Written Ministerial Statements
Monday, 11 June 2012

• House of Lords
  • Justice and Security Bill [HL]
    Today my right honourable and learned friend the Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice (Kenneth Clarke) is laying before Parliament the Government's response to the consultation on...
  • EU: Competitiveness Council
    My right honourable friend the Minister of State for Universities and Science (David Willetts) has today made the following Statement. The EU Competitiveness Council took place in Brussels on 30...
  • Higher Education
    My right honourable friend the Minister of State for Universities and Science (David Willetts) has today made the following statement. On 28 June 2011, the Government published a higher...
• Business, Innovation and Skills
  • Higher Education Update
    On 28 June 2011, the Government published a higher education White Paper, “Students at the Heart of the System”. This was followed on 4 August 2011 by a technical consultation,...
  • Post-EU Competitiveness Council
    The EU Competitiveness Council took place in Brussels on 30 and 31 May 2012. I represented the UK on research issues on 31 May, and the Under-Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and...
• Cabinet Office
  • Departmental Business Plans
    On 31 May the Government published an updated set of departmental business plans. Each Department’s business plan sets out: its departmental priorities; the actions it will undertake to...
• Treasury
  • Bilateral Loan to Ireland (Revised Interest Rate)
    I would like to update Parliament on the loan to Ireland. Parliament will be aware that in July 2011 the Chancellor committed in principle to lower the interest rate on the bilateral loan to...
• Communities and Local Government
  • Departmental Business (Whitsun Recess)
    I would like to update hon. Members on the main items of business undertaken by my Department since the House rose on 24 May 2012. Diamond Jubilee Celebrations 2012 is a year of celebration and...
• Energy and Climate Change
  • Renewable Heat Incentive
    The renewable heat incentive (RHI) is the first of its kind in the world and provides long-term support for renewable heat technologies such as heat pumps, biomass boilers and solar thermal...
  • Green Deal and Energy Company Obligation
    Today my Department is publishing the Government response to the green deal and ECO consultation ahead of the introduction of the green deal this autumn. Having considered over 600 written...
• Home Department
  • Family Migration
    I will later today be making an oral statement to the House on family migration.
• Work and Pensions
  • Workplace Pension Reform
    Later today the Government will publish a response to the consultation document “Automatic Enrolment and European Employers”. The Pensions Act 2008 introduces a duty on employers to...