Written Ministerial Statements

Monday, 6 June 2005

  • House of Lords

    • Worker Registration Scheme: Accession Monitoring Report

      Today we are publishing the third accession monitoring report showing provisional management information from the Worker Registration Scheme and data from government monitoring of benefits,...

    • Terrorism Act 2000

      I am pleased to say that Lord Carlile of Berriew QC has completed the report on the operation of the Act, which will be laid before the House today.

      Queen's Award for Voluntary Service 2005

      I am pleased to report that this year's recipients of the Queen's Awards for Voluntary Service were announced on Thursday 2 June. This prestigious annual award for groups of volunteers has been...

      Home Office: Race Equality and Associate Schemes

      I have today placed in the Library copies of the overarching race equality scheme for the Home Office and the "associate" schemes for the core (non-Immigration and Nationality Directorate) Home...

      Rotherham General Hospital NHS Trust

      The chairman of Monitor (the statutory name of which is the Independent Regulator of NHS Foundation Trusts) announced on 31 May 2005 that, in accordance with Section 6 of the Health and Social...

      Regulatory Impact Assessments

      The Government are committed to ensuring that regulations are necessary, give effective protection, balance cost and risk, are fair and command public confidence. In accordance with this, we...

      Tax Credits: Overpayments

      The Paymaster General (Dawn Primarolo) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement. Today over six million families and 10 million children are benefiting from tax credits. The tax...

  • Health

    • Research Ethics Committees

      On 16 November 2004, Official Report, House of Lords, column WS60, my noble Friend the then Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Lord Warner, announced that he had asked Michael O'Higgins, a...

  • Home Department

    • Queen's Award for Voluntary Service 2005

      I am pleased to report that this year's recipients of the Queen's Awards for Voluntary Service were announced on Thursday 2 June. This prestigious annual award for groups of volunteers has been...

    • Proceeds of Crime Act 2002

      I am pleased to announce that the Assets Recovery Agency's annual report 2004–05 will be laid before Parliament today. The report covers the agency's second full year of operation and...

      Immigration and Nationality Directorate

      I have approved the appointment of a new chair, and two members, to the Immigration and Nationality Directorate's Independent Complaints Audit Committee. The new committee will comprise of: Dr....

  • Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs

    • Democratic Republic of the Congo

      With the support of Her Majesty's Government, the United Nations Security Council on 18 April 2005 adopted resolution 1596, which extends the arms embargo on the Democratic Republic of the Congo...

  • Northern Ireland

    • Prison Service

      The 2004 spending review settlement required the Northern Ireland Prison Service to commission an independent review of its strategy for reducing unit costs. The review was led by Hamish Hamill,...

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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