Updated: Added updated content: chapter 14 (Cholera); chapter 17 (Hepatitis A);chapter 18 (Hepatitis B); chapter 20 (Japanese encephalitis) and chapter 25 (Pneumococcal).
The latest version of Immunisation...
This document provides the background, feedback and payment figures from the Direct Payment Demonstration Projects running in 6 areas across Great Britain covering the first 14 payments of Housing Benefit directly...
Updated: Updated to include consultation report.
Proposed scheme for improving the A14 around Cambridge and Huntingdon, together with widening works on the A1 between Alconbury and Brampton, over a total...
Updated: Added the consultation report.
The Highways Agency proposes to improve the M25 by making it a controlled motorway between junctions 27 and 30. This helps relieve congestion by using technology ...
Updated: Consultation report added.
The Highways Agency proposes to improve the M25 by making it a controlled motorway between junctions 16 and 23. This helps relieve congestion by using technology to vary...
This report gives a brief introduction to the broad variety of areas the Science and Innovation Network (SIN) supports, and shows how SIN works in areas directly linked to the UK’s innovation and growth priorities...
Border Force and Trading Standards have launched a public campaign warning festive shoppers to be careful about what they buy and where they buy it from to avoid fuelling the illegal trade in counterfeit goods...
There’s a political phrase in current circulation which I happen, rather, to agree with – Better Together.
But while I wholeheartedly agree with the campaign to keep Scotland part of the United Kingdom...
Policing Minister Damian Green launched the first meeting of the ‘US-UK taskforce to Counter Online Child Exploitation’ at the US Department of Justice in Washington on Monday.
The taskforce, set up by...
A conference on scaling up the ‘treatment as prevention’ model of combatting HIV and AIDS takes us to Cape Town during an historic period for South Africa.
Scaling up HIV/AIDS treatment as prevention: Southern...
Updated: added letter from Martin Wheatley to Sajid Javid on the timetable for Consumer Credit Cap and Data Sharing
The government introduced the Financial Services (Banking Reform Bill) in the House of...
Click on the above links for the texts of both the treaty and status list.
Updated: Fee list updated to latest consular rate of exchange
A full list of consular fees
Updated: Daily update of the BVD unclaimed estates list
The Division publishes a list of unclaimed estates which have been recently referred, but not yet administered, and historic cases which have not ...
The declaration is the commitment made by the G8 countries to build an international effort to approach the problem of dementia.
The communique sets out more information on future plans, including 3 ...
Updated: Version 1.0 of school census summer 2014 XML schema files published.
These XML schema files are for suppliers developing software that will assist local authorities and schools submitting data ...
The draft regulations should be read alongside the legislation at new 863D ITTOIA –Alternative Investment Fund Managers: Deferred Remuneration etc - published on 5 December.
Updated: Correction made to page 22 of the response document.
This consultation sets out the government’s vision for transforming the child maintenance system so the emphasis is placed on supporting families...
UK Sport Chief Executive Liz Nicholl congratulates figure skaters selected to Team GB for Sochi 2014.
TB breakdowns in cattle - EIRs best estimates of the number of herd breakdowns and cattle slaughtered due to TB in each of the cull pilot areas over: a) each of the last 5 years or at least 2012; and b) which...
Cull costs EIRs: the exact cost per badger killed in the Somerset cull including all the peripheral costs of policing, administration, monitoring social networks and dealing with the press.
Effectiveness of cull - EIRs data produced from the recent trial badger culls in Somerset and Gloucestershire, along with any analysis of the results, and conclusions. In particular, the number of badgers killed...
State of badgers infected with TB EIRs: data and scientific evidence that substantiates the Secretary of State’s comment that ‘many of the badgers killed as part of the pilot badger cull, have been in a ‘dreadful...
Updated: Replaced 'Support and aspiration:�Planning pack for implementing the new 0-25 special needs system' pdf with a powerpoint file.
