Written Ministerial Statements
Tuesday, 8 January 2013

• House of Lords
  • Banks: Business Bank
    My right honourable friend the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills has made the following Statement. The impact of the financial crisis on the cost and availability of credit...
  • Copyright
    My right honourable friend the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills has made the following Statement. Today the Government are publishing the final part of their response to...
  • Correction to Commons Written Answer
    My honourable friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Daniel Poulter) has made the following Statement. I regret that the Written Answers given to the honourable Member for Hartlepool...
  • EU: European Council
    My right honourable friend the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has today made the following Statement. My noble friend Lord De Mauley, Parliamentary Under-Secretary for...
  • Flooding
    My right honourable friend the Secretary of State for Environment Food and Rural Affairs has today made the following Statement. The period leading up to Christmas and in to the new year has...
  • Licensing: Entertainment
    On Monday 7 January 2013, my right honourable friend the Minister for Sport and Tourism (Hugh Robertson MP) made the following Statement. In late 2011, the Department for Culture, Media and...
• Business, Innovation and Skills
  • Competition and Markets Authority
    I am pleased to announce Alex Chisholm as the new chief executive-designate of the Competition and Markets Authority. This follows the appointment of Lord Currie as chair-designate on 3...
• Health
  • South London Healthcare Trust
    I wish to inform the House that the trust special administrator appointed to South London Healthcare NHS Trust provided me with his final report on 7 January 2013. It makes recommendations to me...
• Justice
  • Victims Commissioner
    On 21 December 2012, I announced that Baroness Helen Newlove has been appointed as the new Commissioner for Victims and Witnesses—the Victims Commissioner. The role of the Victims...
  • Youth Justice Board Triennial Review
    In March 2011 the Government responded to the Public Administration Select Committee report “Smaller Government: Shrinking the Quango state” setting out the coalition’s plans...