Written Ministerial Statements
Wednesday, 16 March 2011

• House of Lords
  • Armed Forces: Ex-Service Personnel in Prison
    My right honourable friend the Minister for Defence Personnel, Welfare and Veterans (Andrew Robathan) and my honourable friend, the Under-Secretary of State for Justice, the honourable Member...
• Cabinet Office
  • Public Bodies Reform Programme
    The coalition Government are committed to reducing the number and cost of quangos and increasing accountability by transferring the responsibility for key decisions of public policy back to...
• Defence
  • Ex-service Personnel
    My hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State for Justice, the Member for Reigate (Mr Blunt) and I wish to make the following joint statement. Further to the announcement on 15 September 2010,...
  • RAF Brize Norton
    I wish to inform the House that repatriation ceremonies for those killed in operational theatres will move from RAF Lyneham to RAF Brize Norton by 1 September 2011. The Ministry of Defence is...
• Home Department
  • National Identity Register and ID Card Cancellations
    I am today placing in the Library certificates of destruction from contractors confirming compliance with section 3 of the Identity Documents Act 2010. These certificates are accompanied by a...
  • Immigration Rules
    My right hon. Friend the Home Secretary is today laying before Parliament a statement of changes in the immigration rules that will reshape tier 1 of the points-based system (PBS) for migration,...
• Justice
  • Prisoner Escort and Custody Services
    I am today announcing that the Government have awarded four new contracts for the prisoner escort and custody services to Geo Amey PECS Ltd ( a joint venture between the Geo Group Ltd and Amey UK...
• Northern Ireland
  • Independent Monitoring Commission
    I have today published and laid before Parliament my sixth annual report on the operation of the agreement between the British and Irish Governments which established the Independent Monitoring...