8-8d50fc6f77ef)
Strategic Health Authorities (item number 1) (id 09b85960-193e-4791-a389-4ecd933b7f00)
Suffolk Coastal Primary Care Trust (item number 1) (id 14e7be6d-a7ba-40c4-95b4-e2f06bae7e47)

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