Written Ministerial Statements
Tuesday, 10 July 2012
- House of Lords
- Employment: Workplace Rights
My honourable friend the Minister for Employment Relations, Consumers and Postal Affairs (Norman Lamb) has today made the following Statement. In October 2010, the right honourable Edward Davey...
- International Whaling Commission
My right honourable friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Natural Environment and Fisheries (Richard Benyon) has today made the following Statement. I am pleased to have attended part of...
- Low Pay Commission: Triennial Review
My honourable friend the Minister for Employment Relations, Consumers and Postal Affairs (Norman Lamb) has today made the following Statement. The coalition Government made a commitment to review...
- Technology Strategy Board: Triennial Review
My right honourable friend the Minister for Universities and Science (David Willetts) has today made the following Statement. We will shortly commence a triennial review of the Technology...
- Water Bill
My right honourable friend the Secretary of State (Caroline Spelman) has today made the following Statement. I am publishing today a draft Water Bill for pre-legislative scrutiny. The draft Bill...
- Business, Innovation and Skills
- Workplace Rights (Compliance and Enforcement Review)
In October 2010, the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change announced to the House that the Government would examine how workplace rights are enforced and identify if Government’s...
- Technology Strategy Board (Triennial Review)
We will shortly commence a triennial review of the Technology Strategy Board. The coalition Government made a commitment to review public bodies, with the aim of increasing accountability for...
- Low Pay Commission (Triennial Review)
The coalition Government made a commitment to review public bodies, with the aim of increasing accountability for actions carried out on behalf of the state. The IPC, which advises the Government...
- Energy and Climate Change
- Radioactive Waste Management Report
I am pleased to announce today the publication of the second annual report of the Government’s managing radioactive waste safely programme. The programme is focused on implementing the...
- Environment Food and Rural Affairs
- Draft Water Bill
I am publishing today a draft Water Bill for pre-legislative scrutiny. The draft Bill includes measures to strengthen the water sector’s ability to respond to the challenges of a growing...
- International Whaling Commission
I am pleased to have attended part of this year’s meeting of the International Whaling Commission in Panama (IWC64) to demonstrate the UK’s commitment to the conservation work of the...
- Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
- Departmental Programme Spending
In my statement to the House of 1 February 2011, I set out the funding allocations for the FCO’s strategic programmes for the financial year 2011-12. I also undertook to inform the House...
- Home Department
- Independent Police Complaints Commission
I am pleased to announce that today my hon. Friend the Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury and I are publishing the annual report of the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC). Copies of...
- Animals (Scientific Procedures)
The “Statistics of Scientific Procedures on Living Animals—Great Britain—2011” (HC 345), was laid before the House today. Copies are available in the Vote office. This...
- Justice
- Transport
- Crossrail (Annual Update)
Crossrail is now moving firmly into its construction phase. A number of significant milestones have been achieved in the last 12 months. The purpose-built tunnelling and underground construction...
- Government Shareholding in NATS
My Department ran a call for evidence last year to explore the options for the future of the Government’s 49% shareholding in the UK’s air traffic control provider, NATS Holdings plc...
- Driving Tests
Last year I asked the Driving Standards Agency (DSA) to consider arrangements for delivering practical car driving tests from premises other than traditional driving test centres such as local...
- Train Punctuality
In line with the Government’s transparency agenda, and the commitments made in the Command Paper “Reforming our Railways: Putting the Customer First”, additional information...
