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Commons Hansard for 17 November 2008 (Volume 483)

From the bound volume. Last updated 13 May 2018 at 7.37pm.

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Transport

Airwave Service (item number 1) (id 0811174000065)
Aviation: Oxygen (item number 1) (id 0811174000066)
Bus Services: Concessions (item number 1) (id 0811174000067)
Dartford-Thurrock Crossing: Tolls (item number 1) (id 0811174000068)
Departmental Buildings (item number 1) (id 0811174000069)
Departmental Conditions of Employment (item number 1) (id 0811174000070)
Departmental ICT (item number 1) (id 0811174000071)
Departmental Information Officers (item number 1) (id 0811174000072)
Departmental Internet (item number 1) (id 0811174000073)
Departmental Temporary Employment (item number 1) (id 0811174000074)
Dial-a-Ride (item number 1) (id 0811174000075)
Driving: Licensing (item number 1) (id 0811174000076)
Ferries: Isle of Wight (item number 1) (id 0811174000077)
Freight (item number 1) (id 0811174000078)
Grants (item number 1) (id 0811174000079)
Gulf of Aden: Piracy (item number 1) (id 0811174000080)
Highways Agency: Compulsory Purchase (item number 1) (id 0811174000081)
M40: Noise (item number 1) (id 0811174000082)
Maritime and Coastguard Agency (item number 1) (id 0811174000083)
Members: Correspondence (item number 1) (id 0811174000084)
Performance Appraisal (item number 1) (id 0811174000085)
Piracy (item number 1) (id 0811174000086)
Railway Network: Greater London (item number 1) (id 0811174000087)
Rescue Services: Telecommunications (item number 1) (id 0811174000088)
Roads: Accidents (item number 1) (id 0811174000089)
Schools: Transport (item number 1) (id 0811174000090)
Somerset Trust: Finance (item number 1) (id 0811174000091)
Speed Limits: Rural Areas (item number 1) (id 0811174000092)
Transport: Advisory Bodies (item number 1) (id 0811174000093)

Home Department

Alcoholic Drinks: Antisocial Behaviour (item number 1) (id 08111738000003)
Antisocial Behaviour Orders: Enfield (item number 1) (id 08111738000004)
Arrests: Drugs (item number 1) (id 08111738000005)
Community Policing (item number 1) (id 08111738000006)
Community Support Officers: Manpower (item number 1) (id 08111738000007)
Control Orders (item number 1) (id 08111738000008)
Crime: EU Nationals (item number 1) (id 08111738000009)
Crime: Information and Communications Technology (item number 1) (id 08111738000010)
Departmental Public Expenditure (item number 1) (id 08111738000011)
Departmental Telecommunications (item number 1) (id 08111738000012)
Domestic Violence (item number 1) (id 08111738000013)
Drinking Banning Orders (item number 1) (id 08111738000014)
Driving Offences: Fines (item number 1) (id 08111738000015)
Emergency Services: Radio (item number 1) (id 08111738000016)
Essex Police Authority: Pay (item number 1) (id 08111738000017)
Fixed Penalties: Cycling (item number 1) (id 08111738000018)
Fixed Penalties: Proof of Identity (item number 1) (id 08111738000019)
Greater Manchester Police: Labour Turnover (item number 1) (id 08111738000020)
Identity Cards: Biometrics (item number 1) (id 08111738000021)
Independent Police Complaints Commission (item number 1) (id 08111738000022)
Independent Police Complaints Commission: Finance (item number 1) (id 08111738000023)
Police National Missing Person Bureau (item number 1) (id 08111738000024)
Police Patrolling (item number 1) (id 08111738000025)
Police: Bureaucracy (item number 1) (id 08111738000026)
Police: Complaints (item number 1) (id 08111738000027)
Police: Crime (item number 1) (id 08111738000028)
Police: Enfield (item number 1) (id 08111738000029)
Police: Recruitment (item number 1) (id 08111738000030)
Shoplifting: Fines (item number 1) (id 08111738000031)
Speed Limits: Cameras (item number 1) (id 08111738000032)
Surveillance: Telecommunications (item number 1) (id 08111738000033)
Terrorism (item number 1) (id 08111738000034)
Terrorism: Arrests (item number 1) (id 08111738000035)
Terrorism: Criminal Proceedings (item number 1) (id 08111738000036)
Theft: Sheep (item number 1) (id 08111738000037)

