Monday, 27 February 2012
Apprenticeships are now providing a record number of opportunities for individuals and employers, and the benefits which the programme delivers can be felt across every community in our country...
My honourable friend the Minister of State for Further Education, Skills and Lifelong Learning (John Hayes) has today made the following Statement. I am writing to inform the House that we are...
My honourable friend the Minister of State for Further Education, Skills and Lifelong Learning (John Hayes) has today made the following Statement. I am writing to inform the House that the...
I wish to inform the House that the Government have opted in to the following measures: the Council decision relating to the proposal on the signature and provisional application of an...
My honourable friend the Minister for Employment Relations, Consumer and Postal Affairs (Norman Lamb) has today made the following Statement. The EU Competitiveness Council will take place in...
My right honourable friend the Minister of State for Universities and Science (David Willetts) has today made the following Statement. I am today confirming that there is to be no system of...
I am writing to inform the House that the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has recently reviewed the classification of colleges and notified HM Treasury on 23 February 2012 that both further...
Apprenticeships are now providing a record number of opportunities for individuals and employers, and the benefits which the programme delivers can be felt across every community in our country...
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 are therefore acting...
As previously published, the Government will deliver 30,000 national citizen service (NCS) places in 2012. I am very pleased to be able to provide information about the location of national...
I wish to inform the House that the Government has opted in to the following measures: (i) the Council decision relating to the proposal on the signature and provisional application of an...
This statement is also published in the names of the Home Secretary and the Secretary of State for International Development. On 23 February the UK hosted the London conference on Somalia. When...
I have today laid before Parliament the Government response to the House of Commons Health Committee’s report “Public Expenditure: Thirteenth Report of Session 2010-12” (Cm...
The coalition Government are firmly committed to protecting the security of UK citizens and to defending civil liberties. Our experience is that both security and privacy are possible. We must...
In July 2011, when I laid the final report of the IMC before the House, I made a commitment to provide twice yearly updates summarising the threat. This statement is the first such update and...
On 16 January 2012, I announced the significant operating cost reductions we have made in running the Government Car and Despatch Agency (GCDA) since May 2010. The previous Government 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.