Following today's meeting with French Defence Minister, Madame Michele Alliot-Marie, Defence Secretary John Reid said: Read more Comment (0), Email this.

Over 1,000 construction workers fracture a bone or dislocate a bone every year. This February, as part of an initiative to reduce the number of slips and trips on construction sites, Health and Safety Executive (... Read more Comment (0), Email this.

HIV related stigma and discrimination: Action plan Read more Comment (0), Email this.

Consultation on increasing Disclosure fees and introducing a charge for POVAFirst checks Read more Comment (0), Email this.

The purpose of this consultation is to seek comments on draft regulations intending to transfer the enforcement powers of the Ionising Radiation (Medical Exposure) Regulations 2000 to the Healthcare Commission (... Read more Comment (0), Email this.

United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on HIV/AIDS - UK Report on progress Read more Comment (0), Email this.

Part 36 of the Civil procedure rules (CPR) is a means of encouraging early settlement of cases. It allows parties to litigation to make offers to compromise the case. This paper sets out to build on recent judgments... Read more Comment (0), Email this.

Notice under section 11A (3) of the Electricity Act 1989 Read more Comment (0), Email this.

Guidance to assist operators when preparing their PPC applications for landfill leachate treatment facilities. Read more Comment (0), Email this.

We are applying to the government for regulations to support a more sustainable, safer cockle fishery on the Dee Estuary. Read more Comment (0), Email this.

Asked if the intervention of Gordon Brown meant that it was less of a "high wire act" for the Prime Minister on the Education White Paper, the PMOS said that of course, the Prime Minister welcomed the remarks... Read more Comment (0), Email this.

Asked if the Prime Minister had any view on the Council for Europe's report about rendition, the PMOS said that the Prime Minister had no view of it. The PMOS said that there seemed to be no new facts, therefore... Read more Comment (0), Email this.

Asked if there was not a lot of fraud in the incapacity benefit system, why had the numbers of people claiming gone up from 700,000 to 2.7 million over the past few decades, the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman... Read more Comment (0), Email this.

Asked if there was not a lot of fraud in the incapacity benefit system, why had the numbers of people claiming gone up from 700,000 to 2.7 million over the past few decades, the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman... Read more Comment (0), Email this.

Press briefing from the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman on: Incapacity benefit, Rendition and the Education White Paper Read more Comment (0), Email this.

The Government today announced a radical reform of the welfare state with the publication of the welfare reform green paper - A new deal for welfare: Empowering people to work. Read more Comment (0), Email this.

The Minister for Africa at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Lord David Triesman, today expressed sadness following the deaths of 8 Guatemalan members of the UN peacekeeping force (MONUC) in the Democratic Republic... Read more Comment (0), Email this.

Reforms to the welfare system will remove the "tragedy" of people becoming dependant on incapacity benefits, Tony Blair has said. Read more Comment (0), Email this.

People out of work due to illness will be offered more support than ever before under new government proposals revealed in the Welfare Green Paper. Read more Comment (0), Email this.

New pilot projects intended to improve and speed up the planning process for large and complex developments were launched today by Housing and Planning Minister Yvette Cooper. Read more Comment (0), Email this.

Olympics Minister Tessa Jowell has opened the first-ever 2012 Business Summit by telling companies and their workers that every corner of the UK must see real benefits when the Games come to London in six years ... Read more Comment (0), Email this.

The Foreign Secretary said today: Read more Comment (0), Email this.

Mr Geoffrey Adams CMG has been appointed Her Majesty's Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Iran in succession to Sir Richard Dalton KCMG who will be transferring to another Diplomatic Service appointment. Mr Adams... Read more Comment (0), Email this.

Motor manufacturer TVR Engineering Ltd (TVR) has stepped in following the OFT's response to a complaint made about TVR and its authorised dealer network refusing to supply independent repairers with spare parts - ... Read more Comment (0), Email this.

State-of-the-art DNA databases to fight global crime; oxygen-free sealed picture frames to preserve priceless works of art and hi-tech tracking of shipping are just some of 29 innovative projects across the UK to... Read more Comment (0), Email this.

Environment Minister Elliot Morley has today confirmed over £2 million pounds worth of funding to support projects looking at sustainable living. Read more Comment (0), Email this.

Total production falls in the 3 months to Dec Read more Comment (0), Email this.

64% of adults access the Internet Read more Comment (0), Email this.

Revenues for printed classified directory providers have continued to rise despite the presence of the internet and there appears to have been limited switching of advertising spend between printed directories and... Read more Comment (0), Email this.

Items on the agenda are as follows:Presidency Work Programme—The Austrian Presidency will give a presentation on its major priorities for the next six months;Stability and Growth Pact—ECOFIN will adopt Council Opinions... Read more Comment (0), Email this.

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department, my hon. Friend the Member for Leigh (Andy Burnham) and I are today meeting with the banking industry to discuss the application of the Government... Read more Comment (0), Email this.

My right hon. and noble Friend the Secretary of State and Lord Chancellor has made the following written ministerial statement."The Government announced plans for significant constitutional reform on 12 June 2003... Read more Comment (0), Email this.

The television licence fee settlement announced by the Government in February 2000 provides for changes in the licence fee of RPI plus 1.5 per cent. for each year from 2000–01 to 2006–07. This settlement is designed... Read more Comment (0), Email this.

I have today announced £11.4 million grant funding for fire and rescue authorities in England over the period April 2006 to March 2008 to support fire prevention work, including community fire safety, ... Read more Comment (0), Email this.

I will be representing the United Kingdom at this month's Agriculture and Fisheries Council.This being the first Council of the Austrian Presidency, the new Chairman of the Council will start by setting out his ... Read more Comment (0), Email this.

In my statements of 18 October 2005, Official Report, columns 49–50WS, and 1 December 2005, Official Report, columns 36–37WS, I set out the need to streamline strategic health authorities (SHAs) and strengthen primary... Read more Comment (0), Email this.

Further to Baroness Scotland's statement of Wednesday 18 January, the Paymaster General and I are this afternoon meeting senior figures in law enforcement and the banking sector to discuss action against ID fraud... Read more Comment (0), Email this.

Further to the statement made, by the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry on 29 November 2005 launching the Energy Review, I am pleased to inform the House that the Government have today launched the public... Read more Comment (0), Email this.

Environment Minister, Elliot Morley, today urged businesses to report on their environmental impacts, especially as new Defra guidelines will make it easier than ever to do so. Read more Comment (0), Email this.

First new centres for patients on the move improve access to GPs and nurses Read more Comment (0), Email this.