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Commons Hansard for 5 January 2010 (Volume 503)

From the bound volume. Last updated 13 May 2018 at 7.43pm.

Commons Chamber

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

House of Commons (item number 1) (id 10010528000006)
Prayers (item number 2) (id 10010528000008)
Yemen (item number 4) (id 10010528000005)
Aviation and Border Security (item number 5) (id 10010528000001)
Copenhagen Climate Change Conference (item number 6) (id 10010528000002)
Queen’s Diamond Jubilee (item number 7) (id 10010528000003)
Point of Order (item number 8) (id 10010528000004)
Fiscal Responsibility Bill (item number 9) (id 10010535000001)
Business without Debate (item number 10) (id 10010610000001)
Corporation Tax BILL (Ways and Means) (item number 11) (id 10010610000003)
Taxation (International and Other Provisions) Bill (Ways and Means) (item number 12) (id 10010610000004)
Delegated Legislation (item number 13) (id 10010610000005)
Regulatory Reform (item number 14) (id 10010610000006)
House of Commons Members’ Fund (item number 15) (id 10010610000007)
European Union Documents (item number 16) (id 10010610000008)
Sittings of the House (item number 17) (id 10010610000009)
Southend-on-Sea (item number 19) (id 10010610000002)

Written Answers

Content for Written Answers.

Written Answers to Questions

Defence

Afghanistan: Peacekeeping Operations (item number 1) (id 10010521000002)
Air Force: Military Bases (item number 1) (id 10010521000003)
Armed Forces: Aviation (item number 1) (id 10010521000004)
Armed Forces: Bomb Disposal (item number 1) (id 10010521000005)
Armed Forces: Officers (item number 1) (id 10010521000006)
Armed Forces: Training (item number 1) (id 10010521000007)
Armed Forces: Weapons (item number 1) (id 10010521000008)
Defence: Expenditure (item number 1) (id 10010521000009)
Departmental Air Travel (item number 1) (id 10010521000010)
Departmental Pay (item number 1) (id 10010521000011)
Departmental Public Expenditure (item number 1) (id 10010521000012)
Future Large Aircraft (item number 1) (id 10010521000013)
Germany: British Forces Post Office (item number 1) (id 10010521000014)
Gibraltar: Navy (item number 1) (id 10010521000015)
Hotels (item number 1) (id 10010521000016)
Iraq Committee of Inquiry (item number 1) (id 10010521000017)
Iraq Committee of Inquiry: Reserve Forces (item number 1) (id 10010521000018)
Iraq: Oil (item number 1) (id 10010521000019)
Iraq: Prisoners (item number 1) (id 10010521000020)
Met Office (item number 1) (id 10010521000021)
Military Aircraft: Deployment (item number 1) (id 10010521000022)
Military Aircraft: Procurement (item number 1) (id 10010521000023)
Military Bases: Edinburgh Castle (item number 1) (id 10010521000024)
Military Bases: Scotland (item number 1) (id 10010521000025)
Nimrod Aircraft (item number 1) (id 10010521000026)
Offenders (item number 1) (id 10010521000027)
Radioactive Materials: Transport (item number 1) (id 10010521000028)
Royal Fleet Auxiliary (item number 1) (id 10010521000029)
Security (item number 1) (id 10010521000030)
Territorial Army: Manpower (item number 1) (id 10010521000031)
Trident (item number 1) (id 10010521000032)
Type 45 Destroyers (item number 1) (id 10010521000033)
Warships (item number 1) (id 10010521000034)

