Tony Blair has written to more than 1.7 million people who signed an online petition against road pricing. Read his email here.
Tony Blair held talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Downing Street today.
Kim Howells, Foreign Office Minister, today met a high level Moroccan delegation, led by Interior Minister Chakib Benmoussa; Deputy Foreign Minister Taib Fassi Fihri and Deputy Interior Minister Fouad Ali El-Himma...
The Big Lottery Fund is announcing today a shortlist of 204 projects worth over £90million to go through to the second stage of its BASIS (Building and Sustaining Infrastructure Services) programme.
The Foreign Office today revised its travel advice for Mozambique. In anticipation of the arrival of Tropical Cyclone Favio, we are now advising against all travel to the Bazaruto Archipelago and all but essential...
European law enforcement and tax authorities today pledged greater cooperation and agreed practical ways to jointly fight a multi-billion pound criminal attack on the VAT system.
'...Make the maximum 48 hour working week compulsary even if you are a manager within an organisation.' -- Charles Byrne
State funding of political parties would: * tend to strengthen the power of...
There is a shortage of candidates of sufficient quality coming forward to...
Tony Blair needs to stop the war in Iraq as it is costing us millions and...
Overcrowded housing robs children of room to grow. Britain needs more homes...
Illegal and inconsiderate parking of vehicles by parents who insist on...
If the government is to show that it cares anything for angling and...
This day should be a widely distinguished and celebrated day. We feel that...
Why do any of us bother paying TAX / PAYE, when the Government has spent all...
example a criminal steals from a person and escapes on a motorcycle and is...
Community first responders are volunteers who give up their time and money...
I'm fed up with being intimidated on the buses and trains, bring back...
I am not a criminal. I have no intention of breaking the law. I also place a...
'...take legal proceedings to evict JOHN PRESCOTT from the once grace-and-favour government flat at Admiralty Arch which he continues to occupy without any justification.' -- Maurice Brennan
Charge all foreign lorries a daily amount for use of our roads and...
During the past few years we have seen couples who choose not to have...
And not to fund religeous or sporting ideas that are already well funded by...
Defra today published its response to the independent review of the National Fallen Stock Scheme and Company carried out last year by Bob Bansback.
Adrian Michael Farmer found guilty of trading whilst banned
This report analyses consultation responses on the Children and Young People's Health Support Group's action framework which sets out a structured programme of actions to improve services for children and young ...
Communities and Local Government Minister Angela Smith has welcomed the progress that has been made in increasing the sustainability of buildings as acknowledged in two Parliamentary reports published today.
The winners of the 2007 Problem Solving Award, celebrating innovative problem solving projects to promote safer communities across the capital, were announced this afternoon.
Ehud Olmert wants our government to protect israeli officers suspected of...
The residents of Hereford need a bypass to allow traffic to flow in the city...
Any Tax Payment that the tax Payers have to pay should be displayed as a...
We could all be responsible for preventing many deaths in the UK if only we...
The reason for this petition is that I believe the governments treatment of...
all regular soldiers who served from the 1960s should be granted a pension
Most major cities such as Leeds and Birmingham suffer from congestion. We...
Rather than destroying confiscated alcohol and tobacco, the government could...
MP's possess a woeful knowledge of both basic and higher Information...
The Distance Selling Regulations 2000 do not currently apply to Auctions....
Throughout the UK local councils are currently causing haenus damage to the...
Crimes where the victim has been tortured, e.g. during the course of murder...
the total weight of passenger and luggage should form the basis of air fare...
Too many buses, operating in a small Wiltshire hamelt as part of a 'bus war...
As more and more people acquire computers, the proportion of computer users...
The cost of living in the property market is spiralling uncontrollably and...
Since the deregulation of public transport most of the local buses are run...
Plans to create a congestion charging zone in Greenwich would unfairly...
my petition is that the goverment should abolish passport charges for the...
Urgent action is needed to tackle climate change and road traffic congestion...
