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Commons Hansard for 9 March 2006 (Volume 443)

From the corrected (daily) version. Last updated 17 December 2025 at 9.05am.

Commons Chamber

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

House of Commons (item number 1) (id 45dfadd7-53cf-4bc9-a04d-72ba2de3543a)
Prayers (item number 2) (id 262b5acf-4557-4f8c-a60b-85f185fa2e96)
Business of the House (item number 4) (id f6f7606d-115c-4c03-aad0-d7d4c72a475c)
Royal Irish Regiment (Home Service) (item number 5) (id 30e6ecaf-a5b2-4fb1-8576-51bff26af919)
Orders of the Day (item number 6) (id f91a05eb-d7e5-439f-a601-0e842448a741)
Childcare Bill (item number 7) (id e0daa79c-efd6-4f4a-8d72-352cabae692d)
Delegated Legislation (item number 8) (id 00291fb3-955b-4f4e-972a-450eefdbbeec)
European Union Documents (item number 9) (id a83f5001-20e4-4429-82a9-5032c69a33bb)
Estimates (item number 10) (id f9031aff-f47a-46db-aab9-08a8866d778c)
COnsolidated Fund (Appropriation) (No. 2) Bill (item number 11) (id a76a76ac-077f-4e18-a443-cd64a97e8918)
Blackpool to Fleetwood Tramway (item number 12) (id 9a573daa-cf0f-4d5a-b14d-68dfd81f916f)

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 (item number 1) (id 6d183c3f-860d-4eca-91a6-ac51f2b5aaf6)

Written Answers

Content for Written Answers.

Written Answers to Questions

Home Department

Antisocial Behaviour (item number 1) (id a286c2e8-d7ff-429e-8d47-53608cd56a34)
Asylum Seekers (Medical Care) (item number 1) (id ef527ace-c7d8-44d0-8421-a3a545808936)
Ball-bearing Guns (item number 1) (id e07d2d56-edae-4b94-8a57-1eeed64c70ff)
Child Protection (item number 1) (id 4030f118-1883-4b13-87f8-0de10f6e97ed)
Class A Drugs (item number 1) (id fc6592b3-e941-4045-9ced-34b487f8d07a)
Common Land (Illegal Vehicle Use) (item number 1) (id 8ede62a2-5528-4648-b4bc-d6f0d0a145f2)
Correspondence (item number 1) (id 379bf939-0a11-4ac2-a60d-1f2e9b067ca6)
Crime Statistics (item number 1) (id 179e8d29-6b13-4f85-ab40-e5eef57a3ce8)
Disorder Offences (item number 1) (id a75954a6-ae72-4f65-8926-173720349f15)
Domestic Abuse (item number 1) (id 0e1db992-182a-43c4-9c89-d14a4849dddc)
Drug Treatment Programmes (item number 1) (id f0da1451-4024-408c-ae6c-d90309e9d324)
Identity Cards (item number 1) (id 31033fb8-032e-4bca-88a5-a68c11c6229f)
Life Expectancy (item number 1) (id ddca0ca6-4cf5-4e41-b96c-27538ad32b75)
National Offender Management Service (item number 1) (id 3ca710d1-27cc-4e2d-8fed-6794b30c4743)
Police (item number 1) (id d40c4552-2ed0-4ad6-ac93-e53c112a190e)
Probation Services (item number 1) (id c64f69eb-c628-4373-a87c-bcd17ee8a423)
Spray Paints (item number 1) (id 2755a9fe-c3bb-47a0-ada7-31b6366dacfc)
Student Visas (item number 1) (id 84f14559-c625-4fda-a9ba-8ab7d3086823)
Thames Valley Criminal Justice Board (item number 1) (id 2fefc37b-879d-439d-8df1-5bc20f42bc70)
Trophy Videos (Iraq) (item number 1) (id 092a657b-c685-4691-9131-839fa9bc3928)
Vandalism (item number 1) (id 5b0392fb-e69e-4bfb-9fa4-39e1c464b50b)
Women in Custody (item number 1) (id 8a086efa-7f4e-4f8d-a64d-af34a7969864)
Young Offenders (item number 1) (id 682d4a55-afe8-4206-8872-8962ff104179)