Work and Pensions

Departmental Official Engagements (item number 1) (id 0811183000002)
Departmental Pensions (item number 1) (id 0811183000003)
Departmental Public Relations (item number 1) (id 0811183000004)
Departmental Recruitment (item number 1) (id 0811183000005)
Departmental Responsibilities (item number 1) (id 0811183000006)
Departmental Telephone Services (item number 1) (id 0811183000007)
Deprivation Indicators (item number 1) (id 0811183000008)
Disability Living Allowance: Sight Impaired (item number 1) (id 0811183000009)
Employee Assistance Programme (item number 1) (id 0811183000010)
Employment and Support Allowance (item number 1) (id 0811183000011)
Employment Schemes (item number 1) (id 0811183000012)
Employment: Disabled (item number 1) (id 0811183000013)
Flexible New Deal (item number 1) (id 0811183000014)
Housing Benefit (item number 1) (id 0811183000015)
Incapacity Benefit (item number 1) (id 0811183000016)
Incapacity Benefit: Coastal Areas (item number 1) (id 0811183000017)
Income Support: Mortgages (item number 1) (id 0811183000018)
Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit (item number 1) (id 0811183000019)
Jobseeker’s Allowance (item number 1) (id 0811183000020)
Jobseeker’s Allowance: Disqualification (item number 1) (id 0811183000021)
Jobseeker’s Allowance: Employment (item number 1) (id 0811183000022)
Pensioners: Social Security Benefits (item number 1) (id 0811183000023)
Powers of Entry (item number 1) (id 0811183000024)
Social Security Benefits: EC Enlargement (item number 1) (id 0811183000025)
Social Security Benefits: Economic Situation (item number 1) (id 0811183000026)
Social Security Benefits: Fraud (item number 1) (id 0811183000027)
Social Security Benefits: Lone Parents (item number 1) (id 0811183000028)
Unemployed (item number 1) (id 0811183000029)
Written Questions: Government Responses (item number 1) (id 0811183000030)

Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Agriculture: Finance (item number 1) (id 08111812000005)
Agriculture: Subsidies (item number 1) (id 08111812000006)
Animal Welfare: Codes of Practice (item number 1) (id 08111812000007)
Badgers (item number 1) (id 08111812000008)
Bats: Rabies (item number 1) (id 08111812000009)
Batteries: Recycling (item number 1) (id 08111812000010)
Bees: Disease Control (item number 1) (id 08111812000011)
Bees: Diseases (item number 1) (id 08111812000012)
Bees: Research (item number 1) (id 08111812000013)
Bluetongue Disease (item number 1) (id 08111812000014)
Bovine Tuberculosis: Disease Control (item number 1) (id 08111812000015)
Coastal Areas: Environment Protection (item number 1) (id 08111812000016)
Compost: Fees and Charges (item number 1) (id 08111812000017)
Departmental Conditions of Employment (item number 1) (id 08111812000018)
Departmental Waste Disposal (item number 1) (id 08111812000019)
Dogs: Animal Welfare (item number 1) (id 08111812000020)
Domestic Waste: Waste Disposal (item number 1) (id 08111812000021)
Domestic Wastes (item number 1) (id 08111812000022)
Environment Agency: EA Geomatics (item number 1) (id 08111812000023)
Fly Tipping: Chelmsford (item number 1) (id 08111812000024)
Fly-tipping (item number 1) (id 08111812000025)
Landfill (item number 1) (id 08111812000026)
Maps: Environment Agency (item number 1) (id 08111812000027)
Milk: Prices (item number 1) (id 08111812000028)
Oil: Waste Management (item number 1) (id 08111812000029)
Recycling (item number 1) (id 08111812000030)
Waste and Resources Action Programme: Manpower (item number 1) (id 08111812000031)
Waste Disposal: Fees and Charges (item number 1) (id 08111812000032)
Waste Disposal: Fines (item number 1) (id 08111812000033)
Waste Disposal: Offices (item number 1) (id 08111812000034)
Waste Management (item number 1) (id 08111812000035)
Water Supply (item number 1) (id 08111812000036)

