Written Ministerial Statements

Thursday, 12 January 2012

  • House of Lords

    • Higher Education: Funding

      My honourable friend the Minister of State for Further Education, Skills and Lifelong Learning (John Hayes) has today made the following Statement. Following publication of the annual skills...

    • Red Tape Challenge

      I would like to inform the House that the Government are launching the housing and construction theme on the Cabinet Office's Red Tape Challenge website. The theme will include housing and...

  • Treasury

    • Anti-avoidance

      The Government are committed to tackling tax avoidance to ensure the Exchequer is protected and fairness is maintained for the taxpayer. HMRC has recently become aware of a contrived and...

  • Business, Innovation and Skills

    • Further Education Skills Funding

      Following publication of the annual skills investment statement for the 2012-13 academic year by the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills on 1 December 2011, the Skills Funding Agency...

  • Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs

  • Health

  • Justice

    • Compensation Act 2006

      I am today laying before the House the Government’s memorandum to the Justice Committee on post-legislative scrutiny of the Compensation Act 2006. Copies have been placed in the Libraries...

  • Transport

    • Electrically Assisted Pedal Cycles

      I am today publishing the responses to a public consultation which sought views on proposals to provide closer alignment of GB regulations with European rules. The consultation was launched on 5...

  • Work and Pensions

    • Welfare Reform Bill

      The Department for Work and Pensions has obtained approval for a second advance from the Contingencies Fund of £3.737 million to allow for the continuance of work related to the introduction...

    • Welfare Reform Bill

      The Department for Work and Pensions has obtained approval for an advance, prior to Royal Assent, from the Contingency Fund of £1,000,000 . The funding will allow for the development of the...

      Welfare Reform Bill (Third Reading Amendments)

      On 22 December 2011 the Scottish Parliament voted on a legislative consent motion to the Welfare Reform Bill which is currently at Report stage in the House of Lords. Although social security is...

What is this?

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.

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