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Commons Hansard for 17 March 2008 (Volume 473)

From the bound volume. Last updated 13 May 2018 at 8.23pm.

Commons Chamber

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

House of Commons (item number 1) (id 08031713000005)
Prayers (item number 2) (id 08031713000008)
European Council (item number 4) (id 08031713000004)
Nail Bars and Special Treatment Premises (Regulation) (item number 5) (id 08031713000003)
Orders of the Day (item number 6) (id 08031713000007)
Ways and Means (item number 7) (id 08031713000001)
amendment of the law (item number 8) (id 08031713000009)
Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation (item number 9) (id 08031713000002)
committees (item number 10) (id 08031733000004)
Petitions (item number 11) (id 08031733000005)
Post Office Closures (Cumbria) (item number 12) (id 08031733000001)
Wirral Hospital NHS Trust (item number 13) (id 08031733000002)
Winter Fuel Payments (item number 14) (id 08031733000003)

Written Answers

Content for Written Answers.

Written Answers to Questions

Health

Accident and Emergency Department (item number 1) (id 0803174000026)
Breastfeeding (item number 1) (id 0803174000027)
Chronically Sick: Castle Point (item number 1) (id 0803174000028)
Dental Services: Lancashire (item number 1) (id 0803174000029)
Departmental Advertising (item number 1) (id 0803174000030)
Departmental Land (item number 1) (id 0803174000031)
Departmental Older Workers (item number 1) (id 0803174000032)
Departmental Property (item number 1) (id 0803174000033)
Written Questions (item number 1) (id 0803174000034)
Elderly: Carers (item number 1) (id 0803174000035)
Emergency Ambulance Services (item number 1) (id 0803174000036)
General Practitioners (item number 1) (id 0803174000037)
General Practitioners: Staffordshire (item number 1) (id 0803174000038)
General Practitioners: Tamworth (item number 1) (id 0803174000039)
General Practitioners: Working Hours (item number 1) (id 0803174000040)
Health Services: Expenditure (item number 1) (id 0803174000041)
Health Services: Greater London (item number 1) (id 0803174000042)
Health Services: Private Sector (item number 1) (id 0803174000043)
Hospital Beds (item number 1) (id 0803174000044)
Hospitals: Waiting Lists (item number 1) (id 0803174000045)
Medical Records: Databases (item number 1) (id 0803174000046)
Mental Health Act 2007 (item number 1) (id 0803174000047)
NHS: Finance (item number 1) (id 0803174000048)
NHS: Geographical Information Systems (item number 1) (id 0803174000049)
NHS: Surgery (item number 1) (id 0803174000050)
North Lancashire Primary Care Trust: Finance (item number 1) (id 0803174000051)
Out-Patients: Waiting Lists (item number 1) (id 0803174000052)
Palliative Care: Castle Point (item number 1) (id 0803174000053)
Patients (item number 1) (id 0803174000054)
Pharmacy: Opening Hours (item number 1) (id 0803174000055)
Surgery (item number 1) (id 0803174000056)
Torbay Hospital: Waiting Lists (item number 1) (id 0803174000057)
West Hertfordshire NHS Acute Trust: Consultants (item number 1) (id 0803174000058)
Wind Power (item number 1) (id 0803174000059)

Transport

Birmingham New Street Station (item number 1) (id 0803174000061)
Birminghman New Street Station: Consultants (item number 1) (id 0803174000062)
Bus Services: Concessions (item number 1) (id 0803174000063)
Bus Services: Pensioners (item number 1) (id 0803174000064)
Concessions: Schools (item number 1) (id 0803174000065)
Cycling (item number 1) (id 0803174000066)
Cycling: Children (item number 1) (id 0803174000067)
Cycling England: Consultants (item number 1) (id 0803174000068)
Departmental Data Protection (item number 1) (id 0803174000069)
Departmental Databases (item number 1) (id 0803174000070)
Great Western Trains: Passengers (item number 1) (id 0803174000071)
Heathrow Airport: Finance (item number 1) (id 0803174000072)
Hope Valley Railway Line: Freight (item number 1) (id 0803174000073)
Intercity Express: Consultants (item number 1) (id 0803174000074)
M25 (item number 1) (id 0803174000075)
M54: M6 Toll (item number 1) (id 0803174000076)
Motor Vehicles: Excise Duties (item number 1) (id 0803174000077)
Operation Stack (item number 1) (id 0803174000078)
Public Transport: Antisocial Behaviour (item number 1) (id 0803174000079)
Railway Stations (item number 1) (id 0803174000080)
Railway Stations: Access (item number 1) (id 0803174000081)
Railways (item number 1) (id 0803174000082)
Railways: Crime (item number 1) (id 0803174000083)
Railways: Fares (item number 1) (id 0803174000084)
Railways: Kent (item number 1) (id 0803174000085)
Railways: Passengers (item number 1) (id 0803174000086)
Road Traffic Control (item number 1) (id 0803174000087)
Roads: Construction (item number 1) (id 0803174000088)
Roads: Taxation (item number 1) (id 0803174000089)
Rolling Stock (item number 1) (id 0803174000090)
Sea France: Industrial Disputes (item number 1) (id 0803174000091)
Speed Limits: Cameras (item number 1) (id 0803174000092)
Trams: Leeds (item number 1) (id 0803174000093)
Transport: Sussex (item number 1) (id 0803174000094)
Transport: Yorkshire and the Humber (item number 1) (id 0803174000095)

