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Commons Hansard for 4 May 2006 (Volume 445)

From the corrected (daily) version. Last updated 15 December 2025 at 10.58am.

Commons Chamber

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

House of Commons (item number 1) (id a04b54a7-290c-4744-bf8b-50ad3a93ec5b)
Prayers (item number 2) (id 68eb499b-911a-4d0a-9cfe-ef06e1547ebe)
Business of the House (item number 4) (id e8407618-5c7d-464a-af66-0508661f6e7e)
Point of Order (item number 5) (id ba1a58e0-a9be-428a-8df4-ce19efb3f11d)
Disabled People (item number 6) (id 5a7f1c50-4e43-4264-9d52-83802f2f2411)

Written Answers

Content for Written Answers.

Written Answers to Questions

Trade and Industry

Nuclear Fusion Plants (item number 1) (id cf21c603-ba25-4871-a510-afafbf4f6990)
Manufacturing (South Wales) (item number 1) (id 35e5ce8a-1c8f-4534-92a3-25d85c768180)
Unfair Dismissal Claims (item number 1) (id 8b8be251-ba45-47d1-8bc1-a72255df519b)
Sunday Trading (item number 1) (id 6d8574a3-a6dc-429e-aa50-6dcf4c4f9cc2)
Gas Storage (item number 1) (id 0ed6d3d2-bf8f-42a6-8527-ebcf3ec96d68)
Business Bankruptcies (item number 1) (id 09186728-e550-47a2-8a0c-6775d2db97f5)
Arms Trade Treaty (item number 1) (id 2a009760-8b6d-4bb5-9759-3cf537284b43)
Assisted Area Status (item number 1) (id b7b06ef6-2a96-487b-ab31-f26c3c096412)
Business Regulations (item number 1) (id b47626e1-c9ad-4634-9964-9802e2a0c82f)
Central and Eastern Europe (item number 1) (id fc980ef0-70e3-400b-9424-3d795c1c26f4)
Coal Pension Properties Ltd (item number 1) (id 4910c198-bad4-47fe-9076-ed1f1f8994e9)
Companies' Business Reviews (item number 1) (id b9e8d204-8c35-4e21-bd6b-2a79a05d3edc)
Compensation Claims (VAT) (item number 1) (id f074b5f9-1e74-4916-aefa-780bc04ba6d2)
Defence Exports (item number 1) (id 98c0a745-06dc-4b31-b558-474807a08cd5)
EU Directives (Organ Pipe Manufacturing) (item number 1) (id 376ebcb8-5847-4059-8020-b422977a9b0a)
EU Energy Shortages (item number 1) (id d6b8150b-f81e-485c-a59a-f4223beb972b)
Export Control Act (item number 1) (id 3d676daa-3396-426d-a60a-4ee89b9e6310)
Fuel Prices (item number 1) (id fbb56767-7423-45d7-802c-e1212778bf17)
Gas Supplies (item number 1) (id 635775ce-89d1-4f52-9179-bf3ecd4fe625)
Miners' Compensation (item number 1) (id 275d30ad-c362-4099-91d3-9711c69d673b)
Ministerial Cars (Fuel Costs) (item number 1) (id 6bb780c4-7418-4c5d-ac9b-4a6c0ffb7bd2)
Mobile Telephone Tracking (item number 1) (id 7354a599-5d45-4e6a-bc7a-012ef3a7fb27)
Post Offices (item number 1) (id c7f8b53b-7403-4ed8-9777-b819d9ff63f0)
TVR (item number 1) (id 4c7319d1-ca3d-4485-9673-0396b263f23b)
Utilities (New Developments) (item number 1) (id bb2fd248-54f4-414c-a3fc-519e0d72db29)