Sets out the vision for the special educational needs (SEN) reforms...
Culled badger numbers - EIRs information on: total number of badgers killed during the first phase of the cull; dates between which these badgers were culled; of this total number of badgers culled in the pilot...
Badger corpses EIRs: what clinical tests and examinations were made on the corpses of badgers culled in the 2013 culls in Somerset and Gloucestershire.
Status and whereabouts of the files relating to the Northfield Report: ‘Committee of Inquiry into the Acquisition and Ownership of Agricultural Land (Northfield Committee)’.
Badger population - EIRs who assessed the number of badgers in the cull zones prior to the postponed cull in 2012, how long this initial assessment took and the amount of staff involved.
Bad weather EIRs: what constitutes ‘bad weather’ with respect to the guidance, and who decides when the weather is considered ‘bad’ enough for trapping to be suspended.
Humaneness monitoring - EIRs correspondence between Defra officials and Professor Ranald Munro, Chair of the Independent Expert Panel.
Licensing - EIRs information about licensing in land in the pilot cull areas.
Sick badgers - EIRs: post mortem testing of previously declared sick badgers culled during the pilot trials.
Badger cull costs EIRs: how much was spent on the original cull, and how much is being and will be spent on the extensions to the cull.
Updated: consular fees changed
A full list of Consular fees
Updated: Added replacement Byelaw signage information. Updated summary and detail sections.
Guidance and examples of the byelaw signage that will replace the existing byelaw notices currently erected on...
Updated: Consular fees have changed from 2 December 2013
A full list of Consular fees
Updated: Updated an incorrect link in the statistics notice and data sets.
This monthly publication gives the incidence of tuberculosis (TB) in cattle (ie bovine TB) in Great Britain. The statistics are...
Updated: Added new firing times for January 2014 in CSV and PDF formats.
The firing times are presented in 2 file formats. The PDF format is web browseable and accessible on mobile devices such as Blackberry...
This supplementary memorandum relates to government amendments to the Pensions Bill tabled on 9 December 2013 which confer power to make delegated legislation. It explains:
the purpose of the delegated ...
Updated: Added new low flying timetable for the period 6 to 10 January 2014.
A list of timetables for operational low flying (OLF) training by RAF fast jets and Hercules aircraft. These timetables cover...
Updated: Chapter updated as shown in 'Update patch to Chapter 14: 5 December 2013'.
Chapter 14 update patches published before 1 April 2013.
Cholera is an acute diarrhoeal illness ...
This document is the Government response to the CMS Select Committee Report and outlines the ways in which the creative economy is being supported by Government.
Updated: Updated leaflet for England and Wales following a policy change regarding the cleaning contract for Service Family Accommodation.
These leaflets are designed to provide service families with ...
Updated: New ad-hoc release added for 20 December - Use of Discretionary Housing Payments - Analysis of mid-year returns from local authorities
This document provides details of upcoming DWP ad hoc statistical...
Updated: Added revised versions of the Q and A PDFs - English and Welsh - after the implementation of changes to the disputes and appeals process on 28 Oct 13.
We are changing the appeals process so that...
Updated: Updated form to charge fees in Stirling
Passport Credit/Debit Card Payment Authorisation Slip
STFC congratulates Professor Peter Higgs and Professor François Englert on receiving their 2013 Nobel Prize Medal and diploma for Physics in Stockholm from His Majesty the King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden.
A chance to dance for 8-13 year olds in the West Midlands
The Minister for Sport on increasing the number of women in sport and why you should sign up for Girls4Gold
A Blackburn skip hire firm and its owner have been ordered to pay £80,000 in fines and costs after a 21-year-old worker was crushed to death.
A Shropshire businessman, who supplies workplace vehicles and lifting equipment, has been fined for falsifying a safety document for a forklift truck.
The Financial Services Consumer Panel (FSCP) has recently carried out some research into the issues that people face when they want to buy an annuity. An annuity is an income bought from a pension pot...