Justice

Veteran Support (item number 1) (id 10010539000002)
Clayton v. Clayton (item number 1) (id 10010539000003)
Probation Service Funding (item number 1) (id 10010539000004)
Prisoner Rehabilitation (item number 1) (id 10010539000005)
Prisoner Reoffending (item number 1) (id 10010539000006)
Constitutional Reform and Governance Bill (item number 1) (id 10010539000007)
Electoral Register (item number 1) (id 10010539000008)
Prison Chaplains (item number 1) (id 10010539000009)
Young Offender Institutions (item number 1) (id 10010539000010)
Legal Aid: Human Trafficking (item number 1) (id 10010539000011)
Probation Service Performance (item number 1) (id 10010539000012)
Dangerous Driving (item number 1) (id 10010539000013)
Departmental Assets (item number 1) (id 10010539000014)
Departmental Consultants (item number 1) (id 10010539000015)
Departmental Chief Information Officer (item number 1) (id 10010539000016)
Departmental Sick Leave (item number 1) (id 10010539000017)
Departmental Training (item number 1) (id 10010539000018)
Departmental Written Questions (item number 1) (id 10010539000019)
National Offender Management Service : Equal Opportunities (item number 1) (id 10010539000020)
Overseas Residence: Crime (item number 1) (id 10010539000021)
Prisoner: Transfers (item number 1) (id 10010539000022)
Probation (item number 1) (id 10010539000023)
Thinking Skills Programme: Yorkshire (item number 1) (id 10010539000024)
Young Offenders: Convictions (item number 1) (id 10010539000025)
Young Offenders: Foster Care (item number 1) (id 10010539000026)

Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Agriculture (item number 1) (id 10010542000002)
Agriculture: EU Law (item number 1) (id 10010542000003)
Agriculture: Subsidies (item number 1) (id 10010542000004)
Animal Welfare (item number 1) (id 10010542000005)
Bees (item number 1) (id 10010542000006)
Bovine Tuberculosis: Disease Control (item number 1) (id 10010542000007)
Cattle (item number 1) (id 10010542000008)
Chasewater Reservoir (item number 1) (id 10010542000009)
Christmas Trees (item number 1) (id 10010542000010)
Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 (item number 1) (id 10010542000011)
Dairy Farming: Lancashire (item number 1) (id 10010542000012)
Departmental Advertising (item number 1) (id 10010542000013)
Departmental Buildings (item number 1) (id 10010542000014)
Departmental Conferences (item number 1) (id 10010542000015)
Departmental Manpower (item number 1) (id 10010542000016)
Departmental Pay (item number 1) (id 10010542000017)
Departmental Public Relations (item number 1) (id 10010542000018)
Departmental Publicity (item number 1) (id 10010542000019)
Departmental Telephone Services (item number 1) (id 10010542000020)
Departmental Training (item number 1) (id 10010542000021)
Domestic Waste: Waste Disposal (item number 1) (id 10010542000022)
Elephants: Conservation (item number 1) (id 10010542000023)
Farms: Inspections (item number 1) (id 10010542000024)
Flood Control: Finance (item number 1) (id 10010542000025)
Food (item number 1) (id 10010542000026)
Forestry Commission: Conferences (item number 1) (id 10010542000027)
Forestry Commission: Hotels (item number 1) (id 10010542000028)
Ivory (item number 1) (id 10010542000029)
Ivory: China (item number 1) (id 10010542000030)
Joint Waste Authorities (item number 1) (id 10010542000031)
Morocco: Fishery Agreements (item number 1) (id 10010542000032)
National Bee Unit: Finance (item number 1) (id 10010542000033)
Office of Water Services: Conferences (item number 1) (id 10010542000034)
Pets: Animal Welfare (item number 1) (id 10010542000035)
Rights of Way (item number 1) (id 10010542000036)
Rural Payments Agency: Data Protection (item number 1) (id 10010542000037)
Sheep: North West (item number 1) (id 10010542000038)
Total Allowable Catches (item number 1) (id 10010542000039)
Waste Disposal (item number 1) (id 10010542000040)
Waste Disposal: Fixed Penalties (item number 1) (id 10010542000041)
Whales: Conservation (item number 1) (id 10010542000042)

