The Committee on Standards in Public Life is holding its sixth public hearing, in London on Tuesday 11 July 2006, to take evidence as part of its Review of The Electoral Commission. The hearing which is open to ... Read more Comment (0), Email this.

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) welcomes Olympics Minister, Tessa Jowell's signing of the '2012 Construction Commitments' on behalf of the Government. The Commitments provide a strong health and safety message... Read more Comment (0), Email this.

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) today issued a Safety Alert to operators of COMAH fuel storage facilities and others storing hazardous substances in large tanks. Details of the Safety Alert can be found on... Read more Comment (0), Email this.

Environment Secretary David Miliband will today urge local authorities and individuals to use their energy and innovation in meeting environmental challenges to combat climate change - the most significant environmental... Read more Comment (0), Email this.

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Today's publication of the Welfare Reform Bill marks the next stage in the Government's plans to modernise the welfare state and break down the barriers that have prevented people from getting into the workplace... Read more Comment (0), Email this.

As the government publishes details of how it wants to help people on benefits get back into work, we will be holding a webchat with the welfare minister Jim Murphy. Make your voice heard. Read more Comment (0), Email this.

Kate Barker, invited by the Chancellor and Deputy Prime Minister to review the land use planning system in England, today published her interim report. She said: Read more Comment (0), Email this.

Poundstretcher Ltd has been fined £6,000 and ordered to pay over £3,000 costs after pleading guilty to four charges of health and safety breaches. Read more Comment (0), Email this.

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) today issued a Safety Alert to operators of COMAH fuel storage facilities and others storing hazardous substances in large tanks. Details of the Safety Alert can be found on... Read more Comment (0), Email this.

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The Government today signed off a ground-breaking vision developed with the construction industry to showcase the very best of British construction practices, using the Olympics as a live example. Read more Comment (0), Email this.

The sea wall at Wallasea Island in Essex was breached today, creating the UK's largest man-made marine wetland. Read more Comment (0), Email this.

Environment Minister Ian Pearson has responded to the action taken by water industry economic regulator Ofwat over Thames Water's failure to meet leakage targets. Read more Comment (0), Email this.

The Foreign Office today revised its travel advice for the Democratic Republc of Congo in the run-up to the Presidential and Parliamentary elections. Read more Comment (0), Email this.

Tony Blair has visited the Butterwick Children's hospice in Stockton-on-Tees to mark £27m of funding for palliative care. Read more Comment (0), Email this.

The UK's future energy needs, counter-terrorism policy and the use of British troops in Iraq were on the agenda as the PM faced questions from the Commons Liaison Committee. Read more Comment (0), Email this.

The work of nurses helps keep the NHS together, Tony Blair said at a health reception he hosted in the Number 10 garden. Read more Comment (0), Email this.

Carol Bell is today announced as the new Internal Communications Manager at the Charity Commission, illustrating the regulator's commitment to ensure that the strategic review delivers more than just paper promises... Read more Comment (0), Email this.

Roads (Scotland) Act 1984: Report of Public Local Inquiry: M80 Upgrade - Stepps to Haggs Read more Comment (0), Email this.

The Foreign Office today revised its travel advice for the Democratic Republc of Congo in the run-up to the Presidential and Parliamentary elections. Read more Comment (0), Email this.

Asked if there was a response to the new head of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), Richard Lambert's comments, the PMOS said that those comments should be viewed against the context of the DTI announcement... Read more Comment (0), Email this.

Asked what the Prime Minister thought of the Deputy Prime Minister enjoying junket at the home of the new Dome owner who hoped to turn it into a casino, the PMOS said that there were a number of assumptions in... Read more Comment (0), Email this.

Asked why Des Browne was not able to give the Statement to the House of Commons, the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman (PMOS) said that his understanding was that Des Browne was in his constituency in Scotland... Read more Comment (0), Email this.

Press briefing from the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman on: Afghanistan, Deputy Prime Minister and CBI Read more Comment (0), Email this.

The following statistics were released today by the Department of Health Read more Comment (0), Email this.

prepared by the DEPARTMENT FOR WORK AND PENSIONS WORK WELFARE AND EQUALITY DIRECTORATE Read more Comment (0), Email this.

Robust counter-terrorist finance measures help to save lives and hold terrorists to account for their actions, and the Government constantly review the operation of their financial sanctions against terrorist suspects... Read more Comment (0), Email this.

My right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State, has published the revised chapters 10 and 11 in relation to the above topics. This follows the examination in public into the draft chapters in October 2004, the panel... Read more Comment (0), Email this.

At a time when our armed forces are conducting operations around the world, it is important thatthe Ministry of Defence Department seeks every opportunity to ensure that every pound of the tax payer's money devoted... Read more Comment (0), Email this.

The Government published the report of the review of Higher Education Student Finance in England on 31 January at:www.dfes.gov.uk/hegateway/hereform/studentfinance/index.cfm. The report set out recommendations... Read more Comment (0), Email this.

In order to strengthen the tripartite governance of policing in England and Wales, I am, with the support of the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) and the Association of Police Authorities (APA), establishing... Read more Comment (0), Email this.

Following my visit to Uganda in May I wish to inform the House of the decision I have taken about the future level of UK of poverty reduction budget support (PRBS) to Uganda.When the current PRBS arrangement was... Read more Comment (0), Email this.

14.4% in Q1 2006 Read more Comment (0), Email this.

Scottish Ministers invite views on Queen Margaret University College application for University Title Read more Comment (0), Email this.

A pilot scheme designed to allow families of murder and manslaughter victims the chance to tell courts of the impact of the death is being tested at Manchester Crown Square Crown Court. Read more Comment (0), Email this.