This is the only sports centre in Calne open to the public. It not only...
PMQs are currently traditional knock-about debating fun for parliamentarians...
The greatest amount of congestion comes from HGV traffic and road pricing...
The Treasury refuses to close the loophole allowing some of the world's...
We recognise that we have to do something about congestion and climate...
Headstones are being laid down nationally using the excuse fo Health &...
The A 14 dual carriageway needs urgent improvements. There are too many...
I have lived in several locations over the past 16 years, and I have only...
We want parental choice for ALL of Boston & region's existing and new...
The House of Lords cannot be hereditary nor elected nor appointed for well...
We aren't required to display our television license in our house window,...
by a. not renewing trident b. not attacking Iran c. promoting a just peace...
Look at the Panarama website - I'm sure you can find it - click on the areas...
100s of companies are currently allowed to make employees redundant to...
Britain's children: unhappy, neglected poorly educated, they have the worst...
Having just watched Panorama 12/03/07 I was appalled to hear that the...
This helps reduce the likelihood of choking, allergic reactions and...
I am one of the many regular bus users in East anglia. Yet every week i am...
Bendy buses are causing overwhelming damage to London's roads and buildings...
The provision of adult education and evening classes has declined enormously...
the little creatures get killed on roads because they cannot outrun cars but...
home owners have spent their lives saving to afford these inprovements and...
Higher home values do not benefit the average home owner who buys a home to...
The disabled can earn, at the most, £20 per week. Above this £20 the...
or build more bungalows for us of 2 beds oe more so when family want to help...
I despair at the fact that the news often tells us that the country is...
Why are customers of Mid Kent Water forced by law to pay the same rate for...
It is known some councils encourage tenants to remove themselves from...
Whilst most of us elect MP's to represent us in Parliament, in the hope that...
Domestic abuse, according to hundreds of studies from around the world and...
Bringing about "enduring change" in Iraq and the Middle East is vital to our security, Tony Blair has told MPs.
Press briefing from the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman on: Prime Minister's Statement on Iraq and the wider Middle East, Afghanistan, Pension, Police Inquiry, E-Petition and Margaret Thatcher Statue
Culture Minister, David Lammy, has placed a temporary export bar on a 'jadeite' Neolithic axe-head that once formed part of the collection of one of the fathers of British archaeology. This will provide a last chance...
Family Justice Minister Harriet Harman will pay tribute to the important work done to help victims of domestic violence by agencies in Basingstoke.
GOVERNMENT PUBLISHES LANDMARK WHITE PAPER ALONGSIDE RESPONSE TO 5TH REPORT OF THE SHIPMAN INQUIRY
The Chief Pharmaceutical Officers from England, Scotland and Wales came together today to reveal plans for historic changes to the regulation of the pharmacy profession.
The Parliamentary Ombudsman, Ann Abraham, has today made the following statement: We have seen the judgment handed down this morning at the High Court in the case relating to our report on occupational pensions. ...
'...ban same sex marriage' -- david kerley
Start to limit expansion of Air Travel through aggressive taxation; the...
Many genuinely ill people and traumatically injured people wait longer and...
All businesses who trade on-line should be made to sign up to an Internet...
In order to decrease the amount of CO2 generated within the country social...
Make getting a driving licence like joining a golf club, you go on a waiting...
The European Union is large enough already any further expansion will lead...
By this I mean that compensation should be available to:- a) those resident...
This move would then allow more pubs and clubs to purchase a Sky...
Many successful businesses relocate their manufacturing bases and leave...
The only reason I drive a car to work is because there are no direct bus...
What is the point of saving for old age, working hard buying a house etc. to...
The only way to enable bus services to perform to time and quality is to...
The marked increase in employment agencies (EA) since de-regulation has had...
Why should we pay upto (and over in some areas) £5 a day for the privalidge...
Why not appropriate an uninhabited island? Pack off the most serious crime...
We need to save all the land which is green belt as our countryside is being...
Secure PIN technology exists to allow each voter a chance to influence votes...
