Supporting the National Ban Bullying at Work Day, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) today reminded employers to step up procedures to tackle the growing problem of bullying in the workplace. Bullying costs employers...

Millions of tonnes of carbon and billions of pounds from fuel bills could be saved by simple measures like cavity wall insulation, new Government analysis reveals today.

The OFT has made a Warning Order against Darren Russell, the former proprietor of the estate agency and lettings business Homes Direct.

The Competition Commission (CC) has provisionally cleared the anticipated acquisition by Pan Fish ASA of Marine Harvest NV.

The Government is to devolve its responsibilities for the Museum of London to the Greater London Authority, Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell announced today, following a public consultation on the future sponsorship...

A National Housing and Planning Advice Unit has been established by the Government to provide independent advice on improving housing market affordability.

The first step was taken today to raise funds for a mass immunisation programme for children in the developing world, at a ceremony in London attended by the Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown, Queen Rania...

Statistics released by the Health and Safety Executive for 2005/06 show the rate of fatal and major injuries in the construction industry is continuing to fall. The Health and Safety Statistics 2005/06 report shows...

New flood defences must be fully adaptable to the consequences of climate change and rising sea levels, according to new guidance issued today by Defra.

A new support programme to help local authorities reduce the amount of waste going to landfill was announced today as part of the existing Waste Implementation Programme (WIP).

The Secretary of State for International Development, Hilary Benn, and the FCO Minister for Africa, Lord Triesman, have condemned recent attacks in West Darfur against civilians. The attacks on 29 and 30 October...

Asked if the Prime Minister had been involved in talks over VAT, the PMOS said no, it was a matter for discussion between the Department for Culture Media and Sport and HM Treasury....

Asked if there would be a formal announcement that the deadline on Friday had been passed, the PMOS said that, though not taking anything for granted, the Sinn Fein statement yesterday was positive and we were looking...

Asked where the Prime Minister will be when the result is announced and if the Prime Minister would be commenting, the PMOS said that the Prime Minister would be asleep and as it was an election in another country...

Asked if the Prime Minister had expressed concerns to the Poles over the direction of government there, the PMOS said that the UK had a very good, ongoing relationship with Poland. We are working together both in...

Asked to clarify who was correct when the Lord Chancellor had said that the Attorney General would not intervene in the prosecution over 'cash for peerages' yet Lord Goldsmith has said it is his constitutional duty...

We'll be holding the latest in our popular series of webchats on Thursday 9 November with the science minister. Make your voice heard on a subject the PM has said is "vital" to the UK's future.

Press briefing from the Prime Minister's Spokesman on: Police Inquiry, Poland, Prorogation of Parliament, US Mid-Term elections, Northern Ireland and 2012 Olympics

Tony Blair welcomed Poland's President Lech Kaczynski and his wife to 10 Downing Street today. We have images plus their joint communique.

30 October - Early intervention program evaluation - SPRC report

Public consultation summary report of responses

A new report published today by Ofwat shows that most water companies are delivering on their promises to maintain, and where necessary, improve service levels to consumers.

New guidance for local authorities on how to take planning enforcement action was outlined today by Housing and Planning Minister for the Lords, Baroness Andrews as she published the results of the Review of Planning...

Asked what the main talking points between the Prime Minister and Prime Minister Prodi had been the PMOS said that Europe as a whole, the MEPP and as it was the first meeting in London since the Italian elections...

Asked by the editor of BBC On-line why the Prime Minister was so irritable this morning at the press conference the PMOS responded by saying the journalists had been rude in the way they had questioned the Prime...

Asked if the Prime Minister agreed with the EU Statement on the sentence in the Saddam Hussein trial, that he should not be executed, the PMOS said that much more to the point, Margaret Beckett's statement yesterday...

Asked, as the Prime Minister's newly anointed spokesman on police inquiries whether the Prime Minister, or anyone in his office, had been questioned by the police the PMOS replied that he was glad to hear of his...

Asked when there would be a discussion in Cabinet about Trident the PMOS said that there was an exhaustive process of analysis within government. Asked if there would be a vote in Parliament before the end of the...

Asked if there would be a PMQs this week if the House was prorogued the PMOS replied that it would depend when the House of Lords business finished. It could end late Tuesday but it wasn't known yet....

PMOS welcomed the announcement by the Sinn Fein Executive, the Ard Comhairle, that they are going to proceed with the St Andrew's Agreement. Asked if the announcement meant that Sinn Fein accepted the role of the...

Press briefing from the Prime Minister's Spokesman on: Sinn Fein, Prorogation of Parliament, Trident, Police Inquiry, Death Penalty, Press Conference and Prime Minister Prodi

The Queen has been pleased to approve that Elish Frances Angiolini QC, the Lord Advocate, be sworn of Her Majesty's most honourable Privy Council.

The following statistics were released today by the Department of Health

Rates rise since 1990s

Items on the agenda are as follows:

Financial Management—Ministers will receive a presentation from Hubert Weber, the President of the Court of Auditors, on the Court of Auditors' report on the 2005 general...

The Government has committed itself to informing Parliament on an annual basis of the sanctions regimes being implemented by the United Kingdom. Currently the United Kingdom implements United Nations sanctions...

The joint investigation by the Healthcare Commission and Commission for Social Care Inspection into learning disability services at Cornwall Partnership NHS Trust identified systematic abuse of people in a number...

In a written statement to the House on28 November 2005, Official Report, columns 3-4WS the then Secretary of State for Transport announced that we were awarding pump-priming for the transport innovation fund (...

The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr Gordon Brown) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement.

Items on the agenda are as follows:

Financial Management—Ministers will receive a presentation...

On 3rd August 2004 Persimmon Homes (North West) Limited submitted to West Lancashire District Council a planning application for a residential development of 56 dwellings in Skelmersdale. The Council refused permission...

Charities in the South East hold a total of £430 million as reserves without accounting for them with a reserves policy, and a report published today by the Charity Commission calls them to account. The...

Regulator publishes report into charities reserves

Charities reserves: 3 years on

Charities' reserves: 3 years on