Thursday, 2 February 2012
The Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) Informal Council was held on 26 and 27 January in Copenhagen. My right honourable friend the Secretary of State for Home Affairs (Theresa May), my right...
A Parliamentary Statement has been laid before the House today, 2 February. This has been made pursuant to Section 5 of the European Union Act 2011 as to whether the treaty concerning the...
The Leader of the Opposition, the right honourable Baroness Royall of Blaisdon, earlier today asked me to make a Statement about the financial privilege of the House of Commons in relation to...
Paragraph 38 of Schedule 7 to the Counter-Terrorism Act 2008 requires the Treasury to report to Parliament after each calendar year in which a direction under the schedule is at any time in...
In March 1991, at the outbreak of over a decade of civil war, Britain closed its embassy in Liberia. In 2003, a UK-based political officer began work again in Monrovia, reporting to and...
A parliamentary statement has been laid before the House today, 2 February. This has been made pursuant to section 5 of the European Union Act 2011 as to whether the treaty concerning the...
Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of the Constabulary (HMIC) has today published its review into undercover policing entitled “A review of national police units which provide intelligence on...
Attending on behalf of the United Kingdom were my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Justice, the Scottish Minister for Community Safety and Legal Affairs Roseanna Cunningham MSP and...
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.
