Written Ministerial Statements

Wednesday, 17 May 2006

  • House of Lords

    • Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Departmental Report

      My right honourable friend the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Margaret Beckett) will today lay before Parliament the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) departmental...

    • Judicial Diversity

      I am announcing today how the strategy which the Lord Chief Justice, the chairman of the Judicial Appointments Commission and I have agreed to promote diversity within the judiciary is to be...

  • Education and Skills

    • EU Education Council

      The Scottish Executive Minister for Education and Young People, Mr. Peter Peacock, and the UK Deputy Permanent Representative to the EU, Anne Lambert, will represent the UK during the Council in...

    • Teachers' Pension Scheme

      I am today launching the statutory consultation on a package of reforms to the Teachers' Pension Scheme (IPS). The reform proposals reflect an agreement that has been reached following several...

  • Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs

    • Departmental Report

      I am today laying before Parliament the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) Departmental Report for 1 April 2005— 31 March 2006 (Cm 6823). The report is a clear and comprehensive account...

  • Prime Minister

    • Cabinet Committee Chairs

      I have placed an updated list of Cabinet Committees, and of who chairs them, in the Libraries of both Houses. A full list, including membership and terms of reference will shortly be placed in...

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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