Defence

Afghanistan: Peacekeeping Operations (item number 1) (id 08111816000024)
Armed Forces: Blood Transfusions (item number 1) (id 08111816000025)
Armed Forces: Death (item number 1) (id 08111816000026)
Armed Forces: Fire Services (item number 1) (id 08111816000027)
Armed Forces: Pensions (item number 1) (id 08111816000028)
Armed Forces: Resignations (item number 1) (id 08111816000029)
Armed Forces: Self-mutilation (item number 1) (id 08111816000030)
Armed Forces: Suicide (item number 1) (id 08111816000031)
Armed Forces: Vehicles (item number 1) (id 08111816000032)
Astute Class Submarines (item number 1) (id 08111816000033)
AWE Aldermaston (item number 1) (id 08111816000034)
Ballistic Missile Defence (item number 1) (id 08111816000035)
Colombia: Armed Forces (item number 1) (id 08111816000036)
Democratic Republic of Congo: Armed Conflict (item number 1) (id 08111816000037)
Departmental Internet (item number 1) (id 08111816000038)
EC Defence Policy (item number 1) (id 08111816000039)
EU Carrier Group (item number 1) (id 08111816000040)
Ex-servicemen: Mental Health (item number 1) (id 08111816000041)
Frigates (item number 1) (id 08111816000042)
Gulf of Aden: Piracy (item number 1) (id 08111816000043)
Iraq: Peacekeeping Operations (item number 1) (id 08111816000044)
Military Aircraft (item number 1) (id 08111816000045)
Military Attachés (item number 1) (id 08111816000046)
Military Police (item number 1) (id 08111816000047)
Nuclear Submarines (item number 1) (id 08111816000048)
Peacekeeping Operations (item number 1) (id 08111816000049)
Piracy (item number 1) (id 08111816000050)
RAF Welford (item number 1) (id 08111816000051)
Snatch Land Rovers (item number 1) (id 08111816000052)
Snatch Vixen (item number 1) (id 08111816000053)
Submarines: Safety (item number 1) (id 08111816000054)
Trafalgar Class Submarines (item number 1) (id 08111816000055)
Turks and Caicos Islands: Hurricanes and Tornadoes (item number 1) (id 08111816000056)
Warships (item number 1) (id 08111816000057)