Defence

Afghanistan (item number 1) (id a913d612-78f7-43fe-97f1-cf6a284022b0)
Astute Class Submarines (item number 1) (id 6598fd15-694a-479c-9196-ad3b385904f5)
Child Support Agency (item number 1) (id 90d9264b-447f-4443-8af8-6964f87f9606)
Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (item number 1) (id 058b03fe-b777-46a4-98c1-a7168c48e014)
Defence Vetting Agency (item number 1) (id 8763d833-65ad-4dcf-a1cb-4c0b884c0a60)
Discharged Personnel (Social Housing) (item number 1) (id 0470faf1-66fc-4273-a3ce-2ba874c15189)
Eurofighter (item number 1) (id 8817258c-343f-4f80-ac2e-3749afb531fc)
Gershon Review (item number 1) (id 3306d75c-23ec-4055-a840-2eb093c430d9)
Infantry Regiments (item number 1) (id 1122880e-544e-46af-b254-caa60d2ff960)
International Criminal Court (item number 1) (id 8b501818-d386-4157-b1c5-25ea92433027)
Land Mines (item number 1) (id bf58b5a3-1ab2-4ad5-838e-1f8ffbde4d58)
Mental Health Services (item number 1) (id e5037d16-5699-4de8-80ff-971f2e111d42)
Military Code of Conduct (item number 1) (id 6a778b94-35f9-45a2-8c7d-3cdc58f4c2ac)
Missile Defence (item number 1) (id cd41faf1-9ed1-4f2c-bc87-6e8e546be8b5)
Naval Procurement (item number 1) (id 62bac26e-ce7a-46a6-ace7-af08946ea797)
Overseas Deployments (item number 1) (id b062a1fa-1dde-4d64-831c-8cd72af84ca2)
Planning Guidance (Airfields) (item number 1) (id 4d4a3fb0-b528-4c09-8a15-8579a10730cb)
QinetiQ (item number 1) (id 471714d9-7cfc-42b4-9570-8bbd2bd3c81f)
Sanctuary Magazine (item number 1) (id 7c0432d4-fae3-46d1-880c-4279494495e6)
Service Insignia (item number 1) (id f46ea7e9-8c2e-4a40-bacf-316ff74b6168)
Territorial Army (item number 1) (id 86150ff4-8345-4fba-a9a2-2bafad872255)
Z-berths (item number 1) (id 5eb59e56-7cce-41b5-b65a-99fd7345833e)

