Written Ministerial Statements

Tuesday, 22 May 2007

  • 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...

    • Russia: Mr Litvinenko

      Today, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has announced that it has decided, after applying the evidential and public interest tests set out in the Code for Crown Prosecutors, to prosecute Mr...

      EU: Budget

      My honourable friend the Economic Secretary to the Treasury (Ed Balls) has made the following Written Statement. I am today laying before Parliament the annual European Community Finances White...

      Northern Ireland Policing Board

      The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (Peter Hain) has made the following Ministerial Statement. I am announcing the membership of the reconstituted Northern Ireland Policing Board to take...

  • Treasury

    • Annual European Community Finances White Paper

      I am today laying before Parliament, the annual European Community Finances White Paper "Statement on the 2007 EC Budget and measures to combat fraud and financial mismanagement" (Cm 7090). This...

    • Tax Credits

      The tax credit system has delivered three key achievements: it has improved incentives to work, reduced the tax burden on low to middle income families and helped to dramatically reduce child...

  • Defence

    • The Future of ABRO and DARA

      I am announcing today, subject to trades union consultation and appropriate Parliamentary consent, the creation of a new defence support group by merging together ABRO, retained DARA business...

  • Environment Food and Rural Affairs

    • Agriculture and Fisheries Council

      I represented the United Kingdom at this month's Agriculture and Fisheries Council in Brussels. The Council once again failed to reach agreement on measures to establish a recovery plan for the...

  • Health

    • Blood Products (Safety)

      The Government have today sent a copy of the Department's review of all officially held papers for the period 1970-1985, including those returned to the Department from a firm of private...

    • Workforce Planning

      The Government have today laid before Parliament their response to the Health Select Committee Report on Workforce Planning (Cm 7085). The Government are responding to the conclusions and...

  • Home Department

    • Bichard Inquiry

      Copies of the Government's fourth progress report on implementing the recommendations of Sir Michael Bichard's Inquiry into events surrounding the murders of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman have...

    • Unrecorded Crimes Committed by UK Citizens Abroad

      Further to my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary's statement to Parliament on 16 January, I would like to provide an update to the House on the work that has been undertaken to deal with the...

  • Northern Ireland

    • Northern Ireland Policing Board

      I am announcing the membership of the reconstituted Northern Ireland Policing Board to take effect from today. The cross-community Board is one of the great successes flowing from the Belfast...

  • Transport

    • East Midlands Regional Planning Assessment (Railways)

      The Department for Transport has today published the East Midlands Regional Planning Assessment for the railway (RPA), the latest in the series of 11 RPAs covering England and Wales. Copies of...

    • Draft Local Transport Bill

      I am today publishing a draft Local Transport Bill, for public consultation and parliamentary pre-legislative scrutiny. The draft Bill contains legislative proposals to help tackle congestion and...

  • Work and Pensions

    • Benefit Fraud Inspectorate

      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 on Manchester City Council, South Lakeland...

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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