Written Ministerial Statements

Wednesday, 19 July 2006

  • House of Lords

    • Benefit Fraud Inspectorate Reports

      My honourable friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (James Plaskitt) has made the following Statement. On behalf of my right honourable friend the Secretary of...

    • Disability Rights Commission: Annual Report

      My honourable friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (Anne McGuire) has made the following Statement. The Disability Rights Commission's annual report and...

      Disability: Remploy

      My honourable friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Work and Pensions(Mrs Anne McGuire) has made the following Statement. Increasing the number of disabled people whom we support...

      Revenue and Customs Prosecutions Office

      During the passage of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (Official Report, Commons Standing Committee D, 13/1/05; col. 130) and the Commissioners for Revenue and Customs Act 2005 (...

  • Treasury

    • Revenue and Customs Prosecutions Office

      During passage of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act (2005), Standing Committee D, 13 January 2005, column 130 and the Commissioners for Revenue and Customs Act (2005), 7 February 2005,...

  • Communities and Local Government

    • Planning (Best Value)

      My right hon. Friend, the Member for Streatham (Keith Hill), when Minister for Planning made a statement to the House on 14 September 2004 about the Government's approach to achieving the...

    • Supporting People

      The Government are today confirming individual grant allocations to "Administering Authorities for the Supporting People Programme in 2007-08" which will fund housing related support services for...

  • Defence

  • Health

    • Annual Reports and Accounts

      The annual reports and accounts for the following organisations have been laid before Parliament today: Dental Practice Board Dental Vocational Training Authority Mental Health Act Commission...

    • Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme

      The ninth report to Parliament on the pharmaceutical price regulation scheme (PPRS) was published today. The report covers the main points of the 2005 scheme and the delivery of the 7 per cent....

  • Home Department

    • Foreign National Prisoners (Deportation and Removal)

      I would like to update the House on progress in deporting foreign national prisoners, following the Home Secretary's statement on 23 May 2006, Official Report, column 77WS, volume 446. Our...

    • Ministerial Authorisation (Zimbabwe)

      As a result of intelligence received in 2001 and July 2004 suggesting systematic fraud in applications for UK ancestry from Zimbabwean nationals, consideration of such applications was suspended...

  • Northern Ireland

    • Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland

      The Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland's annual report and accounts for the year ended 31 March 2006 is published today. Copies will be available in the Libraries of both Houses.

    • Youth Justice Agency of Northern Ireland

      I have placed copies of the Youth Justice Agency's annual report and accounts for 2005-06 in the Libraries of both Houses. This is the Agency's third annual report since its inception on 1 April...

  • Transport

    • Demand Management (M25)

      In July 2003 the then Secretary of State for Transport, my right hon. Friend the Member for Edinburgh, South-West (Mr. Darling), in response to the ORBIT multi-modal study, confirmed his...

    • Heathrow Sustainable Development (Air Quality)

      I have today published the technical report of the Air Quality Technical Panels instituted after the 2003 Air Transport White Paper to review the basis upon which air quality assessments should...

  • Work and Pensions

    • Strategic Direction for Remploy

      Increasing the number of disabled people that we support into work is a core part of our Welfare Reform agenda. This is central to meeting the Department's aim of an 80 per cent. employment rate,...

    • Disability Rights Commission

      The Disability Rights Commission's Annual Report and Accounts 2005-06 have been published today and laid before Parliament. The Annual Report demonstrates the DRC's continuing success in its...

      Benefit Fraud Inspectorate Reports (Publication)

      On behalf of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, the BFI inspection reports on the following councils were published today: Bath and North East Somerset Council,...

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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