Monday, 6 December 2010
The Government are fully committed to tackling tax avoidance and will take necessary steps to protect the Exchequer and maintain fairness in the tax system. At the June Budget the Government set...
The Government are committed to fostering diversity in financial services, promoting mutuals and creating a more competitive banking industry. Much of the legislation applying to mutuals has...
I am pleased to announce that I will be publishing a national broadband strategy today. The strategy sets out how the Government plan to deliver their ambition to have the best superfast...
This Government are a proud signatory of the United Nations Convention of the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), are committed to its implementation, and believe it is vital that children and young...
I am announcing today an independent review of the commercialisation and sexualisation of childhood. Parents express real concern about children being pressured into growing up too quickly, to...
I wish to inform the House of the outcome of the review of the Merchant Shipping (Ship-to-Ship Transfers) Regulations 2010. On 8 July, I announced the review of the regulations and I asked all...
I am publishing today "Disability Living Allowance reform", a formal public consultation on our proposed reforms to disability living allowance (DLA). We are already undertaking large-scale...
The social fund helps people to meet additional costs they may find it difficult to budget for. This is especially true when people on the lowest incomes are facing difficult and expensive times...
Written Ministerial Statements were introducted in late 2002 to stop the practice of having “planted” or “inspired” questions designed to elicit Government statements.
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