Written Ministerial Statements
Friday, 13 July 2012

• House of Lords
  • Community Learning Trusts
    My honourable friend the Minister for Further Education and Lifelong Learning (John Hayes) has today made the following Statement. In December 2011, New Challenges, New Chances, the Government's...
  • Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010
    Today, I am announcing further details of how the Government will reduce, from 30 to 20 years, the point at which historical records are made available at the National Archives and other places...
  • EU: Agriculture and Fisheries Council
    My right honourable friend the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Caroline Spelman) has today made the following Statement. The next Agriculture and Fisheries Council is...
  • EU: Partnership Agreements
    My honourable friend the Minister for Business and Enterprise (Mark Prisk) has today made the following Statement. The Government are considering how best to deliver the 2014-20 programme for the...
  • Export Control
    My right honourable friend the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills (Dr Vince Cable) has today made the following Statement. Further to my Written Ministerial Statement of 7...
  • Ordnance Survey Agency: Performance Targets
    My honourable friend the Minister for Employment Relations, Consumers and Postal Affairs (Norman Lamb) has today made the following Statement. I am today announcing that performance targets have...
• Business, Innovation and Skills
  • Community Learning Trust (Pilots)
    In December 2011, “New Challenges, New Chances”, the Government’s reform plan for further education and skills, set out the Department’s intention to pilot a range of...
  • European Structural and Cohesion Funds
    The Government are considering how best to deliver the 2014-20 programme for the European Regional Development Fund, European Social Fund, European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development and the...
  • Ordnance Survey (Performance Targets)
    I am today announcing that performance targets have been agreed for Ordnance Survey for the period 2012-13. Ordnance Survey will report externally against these targets as is required of all...
  • Export Controls
    Further to my written ministerial statement of 7 February 2012, Official Report, column WS7 on strategic export controls, I would like to update the House on progress implementing the three...
• Treasury
  • Annual EU Finances Statement
    I am today laying before Parliament, the “European Union Finances: Statement on the 2012 EU budget and measures to combat fraud and financial mismanagement” (Cm 8405). It is the 32nd...
  • Cap on Income Tax Relief (Technical Consultation)
    At Budget 2012 the Government announced the introduction of a limit on currently uncapped income tax reliefs which will have effect from April 2013. The Government have today published a...
  • Inheritance Tax: Simplifying Charges on Trusts
    HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is today announcing the publication of a consultation document “Inheritance Tax: Simplifying charges on trusts” which explores options for simplifying...
  • Counter-Terrorist Asset Freezing Regime
    Under the Terrorist Asset-Freezing etc. Act 2010 (“TAFA 2010”), the Treasury is required to report quarterly to Parliament on its operation of the UK’s asset-freezing regime...
• Communities and Local Government
  • August 2011 Riots
    I am grateful to Darra Singh and the other members of the Riots, Communities and Victims Panel for their work on their independent review into last year’s public disorder. They have...
  • Fire Service College (Performance Indicators)
    The following key performance indicators have been agreed for the Fire Service College as part of the 2012-13 business planning round and performance against them will be reported in the...
• Communities and Local Government
  • Research Commissioned from the Previous Administration (Housing)
    Today the Government are publishing a group of reports presenting the findings from research projects commissioned by the previous Administration. We are publishing these documents in the...
• Defence
  • Youth Engagement
    The Defence Youth Engagement Review (YER) was completed late last year and, since then, the Ministry of Defence (MOD), assisted by other Departments and key stakeholders, has been developing its...
• Energy and Climate Change
  • Plutonium Management
    In December 2011 the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) published its consultation response document on plutonium management. The consultation response document set out...
• Environment Food and Rural Affairs
  • Agriculture and Fisheries Council
    The next Agriculture and Fisheries Council is on Monday 16 July in Brussels and the first under the Cypriot presidency. The Minister of State, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs,...
• Health
  • Plasma Resources UK Ltd
    I am announcing today that the Government will be exploring new opportunities for the future development of our government-owned limited company, Plasma Resources UK Ltd (PRUK). The Department...
• Justice
  • Community Payback
    In the range of community sentences, Community Payback is primarily a punishment. It also enables offenders to be reformed and to make reparation for their crimes by doing unpaid work which...
  • Criminal Justice Reform
    Today, the Government’s White Paper on criminal justice reform, “Swift and Sure Justice: the Government’s Plans for Reform of Criminal Justice” has been laid before...
  • Official for Judicial Complaints (Annual Report 2011-12)
    With the concurrence of the Lord Chief Justice, I will today publish the sixth annual report of the Office for Judicial Complaints (OJC). The OJC provides support to the Lord Chief Justice and...
  • “Charging Fees in Employment Tribunals and the Employment Appeal Tribunal” (Government Response)
    I have today published the response to the consultation paper “Charging Fees in Employment Tribunals and the Employment Appeal Tribunal”. The response announces the proposed fee...
• Prime Minister
  • Reports on Chief Surveillance, Interception of Communications, and Intelligence Services Commissioners
    I have today laid before both Houses the annual reports of the Interception of Communications Commissioner, the Rt. Hon. Sir Paul Kennedy (HC 496); “the Intelligence Services Commissioner,...
• Work and Pensions
  • Child Maintenance
    I will shortly lay the 2012 Child Maintenance Command Paper (Cm 8399) entitled “Supporting separated families; securing children’s fixtures”. This paper will set out the details...
  • Disability Living Allowance and Attendance Allowance (Duplicate Payments) (1 annotation)
    Disability living allowance (DLA) and attendance allowance (AA) are paid to people with extra needs arising from their disabilities. These benefits are administered by the DWP. Where people are...