Written Ministerial Statements

Tuesday, 5 November 2013

  • House of Lords

    • Bovine Tuberculosis

      My Right Hon Friend the Secretary of State (Owen Paterson) has today made the following statement. Successfully tackling bovine TB (bTB) in the badger population is a key element in our strategy...

    • Office for Nuclear Regulation

      The independent nuclear regulator, the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR), has today published the Chief Nuclear Inspector’s inaugural annual report, which provides information on the...

      Sport: Legacies

      My Hon friend, the Minister for Sport and Equalities (Helen Grant MP), has made the following statement: In July the Government and the Mayor of London published ‘Inspired by 2012’....

  • Business, Innovation and Skills

    • New Debt Management Protocol

      A new voluntary protocol is now in place for commercial debt management companies, which will provide greater protection for consumers. A total of 22 companies, who supply more than half of the...

  • Culture Media and Sport

    • Sporting Legacy

      In July the Government and the Mayor of London published “Inspired by 2012”. This report detailed the range of impressive legacy benefits from London 2012 that had been delivered one...

    • Tour de France Grand Départ

      I wish to inform the House that on 2 September 2013 the Department for Culture, Media and Sport laid a minute recording the Government’s commitment to underwrite the 2014 Tour de France...

  • Defence

    • Global Counter-terrorism Call-out Order

      With the expiry of the call-out order made on 6 November 2012, a new call-out order has been made under section 56 of the Reserve Forces Act 1996 to enable reservists to continue to be called...

  • Energy and Climate Change

    • Chief Nuclear Inspector's Annual Report

      The independent nuclear regulator, the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR), has today published the chief nuclear inspector’s inaugural annual report, which provides information on the...

  • Environment Food and Rural Affairs

    • Bovine TB

      Successfully tackling bovine TB (bTB) in the badger population is a key element in our strategy to rid England of this disease within 25 years. It is this broad strategy, of which badger control...

  • Transport

    • Ministerial Correction

      On 31 October 2013, Official Report, columns 1124-25, in the course of my statement to the House during the report stage of the High Speed Rail (Preparation) Bill, I quoted a figure for the...

    • Woodhead Tunnels

      The Woodhead tunnels are located on the former Manchester to Sheffield railway line, known as the Woodhead route, which was closed to passenger traffic in 1970 and to freight in 1981. The...

  • Work and Pensions

    • Child Maintenance Reform

      On 19 July 2012, the Government published “Supporting separated families; securing children’s futures” (Cm 8399), a public consultation on the draft Child Support Fees...

What is this?

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.

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