Treasury

Audit: Standards (item number 1) (id 08111819000002)
Bank of England: Accountability (item number 1) (id 08111819000003)
Bank Services (item number 1) (id 08111819000004)
Bank Services: Iceland (item number 1) (id 08111819000005)
Bank Services: Local Government (item number 1) (id 08111819000006)
Bank Services: Rural Areas (item number 1) (id 08111819000007)
Bank Services: Standards (item number 1) (id 08111819000008)
Banking Supervision (item number 1) (id 08111819000009)
Banks: EC Law (item number 1) (id 08111819000010)
Banks: Iceland (item number 1) (id 08111819000011)
Banks: Public Appointments (item number 1) (id 08111819000012)
Child Benefit (item number 1) (id 08111819000013)
Child Trust Fund (item number 1) (id 08111819000014)
Christmas (item number 1) (id 08111819000015)
Council Tax: Tax Yields (item number 1) (id 08111819000016)
Credit (item number 1) (id 08111819000017)
Departmental Catering (item number 1) (id 08111819000018)
Departmental Leave (item number 1) (id 08111819000019)
Departmental Marketing (item number 1) (id 08111819000020)
Departmental Pay (item number 1) (id 08111819000021)
Departmental Pensions (item number 1) (id 08111819000022)
Departmental Procurement (item number 1) (id 08111819000023)
Departmental Public Expenditure (item number 1) (id 08111819000024)
Deprivation Indicators (item number 1) (id 08111819000025)
Economic Policy (item number 1) (id 08111819000026)
Economic Situation: Coastal Areas (item number 1) (id 08111819000027)
EU External Trade: Israel (item number 1) (id 08111819000028)
European Coalition for Responsible Credit Conference (item number 1) (id 08111819000029)
Government Shareholding (item number 1) (id 08111819000030)
Income Tax: Prisoners (item number 1) (id 08111819000031)
Kaupthing Singer and Friedlander (item number 1) (id 08111819000032)
Landsbanki (item number 1) (id 08111819000033)
Lloyds TSB: Halifax Bank of Scotland (item number 1) (id 08111819000034)
Loans: Small Businesses (item number 1) (id 08111819000035)
Lost Working Days (item number 1) (id 08111819000036)
Maternity Pay (item number 1) (id 08111819000037)
Members: Correspondence (item number 1) (id 08111819000038)
Non-domestic Rates: Ports (item number 1) (id 08111819000039)
Public Sector: Pensions (item number 1) (id 08111819000040)
Public Works Loan Board: Interest Rates (item number 1) (id 08111819000041)
Revenue and Customs: Public Appointments (item number 1) (id 08111819000042)
Tax Havens (item number 1) (id 08111819000043)
Trade Unions (item number 1) (id 08111819000044)
Valuation: Information and Communications Technology (item number 1) (id 08111819000045)
Written Questions: Government Responses (item number 1) (id 08111819000046)

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Administration of Justice (item number 1) (id 08111823000002)
Admiralty House: Utilities (item number 1) (id 08111823000003)
Afghanistan: Reconstruction (item number 1) (id 08111823000004)
British Nationality: Overseas Residence (item number 1) (id 08111823000005)
China: Politics and Government (item number 1) (id 08111823000006)
Committee on the Grant of Honours, Decorations and Medals (item number 1) (id 08111823000007)
Democratic Republic of Congo: Overseas Residence (item number 1) (id 08111823000008)
Democratic Republic of Congo: Peace Negotiations (item number 1) (id 08111823000009)
Democratic Republic of Congo: Peacekeeping Operations (item number 1) (id 08111823000010)
Democratic Republic of Congo: Politics and Government (item number 1) (id 08111823000011)
Departmental Air Travel (item number 1) (id 08111823000012)
Departmental Appeals (item number 1) (id 08111823000013)
Departmental Buildings (item number 1) (id 08111823000014)
Departmental Databases (item number 1) (id 08111823000015)
Departmental Disciplinary Proceedings (item number 1) (id 08111823000016)
Departmental Equality (item number 1) (id 08111823000017)
Departmental Expenses (item number 1) (id 08111823000018)
Departmental Information (item number 1) (id 08111823000019)
Departmental Information and Communications Technology (item number 1) (id 08111823000020)
Departmental Manpower (item number 1) (id 08111823000021)
Departmental Overtime (item number 1) (id 08111823000022)
Departmental Pay (item number 1) (id 08111823000023)
Departmental Procurement (item number 1) (id 08111823000024)
Departmental Public Expenditure (item number 1) (id 08111823000025)
Departmental Temporary Employment (item number 1) (id 08111823000026)
Departmental Translation Services (item number 1) (id 08111823000027)
Departmental Working Hours (item number 1) (id 08111823000028)
Diego Garcia: Detainees (item number 1) (id 08111823000029)
Diego Garcia: Police Stations (item number 1) (id 08111823000030)
Diplomatic Service: Education (item number 1) (id 08111823000031)
Diplomatic Service: Manpower (item number 1) (id 08111823000032)
Disciplinary Proceedings (item number 1) (id 08111823000033)
Discrimination (item number 1) (id 08111823000034)
Dorneywood (item number 1) (id 08111823000035)
EDF Energy (item number 1) (id 08111823000036)
Embassies: Foreign Workers (item number 1) (id 08111823000037)
Internet: Regulation (item number 1) (id 08111823000038)
Iraq: Prisoners (item number 1) (id 08111823000039)
Israel: Armed Conflict (item number 1) (id 08111823000040)
Jerusalem: Railways (item number 1) (id 08111823000041)
Mexico: Trade Unions (item number 1) (id 08111823000042)
Middle East: Armed Conflict (item number 1) (id 08111823000043)
Middle East: Peace Negotiations (item number 1) (id 08111823000044)
Official Cars (item number 1) (id 08111823000045)
Rackspace (item number 1) (id 08111823000046)
Science: Manpower (item number 1) (id 08111823000047)
Shares: Sales Methods (item number 1) (id 08111823000048)
Somalia: International Assistance (item number 1) (id 08111823000049)
Somalia: Politics and Government (item number 1) (id 08111823000050)
Special Representative on Climate Change (item number 1) (id 08111823000051)
Syria: Nuclear Weapons (item number 1) (id 08111823000052)
Taxis (item number 1) (id 08111823000053)
Treaty of Lisbon (item number 1) (id 08111823000054)
USA: Internet (item number 1) (id 08111823000055)
Zimbabwe: United Nations (item number 1) (id 08111823000056)

