Monday, 27 April 2009
The Secretary of State for the Home Department, Jacqui Smith, has made the following Written Ministerial Statement. I have today published a consultation, Protecting the Public in a Changing...
My honourable friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Government Equalities Office (Maria Eagle), has made the following Statement. Some people experience discrimination because they have a...
In October 2008, following reviews of sex and relationships education and drugs and alcohol education, I announced that I proposed to give PSHE education statutory status, subject to formal...
This statement follows on from the one that I made on 13 December 2007, Official Report, column WS55. I am pleased to announce the approval of the plan to collocate intelligence facilities at...
My hon. Friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change and I met with Environment Ministers from EU member states, candidate countries, and the European...
The Government are today publishing the Equality Bill. The Bill outlaws unjustifiable age discrimination against people aged 18 and over by those providing services and exercising public...
I have today published a consultation, Protecting the Public in a Changing Communications Environment, which addresses the issue of communications data. The consultation explains how...
I made an oral statement and laid in Parliament the Governments response to the recent consultation on improving the openness of family courts in December 2008, entitled Family...
I am pleased to inform the House that the proposed National Assembly for Wales (Legislative Competence) (Environment) Order 2009 has been laid today, as Command Paper (Cm 7608). Copies of this...
Some people experience discrimination because they have a combination of protected characteristics. For example, black women can face discrimination because of stereotyped attitudes or prejudice,...
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.