Patients entitled to "opt out"
More women are using long-acting methods such as the coil to prevent pregnancy, according to new figures about use of NHS contraceptive services.
Asked whether the Prime Minister would be meeting Alan Shearer in the North East today, the PMOS said there would be a fundraising photo-call....
Asked if there had been any contact from Scotland Yard, the PMOS said no. Asked if the PMOS would confirm to journalists if it were to happen, the PMOS said the only person he would talk about was the Prime...
Asked whether the PMOS agreed that the phrase " black economy" should not be used because it was racially sensitive, the PMOS said if the journalists were referring to Tuesday's press briefing, then it was...
Asked what did the Prime Minister think of the Russian Foreign Minister rejecting the text for Iran, the PMOS said rather than respond here, the proper place to so was at the United Nations, and that was what the...
Asked whether the Prime Minister agreed that US soldiers allegedly responsible for killing a UK journalist should not face questioning in the UK, the PMOS said that as the Prime Minister had told the House of Commons...
Asked where the Government was on Northern Ireland, the PMOS said it was a matter for the parties to decide if and when they met. The deadline remained essentially the 10th November for parties to indicate whether...
Asked what was the reaction to the Stern Report, the PMOS said it was difficult to talk about the Stern Report without revealing the contents of it. However, the Cabinet recognised this was a very serious piece ...
The Prime Minister's Official Spokesman (PMOS) said at this morning's Cabinet Peter Hain updated colleagues on Northern Ireland, primarily because he had not been able to do so last week, not because there was anything...
Press briefing from the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman on: Cabinet, Climate Change, Northern Ireland, Extradition, Iran, Migration, Police Inquiry and Alan Shearer
The Department for Transport has today published the results of an Office for National Statistics (ONS) Omnibus Survey from May 2006 of public experiences and attitudes towards air travel.
Communities Secretary Ruth Kelly today published new proposals significantly strengthening leadership and devolving power to local government as well as providing a major expansion of opportunities for local people...
Coventry Law Centre is at the heart of delivering legal advice to the community and improving the fundamental rights of the most vulnerable, Legal Aid Minister Vera Baird QC MP said today.
Summer time will end on Sunday 29 October at 1 am GMT throughout European Union Member States. The clocks go back, giving an extra hour; this means that at 2 am (British Summer Time) the UK will move to 1 am GMT...
People across the country will gain a greater say in the issues that matter to them most under government proposals published today.
Today UK companies involved in developing and constructing low energy, low emission buildings were given inside information on how to sell their expertise in the US. The USA Green Building seminar at The Royal Over...
Children, Young People and Families Minister Beverley Hughes today announced how a £16.8 million package of investment would be used to help small and medium sized businesses provide childcare for their...
The Department for Transport has today published National Statistics on port traffic, and UK and world fleet statistics in Maritime Statistics 2005.
Public Health Legislation in Scotland: A Consultation
The consultation paper proposes general binding rules (GBRs) to apply to the use of fertilisers, keeping of livestock, land cultivation, construction of roads and tracks and the handling of pesticides.
Changes to the Government's Small Business Service (SBS) - making it a smaller, more sharply focused policy unit within DTI with close links to HM Treasury - were announced today by Margaret Hodge, Small Business...
Today Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, John Hutton, and Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Stephen Timms announced that the Government will bring forward legislation to ensure that at least 800 sufferers ...
I am pleased to advise the House that we have agreed to extend the existing grant-in-aid paid to the National Memorial Arboretum Company Ltd. in support of the running costs of the National Memorial Arboretum...
The Government have today laid before Parliament its response to the Health Select Committee's report on Independent Sector Treatment Centres (ISTCs), Cm 6930
The Government are responding to the 25 recommendations...
On 1 April 2004 my right hon. Friend the Member for Torfaen (Mr. Murphy) announced the Government's intention to establish public inquiries into the deaths of Robert Hamill, Rosemary Nelson and Billy Wright, ...
I have today given programme entry approval to a scheme to extend the Nottingham Express Transit (NET).
The promoters, Nottingham city council and Nottinghamshire county council, are seeking to build on...
New research from Met Office scientists shows that an additional quarter of the earth's land surface could be affected by drought by the end of this century.
Government efforts to improve the quality of care and learning opportunities for very young children gained an important boost today.
Gillian Merron, Transport Minister, today announced the provision of £3.127M to allow the completion of the Tunstall Northern Bypass in the West Midlands. The funding will allow the construction of a strategic...
The Home Office will today, on police advice, resist requests by the Associated Newspapers Ltd, News International (News Group and Times Newspapers), Guardian Newspapers, the Telegraph Group and the BBC to lift ...
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Weekly pay up 3.7% to £447
Median gender pay gap narrows
The 2006-07 Autumn Budget Revision
The tie Tony Blair wore at this week's Question Time session is to be auctioned to raise funds for breast cancer research.
This is an application pursuant to section 35 of the Limitation Act 1980 to substitute Aventis Pasteur SA ("APSA") for the Defendant ("APMSD"). Section 35 provides as follows:
This an appeal by the Government of Romania against a decision of District Judge Tubbs to discharge the respondent Valentin Ceausescu following an extradition request. The respondent was a police officer in Romania...
This is an application for permission to appeal, on notice, with appeal to follow if permission is granted. The application for permission to appeal is in itself highly contentious, for the respondents submit that...
This application (which was heard at the same time as the AstraZeneca case in which we have just given judgment) is an application for permission to appeal from a decision of Morison J in the Commercial Court in...
This is an appeal from a decision of Mr Justice Bennett sitting in the Administrative Court on 16 January 2006. The judge refused an application for judicial review made by Mrs Yvonne Scholes ("the appellant"). ...
On 17 December 1998, the appellant (the claimant), then aged 55, underwent a total hip replacement operation. The operation involved the implantation of a 9 mm JRI Furlong prosthesis (supplied by the respondent...
Section 11 of the Limitation Act 1980 provides that "(3) An action [for personal injuries] shall not be brought after the expiration of � (4) three years from the date on which the cause of action accrued". Paragraph...
This is an appeal from the order of the Employment Appeal Tribunal dated 13 June 2005. Sedley LJ granted permission to appeal on 17 March 2006.
This application concerns a second appeal by the claimant in proceedings in which there has been a summary judgment dismissing the claimant's claim. The background is this. On 26th September 1997 the claimant, ...
The appellant, Oakfern Properties Ltd ("Oakfern"), is the freeholder of a building in Fulham Road, London SW6, consisting of a basement, ground floor and three upper floors. The ground floor and the basement ...