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Commons Hansard for 23 April 2008 (Volume 474)

                From the bound volume. Last updated 
13 May 2018 at 8.32pm.
            

Commons Chamber

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

House of Commons

Prayers

Private Business

Oral Answers to Questions

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Scotland

Identity Cards

Glaxo SmithKline

Electoral Administration

Electricity Generation

Motorcycling

Scottish Constitutional Commission

Family Doctor Services

Deferred division

Family Doctor Services

Crime (London)

european union documents

Public Family Law

Westminster Hall

Westminster Hall debates give Members an opportunity to raise local or national issues and receive a response from a government minister.

Westminster Hall

Prison Overcrowding/Sentencing Policy

West Midlands RSS

Housing (London)

Private Sector Rented Housing

Post Office Closures (Northavon)

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

Petitions

Debates about petitions that have been submitted by the public.

Petitions

Complaints Against Churches

Observations

Health

Ankylosing Spondylitis

Clatterbridge Hospital (Wirral)

Wirral Hospital NHS Trust

Written Answers

Content for Written Answers.

Written Answers to Questions

Work and Pensions

Annuities

Carter & Carter Group

Child Support Agency

Child Support Agency: Debts

Child Support Agency: Manpower

Children: Maintenance

Children: Poverty

Departmental Alcoholic Drinks

Departmental Data Protection

Departmental Leaflets

Departmental Legislation

Departmental Manpower

Departmental Official Visits

Departmental Publications

Departmental Sick Leave

Departmental Training

Departmental Translation Services

Discrimination

Employment: Disabled People

Employment: Females

Employment: Tribunals

Government Offices for the Regions

Housing Benefits

Incapacity Benefit

Income Support: Mortgages

Jobcentre Plus

Jobcentre Plus: Security Guards

Jobcentre Plus: Telephones

Jobseeker’s Allowance

Jobseeker’s Allowance: Banks

Karian and Box

Lone Parents

Nanotechnology: Safety

New Deal Schemes: Contracts

Pension Service

Pensions

Pensions: Widowed People

Post Office Card Account

Press Offices

PROGRESS Programme

Remploy

Social Security Benefits

Social Security Benefits: Disabled

Social Security Benefits: Lost Property

Social Security Benefits: Overpayments

Social Security Benefits: Telephone Services

State Retirement Pensions

Tax Allowances: Carers

Unemployment

Zurich Financial Services

Justice

Bail: Housing

Burglary: Prosecutions

Convictions: Pupils

Coroners

Coroners Bill (Draft)