The Lord Chief Justice, Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd, and the Lord Chancellor, the Right Honourable Chris Grayling MP, were saddened to learn of the death of The Honourable Mrs Justice Florence Baron on 9 December
HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) collects the UK’s international trade in goods data, which are published as two National Statistics series - the ‘Overseas Trade Statistics (OTS)’ and the ‘Regional Trade Statistics...
Updated: Multilateral Aid Review Update December 2013 update
The MAR Update, which was completed in 2013, assessed the progress of the multilateral organisations in addressing these reform priorities. ...
We have published a waste prevention programme for England which sets out the government’s view of the key roles and actions which should be taken to move towards a more resource efficient economy. As well as...
Updated: Added summary of response and government response document.
The government will publish the first Waste Prevention Programme for England by December 2013.
This is a Defra priority, aiming...
Updated: Added summary of response and government response document.
This consultation is seeking views on the proposed roles and responsibilities that government and others will have in helping to reduce...
Updated: Summary of responses added
As announced at Budget 2013, the government has published a consultation on options for providing further support to the visual effects industry today (21 May ...
Updated: Updated list of ministerial responsibilities
The list of government ministers and their responsibilities. The document lists the following:
ministerial departments the ministers within ...
The Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009 provides for a long-distance route for the whole of the English coast, along with a right of access to an associated margin of land for the purpose of open-air recreation...
The main findings for 2012 include:
goods lifted for all domestic waterborne freight fell for the seventh year to 95.6 million tonnes, an 8% annual decrease. the total amount of goods moved fell by 19...
Updated: This publication has been updated to include a revised version of table B1, additional tables and underlying data.
This statistical first release (SFR) provides information about looked-after children...
Updated: Added the statistics notice published in November 2013.
This publication gives previously published copies of the monthly National Statistics publication on the incidence of tuberculosis (TB) in...
Updated: Results for week ending 8 December published
The statistics presented in the table below, show the number of sub 50kW solar photovoltaic installations and capacity installed at the end of each ...
This release provides details of the national non-domestic rates collected by local authorities in England in 2012 to 2013 and updates the figures that were announced on 14 August 2013.
The latest statistics...
Updated: Added the latest National Statistics notice giving figures to September 2013, updated the data sets and added a document describing the background and methodology of the National Statistics on the Incidence...
This statistical first release (SFR) provides information at national and local authority (LA) level on the outcomes for children who have been looked after continuously for at least 12 months at 31 March 2013...
Updated: Summary of response and government response document added.
This consultation seeks your views on the government’s proposals to abolish the Committee on Agricultural Valuation by means of an order...
How is IT managed within the Department and associated Agencies, internally or through outsource partners? If the latter who are these companies?
Updated: Response to summary assessment 2011 added
Multilateral Aid Review: Asian Development Fund (AsDF)
See other MAR documents, including summary assessments, agency responses and previous...
Updated: Response to summary assessment 2011 added
Multilateral Aid Review: Commonwealth Secretariat (CommSec)
See other MAR documents, including summary assessments, agency responses and previous...
Updated: Response to summary assessment 2011
UNEP is the designated UN systems entity for addressing environmental issues at the global and regional level.
Updated: Response to summary assessment 2011 added
The ILO is a UN specialised agency responsible for drawing up and overseeing international labour standards.
Updated: Response to summary assessment 2011
UNIDO is a specialised agency of the United Nations that promotes industrial development for poverty reduction, inclusive globalisation and environmental sustainability...
Updated: Response to summary assessment 2011 added
UNISDR aims to achieve substantive reduction in disaster losses and build resilient nations and communities as an essential condition for sustainable development...
Updated: UNFPA: Summary assessment 2013 added UNFPA response to summary assessment 2013 added
UNFPA is mandated to lead on sexual and reproductive health rights and support countries in using population...
UN Women did not become operational until January 2011 therefore was not assessed in the MAR 2011. The organisation resulted from the merger of 4 UN organisations which previously worked on gender. The challenges...
