Thursday, 2 November 2006
The security and safety of the British people is the first task of Government. Earlier in the year I announced that the Government's comprehensive spending review (CSR) would review security and...
I am today publishing a copy of the findings of the Board of Inquiry (BOI) report into the loss of HMS Sheffield during the Falklands conflict on the MOD's website at www.mod.uk/Defence...
The House will be aware that my predecessor made a written statement on 11 July 2006 about the discovery of an error affecting about 1,800 armed forces invaliding pensions. My predecessor...
Further to my statement during the Adjournment debate on Western Sahara on 24 October, Official Report, column 414WH, I would like to clarify that the regulation on the conclusion of the...
The Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council will be held on 7 November 2006 in Brussels. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Department for Trade and Industry...
The Government have today published their response to the Select Committee's examination of the Parliamentary Ombudsman's report "Trusting in the Pensions Promise" (Cm6961). The Government have,...
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.
