Written Ministerial Statements
Wednesday, 14 March 2012

• House of Lords
  • Corporate Governance
    My honourable friend The Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills (Vince Cable) has today made the following statement. On 23 January, I announced a package of measures to address...
  • Correction to Lords Oral Answer
    In the course of the debate following Lord Avebury's question about Gypsies and Travellers on 6 March 2012, I stated that, "Between 2000 and 2010, the number of caravans on unauthorised...
• Business, Innovation and Skills
  • Executive Pay (Consultation on Enhanced Shareholder Voting Rights)
    On 23 January, I announced a package of measures to address failings in the corporate governance framework for executive remuneration. This includes: Greater transparency in directors’...
• Treasury
  • Tax and Customs Co-operation Programme
    I wish to inform the House that the Government have opted in to the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing an action programme for customs and...
• Deputy Prime Minister
  • Diamond Jubilee Civic Honours Competition
    I am pleased to announce that Her Majesty the Queen has commanded that city status be granted to Chelmsford, Perth and St Asaph; and lord mayoralty to Armagh to mark her diamond jubilee. Although...
• Education
  • Adoption Action Plan
    I am publishing today “An Action Plan for Adoption: Tackling Delay”. It explains the changes the Government will be making to speed up the adoption system in England. This is the...
• Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
  • Westminster Foundation for Democracy
    I wish to inform the House of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s plans for continuing support to the Westminster Foundation for Democracy (WFD). I am also able to inform the House that...
• Home Department
  • European Union Justice and Home Affairs Measures
    We believe that European Union measures that impose justice and home affairs (JHA) obligations only apply to the UK if we choose to opt in to them. Since the entry into force of the Lisbon...
  • Hate Crime (Government Action Plan)
    Today, we are publishing “Challenge it, Report it, Stop it”—the Government’s plan for tackling hate crime. Hate crime—crime which is motivated by hostility to the...