Tuesday, 18 October 2016
My right honorable friend the Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General (Ben Gummer) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement. Today the Government is publishing an...
Today the Government is publishing an updated list of Cabinet Committees and Implementation Taskforces. It includes three new committees, chaired by the Prime Minister, to oversee this...
The Government has decided to opt in to the European Commission's proposals for the acceptance by the Member States, in the interests of the EU, of the accession of Kazakhstan, Peru and the...
My Right Honourable Friend, the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, (Mr Boris Johnson), attended an informal meeting of Foreign Ministers of participating states of the...
I would like to update the House on the current state of relations between the United Kingdom and the Republic of Argentina following my recent visit to Buenos Aires. After more than a decade...
I am pleased to announce the publication of the National Evaluation of the first Troubled Families Programme which ran between 2012 and 2015. The programme was set up in 2012 to work with a...
The 17th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) took place in Johannesburg between 24 September and 5 October 2016. CITES is a vital...
I would like to update the House on the outcome of the recent United Nations Montreal Protocol negotiations in Rwanda. I am very pleased to report that a deal was agreed amongst the 197...
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.