This is an island nation. We are surrounded by sea and yet we could do so...
It is well known fact that unemployment among the ethnic background is...
I think that the public would co-operrate more if they were rewarded rather...
Council want to build a carpark on a green site which has two football...
Since almost all cycle lanes carry hardly any cycles, even in the rush hour...
Make MPs accountable to the voter and not the party by removing the party...
make the air ambulance services totally government funded instead of...
As fewer schools teach road safety to young cyclists, more and more of them...
The NHS, Sure Start and pensions were on the agenda at this week's PMQs. You can read the transcript of today's session, or watch the broadcast again.
A multi-million pound package of support for carers was unveiled today by Ivan Lewis, minister for Care Services.
The General Medical Council has started a hearing into allegations of professional misconduct by Professor David Southall, a consultant paediatrician. It is said that he kept so-called "special case" files containing...
My right honourable friend the Deputy Prime Minister is today announcing that, subject to parliamentary approval of any necessary supplementary estimate, the Deputy Prime Minister's Office departmental expenditure...
My honourable friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (James Plaskitt) has made the following Statement.
The Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council will be held on 22 February...
Subject to parliamentary approval of any necessary supplementary estimate, HM Treasury resource departmental expenditure limit (DEL) will be reduced by £6,939,000 from £247,599,000 to &...
Subject to parliamentary approval of any necessary supplementary estimate, the HM Revenue and Customs departmental expenditure limit (DEL) will be increased by £98,509,000 from £4,858,924,...
Subject to Parliamentary approval of any necessary Supplementary Estimate, the Office for National Statistics' departmental expenditure limit (DEL) will be increased by £28,279,000 from £196...
The Government are today announcing three steps to modernise the tax system to remove obstacles to competition and expand choice in trading financial instruments in the UK. They will allow firms to benefit from...
Subject to parliamentary approval of any necessary supplementary estimate, the National School of Government departmental expenditure limit (DEL) will be increased by £1,636,000 from £640,...
Subject to parliamentary approval of any necessary supplementary estimate, the Cabinet Office departmental expenditure limit (DEL) has increased by £93,200,000 from £379,380,000 to £...
Plans to change the Charity Commission's departmental expenditure limit (DEL) and administration budget for 2006-07.
Subject to parliamentary approval of any necessary supplementary estimate, the Charity...
Subject to parliamentary approval of any necessary supplementary estimate, the Department for Communities and Local Government's departmental expenditure limits for 2006-07 will change as follows:
the Department...
Changes to the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 1995 for England came into force today introducing a new permitted development right to help mitigate the current increased risk ...
On 12 February the Legal Services Commission (LSC) published the following papers which take forward the Government's legal aid reform programme set out in Legal Aid Reform: the Way Ahead:
Police Station...
Subject to Parliamentary approval of any Supplementary Estimate, the Department for Culture Media and Sport's Departmental Expenditure Limit (DEL) will be increased by £58,769,000 from £1,...
Subject to parliamentary approval of the necessary supplementary estimate, the Ministry of Defence departmental expenditure limit (DEL) will be increased by £539,530,000 from £33,611,177,000...
Subject to parliamentary approval of any necessary supplementary estimate, the Deputy Prime Minister's Office departmental expenditure limit (DEL) for 2006-07 will be increased by £587,000 from &...
Subject to parliamentary approval of any necessary supplementary estimate, the Department for Education and Skills departmental expenditure limit (DEL), (including the Office for Her Majesty's Chief Inspector...
Subject to parliamentary approval of any necessary supplementary estimate, the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs departmental expenditure limit (DEL) will be increased by £388,898,000...
Subject to parliamentary approval of any necessary supplementary estimate, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office departmental expenditure limit (DEL) will be increased by £115,860,000 from £...
Subject to the necessary Supplementary Estimate, the Department of Health's element of the Departmental Expenditure Limit (DEL) will be reduced by £5,513,000 from £87,176,137,000 to £...