Home Department

Armed Forces: Peterborough (item number 1) (id 0803174000108)
Arrests (item number 1) (id 0803174000109)
Borders: Police (item number 1) (id 0803174000110)
Case Reference B3416/7 (H423624) (item number 1) (id 0803174000111)
Citizenship (item number 1) (id 0803174000112)
Criminal Investigation: Portugal (item number 1) (id 0803174000113)
Departmental Cost Effectiveness (item number 1) (id 0803174000114)
Departmental Equality (item number 1) (id 0803174000115)
Departmental ICT (item number 1) (id 0803174000116)
Departmental Impact Assessments (item number 1) (id 0803174000117)
Departmental Internet (item number 1) (id 0803174000118)
Departmental Labour Turnover (item number 1) (id 0803174000119)
Departmental Legislation (item number 1) (id 0803174000120)
Departmental Plants (item number 1) (id 0803174000121)
Departmental Property (item number 1) (id 0803174000122)
Departmental Public Expenditure (item number 1) (id 0803174000123)
Departmental Publicity (item number 1) (id 0803174000124)
Departmental Translation Services (item number 1) (id 0803174000125)
Deportation (item number 1) (id 0803174000126)
Deportation: Police Custody (item number 1) (id 0803174000127)
English Language (item number 1) (id 0803174000128)
Entry Clearances: Employment (item number 1) (id 0803174000129)
Entry Clearances: Offenders (item number 1) (id 0803174000130)
Evidence (item number 1) (id 0803174000131)
Foreigners: Sports (item number 1) (id 0803174000132)
Immigrants: Pakistan (item number 1) (id 0803174000133)
Immigration (item number 1) (id 0803174000134)
Immigration Control Officer (item number 1) (id 0803174000135)
Immigration Controls (item number 1) (id 0803174000136)
Immigration Controls: Foreign Workers (item number 1) (id 0803174000137)
Immigration Officers (item number 1) (id 0803174000138)
Immigration Officers: Crimes of Violence (item number 1) (id 0803174000139)
Immigration: Deportation (item number 1) (id 0803174000140)
Immigration: Eurostar (item number 1) (id 0803174000141)
Immigration: Housing (item number 1) (id 0803174000142)
Immigration: Iraq (item number 1) (id 0803174000143)
Members: Correspondence (item number 1) (id 0803174000144)
Mr. Rausch (item number 1) (id 0803174000145)
Mrs. Nyatsanza (item number 1) (id 0803174000146)
Official Residences (item number 1) (id 0803174000147)
Police Custody: Death (item number 1) (id 0803174000148)
Police: Lancashire (item number 1) (id 0803174000149)
Police: Morecambe (item number 1) (id 0803174000150)
Police: Telford (item number 1) (id 0803174000151)
Polygamy (item number 1) (id 0803174000152)
Register of Births (item number 1) (id 0803174000153)
Stop and Search: Tamworth (item number 1) (id 0803174000154)
Surveillance (item number 1) (id 0803174000155)
Terrorism: Arrests (item number 1) (id 0803174000156)
Vandalism: Arrests (item number 1) (id 0803174000157)

Innovation, Universities and Skills

Business (item number 1) (id 08031731000014)
Career Development Loans (item number 1) (id 08031731000015)
Departmental Consultants (item number 1) (id 08031731000016)
Departmental Data Protection (item number 1) (id 08031731000018)
Departmental Equality (item number 1) (id 08031731000019)
Departmental Freedom of Information (item number 1) (id 08031731000020)
Departmental Home Working (item number 1) (id 08031731000021)
Departmental ICT (item number 1) (id 08031731000022)
Departmental Impact Assessments (item number 1) (id 08031731000023)
Departmental Information Officers (item number 1) (id 08031731000024)
Departmental Labour Turnover (item number 1) (id 08031731000025)
Departmental Official Hospitality (item number 1) (id 08031731000026)
Departmental Pay (item number 1) (id 08031731000027)
Departmental Private Finance Initiative (item number 1) (id 08031731000028)
Departmental Public Expenditure (item number 1) (id 08031731000029)
Departmental Secondment (item number 1) (id 08031731000030)
Departmental Sick Leave (item number 1) (id 08031731000031)
Departmental Sustainable Development (item number 1) (id 08031731000032)
Departmental Translation Services (item number 1) (id 08031731000033)
Departmental Travel (item number 1) (id 08031731000034)
Education: Prisoners (item number 1) (id 08031731000036)
Industrial Health and Safety: Training (item number 1) (id 08031731000037)
Kent (item number 1) (id 08031731000038)
Physics: Reviews (item number 1) (id 08031731000039)
Postal Services (item number 1) (id 08031731000040)
Railways (item number 1) (id 08031731000041)
Regulation (item number 1) (id 08031731000042)
Sexual Harassment (item number 1) (id 08031731000043)
Shropshire (item number 1) (id 08031731000044)
Teachers: Training (item number 1) (id 08031731000045)
Tolls (item number 1) (id 08031731000046)
Vocational Training: Prisoners (item number 1) (id 08031731000047)
Young People (item number 1) (id 08031731000048)

