Written Ministerial Statements

Thursday, 9 February 2012

  • House of Lords

    • Draft National Policy Statement for Waste Water

      My right honourable friend the Secretary of State has today made the following Statement. Having considered consultation responses and the report of the Select Committee on Environment, Food and...

    • EU: Competitiveness Council

      The Informal EU Competitiveness Council took place in Copenhagen on 2 and 3 February 2012. I represented the UK on both days of the council. A summary of those discussions follows. The research...

      Flooding and Coastal Erosion

      My honourable friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Natural Environment and Fisheries (Richard Benyon) has today made the following Statement. I am today, in conjunction with the...

      House of Lords: Peers' Car Park

      On 8 December 2011, I made a Written Statement to the House notifying Members that the Administration and Works Committee had agreed to a three-month trial of new vehicle access arrangements in...

      Rural Payments Agency

      My right honourable friend the Minister for Agriculture and Food (Jim Paice) has today made the following Statement. The Rural Payments Agency (RPA) is today publishing a plan setting out how the...

      UN: Rio+20

      My right honourable friend the Secretary of State has today made the following Statement. I would like to update the House on preparations for the UN conference on Sustainable Development,...

  • Business, Innovation and Skills

    • EU Informal Competitiveness Council

      My noble Friend the Under-Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, (Baroness Wilcox) has today made the following statement: The Informal EU Competitiveness Council took place in...

  • Communities and Local Government

    • Coastal Regeneration

      I am today announcing the launch of the Government’s “Coastal Communities Fund” which will allow seaside towns to seize the opportunity to boost economic growth along our coast....

    • Firefighters' Pension Scheme

      Following constructive discussions with the firefighters’ trade unions, on 8 December I wrote to all of the firefighters’ trade unions to issue the cost ceiling for the...

      Housing Funding

      I am today announcing £20 million funding for local housing authorities for preventing repossessions. Some £19 million is allocated for a Preventing Repossessions Fund and £1...

      Local Democracy

      Following parliamentary approval, I have now made orders under section 9N of the Local Government Act 2000, which come into force today, and which require mayoral referendums to be held on 3 May...

  • Defence

    • Operation Herrick 16 Roulement (Correction)

      I regret that the written ministerial statement I laid on 7 February, Official Report, column 11WS, contained an error of detail. I am therefore laying a revised statement today. The next...

  • Deputy Prime Minister

    • Individual electoral Registration

      I am announcing today the publication of the Government response to the pre-legislative scrutiny and public consultation on individual electoral registration (IER) and changes to electoral...

  • Energy and Climate Change

    • Feed-in Tariffs

      This Government are committed to promoting decentralised energy and the take-up of small-scale low-carbon technologies by the public and by communities. The feed-in tariffs (FITs) scheme is an...

  • Environment Food and Rural Affairs

    • Flood and Coastal Erosion (Risk Management)

      I am today, in conjunction with the Environment Agency, announcing details of flood and coastal erosion risk management schemes going ahead in the next financial year. In additional to the...

    • UN Conference on Sustainable Development

      I would like to update the House on preparations for the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, Rio plus 20, which will be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on 20- 22 June this year. It follows...

      Rural Payments Agency

      The Rural Payments Agency (RPA) is today publishing a plan setting out how the agency will be transformed over the next five years so that it delivers both vastly improved service to its...

      Waste Water National Policy Statement

      Having considered consultation responses and the report of the Select Committee on Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, I am today laying before Parliament the waste water national policy...

  • Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs

    • UK-Afghanistan Enduring Strategic Partnership

      I wish to inform the House that the Foreign and Commonwealth Office is today publishing the Enduring Strategic Partnership document between the UK and Afghanistan which was signed by the Prime...

    • Export of Tasers (UK Policy)

      Members will recall that in July 1997 the Government announced their policy on preventing British companies from manufacturing, selling or procuring equipment designed primarily for torture....

  • Home Department

    • Immigration and Nationality Services

      I am announcing proposals to change the fees for immigration and nationality applications made to the UK Border Agency. The Government review these fees on a regular basis and make appropriate...

  • Justice

  • Transport

    • ATOL Reform Regulations

      Today I am pleased to announce the Government’s decisions on the proposals set out in last summer’s consultation on the reform of the Air Travel Organiser’s Licensing (ATOL)...

  • Work and Pensions

What is this?

Written Ministerial Statements were introducted in late 2002 to stop the practice of having “planted” or “inspired” questions designed to elicit Government statements.

They are just that – statements on a particular topic by a Government Minister.

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