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Commons Hansard for 17 May 2006 (Volume 446)

From the corrected (daily) version. Last updated 17 December 2025 at 9.36am.

Commons Chamber

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

House of Commons (item number 1) (id 461390f5-75cc-4c76-b6c5-7b5f1965c05b)
Prayers (item number 2) (id 6e1d5060-872c-4342-9673-985ff2c0ed02)
Water Shortages (item number 4) (id 712706d8-f4e4-431a-b4e0-1f81847d213c)
European Communities (Deregulation) (item number 5) (id 733d64c4-acdc-4f1b-bbd1-94b409712e6e)
Orders of the Day (item number 6) (id 8f6b6da3-2029-4ab7-b8df-7e7c1e9296b8)
Northern Ireland (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill (item number 7) (id f51ac939-34d9-4af1-8e20-7840109ef5c4)
Deferred Division (item number 8) (id 30db061e-bc0b-4c4f-aa5f-ace609d9cda0)
Northern Ireland (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill (item number 9) (id 2e4b0af1-f8fd-459e-af31-89e425073acf)
Draft Legal Services Bill (Joint Committee) (item number 10) (id b844b760-e991-4116-8981-71be67a44f57)
Rana Faruqui (item number 11) (id cb9062ee-07ee-470c-9065-c93b6d7a6941)
Deferred Division (item number 12) (id dbefe13e-eff1-46d6-8f25-766535645fe7)

Written Answers

Content for Written Answers.

Written Answers to Questions

Defence

Armed Forces (Drug Offences) (item number 1) (id c42b41fc-6c17-4ddb-bf49-a2d964a31150)
Arms Trade Treaty (item number 1) (id d25ba08e-eda8-4a84-a259-5cdb23fe7e2d)
Astute Submarine (item number 1) (id 3fe318f2-729f-406e-b797-75c3dd48cbe3)
Consultants (item number 1) (id 60c52014-e14c-4285-9950-4828ef419311)
Departmental Staff (item number 1) (id 1dbd106c-d80e-417f-9ae3-20fda28f8e8b)
Drones (item number 1) (id 7d1451da-6800-4659-91ae-36f1dbdc0900)
Eurofighter (item number 1) (id 2e67092b-bf4a-4dff-8127-7b2ae2395e46)
Financial Data (item number 1) (id 9030352a-a431-4ea3-a789-80fb9f045594)
Fuel Cell Technology (item number 1) (id 6b8ff939-abf0-468f-b51f-61bbc85d620c)
Haslar Hospital (item number 1) (id 493d7cb0-e9d0-46be-9fa2-2de506cb442a)
Joint Strike Fighter (item number 1) (id c273795f-8d67-4eee-b287-6c44eb6f2a50)
Meteorological Office (item number 1) (id 2514e718-a828-44fa-9ca3-6be11740e0c8)
Military Personnel (item number 1) (id 794c7949-0269-4c04-9048-2289ce021d05)
Military Spending (item number 1) (id 9a4fd08d-e97e-4840-ac29-009142076d45)
Nuclear Weapons Testing (item number 1) (id f2416af9-3ee8-4455-8076-f59ae41471df)
Paveway IV Missile (item number 1) (id f1cefe0e-6c07-49cb-a672-6aaa7fbe225c)
Regimental Mascots (item number 1) (id f3206058-6603-4bb4-915e-867993e37fae)
Service Personnel (Commendation) (item number 1) (id ca7adc6b-7540-4644-81e0-6314dd08a74a)
Tornado Fleet (item number 1) (id e212603a-db11-4823-89ba-8b4da6201c04)
Type 45 Destroyers (item number 1) (id 398a2282-1eb0-43e6-b924-14033ffcaffb)

