Following the typhoon and the resulting mudslide in the Philippines, which has killed at least 130 people and with some 170 people missing, Foreign Office Minister Ian McCartney MP said:
Today the Foreign Secretary, Margaret Beckett MP, makes her first official visit to Lebanon.
Asked if the Prime Minister would be meeting Gerry Adams soon, the PMOS said that the Prime Minister remained in contact with the major players in Northern Ireland and that process would continue....
Asked if there was any comment on the latest speculation that the final bills for the Olympics would be £12 billion, the PMOS said he would not get involved in speculation and it would be better for the DCMS...
Asked if it was correct that the Saudi government had given the Prime Minister ten days to get the SFO investigation called off, the PMOS said as there was an investigation underway he would not be able to comment...
Asked to characterise the discussions between Margaret Beckett, Foreign Secretary and Sergei Lavrov, Russian Foreign Minister and why there was a need to reiterate our request for co-operation, the PMOS said as ...
Press briefing from the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman on: Litvinenko, Police Inquiry, BAE and Saudi Arabia, Olympics and Gerry Adams
With the Met Office expecting severe gales starting Saturday (02 December) evening in the South West and spreading to much of England through Saturday night with more to come on Sunday, the Highways Agency is reminding...
The Health and Safety Commission (HSC) today published a performance report detailing the wide range of work that it has overseen during the past year to reduce work-related fatalities, injuries and illness.
The Economic Secretary to the Treasury, Ed Balls, and Trade and Industry Minister, Ian McCartney, today announced funding of £1.2 million to provide specialist enforcement teams to tackle the problem of...
1 December - Transport, productivity and competitiveness - Eddington report
The UK intends to press EU member states to extend the ban on the commercial importation of wild birds, Tony Blair has told the RSPB.
It's important not to "bury ourselves in gloom" over the size of the challenge posed by global warming, Tony Blair has insisted.
Despite real progress there is no let up in the "heartache, death and destruction" caused by Aids, Tony Blair has said on World Aids Day.
The Government today issued a consultation document on options for implementing the Environmental Liability Directive in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. The Directive strengthens the "polluter pays" principle...
Research explored young people's views and experience of peer support as well as examining their strategies for coping with stress
Research mapped existing statistics, policy and provision for students with mental health problems and aimed to identify ways in which higher education institutions could adopt a more preventative approach
Research aimed to identify the characteristics and structures of well-run self-help groups, aspects most helpful to recovery from mental health problems and challenges which need to be addressed
Project focused on people experiencing mental health problems and members of community groups, exploring what keeps them well and ways in which community services can support mental health and well-being
Evaluation of an counselling and support service focused on male survivors of childhood sexual abuse
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November - Transport, productivity and competitiveness - Eddington report
The Met Office confirms that the autumn 2006 has been the warmest in the last 347 years across central parts of the UK.
Met Office forecasters are warning that the current spell of unsettled weather will continue, as more severe gales and heavy rain are set to sweep across the country over the weekend.
Tessa Jowell, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, has announced the appointment of the Big Lottery Fund (BIG) board.
The Competition Commission (CC) has formally cleared the acquisition by Hampden Agencies Limited (HAL) of the members' agency business of CBS Private Capital Limited (CBSPC).
While waiting times continue to remain at lowest ever
Geoff Hoon, Minister for Europe has commented today on the referendum in Gibraltar to decide whether to accept the draft Gibraltar Constitution. He said:
During the Summer Recess, work was carried out in the Moses Room to provide the infrastructure required to support live transmission of Grand Committee proceedings. From 5 December, live web camera coverage of...
My right honourable friendthe Secretary of State for the Home Department (John Reid) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement.
The House will be aware that there wasa disturbance at Harmondsworth...
The Big Lottery Fund today welcomes the announcement of a new Board for the Lottery good cause distributor as it continues to bring real improvements to communities and lives of people in need across the UK.
The Leader was asked about a Guardian report that he was intending to "ram through" changes to the arrangements. He said he did not agree that was an accurate description of the report. The factual position...
Asked about the latest progress, the Leader said that the Joint Committee on Conventions had just reported. Ministers were now at the point of internal agreement on a Government response to that report, and hoped...
Asked about comments by Kendall Myers, the Leader said he understood that the State Department had described him as an academic. He was entitled to his views, but he believed that his comments on Churchill were ...
The Leader confirmed, as he had told the House earlier, that there would be a Commons statement on the White Paper on Monday, December 4. Asked to expand on the nature of the consultation on the policy, Mr Straw...
The Leader said that, on Monday, December 4, the House would debate remaining stages of the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Bill (Gerry Sutcliffe for the Government). On Tuesday, December 5, Opposition...
Press briefing from the Prime Minister's Spokesman and Leader of the House Jack Straw on: Policy Inquiry, Forthcoming Business, Trident-White Paper, UK-US relations, House of Lords reform and Party funding
Defra has approved an application by the company BASF to undertake trials of a GM disease-resistant potato. The trials will take place on two sites in England, starting in 2007.
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Initial findings from phase one of the research, mapping High Court sexual offence cases from June 2004 to May 2005.
Christmas Fire Safety Campaign Launched
Unhappy business customers have turned to the Consumer Council for Water for help as the new competition regime reached its first anniversary without a single large business having been able to complete a deal to...
