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Commons Hansard for 26 April 2006 (Volume 445)

From the corrected (daily) version. Last updated 15 December 2025 at 10.32am.

Commons Chamber

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

House of Commons (item number 1) (id ab244429-fd5f-4a7f-ba18-1e43a4fd2ad2)
Prayers (item number 2) (id 9931cfbd-7a1f-4ee5-93ba-5bdf0f8e49c0)
Foreign Nationals (Deportation and Removal) (item number 4) (id 78905720-8bc3-4f19-b370-a25394ef97c5)
Points of Order (item number 5) (id 24c5521d-e307-43d6-abcf-85ff90d864e2)
Independent School Closures (Provision for Pupils) (item number 6) (id fa41a2f6-ac43-4ef0-aa5c-de3ea1929cfb)
Adjournment (May) (item number 7) (id fd88f729-f4e6-4d5f-84dc-e7f3f2fa4df8)
Northern Ireland Bill (Allocation of Time) (item number 8) (id 6d3b3087-a73a-42b3-b4c2-3ba79abb6458)
Northern Ireland Bill (item number 9) (id c3fa726c-47ca-4681-8ac1-e0eec654fc6b)
Deferred Division (item number 10) (id 0bbaeee6-968e-46a2-9db6-0afc13229811)
Northern Ireland Bill (item number 11) (id e8fbb6b2-02d7-4f70-8dcd-3fb953936d91)
Delegated Legislation (item number 12) (id ce62711a-f10a-4e9e-b73c-8f02d4cfa45a)
European Documents (item number 13) (id ceab1912-fccd-426b-add0-d43c726bee9e)
Miners' Welfare Institutes (item number 15) (id 398d25d7-e273-46a4-8c26-777f986c824b)
Deferred Division (item number 16) (id c0938038-06b3-4ceb-85d5-fb45a3fe758d)

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Content for Written Answers.

Written Answers to Questions

Trade and Industry

Bank Holidays (item number 1) (id 47f4f2cf-dd94-407a-806d-20a37f415904)
Bankruptcies (item number 1) (id bb286aee-63a0-4310-9aa9-4e8197009670)
British Energy (item number 1) (id be7d8515-2873-43f9-a25b-05ccadf322a5)
British Nuclear Group (item number 1) (id 89532709-64fd-45f2-a685-41c609be178d)
Coal (item number 1) (id e427a9a8-e6a7-45f9-bead-5c893489bd73)
Compensation Claims (item number 1) (id 07459808-c612-4ffb-88fb-fb28b1fcb474)
Debt Advice Helpline (item number 1) (id 08a0c775-0f23-420f-b0a0-68320ba272fc)
Energy Suppliers (item number 1) (id 1f604a5c-ffdc-495c-9011-6258e8723ffd)
Financial Assistance (Heating) (item number 1) (id 6e336519-ca64-4e40-b7c4-cc77f9fd7160)
Geothermal Energy (item number 1) (id dfe8426a-d9a5-4680-9d85-2e9a4f91c8e8)
Low Carbon Buildings Programme (item number 1) (id 46ebe46b-58a8-4a10-8d6f-426612dba44b)
NIG Ltd (item number 1) (id 425cc849-3db7-4ae0-9808-441c8277f79b)
Noise-induced Hearing Loss (Mining) (item number 1) (id d8e49c33-c42d-4f5d-9864-112ffbc90dd5)
Nuclear Decommissioning (item number 1) (id f3d26a2d-7b5e-436a-aa24-569b3269b8e9)
Nuclear Waste (item number 1) (id 7475e0db-6554-4c00-98a7-8b33cfb9d0b2)
Oil Companies (Engagements) (item number 1) (id 4fa0333c-2dba-443e-8dcb-27ddd3f30320)
Photovoltaic Industry (item number 1) (id 85fcb9e9-45a1-4eec-94ca-4140bdecee49)
Road Fuel (item number 1) (id 4520c6f7-e3ab-4656-a576-a7c680c1c7ab)
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Sunday Trading (item number 1) (id 178ac2e7-0bae-4167-9a48-9a702c042d7c)
Supermarkets (item number 1) (id 51e5530b-cddf-4b50-b176-b8ac08f5c45f)
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UK Trade and Investment (item number 1) (id ffd9d4d1-13b4-4a05-a6ac-4886353fd2a4)
Women in Work (item number 1) (id 7f05be93-a96d-425f-9be5-c591bb03572c)

Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs

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Better Regulation (item number 1) (id cb8d71b8-da12-4190-ac4c-99904802593f)
Burma (item number 1) (id ae50af49-0a32-4f5b-af38-1ac57ff2d84d)
Chad (item number 1) (id f33fa4ca-f33b-4196-a711-1b1941d6c171)
Charles Taylor (item number 1) (id f2741982-6b03-4ddd-a7b1-34546e91f544)
Colombia (item number 1) (id 0d0d25cb-5862-4c6c-98e0-1291f6e6af3f)
Conference on Disarmament (item number 1) (id a5e47c1a-5f9c-472f-81f1-7325aaa13a0b)
Democratic Republic of Congo (item number 1) (id 46de4ce0-9434-4b90-abd9-6249e80170de)
Gibraltar (item number 1) (id 0a051701-5868-483c-8c6d-7f9d42c4cd49)
India (item number 1) (id b89bff2b-0937-4393-8289-40c1a2e75c4a)
Inward Investment (item number 1) (id 505f6a71-17bd-4a9e-9e44-f4823e1995cd)
Iraq (Trade Unions) (item number 1) (id b637d791-ad38-4429-a7e4-1797dedafb51)
Israeli Air Force (item number 1) (id 9e4df413-263e-4fa1-9e6c-4ea3672be144)
Libya (item number 1) (id 692e3755-0a4c-4f80-854c-de9e98c71c7f)
Marshall Plan (item number 1) (id 2545c4f3-427a-45f0-9a15-324dd293e182)
Nepal (item number 1) (id 477776d2-7deb-487b-8078-cf9332dcd509)
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Philippines (item number 1) (id b71da5d1-9004-44e7-8d93-2a2a77d0c72a)
Sudan (item number 1) (id a9ae9aec-12b2-42a3-bf60-5dda5f9a83e8)
Terrorism (Compensation) (item number 1) (id 8b6b527c-a1f1-45a6-bfd6-a7ff92e170a7)
Uganda (item number 1) (id 467b8f04-55ad-48df-ad0f-7f19dd3a59db)
Uzbekistan (item number 1) (id b2cbcebd-6b88-4122-9181-6824faf49d1e)
Zimbabwe (item number 1) (id 7fa0de34-45b5-4f39-8653-1e2205b4d862)

Treasury

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Births (item number 1) (id f89f879f-8649-470b-8d58-2642593666e3)
Child Tax Credit (item number 1) (id 0fe581a4-c495-41e7-bd4c-fe0f01d6d78d)
Combined Cadet Forces (item number 1) (id 08284048-1655-4848-a1ea-6ed9421c4241)
Council Tax (item number 1) (id ae1cd011-b522-4752-8b92-9bfebac5e345)
EU Budget (item number 1) (id 4f711cd4-0cfd-40e9-b0f9-e11b67d29005)
Gold Sales (item number 1) (id 1a614b10-5b52-49e2-b6f1-a0b2c7004855)
Income Tax (item number 1) (id 70126ac4-02dd-400d-b74c-6f3f202b852c)
London Olympics (item number 1) (id 68b73476-795c-42f2-aff6-c91955145efc)
Lung Cancer (item number 1) (id 451eeb34-9c11-4f72-8c12-087edb6ab9f8)
Ministerial Flights (item number 1) (id 27391306-0102-450c-a62e-d3ed2cf7e269)
Online Goods Declaration (item number 1) (id 8f12819e-d557-46e1-b68a-2a1275742f3b)
Parish Councils (item number 1) (id 3239ffcd-0a0b-4826-a8ad-9da9c188c703)
Pensions (Tax Relief) (item number 1) (id 00b9c55a-9fc2-400c-ba90-6aa4df926f99)
PFI/PPP Contracts (item number 1) (id 0abaf5e5-17fe-421a-a870-a174e8e94e57)
Public Sector Pensions (item number 1) (id 1343bd08-7059-44f8-a97d-79910ad81ac3)
Road Fuel Prices (item number 1) (id b886b267-cdd4-4638-a227-83dca593c715)
Smuggling (Northern Ireland) (item number 1) (id 2720893a-1248-48ce-911a-57945b18ac4a)
Stamp Duty (item number 1) (id 40a20f76-f78d-4039-94c1-9df8ec0639dd)
Suicide Statistics (item number 1) (id ec6af0be-cef6-4f06-8d17-cfbbc375e316)
Sun Lotion (VAT) (item number 1) (id e2237a04-f410-49f4-87a7-be6eea73505f)
Tax Credits (item number 1) (id 3510cd35-292b-47ca-a7ab-01844b3efd61)
Taxation (item number 1) (id bd461f09-4903-4a3e-a7e2-a7e7571b790e)