Trade and Industry

Arms Export Licences (item number 1) (id 8b9417fe-6eed-4964-a94c-6a269c58e456)
BAE Systems (item number 1) (id 4b99671e-11c8-4b99-a296-b535ab0c2840)
Biomass Capital Projects (item number 1) (id c85f3ca5-1052-4314-b820-1baa53e9d830)
Business Support (item number 1) (id 5631c414-3299-4a23-931b-e83e0a7ef5de)
Company Law Reform Bill (item number 1) (id 7b54c4e0-5da9-4f0d-adf5-889bca0e3cb2)
Consolidated Resource Accounts (item number 1) (id eaf6f147-b193-4798-bb72-7fcf31459bf0)
Debt Management (item number 1) (id de72d5a9-fa46-48e5-b5ff-b0493da9e998)
Departmental Staff (item number 1) (id 520326a8-8ff7-4a30-a89c-3180d6c3965c)
Energy (item number 1) (id 9caafbc5-3608-4f23-8e9f-27cddf076083)
Fuel Prices (item number 1) (id 75f1f954-60fd-43b9-8363-abe1f97c61e1)
Hearing Loss Claims (item number 1) (id f73394d6-39b3-43ba-91a4-1cb59269b1a1)
Media Training (item number 1) (id cb38df35-0fe4-4f9c-9839-6be991150e0c)
Military Equipment (Export Controls) (item number 1) (id 12098fb9-11ed-4626-bf72-ec1981cae770)
Ministerial Activities (item number 1) (id efb94281-5957-45cf-9e8f-f8dfa64d3eec)
National Grid (Orkney and Shetland) (item number 1) (id a283f307-0a9e-4652-8858-7eeeaccf5e9c)
OECD Guidelines (item number 1) (id d4fbcdd8-c448-4942-a92a-7827eaf260bf)
Potash Industry (item number 1) (id 14281cc5-9545-43c7-8370-52b6bb2ebd13)
Private Offices (item number 1) (id 2cb62bb4-c312-4357-8a44-2dd71795ce39)
Regional Development Agencies (item number 1) (id bdcb5c8d-60b7-4f01-bc8c-362f78290c67)
Shoe Imports (China/Vietnam) (item number 1) (id 7979036c-8680-40d4-ab5c-049bec53d1d5)
Thames Gateway (item number 1) (id e2313872-74f4-4218-89c3-7fe188a4eabb)
Working Time Directive (item number 1) (id e879460b-d9bc-48d0-8253-a134e4242002)

Northern Ireland

Acute Hospitals (item number 1) (id aad8f22d-1c34-41a5-a5a2-672d68b163dd)
Ballymena-Londonderry Rail Line (item number 1) (id e56f56a1-bb91-4c1c-901b-7fc42d62fe80)
Block Grant (item number 1) (id 1a3e6c24-1a36-4dba-a040-16b1c3d7b0ef)
Car Ownership (item number 1) (id c08091b0-7573-48a5-b802-aa029b284dc0)
Electricity Supply (Limavady) (item number 1) (id 7bb36851-08b5-4acf-9e7e-b6d865728463)
Emergency Calls (item number 1) (id e4f69c82-75b0-46a9-bacb-0326fcd3133b)
Emergency Services (item number 1) (id b4eeac12-b7f2-4b24-8b01-e3477cd330ee)
Employment Statistics (item number 1) (id 177e6791-7f08-4ae0-8ad1-a176a5511bf3)
Energy Surveys (item number 1) (id 19ceedd9-2275-4363-a25b-b3a15eaffab5)
Engagements (item number 1) (id a57eef21-ff1c-448f-bfcf-8c455a89ab1f)
Farm Subsidies (item number 1) (id 5c88fb43-454f-4140-a41c-9843b42ea2fb)
Home Education (item number 1) (id 37850f5a-b0d1-470f-8038-02808ed66949)
InterTrade Ireland (item number 1) (id e95625c6-0b30-4bcf-b4f1-68d76794d5c3)
InterTradeIreland (item number 1) (id c226425c-ed3e-44a6-b4bb-65beb2b5158d)
Literacy (item number 1) (id 4245abc5-249a-4c31-add7-f14810cf6bdb)
Local Councils (Discrimination) (item number 1) (id b866282f-20b3-4fd5-8b5f-e19d6e0cda61)
Local Enterprise Centres (item number 1) (id c5906e44-3da0-4baa-86c5-a9d3884b61a0)
Mussenden Temple (Londonderry) (item number 1) (id 33702ff8-bc11-4626-8877-a79ef2130702)
Primary Schools (item number 1) (id 7086e057-9e5c-47f7-954a-ecfa484c28d7)
Queen's Birthday (item number 1) (id 1d7e068b-fff8-4057-a55f-e00d6535cd2a)
Sports Council for Northern Ireland (item number 1) (id 659c771a-602b-4670-88b5-c337816d056a)
Tourism (item number 1) (id e44bd02c-934a-4ef5-af0f-1d38622af34f)
Translink (item number 1) (id a2ec2837-7830-40b2-9362-b30d189743af)
Unmanned Rail Crossings (item number 1) (id 1ecc1c8b-883e-4c5d-9f46-cc60de812bb1)

