Amber Rudd On 21 July 2014, my predecessor, Home Secretary Theresa May, announced in Parliament, through a Written Ministerial Statement, the commencement of the triennial review of the Home Office...
Lord Young of Cookham The First Secretary of State and Minister for the Cabinet Office has made the following Written Ministerial Statement. I wish to update the House on how the Government has been supporting our...
Steve Brine The Government has today published the Tobacco Control Plan for England, with a vision to create a smoke free generation. A copy is attached. The 2017-2022 Tobacco Control Plan for England...
Damian Green The 39th report of the Senior Salaries Review Body is being published today. This makes recommendations about the pay of the senior civil service, senior military officers, the judiciary, and...
Sajid Javid On 26 February 2015, the then Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government and the then Secretary of State for Education, exercised their intervention powers as Rotherham...
Nick Gibb Today the Government is publishing Professor Sir Adrian Smith’s authoritative and wide-ranging review of 16-18 mathematics education in England. The government is determined to give all...
Mel Stride The Finance Bill introduced in March 2017 provided for a number of changes to tax legislation that were withdrawn from the Bill after the calling of the general election. The then-Financial...
Baroness Anelay of St Johns On 9 June 2017, the Government opted in to a proposal to change the updating mechanism of three civil judicial cooperation Regulations from the comitology procedure to the post-Lisbon treaty...
Chris Grayling I would like to update the House on the progress of High Speed Two. Phase One of the railway - from London to West Midlands - is progressing well. In February, Parliament granted powers to...
Baroness Evans of Bowes Park I am today publishing data on departmental performance in answering Questions for Written Answer (QWA) for the 2016/17 session. Written questions are an important way in which Members hold the...
Baroness Anelay of St Johns On 7 July 2017, the Council of the European Union supported the appointment of Ms Mariya Gabriel as the new Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society. The UK voted in favour of the...
Margot James I am today placing in the Libraries of the House, the report of the Working Group on Product Recalls and Safety. The report is a culmination of longer term, ongoing work on product safety...
Ben Wallace The Government has decided that the UK will opt in to the Regulation on the Mutual Recognition of Freezing and Confiscation Orders. The proposed Regulation would replace and build upon the...
Amber Rudd Section 19(1) of the Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures Act 2011 (the Act) requires the Secretary of State to report to Parliament as soon as reasonably practicable after the end...
Lord Young of Cookham The First Secretary of State and Minister for the Cabinet Office has made the following Written Ministerial Statement. The 39th report of the Senior Salaries Review Body is being published...
Theresa May This written statement confirms three machinery of Government changes. Responsibility for home buying policy, including estate agent regulation, will transfer from the Department for...
Amber Rudd The Home Office and Ministry of Justice have prepared the Sixth and Seventh Annual Reports to Parliament on the Application of Protocols 19 and 21 to the Treaty on European Union (TEU) and the...
Lord Young of Cookham The First Secretary of State and Minister for the Cabinet Office has made the following Written Ministerial Statement. Today the Government is publishing an updated list of Cabinet Committees...
Amber Rudd In May 2016, this Government set out plans to create an independent inspectorate for fire and rescue authorities in England as part of our fire reform programme. The response to the recent...
Nick Hurd The Government has decided not to opt out of a new EU proposal for a Regulation governing the use of the Second Generation Schengen Information System (SIS II) for police and judicial...
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.