Asked if anyone in Downing Street had been in contact with Yates of the Yard with regard to any future interviews, the PMOS said there was nothing further to add. Asked if there was any likelihood of a further visit... Read more Comment (0), Email this.
Asked what the response was to the Chatham House report suggesting that the Prime Minister has had little or no influence on Washington during his time as Prime Minister, the PMOS said that the wires would shortly... Read more Comment (0), Email this.
Asked if there had been any contact between UK officials and officials in Saudi Arabia at any level during the visit, the PMOS said no. Asked if the PMOS was confident that the Serious Fraud Office's decision on... Read more Comment (0), Email this.
Asked why the Prime Minister was 'flouncing' around the Middle East instead on concentrating on domestic matters, the PMOS said that nothing was more important to the UK than its security. Security is achieved by... Read more Comment (0), Email this.
Asked if what Margaret Beckett had said on WMD today was correct, that the Government knew that the 15 minute claim was erroneous before the vote in Parliament, The Prime Minister's Official Spokesman (PMOS) said... Read more Comment (0), Email this.
Europe Minister Geoff Hoon answered lots of your questions in the last of this year's Downing Street webchats. Find out what happened Read more Comment (0), Email this.
An exchange of letters between the PM and President Bush on America's continuing involvement in Britain's nuclear deterrent have been published. Read more Comment (0), Email this.
Press briefing from the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman on: Weapons of Mass Destruction, Middle East, BAe and OECD, Chatham House Report and Police Inquiry Read more Comment (0), Email this.
The United Kingdom would pay a "very heavy price" if it backed away from the "cornerstone" relationship with America, Tony Blair has said. Read more Comment (0), Email this.
Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell today met Tessa Standen (age 11) to congratulate her on winning the competition to design the official Culture Department Christmas card, a Nativity scene that will be sent around ... Read more Comment (0), Email this.
18 December - Christmas and families after divorce - ESRC research Read more Comment (0), Email this.
18 December - Alcohol strategy and the drinks industry - JRF report Read more Comment (0), Email this.
19 December - Sure Start Children�s Centres - NAO report Read more Comment (0), Email this.
Europe Minister Geoff Hoon answered lots of your questions in the last of this year's Downing Street webchats. Find out what happened here Read more Comment (0), Email this.
Assets Recovery Agency (ARA) Financial Investigators, working in partnership with Newport Trading Standards Service, have secured Confiscation Orders worth a total of £25,149.72 against Maria and David... Read more Comment (0), Email this.
A major new drive to help prevent victims of domestic violence from being forced out of their own homes with their families being uprooted and made homeless was announced by Communities Secretary Ruth Kelly today... Read more Comment (0), Email this.
The Office of the Schools Adjudicator has published a decision on a proposal to vary the admission arrangements for ten voluntary aided primary schools in Plymouth. The adjudicator, Richard Lindley, has approved... Read more Comment (0), Email this.
A consultation document setting out how penalties for incorrect tax returns and accompanying safeguards could be updated is published today. Read more Comment (0), Email this.
The Prime Minister arrived in the United Arab Emirates today on the final leg of a Middle East tour. Read more Comment (0), Email this.
Culture Minister, David Lammy, has placed a temporary export bar on The Crucifixion, a painting by the Netherlandish artist Karel van Mander the Elder. This will provide a last chance to raise the money and save... Read more Comment (0), Email this.
Music promoter Vince Power today received an honorary Commander of the British Empire (CBE) from Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell, for his valuable contribution to the music industry. Read more Comment (0), Email this.
New information issued today lays out the challenge faced by the NHS to meet the maximum 18-week target by the end of 2008. Read more Comment (0), Email this.
Negotiations on the EU's largest funding instrument for R&D, the seventh Framework Programme, concluded successfully in Brussels today with the Council of Ministers agreeing the £36 billion programme. Read more Comment (0), Email this.
The joint Government / Industry Task Force, established to determine whether there is a collective solution to the development of the resource base to the West of Shetland, is on track to generate options in the... Read more Comment (0), Email this.
Mr Andrew Henderson has been appointed Her Majesty's Ambassador to the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria in succession to Mr Andrew Tesoriere who will be transferring to another Diplomatic appointment. Mr ... Read more Comment (0), Email this.
