Wednesday, 19 December 2012
My right honourable friend the Minister of State for Business and Enterprise (Michael Fallon) has made the following Statement. On 22 March 2012 Mark Prisk, as Minister for Business and...
My right honourable and learned friend the Attorney-General (Dominic Grieve) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement. The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has today launched a...
The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has today launched a public consultation on his interim guidelines for prosecuting cases involving communications sent via social media. The guidelines...
On 22 March 2012, as Minister with responsibility for business and enterprise, my hon. Friend the Member for Hertford and Stortford (Mr Prisk) announced in Parliament through a written...
A meeting of the Economic and Financial Affairs Council was held in Brussels on 12 December 2012. Ministers discussed the following item: Banking Supervision Mechanism Ministers agreed an...
Over the last two years, the coalition Government have worked with councils to help freeze council tax bills for hard-working families and pensioners and this has seen council tax bills in...
On 12 September 2001, the then Department for Transport, Local Government and The Regions announced plans to give taxpayer-funded pensions to councillors, through access to the local government...
On 18 May 2011, my predecessor, my right hon. Friend the Member for North Somerset (Dr Fox) made an oral statement to the House, Official Report column 351 and published “The United...
The school funding system should be transparent, pupil-led and easy to understand. That is why, from 2013-14, we have made changes so that the core funding for all schools and academies will be...
Today I am announcing details of school revenue funding for 2013-14. My announcement includes the dedicated schools grant (DSG) and provisional allocations of the pupil premium. Our document...
Today, I am pleased to announce the publication of the first DECC annual progress report on the roll-out of smart meters. Smart meters have the potential to transform consumers’...
Today Government have published a parliamentary report announcing that, recognising uncertainty over the international framework for reducing aviation emissions and particularly the treatment of...
I chaired the first meeting of the Overseas Territories Joint Ministerial Council in London from 4 to 5 December. This Council brings together the political leaders from the overseas territories...
In September 2012, the Hillsborough independent panel published their important report which sets out the truth about the Hillsborough disaster. I am today setting out the different pieces of...
I have today placed in the Library my proposals for the aggregate amount of grant to Local Policing Bodies in England and Wales for 2013-14, for the approval of the House. Copies are also...
I am today publishing a strategic work programme for administrative justice and tribunals. This document sets out the Government’s ambitions for administrative justice and tribunals under...
The workplace pension reforms are a hugely important part of the Government’s commitment to secure and protect people’s income in retirement. As part of the automatic enrolment...
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.