New UK homes should be built to Scandinavian standards and better them within ten years, Housing and Planning Minister Yvette Cooper said today.
Competition Commission invites evidence
Tony Blair met Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao in Downing Street where they talked about trade, the Middle East and Iran. We have images from the event, plus the press conference transcript.
Secretary of State for Trade and Industry Alistair Darling today called on UK companies to trade more with China as Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and Prime Minister Tony Blair witnessed a number of major commercial...
More than 22,000 individuals and 6,000 employers have already been helped by the Government's new £1 billion national training programme in the build up to full national roll out of the scheme across England...
1 September - School admissions research - NFER report
The Competition Commission (CC) has published a collection of essays on competition policy by its former Chairman, Professor Paul Geroski, who sadly died in August last year.
Tony Blair held talks with Lebanese PM Fouad Sinoria on the third day of his trip to the Middle East. Read the press conference transcript here.
Trade and Industry Secretary Alistair Darling has strengthened the energy relationship between the UK and China by signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Mr Ma Kai, Chairman of the Chinese National Development...
8 September - Why do some people with deprived backgrounds do better than others? -ESRC research
Consultation Document
Following public consultation earlier this year, the Government has today published the secondary legislation to bring home reversions and Ijara home purchase plans into regulation.
The Committee on Standards in Public Life is holding its tenth public hearing, in London on Thursday 14th September 2006, to take evidence as part of its Review of The Electoral Commission. The hearing which is ...
The OFT has announced the conclusion of its fact-finding review of the UK school uniform market today. A copy of this report is available on the OFT website (www.oft.gov.uk).
A new national police protocol announced today will put into place a system for police information to be shared with courts for use in family law proceedings.
An agreement to establish a UK-China climate change working group was signed today by Environment Secretary David Miliband and the Chinese Minister for National Development and Reform Commission Ma Kai.
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Government announces £50m funding boost for hospices and end of life care
Due to technical problems the tables for July's diagnostic waiting times data are not yet on the DH website. Please find them attached instead. Apologies for any confusion.
Foreign and Commonwealth Office Minister responsible for Latin America, Lord Triesman, will visit Colombia from 13 to 17 September.
I am pleased to announce that the 2006 version of the "Public Bodies Directory" has now been completed and copies of the directory are available in the Library for the Reference of Members. The directory provides...
Today we are publishing the "Social Exclusion Action Plan".
We have much to be proud of in our efforts to tackle poverty, promote social justice and create the right environment for sustained economic growth...
The following performance targets have been set for Ordnance Survey in 2006-07:
Ordnance Survey will report externally against a set of Agency Performance Monitors (APMs) as required of all Executives Agencies...
On 18 July in a written ministerial statement I confirmed the details of the force package for the next routine roulement of UK forces in Iraq in November when the lead UK formation, currently 20 Armoured Brigade...
The level of support for loans, grants and fees that will be available to eligible students in the 2007-08 academic year will be 2.33 per cent. higher than for 2006-07, in line with forecast price increases.
I would inform the House that the Independent Advisory Group on Teenage Pregnancy has published its Annual Report for 2005-06. Copies will be placed in the Libraries of both Houses.
In my written ministerial statement of16 May I set out the Performance Targets for the Veterinary Laboratories Agency for 2006-07. The third target listed under Service Delivery in that statement should have ...
The Government have submitted to the EU Council Secretariat, details of the United Kingdom's 24 nominees for membership of the Economic and Social Committee. The Government have made these nominations on the ...
The 2005 Annual Report on Strategic Export Controls will be published at 1100 today as a Command Paper. Copies will be placed in the Library of the House. The report describes UK policy and international developments...
At the beginning of this year the UN judged that 8.2 million people in East Africa and the Horn were in need of urgent humanitarian assistance, mainly food aid, following the worse drought for a decade. Since...
I have approved support of £252 million over five years for the second phase of the Government of India's nationwide Reproductive and Child Health Programme. DFID will disburse £10 million...
The recent conflict in Lebanon caused great harm to the civilian populations in both Israel and Lebanon. A million people, a quarter of Lebanon's population, were displaced by the fighting and in Israel 300,000...