Education and Skills

Advanced Skills Teacher Programme (item number 1) (id a0906d77-fa20-4c95-b063-db9f616c1dea)
Arson (item number 1) (id 17fa359a-779a-4523-861b-daefa7b15f8c)
Children's Centres (item number 1) (id 86b26800-1004-41f2-bf7b-b3f7e2b7aed7)
Creationism (item number 1) (id a3126254-9dc5-4650-9878-c9cd186ba4fe)
Education Expenditure (item number 1) (id 1b341177-9497-47ec-9275-4ad36189b783)
Equal Pay (item number 1) (id d1ea7b62-c055-48dd-b7bd-576a3bf947f8)
EU Students (Loans) (item number 1) (id 2aabcc05-18be-4146-a4e6-c7e2f7c0d097)
Exclusions (item number 1) (id 6119edf6-38c5-4a36-bff1-9291a0c75311)
Extended School Hours (item number 1) (id 38583229-edad-42d4-9169-cd63463ee39d)
Looked-after Children (item number 1) (id d95fae0b-7ea7-466e-8b40-2340c2325925)
Ministerial Cars (Fuel Costs) (item number 1) (id c8062533-3e94-4307-8603-2c9b02e05224)
Nuffield Speech and Language Unit (item number 1) (id f3f3e87d-1d01-4ad7-b681-68ac7685664d)
Prison Education (item number 1) (id db3e6f54-f8a8-4a1b-9fe0-5f464d02180a)
Pupils (Lincolnshire) (item number 1) (id 0daaa938-9bac-4d1c-8d02-ac4ff818aba8)
Faith Schools (item number 1) (id f3fdb58c-074c-461b-844b-9e9d17595783)
Service Children's Education (item number 1) (id 2d6ff204-96e0-46c1-bac1-0eb07d556053)
Sexual Acitivity (Under-16s) (item number 1) (id 02e14be9-b6fc-4f24-8dc1-07ebbfe9572f)
Specialist Schools (item number 1) (id f563c4c1-0a1d-43a4-bd52-ddf9a74a2d59)
Teacher Selection (item number 1) (id 02ebdf91-e835-4938-b5ee-1a20de1cb2c4)
Teachernet Website (item number 1) (id 3b0999a3-4255-4a41-b02b-1f1a58c28bd1)
Teachers (Preparation Time) (item number 1) (id 62a587b2-4adc-47ab-b4a5-fd7b941ece46)

Health

Blood Products (item number 1) (id 5ba90222-0f19-4afb-bbb6-33eb4ef0a4e3)
Care Homes (item number 1) (id ec30dc56-08a9-47c5-8dbf-934c921da251)
Carers (Respite) (item number 1) (id e7327c0c-a1d0-45f4-85e5-83eae875edd9)
Chiropody Care (item number 1) (id 7cf16230-0c6d-4078-b731-3a7ef7fa46c9)
Continuing Care (item number 1) (id 0d0976a4-524c-4152-8d6c-6996a84d6677)
Contraception (item number 1) (id 718ad227-948b-4e2d-9ec0-4510d934b806)
Debt Recovery (item number 1) (id 7e30e2e5-c3ec-4841-9e31-cf94e61497c3)
Dentistry (item number 1) (id ab8b71ca-c965-4c2e-9eb5-52630d2d565d)
Departmental Leave (Stress) (item number 1) (id 8bb9fa6e-61c6-430f-a461-cf817e9b1f32)
East Sussex Primary Care Trust (item number 1) (id 182e9a6f-6320-44ba-955a-f46a51345d35)
Easter Celebrations (item number 1) (id 626a3d4b-8b8a-4384-ad42-2cf7e7f68c09)
End of Life Care (item number 1) (id 11e73c82-4300-4187-afd5-e39d60a1af8c)
Endometriosis (item number 1) (id 01f25d7d-69d5-49bf-9031-eace17259bba)
Equal Pay (item number 1) (id 8882e0b7-0567-4b71-a7b3-6150757b7d95)
Fluoridation Schemes (item number 1) (id 201b93a4-cb59-4e85-8118-4753d160a746)
Folic Acid (item number 1) (id e92fe69e-9f56-4bd0-a812-5fff7014b344)
Food Supplements (item number 1) (id d0d63683-e2a1-47f1-9f24-4ab79dd46f1f)
Freedom of Information (item number 1) (id c4268602-349f-4c41-b59e-bed321d23815)
General Practitioners (item number 1) (id b88c6c89-b563-4fd0-9ef7-7116fca06c56)
Health Care Staff (item number 1) (id b4eb6a3e-a4cb-496e-aff5-f8f7953a9532)
Imported Blood Products (item number 1) (id 9f0cb9b6-5356-444e-97cb-86f460f41048)
Malnutrition (item number 1) (id e34f70fe-393d-4e52-b911-f8061b0339a0)
Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (item number 1) (id 90a72b97-5255-4874-86fa-7195731acabd)
Misoprostol (item number 1) (id 67c7d6ec-7bf0-4a92-a62e-eb0e208bf605)
NHS Appointments Commission (item number 1) (id 2eb39bfe-f4ac-4222-a989-a32156e88f42)
NHS Direct (item number 1) (id a357ae3f-f70e-41cc-9d18-3cbc39cb7890)
NHS Pension Scheme (item number 1) (id 22a1099a-5a16-411e-a428-71a56fd83b17)
NHS Recruitment (item number 1) (id d4e1ffec-423b-4e71-bdff-e76bda3f85dd)
Overseas Doctors (item number 1) (id 2ac008b1-dcf0-401a-919e-29ec2e0e7a3f)
Pharmacies (item number 1) (id 7b8e18f5-d5d3-4288-b3b1-746c1fc69ffc)
Primary Care Trusts (item number 1) (id 9ce1ce1a-642a-45e7-aa9a-88beb36293a6)
Sexual Health (item number 1) (id 880e2512-d974-4b39-b6fd-672f283aeddd)
Unsocial Hours Payments (item number 1) (id 00dec160-1644-4de1-82fd-7ed5e78a4b8a)
Voluntary Sector (item number 1) (id a30c38ca-81e1-4a63-91fc-4fdfcec6e520)