Northern Ireland

IRA (item number 1) (id c206a282-d17b-46c5-9501-c64ec48339d8)
Decommissioning (item number 1) (id efcec0f2-3ab0-4582-96d0-2ee588b87c46)
Northern Ireland Executive (item number 1) (id beb61622-2413-46e2-a252-339cb2966c31)
Victims Commissioner (item number 1) (id 9f85d24b-02c3-4c57-b716-5f1c920fbabf)
Ageing Initiative (item number 1) (id 5b0d029f-75ae-4c25-bef7-1f7f94a9a69f)
Avian Influenza (item number 1) (id 0cc03221-adb3-446f-9212-3e2d8493e0a3)
Civil Servants (Welfare Rating) (item number 1) (id 7aa38d61-4965-4f45-a360-cef8ce76be13)
Craigavon Divisional Planning Office (item number 1) (id 5d33ba7b-d6c7-4bd8-8485-9bc0da432d8f)
Disabled People (item number 1) (id c759a4fc-20e8-4ec4-acaf-5dc3d85364aa)
Domestic Rates (item number 1) (id ac94945f-ab69-4a15-b830-a2e60a75432e)
Driver and Vehicle Testing Agency (item number 1) (id c6147879-e93e-4337-9c8c-cbab3f2d3284)
Education and Library Boards (item number 1) (id caf590fa-30d4-4b2a-bc56-5e097753b191)
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Farming (Funding Schemes) (item number 1) (id 4633172f-28ff-4ab3-bc02-246b5abd72dd)
Festivals (item number 1) (id 8119fb6a-58f3-4f96-96de-3d55c4356bc1)
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Harassment Complaints (item number 1) (id 69c886ec-84fe-4a0c-9328-4f1194777614)
Herceptin (item number 1) (id df6b202c-63cd-46e1-a675-89de982c01f6)
Home Tuition (item number 1) (id 1e2e4a37-641d-48cf-86e7-3ea75c64f57a)
Housing (item number 1) (id 89d04168-88ec-4220-ad02-f22f468317c1)
InterTradeIreland (item number 1) (id d801d472-1183-4cee-9bb1-40b0ba11dc74)
Invest Northern Ireland (item number 1) (id 1fcd38e5-08e6-4d84-a1b2-3e14fede6978)
Key Stage 3 (Pupil Profile) (item number 1) (id f0b42871-2689-4306-bb83-09a7d1a0a58e)
Planning Applications (item number 1) (id 4d8940fa-0bde-48de-b456-1c36751e76b8)
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Schools (Assaults) (item number 1) (id 4036288d-011a-4471-be2f-6fe53643605e)
Stillbirths (item number 1) (id b5df0821-748c-4bbb-ab1e-cc1a6987f8b5)
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Unemployment Statistics (item number 1) (id 708f0f85-81c4-4508-9d1d-80b171364543)
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Waterways (Pollution) (item number 1) (id f5b81f42-3001-48cd-8b05-c7238dad1717)

Health

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BCG Vaccinations (item number 1) (id 7c63aa90-be7d-476e-878d-c746ddec9ef0)
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Capita (item number 1) (id 47c7fc54-faf9-4041-9724-554faa9bce97)
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Community Hospitals (item number 1) (id 7f439ce7-8e9a-4ff9-bd5a-931d93cf3f1c)
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Continuing Care Assessments (item number 1) (id 0a5f9325-92a5-42f7-b5c7-00dd42e05fc4)
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Diabetes (item number 1) (id 6c06a435-8f86-483e-9210-8050c97a0f22)
Diet-drug Interactions (item number 1) (id 784b85a7-ce0d-41b0-a1ce-447c7270b83a)
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General Practitioners (item number 1) (id 4c4c657c-6b9a-42fc-9f78-b603d234731d)
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Local Improvement Finance Trusts (item number 1) (id ca8e0739-5c0c-40cc-835a-72a203554cd0)
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Television Sets (item number 1) (id df8ee64f-d9e2-4986-94cb-1b9d69aef72d)
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World Cup (Complimentary Tickets) (item number 1) (id a411c544-42b9-4580-b4ff-a51a49ad8bc1)

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