Cabinet Office

10 Downing Street: Lost Property (item number 1) (id 10010551000002)
Breast Cancer (item number 1) (id 10010551000003)
Central Office of Information: Conferences (item number 1) (id 10010551000004)
Central Office of Information: Public Relations (item number 1) (id 10010551000005)
Charities: Asylum (item number 1) (id 10010551000006)
Charity Commission: Political Activities (item number 1) (id 10010551000007)
Death: Cancer (item number 1) (id 10010551000008)
Departmental Art Works (item number 1) (id 10010551000009)
Departmental Conferences (item number 1) (id 10010551000010)
Departmental Marketing (item number 1) (id 10010551000011)
Departmental Pay (item number 1) (id 10010551000012)
Departmental Plants (item number 1) (id 10010551000013)
Departmental Sick Leave (item number 1) (id 10010551000014)
Departmental Written Questions (item number 1) (id 10010551000015)
Flood Control (item number 1) (id 10010551000016)
Floods (item number 1) (id 10010551000017)
Floods: Cumbria (item number 1) (id 10010551000018)
Government Departments: Computer Software (item number 1) (id 10010551000019)
Government Departments: Security (item number 1) (id 10010551000020)
Hakluyt (item number 1) (id 10010551000021)
Intelligence Services: Finance (item number 1) (id 10010551000022)
National School of Government: Valuation Office (item number 1) (id 10010551000023)
Pay (item number 1) (id 10010551000024)
Public Expenditure (item number 1) (id 10010551000025)
UK Statistics Authority: Hotels (item number 1) (id 10010551000026)
UK Statistics Authority: Internet (item number 1) (id 10010551000027)

Work and Pensions

Carers' Benefits (item number 1) (id 10010560000002)
Children: Maintenance (item number 1) (id 10010560000003)
Council Tax (item number 1) (id 10010560000004)
Departmental Billing (item number 1) (id 10010560000005)
Departmental Internet (item number 1) (id 10010560000006)
Departmental Theft (item number 1) (id 10010560000007)
Departmental Translation Services (item number 1) (id 10010560000008)
Employment and Support Allowance (item number 1) (id 10010560000009)
Employment and Support Allowance: Medical Examinations (item number 1) (id 10010560000010)
Employment Schemes: Tourettes Syndrome (item number 1) (id 10010560000011)
Equality 2025 (item number 1) (id 10010560000012)
Future Jobs Fund (item number 1) (id 10010560000013)
Health and Safety Executive: Public Relations (item number 1) (id 10010560000014)
Housing Benefit (item number 1) (id 10010560000015)
Incapacity Benefit (item number 1) (id 10010560000016)
Industrial Diseases: Compensation (item number 1) (id 10010560000017)
Industrial Health and Safety: Hazardous Substances (item number 1) (id 10010560000018)
Jobseeker's Allowance: Leeds (item number 1) (id 10010560000019)
Low Incomes: Water Charges (item number 1) (id 10010560000020)
Means-Tested Benefits (item number 1) (id 10010560000021)
Members: Correspondence (item number 1) (id 10010560000022)
New Deal for Lone Parents (item number 1) (id 10010560000023)
New Deal Schemes: Wales (item number 1) (id 10010560000024)
Pensioners: Poverty (item number 1) (id 10010560000025)
Pensions (item number 1) (id 10010560000026)
Personal Accounts (item number 1) (id 10010560000027)
Poverty (item number 1) (id 10010560000028)
Poverty: West Yorkshire (item number 1) (id 10010560000029)
Social Security Benefits (item number 1) (id 10010560000030)
Social Security Benefits: Autism (item number 1) (id 10010560000031)
State Retirement Pensions (item number 1) (id 10010560000032)
Winter Fuel Payments: Nottingham (item number 1) (id 10010560000033)
Work Capability Assessment: Appeals (item number 1) (id 10010560000034)
Written Questions: Government Responses (item number 1) (id 10010560000035)

