Written Ministerial Statements
Thursday, 24 May 2012
- House of Lords
- Aung San Suu Kyi
The Prime Minister has extended a formal invitation to Nobel prize winner and newly elected parliamentarian Aung San Suu Kyi to visit the United Kingdom next month. At the request of the Lord...
- Credit: High Cost Credit Capping
My honourable friend the Minister for Employment Relations, Consumers and Postal Affairs (Norman Lamb) has today made the following Statement. I have today published a progress update which BIS...
- Employment: Unfair Contract Terms
My honourable friend the Minister for Employment Relations, Consumers and Postal Affairs (Norman Lamb) has today made the following Statement. In preparation for a proposed overhaul of consumer...
- EU: Competitiveness Council
My right honourable friend the Minister for Employment Relations, Consumers and Postal Affairs (Norman Lamb) has today made the following Statement. The EU Competitiveness Council will take place...
- EU: Telecommunications Council
My honourable friend the Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries (Ed Vaizey) has made the following Statement. The Telecommunications Council will take place in Luxemburg on...
- Gangmasters Licensing Authority
My right honourable friend the Minister of State for Agriculture and Food (Jim Paice) has today made the following Statement. The Gangmasters Licensing Authority (GLA) has been considered under...
- Business, Innovation and Skills
- Law Commission Review (Unfair Contract Terms)
In preparation for a proposed overhaul of consumer rights, I have asked the Law Commission and Scottish Law Commission to review and update the recommendations they made in 2005 on unfair terms...
- EU Competitiveness Council
The EU Competitiveness Council will take place in Brussels on 30 and 31 May 2012. I shall represent the UK on internal market and industry issues on 30 May, and David Willetts, Minister of...
- High Cost Credit
I have today published a progress update which BIS has received from the University of Bristol Personal Finance Research Centre into the impact of a variable cap on the total cost of high-cost...
- Treasury
- Taxation of Unauthorised Unit Trusts
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) are today publishing a second consultation setting out detailed proposals for changes to the taxation of unauthorised unit trusts and their investors. This follows...
- Communities and Local Government
- Fire and Rescue Service
On 9 February I reported to the House on the Heads of Agreement on the firefighters’ pension scheme to be introduced in 2015, which set out the Government’s final position on the...
- Culture Media and Sport
- Telecommunications Council
The Telecommunications Council will take place in Luxembourg on 8 June under the Danish presidency. The deputy UK permanent representative, Andy Lebrecht, will represent the UK at this Council....
- Defence
- Defence Infrastructure Organisation
In taking forward our work to develop a new operating model for defence in line with the changes recommended in Lord Levene’s defence reform report, the Defence Infrastructure Organisation...
- Service Complaints Commissioner (Fourth Annual Report)
I am pleased to publish today the MOD’s formal response to the Service Complaints Commissioner’s (SCC) fourth annual report on the fairness, effectiveness and efficiency of the...
- Education
- Children Who Perform
Today I am launching a consultation on proposals to update the legislation to protect children who take part in performances and related activities. We want to increase the opportunities for...
- School Funding
In tackling the challenges we face on school building I have been determined to use the capital funding at my disposal to best effect, seeking value for money and efficiency from every pound...
- Environment Food and Rural Affairs
- Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
- Afghanistan (Monthly Progress Report)
The UK is engaged in Afghanistan as part of a 50-nation coalition to prevent international terrorists, including al-Qaeda, from again using Afghanistan as a base from which to operate,...
- Friends of Yemen Ministerial Meeting
I am pleased to inform the House that on 23 May in Riyadh, I co-chaired, with my right hon. Friend the Minister of State for International Development, a successful meeting of the Friends of...
- General Affairs Council
I will attend the General Affairs Council in Brussels on 29 May. The focus of the meeting of the General Affairs Council, which will be chaired by the Danish EU presidency, will once again be...
- Home Department
- G6 Meeting
The informal G6 group of Ministers of the Interior from the UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, and Poland held its most recent meeting in Munich, Germany on 17 and 18 May 2012. The meeting was...
- Report on Corruption in the Police Service in England and Wales
Today I am laying before the House and publishing the second report by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) on their experience of police corruption. The Government are currently...
- Justice
- Transport
- Infrastructure (Roads) (1 annotation)
As part of the spending review settlement in October 2010, the then Secretary of State agreed to commission an independent review to examine whether Government have the right approach to...
- Local Sustainable Transport Fund
I am pleased to announce today that the Department is awarding a further £112.941 million to support authorities in delivering local economic growth while cutting carbon emissions from...