Northern Ireland

Arts Council (item number 1) (id de8a4749-da29-4e28-85fa-f423e5262c2a)
Child Poverty (item number 1) (id a9c9f6af-0bf8-4a0c-94c2-de1515a81504)
Civic Forum (item number 1) (id 65b4a437-c634-4f9b-8559-3e911e605fae)
Departmental Expenditure (item number 1) (id af201903-81c0-433f-9cab-889f8af7d6e8)
Departmental Staff (item number 1) (id 5ef82474-752a-4726-a496-a5d5aac4b21f)
Global Point Newtownabbey (item number 1) (id 9f460635-0534-44f7-b98e-f64899a82121)
Intertrade Ireland (item number 1) (id 27269ae7-7cf8-4755-baf0-2e53b47006c7)
Irish Hare (item number 1) (id 9d0a1f99-003a-4867-834c-fbcff71ca913)
Male Health (item number 1) (id ae523f7c-925b-4046-9add-95f4ae9baf26)
Mixed Sex Wards (item number 1) (id 0e53a3d8-a021-4409-8b40-87ffb6dee75b)
Physiotherapists (item number 1) (id 1e272def-f523-455a-82ed-440bb96d6713)
Planning (item number 1) (id 3d5726c0-2fb4-4d20-a113-3bbc54d3d293)
Roe Valley and Sperrins (item number 1) (id f1fa462a-91d5-43c6-97d8-95d86d1b58b7)
School Building Programme (item number 1) (id cfa87d21-0233-4cf7-a965-3490e0b67c99)
Section 106 Agreements (item number 1) (id e315e39f-b82b-4b52-bb30-5a788c1c58e5)
Special Advisers (item number 1) (id 9fedb584-d1e4-4cdb-b207-d32052cc2d71)
Temporary Classrooms (item number 1) (id 068c0f7c-a3f4-4b4b-b9b1-31124bef21ca)
Tor Bank Special School (item number 1) (id feb5623d-f1e5-4faa-8b9d-d78820f59825)
Unspent Budget (item number 1) (id 6a524b3e-4f84-45a4-8d6f-036ce153be78)
Valuation and Lands Agency (item number 1) (id 176ed605-5792-473f-a0e9-39026cdaa38a)

Home Department

Alcohol-free Zones (item number 1) (id 91878af2-e487-401f-a9c3-314d9dd222cb)
Animal Rights Terrorists (item number 1) (id 3a14c119-a268-46db-b6a4-44efe20bf081)
Antisocial Behaviour (item number 1) (id 6e5f719f-ac5c-4425-a6b0-bbdc759e0cfd)
Arson (item number 1) (id 8f4aa543-b187-401a-9446-85caed6dc114)
Asylum Seekers (item number 1) (id 805f7f1e-d32a-4faf-a071-387aafb0bea0)
Bruche Police Training Centre (item number 1) (id e477877a-6e1c-4c74-9e85-52cba9f27a60)
Cannabis (item number 1) (id f8530a65-4d44-48d3-985b-83628317cf35)
Capita Group (item number 1) (id a1103141-dd8d-4bdd-97c7-47e580833cbe)
Careless Driving (item number 1) (id 11eda2d4-bf93-4c15-868b-e335ade4947e)
Chip and PIN (item number 1) (id c0bd00cd-edfc-4c2f-aa6e-de13fcf90659)
Community Support Officers (item number 1) (id 5e807213-f906-47f1-bc3c-4ad114122f81)
Correspondence (item number 1) (id 1c33d944-f744-4bd2-8189-ad3cd18f5504)
Criminal Records Bureau (item number 1) (id 880fc931-b77b-4c59-b8dd-200c17fa62f8)
Departmental Child Care Facilities (item number 1) (id cc7611c9-7e58-479d-b149-157de4eac1ed)
Departmental Staff (item number 1) (id e67746c8-ec98-4a1c-a84c-f72de87f7e05)
Diversity Champion (item number 1) (id 5519c462-3f9d-4cad-aab2-cc4b8b5c7834)
DNA (item number 1) (id cc0c55a5-3033-43c5-afd6-51aa8112e1e5)
Europol (item number 1) (id 99949a43-c4ef-45bc-afff-74fd4369a734)
Fireworks (item number 1) (id 1a3d40ef-81c4-4f94-974a-559e610e2f7c)
Forensic Science Service (item number 1) (id 0860ad7f-6d2f-4f88-9c69-165d040e7d8f)
Home Detention Curfew (item number 1) (id db372dba-4406-4c02-8ee0-aa4319863bde)
Home Office Responsibilities (item number 1) (id 14315bbc-92a7-4d3b-a686-8105a1625348)
Infant LIfe (Preservation) Act 1929 (item number 1) (id f0f9bdc4-bd24-47d8-ab1b-06d36006feb3)
Juvenile Offenders (item number 1) (id 65557186-bd37-44e8-84cb-89684963240d)
Mobile Phones (Drivers) (item number 1) (id f75d92da-6ce9-4ede-9ebd-2ca755c0fcf4)
Motoring Offences (item number 1) (id cc1278c6-2a3b-45d5-81e1-bca51c6ff088)
National Identity Register (item number 1) (id f3ba2bad-159d-4c0e-b0a9-03f97ac06478)
Passports (item number 1) (id a0677a91-9cc1-4ace-a089-b61e6d86ce88)
Police (item number 1) (id 59ee79a0-26bd-4340-aff7-f1a3ee96df17)
Prisons (item number 1) (id 75068b30-eb70-4036-9f9a-3503caf58774)
Private Office (item number 1) (id fbe9b3be-d9fc-494b-801e-3f6aa1eeaaf8)
Prolific and Priority Offender Strategy (item number 1) (id b42c6c0a-4695-47f3-a33f-a1c577463b8d)
Proscribed Terrorist Organisations (item number 1) (id 73aaa362-5881-462f-92d6-f29e4fb067c6)
Racially Motivated Attacks (item number 1) (id f753b0a7-705e-4790-bed8-470b22d400f6)
Research Studies (item number 1) (id fe8bc553-5f77-4d2b-aecd-e9a04434a33c)
Road Trafffic Regulation Act 1984 (item number 1) (id 63fd5065-bf32-4de5-9b92-f3300ba2e873)
Sex Offenders (item number 1) (id 8c1a34ae-08b8-4843-9961-a907da38e783)
Sexually Objectifying Material (item number 1) (id c1461343-fc43-4793-8b0e-d748284fc27b)
Solicitors (item number 1) (id a086de5a-3f46-48ff-8617-c190e3b7cdcf)
Special Constables (item number 1) (id 34f51a89-708a-4bef-9642-70108fc2cccb)
Speed Cameras (item number 1) (id 40862f67-5fe6-4ebf-b78b-862fc07b1c1a)
Stop and Search (item number 1) (id 5fe73ff3-8411-47c6-a7df-25d94e06ee2e)
Terrorism (item number 1) (id aca9fbc6-6b3e-4b18-950f-f355388aa78a)
Terrorist Interrogations (item number 1) (id 7d588e83-e10d-4542-991e-55680f436688)
Torture (item number 1) (id a3a3b009-a4e0-4086-8ef1-bc6103f3cd7e)
Under-age Drinking (item number 1) (id d2f6ca70-1b6f-45ac-ad67-4d694a62494a)