Drivers are advised to take extra care on the roads as the Met Office has forecast that fog and freezing fog, will affect roads in many areas of the country in the next 24 hours, and for much of this coming week... Read more Comment (0), Email this.
Sir Robin Janvrin, The Queen's Private Secretary, will retire in September 2007. The Queen has appointed Mr Christopher Geidt in succession to Sir Robin Janvrin. Read more Comment (0), Email this.
A £727,278 Big Lottery Fund grant is going to Practical Action to help to restore the livelihoods of more than 12,000 people whose lives were shattered by the Asian Tsunami in 2004. Read more Comment (0), Email this.
The Ministry of Defence is making further money available to improve care facilities in Scotland for veterans with mental health problems, Veterans Minister Derek Twigg announced today. Read more Comment (0), Email this.
The Prime Minister arrived in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) today on the final leg of a Middle East tour. Read more Comment (0), Email this.
The Queen has approved that His Royal Highness The Duke of York KG, KCVO be appointed as Her Majesty's Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 2007. Read more Comment (0), Email this.
The Queen has been pleased to approve that Elliot Anthony Morley, MP for Scunthorpe, be sworn of Her Majesty's most honourable Privy Council. Read more Comment (0), Email this.
Five schemes designed to combat illegal logging and protect forests worldwide have been given the Government seal of approval after a review to check their continuing effectiveness. Read more Comment (0), Email this.
Minister for Reform, Lord Warner, today declared his support for 17 more NHS trusts wanting to apply for foundation status as part of wave 3A. Read more Comment (0), Email this.
The Right Honourable John Hutton, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, today announced the appointment of Timothy Escudier as a Disability Rights Commissioner, following the death of Commissioner Michael Burton... Read more Comment (0), Email this.
Present wrappers, decoration packers and Christmas tree fellers are all jobs available from Jobcentre Plus this winter - and the results of a poll released today show how people often use a range of vocational skills... Read more Comment (0), Email this.
Local communities around the country will enjoy more silent nights this Christmas thanks to the success of a summer campaign by the Government's Respect Task Force to clampdown on the misuse of mini motos. Read more Comment (0), Email this.
Consultation on the draft Children's Services (Scotland) Bill Consultation, which is intended to support the implementation of Getting it right for every child. Read more Comment (0), Email this.
Assets Recovery Agency (ARA) Financial Investigators, working in partnership with Thames Valley Police, have secured a Confiscation Order for £1,079,644 against Jonathon Leeming of Stratfield, Basingstoke... Read more Comment (0), Email this.
Renewal in Birmingham and Sandwell is set to move forward thanks to nearly £44.5 million in funding to regenerate some of the region's most deprived areas through the Housing Market Renewal programme. Read more Comment (0), Email this.
Key improvements to fire safety lie at the heart of a package of measures, including greater recognition of the role of sprinklers and more help for fire fighters to deal with fires in tall buildings, have been ... Read more Comment (0), Email this.
Total Production falls in the 3 months to Nov Read more Comment (0), Email this.
The scheme to deliver help to assist older and disabled people with the switch to digital television will cost around £600 million, Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell announced today. Read more Comment (0), Email this.
The Competition Commission (CC) has formally cleared the anticipated acquisition by Pan Fish ASA of Marine Harvest NV. Read more Comment (0), Email this.
John Hutton, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, today launched a long-term review of the Government's welfare to work strategy to tackle economic inactivity and promote social mobility. Read more Comment (0), Email this.
The OFT is warning consumers not to respond to a new employment opportunity scam currently targeting the UK. Read more Comment (0), Email this.
The Government will make available up to £44.41 million in grant to the Birmingham Sandwell pathfinder in 2007-08.
Some £3.2 million will be allocated for the remainder of 2006-07 in... Read more Comment (0), Email this.
Today I have laid a statutory instrument, "The Building and Approved Inspectors (Amendment) (No.2) Regulations 2006 (SI 2006/3318)", which amends part B (fire safety) of the building regulations.
The building... Read more Comment (0), Email this.
I have today issued a consultation document on "The application of the Environmental Impact Assessment Directive to 'stalled' Reviews of Old Mineral Permissions and Periodic Reviews of Mineral Permissions in ... Read more Comment (0), Email this.
The Electoral Administration Act received Royal Assent on 11 July 2006. The Act aims to tackle four areas at the core of a healthy democracy by improving access, improving confidence, extending openness and transparency... Read more Comment (0), Email this.
