Monday, 4 March 2013
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice (Mrs Helen Grant) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement. The Government have today published a consultation on our proposed...
My right honourable friend the Minister of State for Climate Change (Gregory Barker) made the following Statement. An error has been identified in the Written Answer given to the honourable...
I am today launching a four-week public consultation on proposals to prevent the supply of highly specialist printing equipment to fraudsters who then use that equipment to produce false...
My right honourable friend the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Owen Paterson) has today made the following Statement. I would like to update the House on developments...
My honourable friend the Minister of State for Agriculture and Food (David Heath) has today made the following Statement. Following the events at Ramsgate port on 12 September 2012, when a...
Regulations will be laid before the House shortly to increase certain National Health Service charges in England from 1 April 2013. There will be an increase in the prescription charge of 20p...
My right honourable friend the Secretary of State for International Development has made the following Statement. On 30 November, I released a Written Ministerial Statement outlining my decision...
The Government are committed to delivering and maintaining a real sporting legacy after the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic success. An important part of securing this legacy is to encourage...
A protocol amending the double taxation agreement with the People’s Republic of China was signed on 27 February 2013. The text of the protocol has been deposited in the Libraries of both...
I am today announcing the start of the triennial review of the House of Lords Appointments Commission (HOLAC). Triennial reviews of non-departmental public bodies (NDPBs) are part of the...
Following the events at Ramsgate port on 12 September 2012, when a consignment of 540 sheep were unloaded at the port which resulted in three sheep drowning and more than 40 more having to be...
I would like to update the House on developments since my written ministerial statement on 25 February, 2013, Official Report, column 5WS, on the latest results from the food industry programme...
I wish to inform the House of a new pilot process by which the Government will be informed of inward visits which may qualify for special mission immunity status. A special mission is a temporary...
We strongly welcome the new Commonwealth charter which has been agreed and adopted by all Commonwealth Heads of Government. The Government have today laid a copy of this charter before Parliament...
I am appointing Mr Alastair MacGregor QC as the new Commissioner for the Retention and Use of Biometric Material (“Biometrics Commissioner”). The Protection of Freedoms Act 2012...
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.
