Thursday, 7 February 2013
On 13 September 2012 my honourable friend the Minister of State for Crime Prevention (Jeremy Browne) issued a Written Statement to the House announcing arrangements for the implementation of...
My right honourable friend the Secretary of State for Defence (Philip Hammond) and the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (William Hague) have made a joint Written...
My right honourable friend the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs attended the Foreign Affairs Council (FAC) on 31 January. The Foreign Affairs Council was chaired by the...
My honourable friend the Minister for Natural Environment and Fisheries (Richard Benyon) has today made the following Statement. I am today, in conjunction with the Environment Agency, announcing...
The Finance Bill will be published on Thursday 28 March. Explanatory notes on the Bill will be available in the Vote Office and the Printed Paper Office and placed in the Libraries of both...
I am making a joint statement with my right Hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs. Together we wish to inform the House that the Government are today publishing...
I am today, in conjunction with the Environment Agency, announcing details of flood and coastal erosion risk management schemes going ahead in the next financial year in England. A total of 93...
My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs attended the Foreign Affairs Council (FAC) on 31 January. The Foreign Affairs Council was chaired by the High...
I have today laid before Parliament a statutory instrument applying exemptions to EU regulation 181/2011 on the rights of passengers in bus and coach travel. The exemptions are as follows: with...
The 101st session of the International Labour Conference 2012 adopted recommendation 202 concerning national floors of social protection. International Labour Organisation (ILO) recommendations,...
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.