Thursday, 4 November 2010
My right honourable friend the Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice (Kenneth Clarke), my honourable friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Crime Prevention (James...
My right honourable friend the Secretary of State for the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (Vince Cable) has today made the following Statement. I announced the publication of the...
I announced the publication of the Local Growth White Paper on Thursday 28 October. It has now come to my attention that the White Paper contains an error. Paragraph 3.23 of the White Paper...
I am today publishing a replacement to Department for Communities and Local Government Circular 5/10 (on planning controls for houses in multiple occupation), and a replacement appendix D of...
My right hon. Friend the Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice, Kenny MacAskill, the Scottish Secretary for Justice, and I will attend the Justice and Home Affairs Council on 8 and...
I am pleased to announce the appointment of four new Commissioners to the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland. Fidelma Carolan, Milton Kerr, Stephen McIlveen and Liam Maskey will take up...
On 14 September 2010 I made a statement to this House, publishing the report of the Billy Wright inquiry. The report made three specific recommendations that should be applied to the Northern...
I have received the 25th report of the Independent Monitoring Commission (IMC), on levels of paramilitary activity in Northern Ireland. The IMC conclude that dissident groups continue to pose a...
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