Coroners: Children

Coroners: Mesothelioma

Crime: Victims

Data Protection

Departmental Advertising

Departmental Domestic Visits

Departmental Publications

Departmental Video Conferencing

Feltham Young Offender Institution and Remand Centre

Fixed Penalties: Young People

Forced Marriage

Homicide: Sentencing

Information Commissioner: Pensions

Internet: Data Protection

Life Imprisonment: Prisoners’ Release

Magistrates

Offensive Weapons: Sentencing

Police Custody

Police Custody: Young People

Prisoners

Prisoners: Disabled

Prisoners: Females

Prisoners: Police Custody

Prisoners: Rehabilitation

Prisoners: Training

Prisons: Cells

Sentencing

Sentencing: Young People

Suicide Prevention Strategy

Supervisions Orders: Costs

Voting Behaviour

Young Offenders: Custodial Treatment

Written Answers to Questions

Olympics

Olympic Games 2012

Wales

Bus Services: Concessions

Departmental Public Participation

Transport

Foreign-registered Lorries

Rail Services: Chelmsford to Liverpool Street Line

Railways: Capacity Enhancement

Rail Fares: Effects on Carbon Dioxide Emissions

Integrated Transport: Northern England

European Mobility Week

Road Congestion: West Yorkshire

Terminal 5

A417

Aircraft Engine Lubricants: Risks to Passengers and Crew

Airport Expansion

Concessionary Bus Travel: North Yorkshire

Left-hand Drive Heavy Goods Vehicles: Safety

Bus Services Operators’ Grant

Facilities for Cyclists

Pricing Mechanisms: Modes of Travel

Transport: Exhaust Emissions

West Coast Railway Line

Communities and Local Government

Carbon Monoxide: Alarms

Construction: Crime

Disabled

Energy: Conservation

Homelessness: Immigration

Housing: Construction

Housing: Planning

Housing: Renewable Energy

Planning: Tendring

Planning: Travelling People

Property: Database

Squatting: Advisory Services

Supporting People Programme: Learning Disability

Travelling People: Council Tax

Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Cetaceans: Conservation

Departmental Marketing

Departmental Sick Leave

Departmental Sustainable Development

Departmental Telephone Services

Departmental Working Hours

Inland Waterways: Repairs and maintenance

Recreation Spaces: Urban Areas

Rural Areas: Housing

Veterinary Medicine

Whales: Conservation

Defence

Armed Forces: Housing

Army: Uniforms

Departmental Accountancy

Departmental Internet

Departmental Marketing

Departmental Pensions

Departmental Training

Helicopters: Training

Members: Correspondence

Ministers’ Private Offices

National Army Museum

Northern Ireland

Departmental Alcoholic Drinks

Departmental Consultants

Scotland

JP Morgan

Karian and Box

Zurich Financial Services

House of Commons Commission

Performing Right Society

Home Department

Alcohol Control Zones

Alcoholic Drinks: Crime

Alcoholic Drinks: Public Order Offences

Alcoholic Drinks: Young People

Departmental Video Conferencing

Detention Centres: Drugs

Detention Centres: HIV Infection

Detention Centres: MRSA

Drugs: Children

Entry Clearances: Thailand

Firearms: Alcoholic Drinks

Foreign Workers: Domestic Service

Genetics: Databases

Immigration

Immigration: EC Action

Metropolitan Police: Carbon Emissions

Offenders: Deportation

Police

Police: Public Opinion

Pornography: Internet

Public Order Offences

Racial Violence

Security: Licensing

Terrorism

Treasury

Disabled People

Energy: Prices

Excise Duties: Motor Vehicles

Income Tax: Bexley

Northern Rock

VAT: Sunscreens

Innovation, Universities and Skills

Apprentices: Construction

Departmental Consultants

Departmental Electricity

Departmental Internet

Departmental Legislation

Departmental Manpower

Departmental Pay

Departmental Public Expenditure

Departmental Translation Services

Departmental Written Questions

Learning and Skills Councils: North West

Official Gifts

Duchy of Lancaster

Capita

Departmental Manpower

Departmental Pay

Departmental Public Participation

Migration: Statistics

Culture, Media and Sport

Arts Council of England: Finance

Conference Centres

Departmental Legislation

Departmental Public Expenditure

English Sports Council: Finance

Euclid

Internet: Children

Mobile Phones: Rural Areas

Museum, Libraries and Archives Council: Finance

Tourism: Essex

Tourism: North East

International Development

Children: Poverty

Departmental Pay

Departmental Sick Leave

Global Fund to Fight AIDS Tuberculosis and Malaria

Health Services

Karian and Box

Somalia: Food

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Admiralty House

Burma

Commonwealth: Students

Departmental Legislation

Departmental Pay

Departmental Sustainable Development

Gaza: Politics and Government

Iran: Sanctions

Iraq: Detainees

Iraq: Peacekeeping Operations

Middle East: Armed Conflict

Nuclear Fuels

Tibet: Politics and Government

Western Sahara: Human Rights

Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform

Business: Finance

Business: Regulation

Centre for Alternative Technology

Civil Service Appeal Board

Coal Fired Power Stations: Environment Protection

Conference Centres

Consumers, Estate Agents and Redress Act 2007

Cosmetics: Animal Welfare

Departmental Correspondence

Departmental Domestic Visits

Departmental Information and Communications Technology

Departmental Pensions

Departmental Publications

Departmental Sustainable Development

Morgan Stanley Dean Witter

Political Parties: Finance

Post Offices: Closures

Regional Development Agencies: Expenditure

Small Businesses: Bureaucracy

Telephone Contact Centres

Trade Unions

Trade Unions: Fees and Charges

UBS

Health

Alcoholic Drinks: Young People

Care Homes

Care Homes: Inspectors

Chlamydia: Information Services

Chlamydia: Screening

Departmental Grants

Departmental Procurement

Eating Disorders

Health Innovation Council

Health Services: Prisons

JP Morgan

Macular Degeneration: Drugs

Medical Records: Disclosure of Information

Mental Health Services: Young People

Mentally Ill

Mentally Ill: Children

