Wednesday, 24 June 2009
I am today announcing the outcome of the offshore energy strategic environmental assessment (SEA), and I am publishing a policy document, A Prevailing Wind: Advancing UK Offshore Wind Deployment,...
On 11 June I informed the House by means of a Written Statement that the House Committee had agreed to commission an independent external review of the financial support available to Members of...
My right honourable friend the Leader of the House of Commons (Harriet Harman) has made the following Statement. My right honourable friend the Secretary of State for Justice and I have today...
During 2007 delegations/authorisations were made to the Ministry of Justice, the Welsh Assembly Government and the National School of Government and in 2008, to the Government Equalities Office...
The annual report 2008-09 of the Financial Services Authority (FSA) has today been laid before Parliament. Copies have been deposited in the Libraries of both Houses. The report forms a key part...
The Government are determined to ensure that everything possible is done to maintain the integrity and reputation of sport. I am therefore delighted to announce that I am bringing together a new...
The statement by my predecessor, the right hon. Member for Coventry, North-East (Bob Ainsworth) on 25 February 2009, Official Report, columns 24-25WS, referred to a delay from spring until...
I am pleased to announce that a feasibility study will be undertaken to look at the possibility of establishing a Defence and National Rehabilitation Centre in around 10 years' time, looking at...
The key targets that I have set the chief executive of the People, Pay and Pensions Agency are as follows: Delivering Results Individual performance targets have been agreed between the agency...
My noble Friend the Minister of State for Energy and Climate Change, Lord Hunt of Kings Heath, today made the following statement: I am today announcing the outcome of the Offshore Energy...
I announced in my written ministerial statement on l 3 March 2009, Official Report, column 36WS, that we had asked the independent Advisory Committee on Cervical Screening (ACCS) to formally...
The Under-Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, the Minister with responsibility for disabled people, my hon. Friend the Member for Chatham and Aylesford (Jonathan Shaw) and I are today...
I have today laid before Parliament the annual report of the Sentencing Guidelines Council. The Sentencing Guidelines Council has published its annual report, jointly with the Sentencing Advisory...
I have today published a consultation paper on the recommendations of the Consultative Group on the Past. Dealing with the legacy of the events of the last forty years remains one of the greatest...
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