Thursday, 23 November 2006
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...
I will be introducing the Legal Services Bill today and so setting out the Government's proposals for the regulatory reform of legal services in England and Wales. The Bill sets out proposals for...
My right honourable friend the Secretary of State for International Development has made the following Statement. During his recent visit to Pakistan, the Prime Minister signed a new 10-year...
My honourable friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for International Development has made the following Statement. On 15 November, the UK Government announced a major scaling-up of...
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has today ruled on a Dutch case known as Joustra, which concerns the rules on cross-border purchasing of excise products. The ECJ ruled that only products...
The Government's objective for the Local Government Pension Scheme in England and Wales is to ensure it is viable, affordable to both scheme members and employers, and fair to the taxpayers who...
It is normal practice when a Government Department proposes to make a gift of a value exceeding £250,000 for the Department concerned to present to the House of Commons a Minute giving...
During his recent visit to Pakistan, the Prime Minister signed a new 10-year Development Partnership Arrangement (DPA) between the UK and Pakistan. The Prime Minister also announced a doubling of...
On 15 November the UK Government announced a major scaling-up of its development assistance to Yemen. At the same time I also signalled DFID's intention to seek a 10-year Development Partnership...
The Government established a Delay Action Team (DAT) in May of this year in response to an inspection report on avoidable delay in the criminal process by Kit Chivers, Chief Inspector of Criminal...
On behalf of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, the BFI inspection reports on the following councils—Dudley Metropolitan borough council, Dumfries and...
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.