Deputy Prime Minister

Allotments (item number 1) (id d26bd2f7-1d1d-4d16-826b-3b19a4a9c6f1)
Best Value Performance Data (item number 1) (id b93e6c37-e479-4d78-aad3-7f5bbe01ab8a)
Building Regulations (item number 1) (id e57ba1ce-f5c3-4341-ad17-84cf06f53c56)
Complaints (item number 1) (id 7298e65b-aaa8-4461-b5c2-650640414fb4)
Comprehensive Performance Assessment Scores (item number 1) (id c54028b8-890c-4ca3-835f-a289327abc09)
Council Tax (item number 1) (id 6965860d-eee5-4ed8-b75d-98e169579215)
Departmental Staff (item number 1) (id 149eaa50-ede3-4df5-9a0e-74817aabf872)
Digital Radio (item number 1) (id d1378780-4c14-4f95-be23-dcac7817559f)
Efficiency Measurement (item number 1) (id d0d06e3c-f655-4032-9d5f-a48f0925f171)
Fire Service (item number 1) (id 06dea379-6e47-4ca6-8ae4-58b5316ace9c)
Firefighters' Pay/Pension Scheme (item number 1) (id ec7ea5de-a3bc-4bf6-90c8-52d66ea635a2)
Firelink (item number 1) (id c04b1e5b-02e2-4b2b-8e73-3d4c1199b133)
Graffiti (item number 1) (id e057e01e-6bb4-4980-86a0-113bffe11dc7)
Local Authority Pensions (item number 1) (id c0002924-121d-4806-8519-4cd6fc180f7d)
Local Government Finance (item number 1) (id 96ae1e33-59cc-4966-b273-86439fe3dfa9)
Local Government Pension Scheme (item number 1) (id 6fa43ae7-ac08-49e5-a3cc-9f64695961d6)
Local Government Restructuring (item number 1) (id 498ff8d6-7a72-4a58-9d25-bbdab63cfe9e)
Local Government Wages (item number 1) (id 15f9af11-1383-4f3d-8842-255526e0cf72)
London Mayor (item number 1) (id f859dac2-9daf-478a-aaab-5f324d9422b8)
Mobile Phone Masts (item number 1) (id 63129cb3-4e5c-49ca-a78f-dee32b3efe50)
Monitoring Officers (item number 1) (id ca9a8c4f-923b-46a5-a8f6-094e32c44aa9)
National Interest Mapping Service Agreement (item number 1) (id 35308e36-38ed-43e9-ae20-c0f10889ad19)
Official Residences (item number 1) (id 3b68f931-da5c-4a21-841d-cc96840844d6)
Planning (Thames Gateway) (item number 1) (id f46e9695-050c-489d-8116-8b4fca4e159f)
Planning Blight (Compensation) (item number 1) (id 5e99113a-8fb2-4656-8cb3-861d82f71223)
Rossendale Borough Council (item number 1) (id d89c9512-ad5a-42b7-93d4-a7dceaeeca18)
Standards Board for England (item number 1) (id b3c44fe2-8f05-4c34-ba97-bc3d0928cae8)

