Monday, 21 November 2011
My honourable friend the Minister for Employment Relations, Consumer and Postal Affairs (Edward Davey) has today made the following Statement. I have together with the Financial Secretary to the...
I wish to inform the House that, today, Dame Carol Black, the National Director for Health and Work, and David Frost CBE, former Director General of the British Chambers of Commerce, will present...
I have, together with the Financial Secretary to the Treasury, published the Government’s response to the consumer credit aspects of the consumer credit and personal insolvency review,...
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. The Government published...
The Government have today laid before the House an order under the Counter-Terrorism Act 2008 containing a direction requiring UK credit and financial institutions to cease all business with...
On 15 June 2011 I announced that I had put Northern Rock plc up for sale. The bidding process has now finished and on 17 November 2011 I announced the sale of Northern Rock plc to Virgin Money....
I am today announcing the publication of “Laying the Foundations: A Housing Strategy for England”. This strategy sets out the Government’s plans to support social mobility and...
I wish to inform the House that the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, together with the Ministry of Defence and the Department for International Development, is today publishing the 11th progress...
The Foreign Affairs Council (FAC) and General Affairs Council (GAC) were held on 14- 15 November in Brussels. My right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary attended the FAC (foreign affairs). My...
A year from now the public within England and Wales will, for the first time, have been given a direct vote and say in how they and their communities are policed. The election of the first police...
The judiciary play a critical role in the administration of justice. It is therefore vital that we select candidates for judicial office on merit, through fair and open competition, from the...
On Christmas day 2009 an attempted attack on Northwest flight 253 from Amsterdam Schiphol to Detroit was made using an explosive device concealed in the underwear of a passenger. The device had...
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.
