Tuesday, 7 July 2009
A new protocol to the Double Taxation Convention with Luxembourg was signed on 2 July 2009. The text of the protocol has been deposited in the Libraries of both Houses and made available on HM...
I am pleased to place before Parliament today the MOD's formal response to the Service Complaints Commissioner's (SCC) first annual report on the fairness, effectiveness and efficiency of the...
The armed forces are an essential element of our national security. They provide the ultimate defence against direct threats to the UK and its overseas territories. They tackle threats to our...
Together with the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, I am announcing that the Privy Council has been asked to approve changes to passport fees at their...
I told the House on 5 May 2009, Official Report, column 19 that I had met representatives from the all party parliamentary group for genocide prevention, and they had made a very powerful case...
I am today publishing a consultation entitled "Merchant Shipping - Public Consultation on the Merchant Shipping (Watercraft) Order 200X" which sets out proposals to regulate the safe use of all...
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.
