Monday, 23 April 2012
I regret to inform the House that incomplete information was provided in the Answer I gave to Lords Parliamentary Question 15908 on 6 March 2012, Lords Official Report, col. WA416, about which...
My right honourable friend the Minister for Food and Farming has today made the following Statement. I am pleased to announce a package of measures to tackle irresponsible dog ownership. I...
The Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice (Kenneth Clarke) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement. The Government have decided to opt in to the European Commission's...
My right honourable friend the Minister of State for Universities and Science (David Willetts) has today made the following Statement. I have tasked the National Measurement Office to provide...
The Government have reviewed the decision to market and dispose of the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre taken by the previous Government in April 2009. It has concluded that the Department...
Today I am publishing new rules and incentives to strengthen the control of public spending. The Government have set out their plan to significantly reduce the structural current budget deficit...
The Government have today published the first annual progress report on the three-year infrastructure cost review programme launched in March 2011. Over the past 12 months, the Government have...
The UK’s chemical protection programme is designed to protect against the use of chemical weapons. Such a programme is permitted by the chemical weapons convention, with which the United...
I am pleased to announce a package of measures to tackle irresponsible dog ownership. I apologise to the House that this announcement is four weeks later than intended. In the past few years...
My right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary and I wish to update the House on the Government’s efforts to reform the European Court of Human Rights as part of the UK’s chairmanship of...
I have appointed Dr Roderick Bailey, Research Associate at the Imperial War Museum, to complete the writing of Special Operations Executive (SOE) in Italy 1940-43.
Following the Government’s review of non-departmental public bodies and the passage of the Public Bodies Act 2011, and using powers contained within this Act, I will be laying an order...
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.
