With daytime temperatures set to soar to 30oC or more in England and Wales until Thursday, high concentrations of ground-level ozone are forecast. The hot, sunny weather this week together with contributions from...

The Johnson family has requested that the Foreign Office issue the following statement:

The international community will use "every single effort that we possibly can" to stop violence between Lebanon and Israel, Tony Blair has said following talks with Kofi Annan.

Tony Blair has looked back at the St Petersburg summit and the talks the leaders held on Africa, energy and world trade.

The OFT has banned Richard McCarthy, owner of former Hertfordshire letting and managing agents McCarthy Woods Ltd from engaging in estate agency work.

rom 1 April 2007 the Armed Forces Personnel Administration Agency (AFPAA) and the Veterans' Agency (VA) will merge, Veterans' Minister Tom Watson confirmed today.

Four new organisations who are concerned in terrorism are set to be banned, Home Secretary John Reid announced today.

With Met Office forecasters predicting hot weather across all parts of England this week, the Highways Agency reminds drivers to take drinking water with them on their journeys.

Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell today stressed that protection of consumers is of paramount importance as she put industry on notice to deliver significant progress on tackling ticket touting.

Animal Welfare Minister Ben Bradshaw has called on greyhound racing regulators to launch an immediate investigation into claims that 10,000 greyhounds were shot when they reached the end of their racing lives.

Automatic enrolment into a system of personal accounts will tackle the culture of under-saving for retirement and be good news for consumers, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions John Hutton said today.

PREPARED BY THE DEPARTMENT FOR WORK AND PENSIONS PENSIONS ANALYSIS DIRECTORATE

Patient power in the NHS is to be strengthened with new plans giving patients more say over how their local health services are organised and run.

Asked what reconstruction purpose had been for the 300 paratroopers that had taken part in an organised assault against the Taliban in the Sangin Valley, the PMOS said that we had made it clear right from the beginning...

Asked whether the Prime Minister had offered to go to the Middle East to prepare the groundwork, the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman (PMOS) said that he had not yet spoken to the Prime Minister but he suspected...

The Queen has been pleased to approve the appointment of Professor Michael H Depledge and re-appointment of Dr Ian Graham-Bryce CBE FRSE as members of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution.

Press briefing from the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman on: G8-Middle East Crisis, Sir Gulam Noon and Afghanistan

Assets Recovery Agency (ARA) Financial Investigators, working in partnership with Herefordshire Council Trading Standards Service, have secured a Confiscation Order worth £80,000 against convicted car-...

A radical package of measures to enable law enforcement agencies to better target and disrupt the activities of organised criminals was unveiled today by Home Secretary John Reid.

Proposals to help victims of mesothelioma, a particularly debilitating form of lung cancer caused by exposure to asbestos, will be debated in the House of Commons today.

Government has agreed that the National Fallen Stock Company can implement the first stage of its planned decrease in the level of subsidy paid to farmers for the collection and disposal of fallen stock under the...

Defra today published the findings of its consultation on the first stage of the better regulation review of the local authority pollution, prevention and control regime.

At its 25th meeting, the UK Chemicals Stakeholder Forum welcomed the initiative by the British Association for Chemical Specialities (BACS) and the UK Cleaning Products Industry Association (UKCPI) to produce guidance...

Government today announced investment of £16 million to support a national programme aimed at ensuring the safe operation of unmanned aviation vehicles in civil airspace without the need for restrictive...

This summary report describes the current literature on parental substance misuse and identifies priorities for future work.

Report of the working group in marches and parades

The Mental Capacity Act took another step towards implementation today with the publication of a consultation on new rules for the new Court of Protection and responses to the consultation on Lasting Powers of Attorney...

The Queen has been pleased to appoint Brigadier Melville Stewart Jameson CBE DL as Her Majesty's Lord-Lieutenant for Perth and Kinross upon the retirement of Sir Basil Henry David Montgomery Bt JP on 20 March 2006...

The Queen has been pleased to approve the appointment of Professor Michael H Depledge from 1 September and re-appointment of Dr Ian Graham-Bryce CBE FRSE from 12 April as members of the Royal Commission on Environmental...

Draft regulations on smoke-free premises and vehicles were unveiled by Public Health Minister Caroline Flint today.

The international community will use "every single effort that we possibly can" to stop violence between Lebanon and Israel, Tony Blair has said.

During the passage of the 2004 Housing Bill the Government made commitments to consider whether it is possible to devise an approach to overcrowding that provides for some incremental improvement in standards over...

I am pleased to announce that I am today publishing the Ministry of Defence's Annual Report and Accounts 2005-06. It combines the Department's Annual Performance Report and Departmental Resource Accounts in a single...

On 21 November 2000 the then Minister for Veterans Affairs (Dr Lewis Moonie) announced a package of measures intended to address emerging concerns that some Porton Down Volunteers might have suffered unusual ill...

As part of the Government's continuing commitment to investigate Gulf veterans' illnesses openly and honestly, data on the mortality of veterans of the 1990-91 Gulf conflict are published regularly. The most recent...

I will be representing the United Kingdom at this month's Agriculture and Fisheries Council.This being the first Council of the Finnish presidency, the new Chairman of the Council will start by setting out his presidency...

The 2005-06 annual report and accounts for the Central Science Laboratory will be laid before Parliament today.Copies will be available in the Libraries of the House.

The General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC) will be held on 17 July in Brussels. My right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary will represent the UK.The agenda items are as follows:General AffairsPresentation...

Yesterday I published two publications which will take forward our commitment to place patients and the public at the heart of the way our health services are run: "Health Reform in England: Update and Commissioning...

The Shipman Inquiry, chaired by Dame Janet Smith, examined the circumstances surrounding the murders of some 250 patients by Dr. Harold Shipman, a general practitioner.Following the publication of "The Shipman Inquiry...

I have laid before both Houses the Annual Report for 2005-06 of the Chief Surveillance Commissioner, the right hon. Sir Andrew Leggatt. I am grateful to the Commissioner for this report and the work that has gone...

In their 2006 report to Government the Low Pay Commission recommended that the accommodation offset provisions should continue to apply to all workers housed by their employer in all circumstances, and that Government...

Further to my statement to the House on Tuesday 11 July, it has come to light that the statistics quoted on electricity appliances on standby should have referred to 8 per cent. of electricity usedin the home, not...

I am pleased to inform the House that the Export Credits Guarantee Department's pilot trading fund has been extended for a further year.ECGD has made good progress with its work to determine under what conditions...

We are working actively (with our EU and other international partners) towards a properly organised - and safe - arrangement to help British Nationals who want to leave Lebanon. Our first concern is for the welfare...