Home Department

Action Plan Orders (item number 1) (id 1001062000002)
Alcoholic Drinks: Crime (item number 1) (id 1001062000003)
Animal Experiments: Wales (item number 1) (id 1001062000004)
Anti-Terrorism Control Orders (item number 1) (id 1001062000005)
Arrests: Football (item number 1) (id 1001062000006)
Asylum (item number 1) (id 1001062000007)
British Nationality: Assessments (item number 1) (id 1001062000008)
Chief Scientific Adviser (item number 1) (id 1001062000009)
Crime (item number 1) (id 1001062000010)
Crime: Knives (item number 1) (id 1001062000011)
Crimes of Violence: Cambridgeshire (item number 1) (id 1001062000012)
Custodial Treatment: Shotgun Certificates (item number 1) (id 1001062000013)
Departmental Domestic Visits (item number 1) (id 1001062000014)
Departmental Electronic Equipment (item number 1) (id 1001062000015)
Departmental Internet (item number 1) (id 1001062000016)
Departmental Training (item number 1) (id 1001062000017)
DNA: Databases (item number 1) (id 1001062000018)
Driving Under Influence (item number 1) (id 1001062000019)
E-mail: Fraud (item number 1) (id 1001062000020)
Entry Clearances (item number 1) (id 1001062000021)
Entry Clearances: Overseas Students (item number 1) (id 1001062000022)
Foreign Workers: Entry Clearances (item number 1) (id 1001062000023)
Identity Cards (item number 1) (id 1001062000024)
Identity Cards: Databases (item number 1) (id 1001062000025)
Identity Cards: Expenditure (item number 1) (id 1001062000026)
Illegal Immigrants: Bail (item number 1) (id 1001062000027)
Immigration (item number 1) (id 1001062000028)
Immigration: Detention Centres (item number 1) (id 1001062000029)
Immigration: Nepal (item number 1) (id 1001062000030)
Independent Safeguarding Authority (item number 1) (id 1001062000031)
National Public Order Intelligence Unit: Finance (item number 1) (id 1001062000032)
Offenders: Radicalism (item number 1) (id 1001062000033)
Offensive Weapons: Convictions (item number 1) (id 1001062000034)
Passports (item number 1) (id 1001062000035)
Police (item number 1) (id 1001062000036)
Police: Ethnic Groups (item number 1) (id 1001062000037)
Police: Pay (item number 1) (id 1001062000038)
Radicalism (item number 1) (id 1001062000039)
Repatriation (item number 1) (id 1001062000040)
Security: Greater London (item number 1) (id 1001062000041)
Serious Organised Crime Agency: Bullying (item number 1) (id 1001062000042)
UK Border Agency (item number 1) (id 1001062000043)

Treasury

Banks: Loans (item number 1) (id 10010611000003)
Benefits: Children (item number 1) (id 10010611000004)
Boilers: Government Assistance (item number 1) (id 10010611000005)
Child Benefit (item number 1) (id 10010611000006)
Child Trust Fund (item number 1) (id 10010611000007)
Christmas (item number 1) (id 10010611000008)
Climate Change Levy: Agriculture (item number 1) (id 10010611000009)
Corporation Tax: Patents (item number 1) (id 10010611000010)
Departmental Art Works (item number 1) (id 10010611000011)
Departmental Billing (item number 1) (id 10010611000012)
Departmental Conferences (item number 1) (id 10010611000013)
Departmental Coordination: Scotland (item number 1) (id 10010611000014)
Departmental Information and Communications Technology (item number 1) (id 10010611000015)
Departmental Legal Costs (item number 1) (id 10010611000016)
Departmental Legislation (item number 1) (id 10010611000017)
Departmental Manpower (item number 1) (id 10010611000018)
Departmental Written Questions (item number 1) (id 10010611000019)
Employee Benefit Trusts (item number 1) (id 10010611000020)
Equitable Life Ex-gratia Payment Scheme Review (item number 1) (id 10010611000021)
Government Actuary's Department: Conferences (item number 1) (id 10010611000022)
Government Securities (item number 1) (id 10010611000023)
Housing: Valuation (item number 1) (id 10010611000024)
Inheritance Tax (item number 1) (id 10010611000025)
Interest Rates (item number 1) (id 10010611000026)
Mortgages (item number 1) (id 10010611000027)
National Debt (item number 1) (id 10010611000028)
NHS: Information and Communications Technology (item number 1) (id 10010611000029)
Public Finance (item number 1) (id 10010611000030)
Public Sector: Pay (item number 1) (id 10010611000031)
Departmental Conferences (item number 1) (id 10010611000032)
Revenue and Customs: Manpower (item number 1) (id 10010611000033)
Revenue and Customs: Public Opinion (item number 1) (id 10010611000034)
Revenue and Customs: Sudbury (item number 1) (id 10010611000035)
Revenue and Customs: Telephone Services (item number 1) (id 10010611000036)
Smuggling: Ivory (item number 1) (id 10010611000037)
Tax Avoidance: Yorkshire and the Humber (item number 1) (id 10010611000038)
Tax Evasion (item number 1) (id 10010611000039)
Tax Yields (item number 1) (id 10010611000040)
Taxation: Bingo (item number 1) (id 10010611000041)
Taxation: Holiday Accommodation (item number 1) (id 10010611000042)
Taxation: Revenues (item number 1) (id 10010611000043)
Transfer Pricing (item number 1) (id 10010611000044)
Welfare Tax Credits (item number 1) (id 10010611000045)
Welfare Tax Credits: Appeals (item number 1) (id 10010611000046)
Welfare Tax Credits: Complaints (item number 1) (id 10010611000047)
Welfare Tax Credits: Expenditure (item number 1) (id 10010611000048)
Wind Farms (item number 1) (id 10010611000049)