Treasury

Banana Imports (item number 1) (id 3e61cd41-b6a6-4dcd-bede-230ede9006a4)
Birth Statistics (item number 1) (id 07bcecda-e712-4913-95e5-f640147343ff)
Cancer Rates (item number 1) (id e38d30f5-400b-499a-8c7f-d5428ae48717)
Car Clubs (item number 1) (id 12411dd9-de3c-4fbc-a6d4-93fa78fbae6a)
Children's Trust Funds (item number 1) (id 65f76487-c64a-4f95-a405-d178628d15f4)
Competitiveness (item number 1) (id 74daab8c-ecf5-4441-a1f7-4d97a287a1c1)
Correspondence (item number 1) (id c0956f3f-132f-4e95-8cd1-e8a13b946630)
Data Sharing (item number 1) (id f035f803-0e75-4f22-bbfb-71c3ad5d0ace)
Debt Collectors (item number 1) (id 125332ae-179f-4d91-b54d-2a95c0dda3eb)
Departmental Budget (item number 1) (id edeb4deb-2cd6-474a-9ee9-4767e95a3f33)
Departmental Staff (item number 1) (id 34be389e-17a8-4322-a8b1-97068a0f10a2)
Digital Switchover (item number 1) (id c9ae3318-0c6b-47ce-9b4a-4cf3243096e9)
Divorce (item number 1) (id 4a5e69c5-97d7-4835-9e2a-de5a331dd5b7)
EU Customs Union Committee (item number 1) (id e551e6e7-fa83-48f9-a36b-4655ba1d6a8c)
Financial Reporting Advisory Board (item number 1) (id 71e21769-80bd-4a8f-a8cd-062dd8617763)
Government Spending (item number 1) (id 9e4f4257-eb3c-4249-b8a8-7b989475dc5f)
Hairdressing Bills (item number 1) (id bc3d31bd-1a82-4b35-ac26-ce41e4319d51)
HM Revenue and Customs (item number 1) (id 3d2139c3-dab4-4d99-942c-d477b58cebfa)
House Purchase Expenses (item number 1) (id 2ab220b4-b46b-418e-bf05-4db409d567e6)
Income Tax (item number 1) (id 8877a885-cb76-422f-85b2-1911c9b1cf37)
Inheritance Tax (Northern Ireland) (item number 1) (id f92d231c-5554-4108-81fb-dc3f9603a684)
National Insurance Contributions (item number 1) (id 40dfe4af-8914-476d-84e1-dbdede070c64)
Personal Income Tax Allowance (item number 1) (id 52d5e8a2-8f15-45ab-8dd1-ac817cff0bc0)
Private Office Staff (item number 1) (id 328f5159-a672-4a25-ad7b-f215cff0be53)
Rice Imports (item number 1) (id edf9670b-4bfa-4173-978b-fad6c3e5560f)
Student Loans (item number 1) (id 048bdfde-388f-46b3-b39d-1af97399e005)
Tamworth (item number 1) (id 96db6ef7-1237-47df-8f8e-db7814eb32eb)
Tax Credits (item number 1) (id df261f00-321b-48eb-9927-8fd6f479e155)
Tax Office (Isle of Wight) (item number 1) (id 285ea6dd-b23b-4b16-bc20-b0c0e7371a62)
Teenage Pregnancies (item number 1) (id 66cf9e58-bce4-4a55-bdec-a47ae6c0716e)
Telephone Advice Lines (item number 1) (id 0a8fef84-10c5-45ab-9299-1548c8289c19)
Troncs (item number 1) (id 53afceb6-0243-4c77-a99f-6653fdbf139f)
Unemployment (item number 1) (id 5ab8c9fc-c991-46e2-95c8-ff4e58244747)
Valuation Office Agency (item number 1) (id 8ad56619-353a-4b8f-88d7-da010d4cb667)
VAT Fraud (item number 1) (id c2cbf685-7bf4-4cc2-a605-9fc297a13d30)