Treasury

Bank Services: Liechtenstein (item number 1) (id 08031731000101)
Charities (item number 1) (id 08031731000102)
Departmental ICT (item number 1) (id 08031731000103)
Departmental Temporary Employment (item number 1) (id 08031731000104)
Excise Duties: Shipping (item number 1) (id 08031731000105)
Foreign Workers: West Midlands (item number 1) (id 08031731000106)
HM Revenue and Customs: Fraud (item number 1) (id 08031731000107)
Housing Benefit (item number 1) (id 08031731000108)
Income (item number 1) (id 08031731000109)
Income Stifling (item number 1) (id 08031731000110)
Income Tax: Tax Yields (item number 1) (id 08031731000111)
Local Income Tax (item number 1) (id 08031731000112)
Local Income Tax: Scotland (item number 1) (id 08031731000113)
Mortgages (item number 1) (id 08031731000114)
Public Sector: Job Creation (item number 1) (id 08031731000115)
Revenue and Customs (item number 1) (id 08031731000116)
Revenue and Customs: Chorley (item number 1) (id 08031731000117)
Revenue and Customs: Offices (item number 1) (id 08031731000118)
Revenue and Customs: Pay (item number 1) (id 08031731000119)
Revenue and Customs: Postal Services (item number 1) (id 08031731000120)
Smuggling: Firearms (item number 1) (id 08031731000121)
Tax Credits Office: Labour Turnover (item number 1) (id 08031731000122)
Tax Evasion (item number 1) (id 08031731000123)
Valuation Office (item number 1) (id 08031731000124)
Valuation Office: Digital Technology (item number 1) (id 08031731000125)
Valuation Office: Visits Abroad (item number 1) (id 08031731000126)
Valuation Office: Wales (item number 1) (id 08031731000127)
VAT: Housing Improvement (item number 1) (id 08031731000128)
Welfare Tax Credits (item number 1) (id 08031731000129)
Welfare Tax Credits: Overpayments (item number 1) (id 08031731000130)
Working Tax Credit: Foreigners (item number 1) (id 08031731000131)

Children, Schools and Families

LEAs: Performance (item number 1) (id 08031731000132)
Early Intervention (item number 1) (id 08031731000133)
AS-levels (item number 1) (id 08031731000134)
Standards of Attainment (item number 1) (id 08031731000135)
Team Sports (item number 1) (id 08031731000136)
Admissions Process (item number 1) (id 08031731000137)
IT Projects (item number 1) (id 08031731000138)
Building Schools for the Future (item number 1) (id 08031731000139)
Binge Drinking (item number 1) (id 08031731000140)
Part-Time Jobs: Schoolchildren (item number 1) (id 08031731000141)
Academies (item number 1) (id 08031731000142)
Academies: Teaching Methods (item number 1) (id 08031731000143)
Building Schools for the Future Programme (item number 1) (id 08031731000144)
Building Schools for the Future Programme: Finance (item number 1) (id 08031731000145)
Classroom Assistants: Tamworth (item number 1) (id 08031731000146)
Council for Learning Outside the Classroom (item number 1) (id 08031731000147)
Departmental Translation Services (item number 1) (id 08031731000148)
Education: Devon (item number 1) (id 08031731000149)
English Language: General Certificate of Secondary Education (item number 1) (id 08031731000150)
GCE A-Level (item number 1) (id 08031731000151)
General Certificate of Secondary Education (item number 1) (id 08031731000152)
Gifted Children (item number 1) (id 08031731000153)
Gifted Children: GCE A-Level (item number 1) (id 08031731000154)
Health Education: Sex (item number 1) (id 08031731000155)
Institute of Education: Finance (item number 1) (id 08031731000156)
Parental Contributions (item number 1) (id 08031731000157)
Primary Education: Closures (item number 1) (id 08031731000158)
Primary Education: Tamworth (item number 1) (id 08031731000159)
Pupils: Hay Fever (item number 1) (id 08031731000160)
Pupils: Personal Records (item number 1) (id 08031731000161)
Recreation Spaces: Finance (item number 1) (id 08031731000162)
Schools: Admissions (item number 1) (id 08031731000163)
Schools: Disadvantaged (item number 1) (id 08031731000164)
Schools: Expenditure (item number 1) (id 08031731000165)
Schools: Lincolnshire (item number 1) (id 08031731000166)
Schools: Offensive Weapons (item number 1) (id 08031731000167)
Schools: Standards (item number 1) (id 08031731000168)
Schools: Sustainable Development (item number 1) (id 08031731000169)
Secondary Education: Admissions (item number 1) (id 08031731000170)
Students: Plagiarism (item number 1) (id 08031731000171)
Vocational Education (item number 1) (id 08031731000172)
Young People: Crime (item number 1) (id 08031731000173)

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