Updated: UNICEF summary assessment 2013 UNICEF response to summary assessment 2013
Assessment of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).
UNICEF has a mandate to advocate for the protection...
Updated: WHO summary assessment 2013 WHO response to summary assessment 2013
WHO is the directing and coordinating authority for international health.
Updated: Summary assessment 2013 added Response to summary assessment 2011 added
CIFs are a set of programmes to deliver low carbon, climate resilient development.
Updated: European Commission Budget (ECBudg): summary assessment 2013 added European Commission Budget (ECBudg): response added to summary assessment 2011 added
This assessment focuses primarily on the ...
Updated: UNDP summary assessment 2013 UNDP response to summary assessment 2013
UNDP works at the heart of the UN development system. It has a leading role in progressing MDG achievement, particularly in...
Updated: Updated version of 2011 assessment added
Multilateral Aid Review: International Federation of the Red Cross (IFRC)
See other MAR documents, including summary assessments, agency responses...
Updated: Multilateral Aid Review: assessment of Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection (ECHO) 2013 added
ECHO is the humanitarian arm of the European Commission and acts as a donor on behalf of the European...
Updated: Summary assessment 2013 added
The EDF supports the implementation of the European Union’s Cotonou Partnership Agreement and is the main instrument for providing support to African, Caribbean and...
Updated: GEF summary assessment 2013 added GEF response to summary assessment 2013 added
The GEF unites 182 member governments - in partnership with international institutions, nongovernmental organizations...
Updated: IFAD: summary assessment 2013 added IFAD: response to summary assessment 2013 added
IFAD is a specialised agency of the United Nations and an international financial institution dedicated to eradicating...
Updated: Response to summary assessment 2011 added
Multilateral Aid Review: African Development Fund (AfDF)
See other MAR documents, including summary assessments, agency responses and previous...
Updated: OHCHR: summary assessment 2013 added OHCHR: response to summary assessment 2011 added
OHCHR encourages engagement with the UN’s human rights mechanisms, and monitors progress and failures in relation...
Updated: UNAIDS summary assessment 2013 added UNAIDS response to summary assessment 2013 added
UNAIDS is a joint programme of 10 United Nations organisations and the UNAIDS Secretariat charged with delivering...
Updated: 'Expenditure on research and development performed in higher education' and 'The proportion of 15 year olds from low income backgrounds in English maintained schools progressing to higher education by...
Multilateral Aid Review: Expanded Delivering as as One Funding Window for the achievement of the MDGs (EFW)
The PLR office will close at midday on Tuesday 24 December, and re-open on Thursday 2 January 2014.
This Statistical Release presents data on houses built by all tenures.
Presents information on freight traffic moved within the UK by water transport.
Shows economic activity as measured by Gross Value Added (GVA) for English regions, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland including component totals and industry group totals.
Presents historic and projected data from the period and cohort life tables including the expectation of life (ex) the probability of dying (qx) and the numbers surviving (lx). Data is provided by age and sex for...
Results of the Living Costs and Food Survey (formally the Expenditure and Food Survey), successor to the Family Expenditure Survey (FES) and the National Food Survey (NFS).
The National Child Measurement Programme weighs and measures primary school children.
Latest national statistics bringing together various sources of statistics relating to the incidence of TB in Cattle, Great Britain according to arrangements approved by the UK Statistics Authority.
This publication covers a range of outcome indicators for children who have been continuously looked after for at least 12 months in England.
Provides information about children looked after by local authorities in England. The figures are based on returns collected from all 150 English local authorities.
My Right Hon Friend the Secretary of State (Owen Paterson) has today made the following statement.
The next Agriculture and Fisheries Council will be on 16 and 17 December in Brussels. I will be representing...
My Right Hon Friend the Secretary of State (Owen Paterson) has today made the following statement.
I will represent the UK at the European Environment Council meeting in Brussels on 13 December. Paul Wheelhouse...