Myofascial Pain Syndrome

Westminster Primary Care Trust: General Practitioners

Zurich Financial Services

Work and Pensions

Children: Maintenance

Departmental Domestic Visits

Employment: Vacancies

Housing Benefit

Incapacity Benefit

Incapacity Benefit: Inverness

Incapacity Benefit: Myofascial Pain Syndrome

Jobseeker’s Allowance

New Deal Schemes

Social Security Benefits: Forms

Social Security Benefits: Payments

State Retirement Pensions

Tribunals: Employment

Justice

Departmental Manpower

Departmental Public Participation

Disabled

Fixed Penalties

Gloucester Prison

JP Morgan and Zurich Financial Services

Personal Injury

Police Custody: Young People

Young Offender Institutions: Restraint Techniques

Young Offenders: Mentally Ill

Children, Schools and Families

Children in Care: Education

Children in Care: Missing Persons

Children: Databases

Children: Protection

Departmental Advertising

Departmental Alcoholic Drinks

Departmental Carbon Emissions

Departmental Cost-effectiveness

Departmental Internet

Departmental Manpower

Departmental Pay

Departmental Property

Departmental Sick Leave

Departmental Sustainable Development

Departmental Training

Departmental Working Hours

Departmental Written Questions

Disabled

Domestic Violence

Domestic Violence: Finance

Fairtrade Initiative

Forced Marriage

Health Education: Alcoholic Drinks

Inclusive Technology

Karian and Box

Primary Education: School Meals

Pupils: Epilepsy

Schools: Playgrounds

Written Answers to Questions

Prime Minister

Downing Street Political Office

History: Publications

Mobile Phones

Scotland

Barnett Formula

Gas Production

Nuclear Power

Gross Domestic Product

International Development

Subsea Oil and Gas

Executive Grant

National Minimum Wage

International Development

Departmental Publications

Developing Countries: Economic Growth

Northern Ireland

Departmental Pay

Disabled

IRA

Women and Equality

Departmental Ministerial Policy Advisers

Wales

Electronic Government

House of Commons Commission

Cromwell Green Entrance

Drinking Water

Meat

Culture, Media and Sport

Broadcasting: Standards

Departmental Public Expenditure

Journalism: Regulation

Transport

Biofuels: Standards

Departmental Sick Leave

Karian and Box

M25: M3

Railways: Expenditure

Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform

Audio Equipment: Licensing

Departmental Information and Communications Technology

Departmental Manpower

Duchy of Lancaster

Working Hours

Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Departmental Alcoholic Drinks

Departmental ICT

Departmental Legislation

Departmental Official Cars

Departmental Property

JP Morgan

Karian and Box

Natural England: Sites of Special Scientific Interest

Television

Temporary Employment

Zurich Financial Services

Treasury

Capital Gains Tax

Financial Inclusion Fund: Citizens Advice

Members: Correspondence

Non-Domestic Rates: Empty Property

Redundancy Pay: Taxation

Stamp Duty Land Tax

Taxation: Gambling

Welfare Tax Credits

Defence

Armed Forces Benefits Calculator

Armed Forces: Recruitment

Departmental Contracts

Departmental Manpower

Iraq: Peacekeeping Operations

JP Morgan

Zurich Financial Services

Innovation, Universities and Skills

Departmental Legislation

Departmental Pay

Departmental Sick Leave

Departmental Temporary Employment

Higher Education

Higher Education: Admissions

Higher Education: Scholarships

Midwifery Students

Students: Identity Cards

Work and Pensions

Departmental Industrial Health and Safety

Departmental Leaflets

Departmental Marketing

Departmental Sustainable Development

Health and Safety Executive: Pay

Health and Safety Executive: Pensions

Industrial Diseases: Compensation

Industrial Health and Safety: Construction

Industrial Health and Safety: Fines

Industrial Health and Safety: Sentencing

Remploy

Remploy: Company Cars

Social Security Benefits: Inverness

Children, Schools and Families

Children: Language

Departmental Flexible Working

Departmental Higher Civil Servants

Departmental Legislation

Departmental Part-Time Employment

Departmental Redundancy

Departmental Vetting

Departmental Written Questions

Education: Assessments

Education: Research

Home Education

Languages: General Certificate of Secondary Education

Parents: Advisory Services

Pre-School Education: Standards

Press

Primary Education: Teachers

Pupil Exclusions

Reading: Teaching Methods

Schools: Catering

Schools: Finance

Schools: Governing Bodies

Schools: Recycling

Schools: Sports

Schools: Sustainable Development

Schools: Water

Secondary Education: Assessments

Secondary Education: Teaching Methods

Teachers: Qualifications

Textbooks

Communities and Local Government

Allotments: Finance

Building Regulations: Public Participation

Conference Centres: Finance

Council Tax: Students

Council Tax: Tax Yields

Departmental ICT

Eco-Towns: Leicestershire

Housing: Carbon Emissions

Housing: Immigration

Housing: Inspections

Non-Domestic Rates

Parish Councils: Finance

Property: Valuation

Recreation Spaces: Databases

Regional Planning and Development: Fines

Regional Planning and Development: Greenwich Peninsula

Written Questions: Government Responses

Justice

Administration of Justice: Inspections

Departmental Carbon Emissions

Departmental Internet

Departmental Sick Leave

Departmental Sustainable Development

Prisoners: Databases

Prisoners: Health Services

Prisons: Cells

Prisons: Employment

Prisons: Video Equipment

Prisons: Wrexham

Weare Prison

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

BBC External Services: Manpower

Cameroon: Overseas Aid

Cameroon: Politics and Government

Commonwealth Scholarship Commission: Finance

Commonwealth: Scholarships

Ethiopia: Human Rights

Indonesia: Human Rights

Iraq: Oil

Kosovo: Politics and Government

Malta: Health Services

Middle East: Armed Conflict

Syria: Foreign Relations

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