Nearly 30 million extra visits to England's national museums and galleries have been made, five years after entry charges were scrapped, Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell announced today.
All enclosed public places and workplaces will become smokefree from 1st July 2007, Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt announced today.
Gas will flow for the first time today [Friday 01 December] through a new pipeline under the North Sea which connects the UK to the Netherlands.
By 4 December, all public sector bodies have to set out how they plan to promote equality for disabled people when the Disability Equality Duty comes into force.
Scottish Household Survey Quarterly Release of key trends up to quarter 2 2006
HM The Queen has signified Her intention of appointing Khalid Taj Malik to be a District Judge with effect from 4 December 2006. Mr Malik will be based at the Principal Registry of the Family Division.
Her Honour Judge Linda Sutcliffe will retire from the Circuit Bench on the North Eastern Circuit on 2 December 2006.
The Government and Police have today joined forces to clamp down on the menace of drinking and driving over Christmas. As Britain gears up for the party season, the annual THINK! Drink Drive campaign - now in its...
The largest of the National Lottery funders of good causes, the Big Lottery Fund, marks its official birthday today with the parliamentary sign-off of its establishment.
GAISCHEG v. SLOVENIA - 32958/02 [2006] ECHR 1014 (30 November 2006)
KRASNOSHAPKA v. UKRAINE - 23786/02 [2006] ECHR 1008 (30 November 2006)
LESAR v. SLOVENIA - 66824/01 [2006] ECHR 1003 (30 November 2006)
SEREGINA v. RUSSIA - 12793/02 [2006] ECHR 1004 (30 November 2006)
STAVBE v. SLOVENIA - 20526/02 [2006] ECHR 1007 (30 November 2006)
ANANYEV v. UKRAINE - 32374/02 [2006] ECHR 1013 (30 November 2006)
DUMA v. UKRAINE - 39422/04 [2006] ECHR 1017 (30 November 2006)
SHITIKOV v. RUSSIA - 10833/03 [2006] ECHR 1015 (30 November 2006)
GONCHAROV AND OTHERS v. UKRAINE - 43090/04 [2006] ECHR 1020 (30 November 2006)
KARNAUSHENKO v. UKRAINE - 23853/02 [2006] ECHR 1009 (30 November 2006)
VERAART v. THE NETHERLANDS - 10807/04 [2006] ECHR 1018 (30 November 2006)
MZT LEARNICA A.D. v. THE FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA - 26124/02 [2006] ECHR 1011 (30 November 2006)
PROKHOROV v. UKRAINE - 43138/04 [2006] ECHR 1016 (30 November 2006)
KORDA v. SLOVENIA - 25195/02 [2006] ECHR 1010 (30 November 2006)
KRASUN v. SLOVENIA - 18831/02 [2006] ECHR 1006 (30 November 2006)
KOLYADA v. RUSSIA - 31276/02 [2006] ECHR 1012 (30 November 2006)
LEN v. UKRAINE - 43065/04 [2006] ECHR 1019 (30 November 2006)
VS v. UKRAINE - 13400/02 [2006] ECHR 1005 (30 November 2006)
Ocean View Diving Services Ltd v Bruce [2006] DRS 3975 (22 November 2006)
Alliance & Leicester plc v Sidorkin [2006] DRS 4136 (24 November 2006)
This is an application dated the 27th September 2006 in which the Claimants, Mr and Mrs Duncan Sinclair, seek permission to appeal on two questions of law arising out of an Arbitrator's Award number 3, published...
This is another case about extradition to the United States of America pursuant to provisions contained in the Extradition Act 2003 ("the 2003 Act"). The proceedings are by way of statutory appeals brought under...
This has been the hearing of two judicial review applications, directed to be heard together by order of Sir Michael Harrison on 5 July 2006, brought against the Environment Agency ("the Agency") in both of which...
Dr.Michael Shell was suspended from practice on 14 October 2005 by the Interim Orders Panel ("IOP") of the General Medical Council ("GMC"). That interim suspension expires on 16 December 2006. There are two applications...
In this matter, The Home Secretary brings a claim for judicial review against the Chief Asylum Support Adjudicator ("CASA"), with permission having been granted by Lloyd-Jones J on 3rd March 2006. The claim arises...
On 7 February 2006 in the Central Criminal Court before Hughes J and a jury the appellant was convicted of:-
This is the Secretary of State's appeal, with permission granted by Pill LJ on 26 May 2006, against the order of Bean J made in the Administrative Court on 1 March 2006 when he granted the respondent's application...
This is an appeal against a decision of the Employment Appeal Tribunal, ("EAT"), His Honour Judge McMullen QC presiding, of 8 March 2006. The EAT allowed an appeal by Carol Thornett ("the respondent") against a...
In this matter the court has before it two applications. The first is an application by the claimant � Mrs Khetani, who is represented by Mr�Pickering - by way of an appeal against a decision of HHJ Levy of...
This is an appeal by David Freud Ltd (DFL) and Freud Lemos Ltd (FLL), the defendants in the action, from an order made by HHJ Cowell on 10 June 2005 in the Central London County Court in an action brought by Vickbar...
At issue on this appeal are the circumstances in which a person who was a director of a company when it went into insolvent liquidation may be brought within an exception to the provisions of sections 216 and 217...