Thursday, 21 March 2024
My Rt. Hon Friend the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care (Victoria Atkins MP) has made the following Written Statement: The Health and Care Act 2022 introduced a statutory...
I am repeating the following Written Ministerial Statement made today in the other place by my Honourable Friend, the Minister for Data and Digital Infrastructure; Julia Lopez MP I am notifying...
The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman has today published his final report on his investigation into State Pension age changes communication. The timing and date of publication was...
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has today published its annual statistics on incomes and living standards covering 2022/23. This includes Households Below Average Income (HBAI), which...
I am today laying before Parliament, “The European Union Finances Statement 2023 on the implementation of the Withdrawal Agreement’” (CP 1043). This is an annual publication;...
At Budget 2013, the government announced it would begin signing decommissioning relief deeds. Since October 2013, the government has entered into 108 decommissioning relief deeds. Offshore...
Police forces must command the trust and confidence of the people that they serve. This is vital to the success of our policing by consent model, and why policing in England & Wales is a...
Today the Government has laid before Parliament its response to the Joint Committee on the draft Mental Health Bill. The Government would like to thank the Joint Committee on the draft Mental...
The Health and Care Act 2022 introduced a statutory requirement for the Government to publish an annual statement setting out expectations for NHS mental health services spending. This is to...
Today, on World Down Syndrome Day, I am pleased to provide an update on the Government’s progress on implementation of the Down Syndrome Act 2022. The Act seeks to improve life outcomes for...
Just over two years ago, the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia launched the ground-breaking new strategic defence and security partnership – AUKUS. As we have seen through...
Today, I am pleased to announce the publication of the Government’s response to the Quinquennial Review of the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme 2022-23. The Armed Forces Compensation...
The Government has today laid the Windsor Framework (Implementation) Regulations 2024. The Regulations will enable the Government to give direction to Northern Ireland departments when delivering...
I am notifying the House of the publication today of a Post Incident Review into technical fault BT experienced on Sunday 25 June 2023, which affected its ability to transfer 999 calls to the...
With the concurrence of the Lady Chief Justice, I will today publish the seventeenth annual report of the Judicial Conduct Investigations Office (JCIO). The JCIO supports the Lady Chief Justice...
The fourth round of negotiations on a UK-Switzerland enhanced Free Trade Agreement (FTA) took place in Bern, Switzerland from 4 to 8 March 2024. We continue to work together with the Swiss...
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.
