Written Ministerial Statements
Thursday, 31 March 2011
- House of Lords
- Agriculture: Single Payment Scheme
My honourable friend the Minister for Agriculture and Farming (James Paice) and today made the following Statement. In my Statement of 4 March (col. WS 47), I updated the House on the Rural...
- Bovine Tuberculosis
My honourable friend the Minister for Agriculture and Farming (James Paice) and today made the following Statement. I wish to inform the House that I have received evidence suggesting that a very...
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: DEL
My right honourable friend the Secretary of State has today made the following Statement. I wish to announce that for 2010-11 Defra will switch £9 million available Resource DEL budget to...
- Insolvency
My honourable friend the Minister for Employment Relations, Consumers and Postal Affairs (Edward Davey) has today made the following Statement. Everyone who is affected by insolvency is entitled...
- Local Enterprise Partnerships
My honourable friend the Minister for Business and Enterprise (Mark Prisk) has today made the following Statement. I, together with Greg Clark, Minister of State for Decentralisation, would like...
- Business, Innovation and Skills
- Pre-packaged Sales in Administrations
Everyone who is affected by insolvency is entitled to have confidence that insolvency procedures are used fairly and that insolvency practitioners deliver the best possible outcome in what are...
- Local Enterprise Partnerships
The Minister of State for Communities and Local Government, my hon. Friend the Member for Tunbridge Wells (Greg Clark), the Minister responsible for decentralisation, and I would like to inform...
- Treasury
- Defence
- Government Profit Formula
I announced to the House on 26 January 2011 that I had asked my noble Friend Lord Currie of Marylebone to undertake a fundamental review of the Government’s single source pricing...
- Service Complaints Commissioner's Report
I am pleased to lay before Parliament today the service complaints commissioner’s third annual report on the fairness, effectiveness and efficiency of the service complaints system. The...
- UK Gulf Veterans (Mortality Data)
Today we have published the most recent figures on the mortality of veterans of the 1990-91 Gulf conflict, covering the period 1 April 1991 to 31 December 2010. These figures have been...
- Deputy Prime Minister
- Service Voting (Afghanistan)
The Government have put in place an initiative to support the participation of members of the armed forces serving in Afghanistan who wish to vote in the referendum and elections on 5 May....
- Energy and Climate Change
- Environment Food and Rural Affairs
- Bovine TB Reactor Identification
I wish to inform the House that I have received evidence suggesting that a very small minority of farmers in the south-west and midlands have been illegally swapping cattle eartags to retain TB...
- Departmental Expenditure Limit (Budget Control Totals)
I wish to announce that for 2010-11 DEFRA will switch £9 million available Resource DEL budget to cover a forecast deficit against its Capital DEL control total, in accordance with HM...
- Single Payment Scheme
In my statement of 4 March, Official Report, column 47-48WS, I updated the House on the Rural Payments Agency’s (RPA) progress in both addressing its daunting legacy of errors in relation...
- Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
- Home Department
- Civil Partnerships (Religious Premises)
The Government are committed to advancing equality for lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) people and to ensuring freedom of religion or belief for all people. To further both of these aims, the...
- Remuneration and Conditions of Service for Police Officers and Staff
On 8 March I issued a written statement to the House— Official Report, column 59WS—announcing that Tom Winsor had published the first report of his review of remuneration and...
- Changes in Immigration Rules
My right hon. Friend the Home Secretary is today laying before the House a statement of changes in the immigration rules that will bring about the first of the changes to the student visa system,...
- Justice
- Her Majesty's Courts and Tribunals Service
I am announcing today the launch of Her Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Service as an executive agency of the Ministry of Justice. It brings together Her Majesty’s Courts Service and...
- Northern Ireland
- Work and Pensions
- Social Fund Allocations
I am pleased to announce that the gross discretionary Social Fund Budget for 2011-12 will be £732 million. With the net funding available, I have been able to allocate a gross national...
