Tuesday, 27 March 2012
My honourable friend the Minister for Employment Relations, Consumers and Postal Affairs (Norman Lamb) has today made the following Statement. I have set Companies House the following targets for...
My honourable friend the Minister for Employment Relations, Consumers and Postal Affairs (Norman Lamb) has today made the following Statement. In October 2011, the Department for Business,...
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 update the House on the level...
My honourable friend the Minister for Employment Relations, Consumers and Postal Affairs (Norman Lamb) has today made the following Statement. The Land Registry vision is: "Putting the customer,...
My honourable friend the Minister of State for Business and Enterprise (Mark Prisk) has today made the following Statement. The Public Bodies Act 2011, which received Royal Assent on 14 December...
In May 2011, the Department for Work and Pensions commissioned the Social Security Advisory Committee to undertake an independent review of passported benefits and their interaction with...
I have set Companies House the following targets for the year 2012-13: Public Target Target Customer Achieve a score of more than 86% in our customer satisfaction survey >86% ...
I am writing to update the House on the level of bursaries for initial teacher training in academic year 2012-13. On 23 February I announced funding of £11.5 million for bursaries to...
The Land Registry vision is: “Putting the customer, quality and innovation at the heart of land registration services”. To meet this vision, the following four strategic objectives...
In October 2011, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) and the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) launched a joint consultation on proposals to reform the FRC. The proposals...
The Public Bodies Act 2011, which received Royal Assent on 14 December 2011, contains a provision which, when commenced later this year, will abolish eight regional development agencies (RDAs)....
Budget 2012 announced a number of tax policy changes that will be subject to consultation. HM Treasury and HM Revenue and Customs are today publishing the following documents: Simpler income tax...
In accordance with the Cabinet Office’s guidance on public bodies, I have launched a review of the Advisory Committee on the Design of Coins, Medals, Seals and Decorations, also known as...
Section 5 of the European Communities (Amendment) Act 1993 requires the Government to report to Parliament for their approval an assessment of the UK’s medium-term economic and budgetary...
Guidance has today been issued to civil servants in UK Departments and those working in non-departmental public bodies (NDPBs) on the principles which they should observe in relation to the...
On 12 August 2011, as part of a concerted, cross-Government action, the Government announced a series of measures to help rebuild communities following the riots and public disorder in the...
Today the Government are publishing the 10th group of reports presenting the findings from research projects commissioned by the previous Administration. There is a significant backlog of...
In my written statement to the House on 14 July 2011, Official Report, column 38WS, I announced the completion of sale of the Tote and stated that Government would enter into discussions with...
The EU Foreign Affairs Council met in Defence Ministers formation on 22 March in Brussels. I represented the UK. The agenda items covered were current and future operations, a discussion on the...
Lord Levene published his independent recommendations on the structure and management of the Ministry of Defence in his report on Defence Reform on 27 June 2011. Since then, substantial progress...
Following the comprehensive spending review and the strategic defence and security review, and in view of the continuing pressure on the defence budget, the Ministry of Defence has carried out a...
Along with the US and France, the UK aims to raise the profile of nuclear security on the international agenda. In the interests of increasing transparency, we have decided to release more...
I am today publishing the reformed statutory framework for the early years foundation stage (EYFS), which will take effect from 1 September 2012. The new, simpler and clearer EYFS framework is...
As part of the structural reforms set out in the schools White Paper “The Importance of Teaching” (November 2010), I am today announcing that three new executive agencies of the...
Further to my statement of 7 July 2010, I would like to update the House on the progress the Government have made in meeting a number of the important commitments set out in that statement. We...
I am writing to inform you that during recess I will launch the CCS commercialisation programme—the Government’s competition for CCS—and publish our CCS road map. CCS has the...
I regret to inform the House that incomplete information was provided in the answer I gave to parliamentary question 98309 on 6 March, Official Report, column 669W, concerning how many cattle...
Today I am publishing “Healthy Lives, Healthy People: Towards a workforce strategy for the public health system”. The consultation document aims to: set out proposals for a work force...
My right hon. Friend the Home Secretary has today laid before the House a draft of The Police (Collaboration: Specified Function) Order 2012. This order requires the police service to collaborate...
On 15 March I issued a written statement to the House to announce that Tom Winsor had published the final report of his review of remuneration and conditions of service for police officers and...
I am announcing today that my Department will shortly commence the first triennial review of the Migration Advisory Committee and the technical advisory board. Triennial reviews of...
I am today publishing proposals for consultation in two key areas of the justice reform agenda: sentences in the community and the shape of probation services that deliver them. These proposals...
The Government are today publishing the new “Charter for Coroner Services”. Charter for Coroner Services The charter sets out for the first time the standards that bereaved family...
I am pleased to announce the publication of the business plans for the Highways Agency and the Department for Transport’s Motoring Agencies—the Driving Standards Agency (DSA), the...
I attended the first Transport Council under the Danish presidency (the presidency) in Brussels on Thursday 22 March. The presidency sought agreement to a general approach on a proposal for a...
At the end of this month I will receive HS2 Ltd’s route and station advice for high speed rail lines to Leeds, Manchester and Heathrow. This is an important next step in our aspiration for...
Last year I asked the Driving Standards Agency (DSA) to consider arrangements for delivering practical car driving tests from premises other than traditional driving test centres such as local...
In May 2011, the Department for Work and Pensions commissioned the Social Security Advisory Committee to undertake an independent review of passported benefits and their interaction with...
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.
