Boris Johnson FCO Services operates as a trading fund of the FCO. Pursuant to section 4(6) of the Government Trading Funds Act 1973 (as amended by the Government Trading Act 1990), I hereby lay copies of...
Mark Field Copies of the British Council’s Annual Report and Accounts for the 2016-17 financial year have been placed in the libraries of both Houses. The Report can also be found at the British...
Margot James I have set performance targets for the Insolvency Service for the financial year 2017-18. The Insolvency Service is the Government agency that provides public services to those affected by...
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...
Matthew Hancock The Education, Youth, Culture and Sport Council took place in Brussels on 22nd and 23rd of May 2017. A separate Ministerial Written Statement is being tabled by the Department for Education...
David Gauke In February this year, the Department for Work and Pensions published a Green Paper looking at what more needs to be done to ensure consumer confidence and secure the future of defined benefit...
Alan Duncan The Government wishes to inform the House of its decision to opt in to the Council Decision on Conclusion of the EU-Canada Strategic Partnership Agreement (SPA), in respect of Article 18(2) of...
Claire Perry The Microgeneration Certification Scheme (MCS) is a scheme that certifies products and installers of renewable technologies to provide assurance to consumers about the quality and standard of...
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...
Boris Johnson I have today laid before Parliament a copy of the 2016 Foreign and Commonwealth Office Report on Human Rights and Democracy (Cm 9487). The report highlights policy developments on human rights...
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...
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...
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...
Chris Grayling In October 2016, the Government selected a new Northwest runway at Heathrow as its preferred scheme for delivering new airport capacity in the South East. In February a consultation on a draft...
David Davis Next week the UK’s negotiating team will travel to Brussels for the second round of talks, continuing our journey towards a new, deep and special partnership between the UK and the EU....
Elizabeth Truss A meeting of The Economic and Financial Affairs Council (ECOFIN) was held in Brussels on 11 July 2017. The UK was represented by Sir Tim Barrow (Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom...
Alan Duncan My Right Honourable Friend the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs attended the Foreign Affairs Council on 19 June. The Foreign Affairs Council was chaired by the High...
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...
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...
Lord Young of Cookham The Minister for the Constitution has made the following Written Ministerial Statement. The Government is today publishing its responses to the Electoral Commission’s reports on the...
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.