Health

Accenture (item number 1) (id a385fa48-5fec-429a-ab81-f4fd88dff87c)
Acute Hospital Trusts (item number 1) (id 28de2b20-58b5-4f60-9169-f6478c011278)
Ambulance Services (item number 1) (id 08c20d8e-e85c-4f08-a4a3-b8bb5c070f17)
Autism (item number 1) (id 2271be90-4d2b-4a1b-a851-248dfbbac05f)
Cancer Services (item number 1) (id ab06aa1b-a92d-4377-91a0-edd174ec265a)
Children's Health Services (item number 1) (id d15182fa-9b40-4774-8e59-2107584540d7)
Children's Hospices (item number 1) (id 466bbff5-64e0-405c-8ded-30aca0a1c670)
Choose and Book System (item number 1) (id 14bc3739-cf92-4dbf-8a75-03f9fa24d418)
Dorset and Somerset Strategic Health Authority (item number 1) (id 23d4ec6a-8cef-4c33-9943-0394b5d95700)
Foster Review (item number 1) (id 2f03f2a1-e20a-47fc-8fcc-12e8f132be43)
General Practitioners (item number 1) (id 3609a545-4f4e-4d5b-aaf0-7f5a55b8b404)
Gershon Review (item number 1) (id a008d800-87ee-46f6-bfcd-00677e084644)
Health Trusts (item number 1) (id 9c6aea09-0898-40b7-a052-fb540bf0e81f)
Healthcare Commission (item number 1) (id 8c711840-70b3-4b05-8658-944cd156c2fc)
Independent Care Sector (item number 1) (id f778d848-b9b7-42f3-b262-3d752c25f764)
Insulin (item number 1) (id 11ba0f01-855f-4925-84ce-41588b4bfcb1)
IT Interoperability (item number 1) (id e7bf04f0-0413-41b9-b5f0-b585cbe49e82)
LIFT Schemes (item number 1) (id 8af35749-07be-4e4a-9643-95b981e16adb)
Maternity Care (item number 1) (id 8751c5fe-be34-41b9-b7f0-5c33cfaab88e)
Mental Health (item number 1) (id 304d4e8a-56b8-418b-b968-0273d8f9402f)
Multiple Sclerosis (item number 1) (id 936f133f-6bb0-4935-b0df-fb6c2583bb13)
Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (item number 1) (id 51d3d5a1-7909-45fb-9376-be10456bed61)
NHS Deficits (item number 1) (id dfb7900c-666b-4d70-a3a9-f71aeb71abe2)
NHS Finance (item number 1) (id b7ae54de-07b3-4536-ba70-9aae37e18a4b)
NHS IT Programme (item number 1) (id b693c42f-36a8-42d3-8bef-cf57e892c935)
NHS Reconfiguration (item number 1) (id c8e37766-d930-4f50-938f-2676088b7abd)
Nuffield Speech and Language Unit (item number 1) (id 32ce8e17-9bb9-45d4-b1dd-55df4266cea4)
Nurses/Doctors (item number 1) (id 191a22f8-b3b4-4a3f-9506-9576c760394a)
Operations (item number 1) (id 777870a2-32c8-43c8-aea3-c3c7b400ed80)
Patient/Public Involvement (item number 1) (id c608323d-7a0d-426b-987b-93bccc51340d)
Population Statistics (item number 1) (id 55d5f777-8b50-4552-aaa1-dd8e7750ff4d)
Premature Babies (item number 1) (id 7f51a93f-f2e1-4daa-b82d-eba93fcf8e08)
Self-harm (item number 1) (id 229a3217-7d00-473f-b9c6-cc56f56ab69f)
Specialised Commissioning (item number 1) (id ebb46b96-3434-4a85-99fe-57b097553f05)
Strategic Health Authorities (item number 1) (id 059095f2-239c-42f0-be0f-8e5c0f2ea81b)
Waiting Lists/Times (item number 1) (id b421f723-2d2d-45dc-838e-6d52b7d062d9)
Working with Children (item number 1) (id 6ecd0644-07d8-4d4c-b748-c8f0a52ae171)

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