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Afghanistan (item number 1) (id 10010611000050)
Afghanistan: Politics and Government (item number 1) (id 10010611000051)
Afghanistan: Reconstruction (item number 1) (id 10010611000052)
Andrew Symeou (item number 1) (id 10010611000053)
Association of South East Asian Nations: Human Rights (item number 1) (id 10010611000054)
Australia: Foreign Relations (item number 1) (id 10010611000055)
British Indian Ocean Territory (item number 1) (id 10010611000056)
British Indian Ocean Territory: Environment Protection (item number 1) (id 10010611000057)
British Overseas Territories (item number 1) (id 10010611000058)
Burma: United Nations (item number 1) (id 10010611000059)
Caribbean (item number 1) (id 10010611000060)
Caribbean: Crime Prevention (item number 1) (id 10010611000061)
Caribbean: Human Trafficking (item number 1) (id 10010611000062)
Caribbean: Wind Power (item number 1) (id 10010611000063)
Climate Change: Antarctic (item number 1) (id 10010611000064)
Colombia (item number 1) (id 10010611000065)
Colombia: EU External Trade (item number 1) (id 10010611000066)
Crown Dependencies (item number 1) (id 10010611000067)
Departmental Art Works (item number 1) (id 10010611000068)
Departmental Conferences (item number 1) (id 10010611000069)
Departmental Information and Communications Technology (item number 1) (id 10010611000070)
Departmental Manpower (item number 1) (id 10010611000071)
Departmental Personnel (item number 1) (id 10010611000072)
Departmental Training (item number 1) (id 10010611000073)
Diplomatic Service: South America (item number 1) (id 10010611000074)
East Asia: EU Action (item number 1) (id 10010611000075)
Eritrea (item number 1) (id 10010611000076)
Eritrea: Ethiopia (item number 1) (id 10010611000077)
European External Action Service (item number 1) (id 10010611000078)
Falkland Islands: Land Mines (item number 1) (id 10010611000079)
Falkland Islands: Oil (item number 1) (id 10010611000080)
Falkland Islands: Tourism (item number 1) (id 10010611000081)
Fiji: Diplomatic Relations (item number 1) (id 10010611000082)
Gibraltar: Territorial Waters (item number 1) (id 10010611000083)
Government Hospitality: Wines (item number 1) (id 10010611000084)
Horn of Africa: EU Action (item number 1) (id 10010611000085)
Iran: Politics and Government (item number 1) (id 10010611000086)
Iraq: Casualties (item number 1) (id 10010611000087)
Israel: Borders (item number 1) (id 10010611000088)
Kirsty MacColl (item number 1) (id 10010611000089)
Kosovo: Politics and Government (item number 1) (id 10010611000090)
Members: Correspondence (item number 1) (id 10010611000091)
Middle East: Armed Conflict (item number 1) (id 10010611000092)
Middle East: Peacekeeping Operations (item number 1) (id 10010611000093)
Mott MacDonald (item number 1) (id 10010611000094)
North Korea: Asylum (item number 1) (id 10010611000095)
North Korea: Human Rights (item number 1) (id 10010611000096)
Nosratollah Tajik (item number 1) (id 10010611000097)
Official Gifts: Pakistan (item number 1) (id 10010611000098)
Olympic Games 2012 (item number 1) (id 10010611000099)
Overseas Territories Consultative Council (item number 1) (id 10010611000100)
Palestinians: Territorial Waters (item number 1) (id 10010611000101)
Pitcairn Islands: Literacy (item number 1) (id 10010611000102)
Security (item number 1) (id 10010611000103)
Sri Lanka (item number 1) (id 10010611000104)
Sri Lanka: Politics and Government (item number 1) (id 10010611000105)
Sri Lanka: War Crimes (item number 1) (id 10010611000106)
Travel Information (item number 1) (id 10010611000107)
UK China Task Force (item number 1) (id 10010611000108)
War Crimes: Judiciary (item number 1) (id 10010611000109)
Western Sahara: Human Rights (item number 1) (id 10010611000110)