My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Defence and I wish to make the following statement to the House about the inquests of servicemen and women who have died overseas which fall within the jurisdiction... Read more Comment (0), Email this.
In March 2006 I announced to the House that following a number of developments, primarily the decision to extend the depth repair programme for the FV430 fleet of armoured vehicles, the previously contemplated... Read more Comment (0), Email this.
When I announced the settlement package for the Royal Irish (Home Service) on 9 March this year, I advised the House that a bespoke Royal Irish after-care package would be provided to support former members of... Read more Comment (0), Email this.
We published the following report on Friday, 15 December 2006: "Safety First: A Report for Patients, Clinicians and Healthcare Managers".
The report follows the review of the current organisational arrangements... Read more Comment (0), Email this.
The House will wish to know that I am publishing today a consultation document on the establishment of an independent inspectorate for immigration. Copies of this consultation document have been placed in the... Read more Comment (0), Email this.
The Justice and Home Affairs Council was held on 4-5 December 2006 in Brussels. The Home Secretary, Baroness Ashton and I attended on behalf of the UK.
The Finnish presidency opened the Council with the... Read more Comment (0), Email this.
The Companies Act 2006, which received Royal Assent on 8 November 2006, will bring major benefits to business by modernising and simplifying company law.
Lord Sainsbury made a statement to the House of ... Read more Comment (0), Email this.
I have today granted consents under section 36 of the Electricity Act 1989 for the construction and operation of the Thanet and London Array offshore wind farms.
The consents have been granted to Thanet... Read more Comment (0), Email this.
I represented the United Kingdom at the Telecoms Council in Brussels, on the morning of the 11 December 2006.
The Council began with the presidency asking member states to approve the Council resolution... Read more Comment (0), Email this.
I attended the transport session of the Transport, Telecommunications and Energy Council, held in Brussels on 11-12 December. The Finnish Minister for Transport and Communications, Mrs. Susanna Huovinen, was ... Read more Comment (0), Email this.
Today I am announcing a package of funding of £3 billion to improve local transport outside London. It builds on last year's settlement of £1.6 billion to ensure that 122 local transport authorities... Read more Comment (0), Email this.
The Department announced last week that it has started a competition to find an operator to run train services on the inter-city east coast main line from London to the north-east and Scotland.
We expect... Read more Comment (0), Email this.
In June, I announced that the first schemes to be considered for funding from the productivity strand of the transport innovation fund fell into two priority themes which fitted with the key objective of supporting... Read more Comment (0), Email this.
I welcome this report from the National Audit Office. It confirms that children's centres have successfully improved services for families with young children and that parents value children's centres services highly... Read more Comment (0), Email this.
LORD JUSTICE KEENE: On 3rd July 2006, Mr Edward Anthony Lane appeared before Deputy District Judge Hine at Gloucester Magistrates' Court for what was listed, it is said, as an abuse of process argument concerning... Read more Comment (0), Email this.
These two appeals are brought by South Gloucestershire Council against decisions of Valuation Tribunals allowing reductions in council tax to the Respondent taxpayers. The jurisdiction of this court arises under... Read more Comment (0), Email this.
As they raised common problems arising from the provisions of s285 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 (the 2003 Act) which increased penalties for driving related offences, these appeals and applications for leave... Read more Comment (0), Email this.
This is an appeal from the judgment of Langley J given on 3rd March 2006 by which he gave summary judgment in favour of Grant Thornton International (GTI) in an action brought against them and Italaudit S.p.A. (... Read more Comment (0), Email this.
Although this appeal from Lindsay J sitting with two assessors is a second appeal and, moreover, relates only to the assessment of costs, permission to appeal has been granted so that this court can give some guidance... Read more Comment (0), Email this.
The issues in this appeal arise out of a loosely drawn commercial agreement for the sale of shares in a Lloyd's broker, Robert Bruce Fitzmaurice Ltd ("RBF"). The vendor was Robert Bruce Fitzmaurice (Group) Ltd ("... Read more Comment (0), Email this.
The claimant, Janet Alder, is the sister of Christopher Alder, who died on 1 April 1998 in the custody of the Humberside police, in distressing and still contentious circumstances. A coroner's jury returned a verdict... Read more Comment (0), Email this.