Thursday, 2 April 2009
The Government have a wide-ranging regulatory reform programme which we began in 2005. Today the Government are setting out next steps to ensure future better regulation. Given the economic...
My right honourable friend the Minister for Women and Equality (Harriet Harman) has made the following Statement. In Great Britain, we already provide protection against direct discrimination and...
The Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) Council will be held in Luxembourg on 6 April 2009. My honourable friend Minister of State for Borders and Immigration (Phil Woolas), the Scottish Minister for...
On 14 January 2009, I informed the House that the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform intended to introduce a Working Capital scheme as part of the Government measures to...
My noble Friend the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform has made the following statement. The Government have a wide-ranging regulatory reform programme which we...
I am today publishing a consultation document on proposed changes to the local authority (LA) building control charging regime in England and Wales. The principle of empowering LAs to charge for...
On 19 January, Official Report, column 19WS, I informed the House of the successful completion of the EDF takeover of British Energy. On 24 September last year, the then Secretary of State for...
Together with my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for International Development, I would like to update the House on the current situation in Sri Lanka, our continuing concern and the...
The Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) Council will be held in Luxembourg on 6 April 2009. My noble Friend Lord Bach, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice, the Scottish Minister...
In accordance with Section 57 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000, I have re-appointed the right hon. Sir Paul Kennedy as Interception of Communications Commissioner from 11 April...
The renovation of Middlesex Guildhall has now been completed on time and within budget by Kier Group Plc. The building has been handed to the Ministry of Justice to carry out the final phase of...
I am today publishing a report on Departments' and Agencies' performance on handling Members' and Peers' correspondence during 2008. Details are set out in the table below. The 2007...
I attended the first Transport Council of the Czech presidency, in Brussels on 30 March. There was a progress report and policy debate on the proposed amendment to Directive 1999/62/EC on the...
In July 2007, the Government published they White Paper "Delivering a Sustainable Railway". Within this the Government set out they High Level Output Specification (HLOS) for the railways,...
In Great Britain, we already provide protection against direct discrimination and harassment that arises because the victim is wrongly perceived to belong or subscribe to a particular race,...
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.