My Department published on the 11 August 2006, the NHS financial performance for the first quarter of 2006-07. The report indicates that the NHS is on track to achieve our aim of a net financial balance by the...
A 10-year contract has been awarded to DHL to manage the supply chain and procurement services currently managed by the logistics division of the NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) and part of the NHS Purchasing...
The arrangements under part IX of the drug tariff have not been reviewed for over twenty years and there were clear indications that neither the NHS nor the taxpayer were receiving value for money.
We have...
The Government have set Public Service Agreement targets to address geographical inequalities in life expectancy, cancer, heart disease, stroke and related diseases. The targets aim to see faster progress compared...
Section 14(1) of the Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005 (the 2005 Act) requires the Secretary of State to report to Parliament as soon as reasonably practicable after the end of every relevant three-month period...
I would like to update the House on the World Trade Organisation's (WTO) negotiations on the Doha Development Agenda. On July 24, Pascal Lamy, the Director General of the WTO announced that he was recommending...
The Office for Disability Issues has set up an Expert Panel to support the work of the cross-Government Independent Living Review, as announced in another place by my noble Friend, the Baroness Royall on14 July...
Asked how concerned the Prime Minister was by the reluctance of the NATO allies to help out in Afghanistan, the PMOS replied that we had to recognise that this request had recently gone in from NATO. We supported...
Asked if there was any comment to the Chinese plans to restrict the distribution of news by the foreign media, and would this be discussed today when the Prime Minister met with Premier Wen, the PMOS said that ...
Asked if there was any comment on an investigation by the ONS by the remarks from the Prime Minister yesterday regarding unemployment figures at yesterday's TUC conference, the PMOS replied that as we had said ...
Put that Lord Falconer had attacked Guantanamo Bay during his speech in Sydney today, and did the Prime Minister share Lord Falconer's sentiments, the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman (PMOS) replied that the...
Press briefing from the Prime Minister's Spokesman on: Lord Falconer Speech, ONS Figures, Foreign Media in China and Afghanistan
Schools Minister Jim Knight today congratulated pupils as maths and science tests for 14-year-olds showed steady improvement.
Local authorities are set to benefit from further freedoms and flexibilities in recognition of their sustained improvement.
Today Ed Balls gave a speech to the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce and the British Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong in which he highlighted the shared financial traditions between Hong Kong and the UK and...
The government today set out its commitment to sharing information between public services to expand opportunities for the most disadvantaged, fight crime and provide better public services.
The government today set out its commitment to sharing information between public services to expand opportunities for the most disadvantaged, fight crime and provide better public services.
The Department of Health and Partnerships UK (PUK) today announced that the Department is set to become the sole owner of Partnerships for Health (PfH), the public private partnership set up to encourage investment...
Latest public sector employment statistics for Scotland. Data for Q1 1999 to Q2 2006.
The Monitoring Report will inform the preparation of the second National Planning Framework which the Executive intends to publish in 2008. It draws on the latest available data from a wide range of sources to ...
The Economic Secretary to the Treasury, Ed Balls, announced today that the Government is to legislate to enhance the FSA's powers in relation to recognised exchanges. The FSA will be given the power to veto rule...
RELEASED BY DEFRA ON BEHALF OF THE AGRICULTURAL WAGES BOARD FOR ENGLAND AND WALES
The following statistics were released today by the Department of Health:
John Hutton, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, today welcomed the latest Labour Market data - which showed a fall in the claimant count, record numbers in work and fewer people on other out-of-work benefits...
Falls in year to June
Rate falls to 74.6% in 3 months to July 2006
Pay growth steady in the year to July 2006
PROCEEDS OF CRIME UPDATE - MONEY LAUNDERING NEWS
Consumer Direct, the government-funded helpline, has responded to over two million calls in just two years of service, helping British consumers resolve complaints worth an estimated £138 million.
Ed Miliband, Minister for the Third Sector, today pledged over £1million of funding to spread the best ideas for recruiting and retaining volunteers from hard-to-reach groups.