Thursday, 27 October 2016
A meeting of The Economic and Financial Affairs Council (ECOFIN) was held in Luxembourg on 11 October 2016. The Government is committed to leaving the European Union; in the interim, it...
The informal G6 group of Interior Ministers held its most recent meeting in Rome on 20 and 21 October 2016. Representatives of the United States of America and the European Commission also...
In the Annual Report of the Social Fund by the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions on the Social Fund 2014/2015, published in June 2015, in Annex 9 on page 52 of the report the number of...
The Government has today decided to opt in to the European Commission’s proposal which repeals and replaces Regulation 2201/2003, also known as the Brussels IIa Regulation, on...
We have today introduced a Technical and Further Education Bill. My ambition is to drive long needed improvements in the quality of technical education in this country - mirroring the impact...
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.