Northern Ireland

Antisocial Behaviour (item number 1) (id 41120782-2567-42fa-a195-6533a5656bbf)
Community Differentials (item number 1) (id 6f49a669-42c0-4938-9819-7e16a844d655)
Departmental Contracts (item number 1) (id 554361fc-5174-455b-b917-58826ae60dd6)
Departmental Websites (item number 1) (id 5f591f3b-1c25-4525-8575-fdb6aad553eb)
Domestic Rates (item number 1) (id dd752485-6470-4f0a-8af5-b82d90f17808)
Domestic Violence (item number 1) (id 84f2ab83-10dd-401d-a091-6e018ff10add)
Free School Meals (item number 1) (id 25ac7c46-040a-43f0-9006-771f9a8e388a)
Government Car Fleet (item number 1) (id d4887fee-c1cf-4ff5-9ef6-10b25fa60760)
Greater Shankill/West Belfast Task Forces (item number 1) (id d989e034-d257-4ab0-ab9d-65f6c844b16d)
Housing (item number 1) (id cc057a19-de7f-4a56-b979-62c455fb4cc8)
Investment Strategy (item number 1) (id 7e95eca1-813e-4cd0-ae2f-220fa2f15a7b)
Literacy Levels (item number 1) (id 0865dc29-6e32-44b1-b9cd-728fba034c83)
Local Government Finance (item number 1) (id 7953055a-3e05-4dd4-8a06-a34bb4cf9597)
Planning Area Enforcement Orders (item number 1) (id 3cde523b-ae90-4735-8fcb-099f4635ff40)
Property Tax Reform (item number 1) (id 914ba528-267a-4d1f-898c-708d8651b582)
Public Prosecution Service (item number 1) (id 5e691ce8-3cbb-4009-b4ad-b12487547aa9)
Review of Public Administration (item number 1) (id 91877496-1c90-468b-a523-5849ef24cdf8)
Riding for the Disabled (item number 1) (id 2c5c4ea8-99ad-4a1d-8346-8da74a0b3e02)
Sewerage Stations (item number 1) (id 5865d1ba-0599-496c-9dee-0a435231bfc7)
Social Economy Companies (item number 1) (id 26e24add-bd26-4ee1-a0f9-76b7b016253f)
Special Educational Needs (item number 1) (id f77ff597-449f-4cef-9287-35a96391ad8a)
Speech Therapy (item number 1) (id fe7bf9d1-ec19-4881-a97e-7c4447559c21)
St. Patrick's Day (item number 1) (id 769a850a-8cdd-4fe4-b813-fbe63c56099a)
Town Centre Retail Development (item number 1) (id 22a000ef-d5f4-43d5-85bf-5d8b2f8bbbce)

