Written Ministerial Statements

Tuesday, 1 April 2014

  • House of Lords

    • Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority

      I am pleased to announce that today the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority will become an Executive Agency. The Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority (CICA) was established in 1994....

    • Intellectual Property Office: Performance Targets

      As an Executive Agency and Trading Fund of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, we set targets which are agreed by Ministers and laid before Parliament. For 2014-15 our targets...

      Parole Board

      I have signed the Parole Board (Amendment) Rules 2014 Order, which amends the Parole Board Rules 2011 to remove the requirement that a judge should sit on and chair Parole Board oral panels...

  • Communities and Local Government

    • Business Rates

      As part of the Government’s long-term economic plan, the biggest package of business rate support in over 20 years, announced in the autumn statement, goes live today. This package of...

  • Justice

    • Civil Court System (Fees)

      I have today laid and published the Government’s response to part one of the consultation “Court Fees, Proposals for Reform” which ran from 3 December 2013 to 21 January 2014....

    • Parole Board Rules

      My right hon. and learned Friend the Minister of State for Justice, Lord Faulks, has made the following written ministerial statement: I have signed the Parole Board (Amendment) Rules 2014 Order...

  • Transport

    • Airspace Restrictions (Glasgow Commonwealth Games)

      The 20th Commonwealth games are due to take place in Glasgow this summer. While overall responsibility for the security of the games rests with Police Scotland, aviation is a matter reserved to...

    • HGV Road User Levy

      For the benefit of Members of the House, I am pleased to announce that from 00:00 this morning, all HGVs at or above 12 tonnes using UK roads have been required to pay a new time-based road user...

  • Work and Pensions

    • Office for Nuclear Regulation

      Today, I am announcing that the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) has been created as the new independent statutory regulator of the nuclear sector. This follows my signing of an Order under...

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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