My Right Hon Friend the Secretary of State (Owen Paterson) has today made the following statement.
On Thursday and Friday last week, we experienced an exceptional coastal surge along the east and parts ...
The Treasury has laid before the House of Commons a report required under section 231 of the Banking Act 2009 covering the period from 1 April 2013 to 30 September 2013. Copies of the document are available in...
The Government consulted on a number of tax policies, following their announcement at Budget 2013. Today, the Government are publishing responses to these consultations alongside draft legislation to be included...
A meeting of the Economic and Financial Affairs Council will be held in Brussels on 10 December 2013. The following items are on the agenda to be discussed.
Savings taxation
Council will be asked ...
An error has been identified in the written answer given to the hon. Member for Nottingham East (Chris Leslie)—[Official Report, 18 November 2013; Vol. 570, c. 726W]. The figures provided for 2010-11 and...
The next Agriculture and Fisheries Council will be on 16 and 17 December in Brussels. I will be representing the UK to cover the agricultural items while the Under-Secretary of State for Environment, Food and...
On Thursday and Friday last week, we experienced an exceptional coastal surge along the east and parts of the west coast of the UK. This caused flooding to around 1,400 properties and damage to infrastructure...
I will represent the UK at the European Environment Council meeting in Brussels on 13 December. Paul Wheelhouse, Minister for Environment and Climate Change in the Scottish Government, and Alun Davies, Minister...
I wish to inform the House that the Government have opted in to the following measures:
Council decision on the signing and provisional application, on behalf of the Union, of a protocol to the partnership...
I represented the United Kingdom at the 20th ministerial Council meeting of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) held in Kiev on 5 and 6 December 2013, hosted by Ukrainian Foreign Minister...
I am pleased to announce that the UK intends to make a voluntary contribution of £1 million to the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL).
The UK is committed to supporting security, stability and justice...
Today the new code of practice for victims of crime (“the victims’ code”) has come into force.
This new code governs the information and services criminal justice agencies must provide...
Updated: Updated Consular and Passport fees from 9 December 2013.
A full list of Consular fees
Updated: Consular fees with effect from 5 December 2013
A full list of Consular fees
Updated: Marriage (Same Sex Couples Act 2013: A short guide to the Act) document added.
You can read high-level information about our policy to open up marriage for LGBT people on our equal marriage ...
Official statistics showing annual estimates of regional Gross Value Added (GVA) released on 11th December 2013. This release contains analysis of GVA estimates for NUTS1, NUTS2 and NUTS3 regions.
This statistical bulletin relates to the release of reference tables of life expectancy (ex), probability of death (qx) and numbers of persons surviving (lx) from the 2012-based National Population Projections. ...
This Statistical Release presents data on houses built by all tenures.
Presents information on freight traffic moved within the UK by water transport.
Shows economic activity as measured by Gross Value Added (GVA) for English regions, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland including component totals and industry group totals.
Presents historic and projected data from the period and cohort life tables including the expectation of life (ex) the probability of dying (qx) and the numbers surviving (lx). Data is provided by age and sex for...
Results of the Living Costs and Food Survey (formally the Expenditure and Food Survey), successor to the Family Expenditure Survey (FES) and the National Food Survey (NFS).
The National Child Measurement Programme weighs and measures primary school children.
Latest national statistics bringing together various sources of statistics relating to the incidence of TB in Cattle, Great Britain according to arrangements approved by the UK Statistics Authority.
This publication covers a range of outcome indicators for children who have been continuously looked after for at least 12 months in England.
Provides information about children looked after by local authorities in England. The figures are based on returns collected from all 150 English local authorities.
Updated: Change of document file.
Passport Credit/Debit Card Payment Authorisation Slip
The Committee on Climate Change (CCC) today advised that there has been no change in the circumstances upon which the fourth carbon budget (2023 – 2027) was originally set in 2011 that would justify a lowering...