Health

Alzheimer's Disease (item number 1) (id 67320c4c-7042-43f0-aba7-213b246e2a43)
Ambulance Services (item number 1) (id 4748a0eb-bd88-4eb8-8780-c66627c0e8ca)
Bedfordshire Heartlands Primary Care Trust (item number 1) (id ff19a385-d6ec-41aa-a37f-b4b20f32c653)
Business Service Agency (item number 1) (id 7f6aeb9d-b248-4978-b8e6-7fd4f2d47978)
Code of Practice Family and Post-mortems (item number 1) (id ba9c9b76-7580-49d1-a3d0-d3cfe56ac9d1)
Community Hospitals (item number 1) (id efe32efd-1b79-4898-b850-11daa1f950b5)
Correspondence (item number 1) (id 329cd738-a40a-4496-bc96-bb395c6208fa)
Dentistry (item number 1) (id d2e17b75-8f1b-4336-94bd-b340f7bba4a2)
Doctors/Nurses (Recruitment) (item number 1) (id 0d99e047-dc3b-483c-b304-acaf27f00873)
Domestic Violence (item number 1) (id 99820794-4ff9-4f30-9446-433cf6d3bbcd)
Domiciliary Oxygen (item number 1) (id 32192aee-32d3-40fb-b3ef-c89eb0aca388)
Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (item number 1) (id b92b2a1b-3a9a-4c4e-a711-c4f07abf5350)
Dysfluency (item number 1) (id 06dff498-abda-4d3d-82d1-3c9ca3fb657e)
Expert Patients (item number 1) (id 309a37e3-0368-4e03-acce-c7f539345acf)
General Medical Services Contract (Obesity) (item number 1) (id 5af76c12-6df4-44f2-8187-0ed1895401b9)
Health White Paper (item number 1) (id 3184ed0b-6049-4ca9-9855-82a8fb194132)
Hepatitis B (item number 1) (id d431fb13-759b-4777-91f1-8131e9d1fd55)
HIV (item number 1) (id 04a618c8-9016-4b41-bfc4-eae80d8ee2c7)
MRI Scans (item number 1) (id 4ed0bdc2-b65d-4a47-9456-7db7cf13370d)
MS Centres (Inspection Costs) (item number 1) (id 7eb99719-66db-4c0e-aff6-1084cb79d544)
Newmarket Hospital (item number 1) (id 724c5ae3-b0bf-4805-8071-0a729ab30d5e)
NHS Finance (item number 1) (id 69c04501-527f-4928-b3df-d75fdf1d62f9)
NHS Organisations (item number 1) (id 2caa934a-aeed-4085-9290-2d1f77e6c606)
NHS Productivity (item number 1) (id d34bb10e-1d78-464e-85e1-9af3e01824c0)
Obesity (item number 1) (id 8c2a495b-f4df-43fd-a7e1-d71b6d4b0eb1)
Over the Counter Medicines (item number 1) (id 98fd9f52-1f09-4dd0-b269-bb63db8905f2)
Pandemic Influenza (item number 1) (id 87250395-d73e-4955-bc94-47d1cd380693)
Parliamentary Questions (item number 1) (id 7c440703-c9b9-4bc7-a947-2f0fbbc32976)
Personality Disorder Services (item number 1) (id 10365c09-16bc-4d9d-bb7d-e1097c06f018)
Practice-based Contracting (item number 1) (id 5c50daf9-599d-450b-81b5-f126c30fa0d8)
Psychiatric Secure Accommodation (item number 1) (id e1f2114f-c353-41db-8a2b-1ad9dd653119)
Raw Milk Products (item number 1) (id 63f8714d-1cc6-4173-8531-ca839f1ba220)
Respiratory Syncytial Virus (item number 1) (id be8238a7-3bb5-4ae9-8313-fa78ec3f65a0)
Sexual Health (item number 1) (id 891c143f-a737-4233-bfee-44817ca8eb3d)
Smoking (item number 1) (id eec0ac06-3c74-44b6-9f57-3ec708ef4048)
Spending Review (Efficiency Targets) (item number 1) (id bb114644-03dc-40b9-9ed3-6d853397a49d)
United Health Europe (item number 1) (id 25a73d01-47d3-4b3b-87ca-ac3388d1f93d)
Waiting Lists/Times (item number 1) (id 5e834531-a30e-458d-9fc1-90e8e9738119)
Working with Children (item number 1) (id 59d905b9-0a47-461b-b87e-5d077ba48195)

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