Communities and Local Government

Allotments (item number 1) (id 10010614000002)
Caravan Sites: Travelling People (item number 1) (id 10010614000003)
Common Land (item number 1) (id 10010614000004)
Community Relations: Finance (item number 1) (id 10010614000005)
Council Tax (item number 1) (id 10010614000006)
Council Tax: Second Homes (item number 1) (id 10010614000007)
Council Tax: Valuation (item number 1) (id 10010614000008)
Councillors: Allowances (item number 1) (id 10010614000009)
Departmental Art Works (item number 1) (id 10010614000010)
Departmental Billing (item number 1) (id 10010614000011)
Departmental Fines (item number 1) (id 10010614000012)
Departmental Legislation (item number 1) (id 10010614000013)
Departmental Marketing (item number 1) (id 10010614000014)
Departmental Ministerial Policy Advisers (item number 1) (id 10010614000015)
Departmental Procurement (item number 1) (id 10010614000016)
Departmental Public Expenditure (item number 1) (id 10010614000017)
Departmental Training (item number 1) (id 10010614000018)
Eco-Towns (item number 1) (id 10010614000019)
Fire Services (item number 1) (id 10010614000020)
Fire Services: Finance (item number 1) (id 10010614000021)
Fire Services: Industrial Disputes (item number 1) (id 10010614000022)
Fires: Smoking (item number 1) (id 10010614000023)
Flood Control (item number 1) (id 10010614000024)
Hotels (item number 1) (id 10010614000025)
Local Development Frameworks (item number 1) (id 10010614000026)
Local Government Employers (item number 1) (id 10010614000027)
Local Government Executive (item number 1) (id 10010614000028)
Local Government Finance (item number 1) (id 10010614000029)
Local Government Finance: East Sussex (item number 1) (id 10010614000030)
Local Government: Bank Services (item number 1) (id 10010614000031)
Local Government: Broadcasting (item number 1) (id 10010614000032)
Local Government: North West (item number 1) (id 10010614000033)
Local Government: Pay (item number 1) (id 10010614000034)
Local Government: Pensions (item number 1) (id 10010614000035)
Local Government: Publicity (item number 1) (id 10010614000036)
Mayors (item number 1) (id 10010614000037)
National Policy Statements (item number 1) (id 10010614000038)
Non-Domestic Rates (item number 1) (id 10010614000039)
Non-Domestic Rates: Empty Property (item number 1) (id 10010614000040)
Non-Domestic Rates: Entertainments (item number 1) (id 10010614000041)
Non-Domestic Rates: Ports (item number 1) (id 10010614000042)
Non-Domestic Rates: Public Houses (item number 1) (id 10010614000043)
Non-Domestic Rates: Valuation (item number 1) (id 10010614000044)
Offenders (item number 1) (id 10010614000045)
Oneplace (item number 1) (id 10010614000046)
Parking (item number 1) (id 10010614000047)
Parking: Fees and Charges (item number 1) (id 10010614000048)
Planning Permission (item number 1) (id 10010614000049)
Regeneration: Finance (item number 1) (id 10010614000050)
Regional Government (item number 1) (id 10010614000051)
Urban Areas: Regeneration (item number 1) (id 10010614000052)
Waste Disposal: Fees and Charges (item number 1) (id 10010614000053)

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