Real progress made in year since radical call to action

The Foreign Secretary today held a two-hour meeting with the leaders of the Preventing Extremism Together working groups.

Responses from Adoption Policy Review Consultation

Tony Blair has told MPs that Britain faces 'difficult and controversial decisions' on climate change and energy supply in the future.

Tony Blair has told MPs that he will not tolerate people coming to the UK to 'cause trouble' or conspire to commit terrorist attacks.

Tony Blair held a working lunch with prime ministers and presidents from Caribbean countries at Number 10 today.

Four days after the news that Jack Lemley will chair the Olympic Delivery Authority, the body with the task of building the key venues, facilities and infrastructure for the 2012 Games, Olympics Minister Tessa Jowell...

Egg and poultry producers will get the chance to ask avian flu experts questions about disease prevention and the government's contingency plans, during a series of open meetings announced today.

Tony Blair gave evidence to a panel of MPs in the House of Commons where questions covered a wide range of subjects. Among the topics were climate change, NHS primary care trusts, nuclear power, education, terrorism...

Asylum Statistics, Control of Immigration Statistics and Worker Registration figures published today

The Rt. Hon Baroness Scotland QC, Minister for Criminal Justice and Offender Management, today called for a renewed effort across society to improve the rehabilitation of offenders and set out the core themes that...

The UK is asking world governments to sign up to an agreement that would protect migratory birds of prey and owls - including vultures, eagles, harriers, kites, kestrels and falcons and - throughout Africa, and ...

Dr David Salisbury, Head of Immunisation at Department of Health today issued a letter to general practitioners reminding them to prioritise at risk groups when they are administering seasonal flu vaccinations. ...

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Asked if our EU partners were perhaps not as optimistic as the Government about securing a budget deal by December 7th, the PMOS said that the reality was that at Hampton Court we had very successfully set out the...

Asked for the Government's position on nuclear energy production, the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman (PMOS) said it was well known that the Government was looking at all the options, it was also well known ...

Press briefing from the Prime Ministers Official Spokesman on: Nuclear Energy and EU

Proposals to reduce crime and tackle terrorism through innovative use of science and research have been published today by Home Office Minister Andy Burnham.

Development encroaching on Nairobi National Park is threatening the migration passages of wildebeest, zebra and other wild animals.

Applications rise 2% in Quarter 3 2005

3 in 10 men aged 80+ own a mobile phone

Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott today named the new team leading the drive to deliver the skills needed to create sustainable communities.

The EU's Security and Defence Policy has become more capable, more coherent and more active during the UK Presidency, UK Defence Secretary John Reid said today in Brussels after chairing the EU's General Affairs...

Veterans' Minister Don Touhig has expressed his sorrow at the death of Alfred Anderson, believed to be Scotland's longest surviving WW1 veteran. Mr Anderson is also thought to be the last known survivor of the 1914...

New health and safety qualifications aimed at people working in farming have been recognised by the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA). A Health and Safety Executive (HSE) initiative, vocational qualifications...

HMP Cookham Wood has made considerable progress, said Anne Owers, HM Chief Inspector of Prisons, publishing the report of an unannounced short follow-up inspection of the women's training prison.

With fog patches and freezing overnight temperatures expected in many parts of England over the coming days, the Highways Agency today reminded drivers to take extra care on the roads.

The Competition Commission (CC) has provisionally cleared the franchise bid by National Express Group plc (NEG) of the Thameslink and Great Northern (TGN) rail franchise.

New league table confirms UK as most competitive energy market

In a written ministerial statement of Thursday 10 February 2005, Official Report, col. 85WS, it was announced that the previous annual Cabinet Office publication "Public Bodies" had been replaced by an on-line searchable...

My noble and learned Friend, the Parliamentary Under- Secretary of State, Baroness Ashton of Upholland, has made the following statement in the other place today."On the 13 September 2005 judgment was given in the...

The European Union Agriculture and Fisheries Council will meet in Brussels from 22 to 24 November 2005.I will chair the agriculture items with my hon. Friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Ben Bradshaw, in the...

Today the Government will publish a policy statement announcing its intention to create a single inspectorate for Justice, Community Safety and Custody. Copies of the report have been placed in the Libraries of ...

I am pleased to inform the House that I have today placed in the Library the annual report of the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Inspectorate for the year 2004. This is the first annual report published by the ...

I have today published the Compensation Agency's combined Corporate Plan (2005–08) and Business Plan (2005–06). The Corporate Plan sets out the long term strategic goals for the Agency over the three-year period...

Forth Ports plc has submitted a revised and amplified oil spill contingency plan to the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA).The revision and amplification of the plan has been prompted by proposals that ship-to...

The Government have decided to amend the Civil Aviation Bill to clarify the responsibilities of airport managers and police in relation to the protection and policing of airports that have been designated by the...

Tony Blair will appear before a panel of MPs in the House of Commons this morning. This will be the seventh time Mr Blair has given evidence to the committee since April 2002, when the PM agreed that he would appear...

Put to the PMOS that the Prime Minister had been named as the Statesman of the Decade by an American think-tank, and was he flattered, the PMOS replied that the Institute was entitled to make its award, and the ...

Asked for further clarification about a Daily Telegraph story regarding the abolition of county councils, the PMOS said: no. Ministers had taken no decisions about whether or not in some way to go for a reorganisation...

Asked if Professor David King had accurately mirror the Prime Minister's views on the need to restrict the issue on nuclear power, the PMOS said that the Prime Minister's view was that we needed to look at all the...

Asked if the Prime Minister would like a Government aircraft at his disposal, the PMOS replied that the simple fact was, as we had tried to tell people, that we had not yet received Sir Peter Gershon's report, though...

Asked if the Prime Minister thought the House of Lords should now accept the 28 days ruling from the House of Commons, and also were the comments about the death penalty regarding the police officer who died during...

Asked if the Prime Minister had any plans to use diplomacy in the run up to the EU budget talks in December, and also was there any response to people who had said he was "leaving it far too late"...

Press briefing from the Prime Ministers Official Spokesman on: EU Budget, Terrorism Bill-ACPO, Aircraft, Energy-nuclear, Councils and Statesman Award