Health

Arachnoiditis (item number 1) (id 08111824000002)
Association of Greater Manchester Primary Care Trusts: Grants (item number 1) (id 08111824000003)
Cancer: Health Services (item number 1) (id 08111824000004)
Care Homes: Inspections (item number 1) (id 08111824000005)
Community Hospitals (item number 1) (id 08111824000006)
Departmental NDPBs (item number 1) (id 08111824000007)
Departmental Written Questions (item number 1) (id 08111824000008)
Diabetes (item number 1) (id 08111824000009)
Direct Payments (item number 1) (id 08111824000010)
Drinking Water: Standards (item number 1) (id 08111824000011)
Drugs: Rehabilitation (item number 1) (id 08111824000012)
Gastrointestinal System: Cancer (item number 1) (id 08111824000013)
Gene Therapy Advisory Committee (item number 1) (id 08111824000014)
General Practitioners: Finance (item number 1) (id 08111824000015)
Health Centres (item number 1) (id 08111824000016)
Health Services: Discrimination (item number 1) (id 08111824000017)
Health Services: Overseas Visitors (item number 1) (id 08111824000018)
Hearing-Impaired: Screening (item number 1) (id 08111824000019)
Heart Diseases (item number 1) (id 08111824000020)
Heart Diseases: Health Services (item number 1) (id 08111824000021)
Hepatitis: Vaccinations (item number 1) (id 08111824000022)
Influenza: Vaccinations (item number 1) (id 08111824000023)
Midwives (item number 1) (id 08111824000024)
NHS Pharmacy Education and Development Committee: Finance (item number 1) (id 08111824000025)
NHS: Finance (item number 1) (id 08111824000026)
NHS: Personal Records (item number 1) (id 08111824000027)
NHS: Private Sector (item number 1) (id 08111824000028)
NHS: Telephone Numbering (item number 1) (id 08111824000029)
NHS: Temporary Employment (item number 1) (id 08111824000030)
Obesity: Health Services (item number 1) (id 08111824000031)
Organ Donation Taskforce (item number 1) (id 08111824000032)
Primary Care Trusts (item number 1) (id 08111824000033)
Prostate Cancer (item number 1) (id 08111824000034)
Social Services (item number 1) (id 08111824000035)
Social Services: Standards (item number 1) (id 08111824000036)
Southmead Hospital: PFI (item number 1) (id 08111824000037)
Vaccinations (item number 1) (id 08111824000038)
Alcoholic Drinks: Young People (item number 1) (id 08111824000039)

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