Home Department

Animal Procedures (item number 1) (id 16acd427-f382-43ff-89cb-2d81af2be55a)
Asylum Seekers (item number 1) (id 4d6c8f2a-5b5f-4100-baf1-6560a49f9158)
Cannabis (item number 1) (id c6686a36-b625-46fd-9fa8-41695220f20a)
Charities Bill (item number 1) (id 0392184c-8eef-4666-a3da-97f54764224c)
Charity Commission (item number 1) (id d4ac705b-33dc-48ee-8990-5ab9e647884d)
Crime Reduction (Hillingdon) (item number 1) (id a9531602-c3ad-4dbb-8266-182159c359aa)
Criminal Convictions (item number 1) (id 7445e550-e061-487e-9145-de4c94f130ab)
Departmental Policies (item number 1) (id 64afbd6b-9bc2-4343-b041-665b86221459)
Departmental Expenditure (item number 1) (id cb0f9440-9a35-46af-a07a-14d45a52044a)
Departmental Fuel Efficiency (item number 1) (id c3e14083-a58d-4108-9e67-194e85ec6cb8)
Departmental Tendering Policy (item number 1) (id 1938c97f-1446-424b-8d08-8a9023602f4e)
Departmental Vehicles (item number 1) (id 4fc2be49-cfcc-4cc5-a5a9-233d498ef2be)
DNA Databases (item number 1) (id f36c700a-4cda-4f56-ac32-104129c1d0db)
Drug Users (Illegal Income) (item number 1) (id 2e743d60-3ad8-4f50-ad51-041a3722845e)
Easter Celebrations (item number 1) (id 7feab511-4fe7-4bf3-ad38-ee5b2b867dfc)
Equal Pay (item number 1) (id ee1057e4-4e81-48b2-827b-e09daefc4445)
EU Nationals (item number 1) (id 29a69485-33f0-470e-be32-a6b68d832386)
Extradition Act (item number 1) (id 2a9ab372-13ab-434e-b0c0-092dbd2ea90a)
Family Deportations (item number 1) (id 0d5c8d71-aa4c-4003-a18a-f416c0bd493d)
Human Trafficking (item number 1) (id 626055d2-6b12-4039-aac7-cb3594667a9f)
MI5 (Northern Ireland) (item number 1) (id edfd288c-4303-407f-9a07-ff1f1fd02e2a)
Nabeel Sami Fathallah (item number 1) (id efd6a257-d9a6-4f80-b9e1-b042061475cd)
Northamptonshire Police Force (item number 1) (id 64b11be2-dfa3-41c0-9dcf-ae54fa0eae2a)
O'Connor Report (item number 1) (id fdd40f42-b1fa-4ba5-a6a3-3f732a0f023b)
Omagh Bombing (item number 1) (id c80f870f-8e56-4ffe-ada2-be9d14bda863)
Operation Trident (item number 1) (id 9b2eb89f-2131-4d5d-8e03-ce75d08e2c9a)
Passports (item number 1) (id b6115310-9387-4acb-9565-4d2bc49f2e3e)
Police Restructuring (item number 1) (id 2bdd522b-8df6-479a-87c0-b04a83b6ddae)
Prisons (item number 1) (id e9b7e125-4f67-466f-aadb-751e2bfe27ef)
Safe Countries (item number 1) (id b8916812-71b5-4e3c-9de1-74cfdb53a485)
Special Branch (item number 1) (id 827967ef-015e-488a-8445-da753cd22f1f)
Terrorism (item number 1) (id bee992e3-531d-4159-ba8d-4465018e90df)
Travellers (item number 1) (id 6533bcce-d16d-417f-85dc-b53d3f842de5)
Young Offenders (item number 1) (id 3348073e-e0d0-481b-b7d3-9641c25ba659)

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