Written Ministerial Statements

Monday, 19 November 2012

  • House of Lords

    • Businesses: Regulation

      My right honourable friend the Minister of State for Business and Enterprise (Michael Fallon) is today making the following Statement. I would like to inform the House, I am announcing today a...

    • EU: Balance of Competences

      My right honourable friend the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, (Dr Vince Cable) has today made the following Statement. I wish to inform the House that, further to my...

  • Business, Innovation and Skills

    • Regulation of Business

      I would like to inform the House that I am announcing today a doubling of the rate at which Whitehall Departments must cut the burdens their regulation places on business. The Government are...

    • Balance of Competences Review

      I wish to inform the House that, further to my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Office oral statement launching the review of the Balance of...

  • Treasury

    • Public Service Pension Reform

      The Government have previously committed to reforming the Fair Deal policy and to delivery of this by offering access to public service pension schemes to staff who are compulsorily transferred...

  • Communities and Local Government

    • Parliamentary Written Question (Correction)

      I wish to clarify a point on methodology used in an answer to a parliamentary question, made in the last Session. In the answer of 24 October 2011, Official Report, column 59W given by my hon....

  • Energy and Climate Change

    • EU Environmental Council

      Lord de Mauley, Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Resource Management, the Local Environment and Environmental Science and I represented the UK at the Environment Council in Luxembourg on 25...

  • Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs

    • Conflict Resources

      I, together with my right hon. Friends the Secretary of State for International Development and the Secretary of State for Defence, wish to inform the House about our plans for funding conflict...

  • Justice

    • Judicial Review

      I am today announcing a review of the judicial review process. Judicial review is a critical means of holding the Executive to account, ensuring that decisions are lawful. However, there has been...

  • Wales

    • Commission on Devolution in Wales

      The Government established the Commission on Devolution in Wales (the “Silk Commission”) in October 2011 with the support of the Welsh Government and all the parties in the National...

  • Work and Pensions

    • Access to Work

      I wish to announce today measures to strengthen and improve the Access to Work scheme. Access to Work helps over 30,000 disabled people each year retain and enter employment. It provides valuable...

    • Measuring Child Poverty (Consultation)

      On Thursday 15 November the Government laid before Parliament and published “Measuring Child Poverty: A consultation on better measures of child poverty”. The Command Paper is...

What is this?

Written Ministerial Statements were introducted in late 2002 to stop the practice of having “planted” or “inspired” questions designed to elicit Government statements.

They are just that – statements on a particular topic by a Government Minister.

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