Wednesday, 15 July 2009
My right honourable friend the Minister for Business, Innovation and Skills (Pat McFadden) has made the following Statement. My department, together with the Department for Energy and Climate...
The Legal Services Commission (LSC) will publish today a response to its consultation, published in February 2009, on prison law funding. The consultation focused on proposals to control the...
My right honourable Minister of State for Schools and Learners (Vernon Coaker) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement. It has become apparent in recent months that some local...
I am announcing today the publication of Low Carbon Transport: A Greener Future (Cm 7682)—a carbon reduction strategy for transport. A key component of the UK Low Carbon Transition Plan,...
The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, together with the Department for Energy and Climate Change, is today publishing the "The UK Low Carbon Industrial Strategy". In parallel to...
The Office of the Third Sector has today published a Social Investment Wholesale Bank Consultation which sets out the vision and the economic case, and consults on proposals for the design and...
Life assurance companies are in general taxed on profits as they are recognised and made available to shareholders. The tax system recognises that, for with-profits business, profits on income...
In a written ministerial statement on 10 October 2006, the then Economic Secretary, my right hon. Friend the Member for Normanton (Ed Balls), undertook to report to Parliament on a quarterly...
The Government are strongly committed to tackling terrorist finance. Just as there should be no hiding place for those who perpetrate terrorism, so there should be no hiding place for those who...
It has become apparent in recent months that some local authorities are facing sudden and sharp increases in demand for primary pupil places. I am today announcing that £200 million of...
I would like to inform the House about progress on the FiReControl project-part of our major programme of work to ensure that the fire and rescue service is fully equipped to meet the challenges...
My right hon. Friend the Member for Barrow and Furness (Mr. Hutton), announced in his statement to the House on 29 April 2009, that Headquarters, 6 (UK) Division would command the International...
The amount of low flying training carried out in the UK Low Flying System (UKLFS) during the training year 1 April 2008 to 31 March 2009 was the minimum required for aircrew to reach and...
This important case arose from the tragic death of Private Jason Smith from heatstroke in Iraq in 2003 and was brought by Private Smith's mother. The Court of Appeal gave its judgment for the...
The Government have made two commitments in recent years on the treatment of children and young people aged under 18 years on adult psychiatric wards. I wish to report to the House on the...
I announce that copies of the 2008-09 annual report and accounts for the Criminal Records Bureau have been laid before the House today. Arrangements are now in hand for publication.
I have today laid before Parliament the Lasting Powers of Attorney, Enduring Powers of Attorney and Public Guardian (Amendment) Regulations 2009. Lasting Powers of Attorney, Enduring Powers of...
My hon. Friend the Minister for the Armed Forces and I wish to make the latest in the series of quarterly statements to the House about the inquests of service personnel and others who have died...
The "Office of the Public Guardian's Annual Report and Accounts for 2008-09" has been laid before Parliament today. This document gives full details of the agency's performance and expenditure...
On 2 April 2009 I announced that the Middlesex Guildhall had been handed over to the Ministry of Justice. I am pleased to be able to report further significant progress on the Supreme Court...
The Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland's annual report and accounts for the year ended 31 March 2009 has been laid before the House today.
I regret to inform the House that the answer I gave on 8 July to a parliamentary question, Official Report, column 802W, about the breakdown of staff employed at the Maritime and Coastguard...
The Renewable Fuels Agency's annual report and accounts for 2008-09 (HC 877) has been laid before Parliament today, in accordance with paragraph 14 of the schedule to the Renewable Transport Fuel...
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.
