Tuesday, 28 November 2006
My right honourable friend the Secretary of State for International Development has made the following Statement. Having suffered severe drought, parts of the Horn of Africa are now experiencing...
The Justice and Home Affairs Council was held on 5 and 6 October 2006 in Luxembourg. I attended the council with the Home Secretary and Baroness Ashton, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at...
I am publishing Legal Aid Reform: The Way Ahead (Cm 6993). This sets out how we will reform the procurement of legal aid services, moving towards a market-based system. It takes account of the...
HM Treasury and HM Revenue and Customs are today publishing the following reports: "Davidson Review, Implementation of EU legislation"; "Implementing Hampton: from enforcement to compliance";...
The Treasury has completed its annual indexation of the average cost of answering oral and written parliamentary questions to reflect changes in civil service earnings and retail prices. The...
On 10 October 2006, the Secretary of State for Defence announced that a new, tax-free bonus payment would be introduced for service personnel. The bonus will be called the operational allowance...
I represented the United Kingdom at the Agriculture and Fisheries Council meeting in Brussels on 20 and 21 November 2006. Ross Finnie, the Scottish Environment and Rural Affairs Minister, also...
DEFRA's Director General for Sustainable Farming and Food represented the United Kingdom at the EU Agriculture Informal Council in Oulu, Finland. Member states debated how the European model of...
Following my written ministerial statement of 12 July 2006, Official Report, column 70WS, about the change of policy on disclosure of information relating to serious offences allegedly...
There were 5,216 outstanding parking and other minor traffic violation fines incurred by diplomatic missions and international organisations in the United Kingdom recorded during the year 1...
The majority of diplomatic missions in the United Kingdom pay the national non-domestic rates (NNDR) requested from them. They are obliged to pay only 6 per cent. of the total NNDR value which...
I have today placed in the Library a copy of my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary's proposals for allocation of police grant for England and Wales in 2007-08. My right hon. Friend and I intend...
The Justice and Home Affairs Council was held on 5- 6 October 2006 in Luxembourg. Baroness Scotland attended the Council with the Home Secretary and Baroness Ashton, Parliamentary Under-Secretary...
Having suffered severe drought, parts of the Horn of Africa are now experiencing exceptionally high rainfall resulting in severe flooding in Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya. The UK has responded...
The transatlantic slave trade stands as one of the most inhuman enterprises in history. At a time when the capitals of Europe and America championed the enlightenment of man, their merchants were...
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.
