Thursday, 27 April 2006
On 26 April preliminary tests indicated that the avian influenza virus was present in samples from chickens on a poultry farm near Dereham in Norfolk. Further tests are being carried out to...
The 2005 Fast Stream recruitment report was published online at www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk today. It summarises the results of the Civil Service Fast Stream recruitment competitions completed in...
In my Statement of 20 March 2006 to the House I announced that the Government intended to amend the Electoral Administration Bill, currently before this House, to make it compulsory for...
My right honourable friend the Prime Minister has appointed Paul Williams and Michael Langley as members of the Senior Salaries Review Body (SSRB), initially for a three-year term. They will take...
The 2005 fast-stream recruitment report was published on-line at http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk today. It summarises the results of the civil service fast-stream recruitment competitions...
The National Lottery Bill, which is currently before Parliament, will establish the Big Lottery Fund as a new lottery distributing body, replacing three of the existing distributing bodies, the...
I am pleased to announce that the 25th anniversary of the Falklands conflict will be commemorated in the United Kingdom in June 2007. The commemorations, which will be designated "South Atlantic...
My right hon. Friend the Home Secretary has today placed in the Libraries of both Houses the second annual report of the Independent Monitor of the Certification of Claims as Clearly Unfounded...
I have appointed Paul Williams and Michael Langley as members of the Senior Salaries Review Body (SSRB), initially for a three-year term. They will take up their post with immediate effect. 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.
