Monday, 16 October 2023
The Prime Minister has announced that we will introduce the Advanced British Standard (ABS) for 16- to 19-year-olds. This will bring together the best of A Levels and T Levels to form a single,...
Today I am confirming that the Department for Education has corrected an error in the notional allocations of the schools National Funding Formula (NFF) for 2024-25. These allocations were...
The Withdrawal Agreement Joint Committee met on 28 September 2023, with UK and EU delegates joining by video conference. The meeting was co-chaired at alternate level by the Parliamentary Under...
The Agreement under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biological Diversity of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction, known as the...
Last December, the world came together at the Convention of Biodiversity (CBD) in Montreal, Canada, to agree the Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF), with a priority objective to halt and reverse...
The Price Review is an independent five-yearly process, run by the economic regulator Ofwat, to determine investment plans for water companies and customer bills over the next five years, in this...
This government is committed to backing British farmers who produce some of the highest quality food in the world, contribute billions to our economy, and are the custodians of our countryside. ...
Earlier this year, with the publication of Unleashing Rural Opportunity, the government set out its roadmap for rural communities, including a range of measures across four priorities for rural...
On 4 October 2023 the Prime Minister announced a bold and ambitious plan to create a ‘smokefree generation’, and the government published the command paper “Stopping the start:...
This Government set out in the 2019 Green Paper, Advancing our health: prevention in the 2020s, commitments to work with industry to deliver a significant increase in the availability of...
Section 19(1) of the Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures (TPIM) Act 2011 (the Act) requires the Secretary of State to report to Parliament as soon as reasonably practicable after the...
I would like to update the House on the outcome of the procurement of new health and disability benefit assessment contracts – the ‘Functional Assessment Service’ contracts...
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.
