Written Ministerial Statements

Wednesday, 26 April 2006

  • House of Lords

    • EU: Justice and Home Affairs Council

      The Justice and Home Affairs Council will be held on 27– 28 April 2006 in Luxembourg. I shall be attending the meeting with my noble and learned friend the Attorney-General, Lord Goldsmith....

    • Nepal

      Following nearly three weeks of strikes and demonstrations across Nepal in which at least 14 people died, on 21 April King Gyanendra announced that he would hand over executive power to the...

  • Treasury

    • Ecofin

      The Informal Economic and Financial Affairs Council (ECOFIN) took place in Vienna on 7 and 8 April 2006. I represented the United Kingdom. The informal council discussed globalisation, with the...

  • Culture Media and Sport

    • BBC Funding

      An independent report into the future funding needs of the BBC has been published today by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. The Department commissioned PKF to carry out a financial...

  • Defence

  • Education and Skills

    • Information Sharing Index (Sensitive Services)

      I am today announcing the Government's decisions on how the details of practitioners providing sensitive services should be recorded on the information sharing index. Section 12 of the Children...

  • Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs

    • Nepal

      Following nearly three weeks of strikes and demonstrations across Nepal in which at least 14 people died, on 21 April King Gyanendra announced that he would hand over executive power to the...

  • Health

    • NHS Foundation Trust Applications (Wave 2)

      Section 4(1) of the Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 provides that an NHS trust may make an application to Monitor (whose statutory name is the Independent...

  • Home Department

    • Justice and Home Affairs Council

      The Justice and Home Affairs Council will be held on 27– 28 April 2006 in Luxembourg. I shall be attending the meeting with my noble and learned Friend, the Attorney-General, and my noble...

  • Northern Ireland

    • Independent Monitoring Commission

      I have received the 10th report of the Independent Monitoring Commission (IMC). This report has been made under articles four and seven of the International Agreement that established the...

  • Trade and Industry

    • Competitiveness Council

      I attended the informal meeting of the Competitiveness Council on Saturday 22 April, hosted by the Austrian presidency in Graz. My ministerial colleague, Lord Sainsbury, attended the Council on...

  • Transport

    • Romford and Havering

      In my answer of 30 March 2006, Official Report, column 1125W to a written parliamentary question (UIN 63004) from the hon. Member for Romford (Andrew Rosindell), I stated that the information...

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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