Today, my Department has published the National Health Service financial report for the third quarter of 2006-07. This report shows that the NHS as a whole is forecasting a £13 million surplus for the...
Plans of changes to the departmental expenditure limit and administrative budget for 2006-07.
Subject to parliamentary approval of the necessary supplementary estimate, the Home Office's departmental expenditure...
Subject to parliamentary approval of the necessary supplementary estimate, the Department for International Development departmental expenditure limit (DEL) will be increased by £57,216,000 from &...
Subject to parliamentary approval of any necessary supplementary estimate, the Privy Council Office total DEL will be increased by £311,000, from £6,856,000 to £7,167,000.
...
Subject to parliamentary approval the Northern Ireland Office (NIO) will be taking a 2006-07 spring supplementary estimate (DEL). The effect this will have is to increase the NIO's DEL by £68,798,000...
Subject to parliamentary approval of the necessary supplementary estimates, the departmental expenditure limit (DEL) provision for the administration of the Scotland Office will be increased by £19,...
Subject to parliamentary approval of any necessary supplementary estimate, the Attorney-General's departmental expenditure limit (DEL) will be increased by £7,057,000 from £717,645,000 to &...
This statement sets out the changes that the Department is taking to manage its budgets in the current and next financial year.
In 2006-07 the Department is transferring £33m from underspends ...
The Government are publishing a consultation paper today on Protecting Vulnerable Agency Workers. This consultation paper follows up the commitment to take forward measures identified in Success at Work, the ...
The Government announced last year that restrictions on smoking in enclosed workplaces, public places and vehicles would be introduced in England from 1 July 2007. These provisions are described in The Health...
The National Assembly for Wales' departmental expenditure limit will be increased by £68,410,000 from £13,020,716,000 to £13,089,126,000. The increase is a result of:
(a) The...
Subject to Parliamentary approval of the necessary Supplementary Estimate, the Department for Work and Pensions DEL will increase by £204,654,000 from £7,780,201,000 to £7,984,855...
The Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council will be held on 22 February in Brussels. There are no health or consumer affairs issues. I shall be representing the UK.
The first and ...
Currently patients are given the choice whether they want to wash or not in...
i feel that the lottery would be more successful if more money was paid out...
This country is fed up with meaningless words from out of their mouths. If...
All pupils in years 10 and 11 in schools are forced to take part in PE for...
Council-run street parking charges are, on average, 60p per hour, yet NCP...
Powergen and other companies have made unfair HUGE profits at the expense of...
i think people should walk rather than using cars because it makes them more...
If there was made available, free or cheap, parking spaces adjacent to...
As people are kicking off about road pricing it'd be useful to take their...
We all know the noise pollution that these monstrosities create.
Introduce a system whereby all young people (or at least all those from low...
To reduce Green House Gases, we propose that the Public Transport in...
This petition has been set up and signed by a 15 year old school boy who's...
'...ensure all revenue from speed camera fines to be used to fund improvements in current road system/building of new roads and not as a money making situation as it is at present.' -- keith davies
To promote science & engineering in schools by all possible means. Science...
Honour the Status Quo for services to the music and entertainment industry....
'...ensure legislation is implemented that requires all foreign vehicles used in the UK for more than one month per year to be registered with the UK authorities and, as such, become subject to UK standards/requirements...
I am 14, I am fed up with all young people being placed in one catagory. The...
Traffic wardens are far more useful than PCSO's and the general public show...
This would ensure that our representatives fully understand the realities of...
Road pricing will put up road travel costs but it wont discourage road use...
the over 65's in this country who apply for attendence alowance or some...
We think that Ice Hockey in the UK should be recognised as a National Sport...
Stop all the ridiculous pay rises given to people who already earn more than...
Tony Blair is answering questions from MPs in his weekly Question Time session. He'll then give a statement to the House about Iraq and the Middle East. Watch them both live here now.
The Queen has been pleased to approve that David George Hanson MP, be sworn of Her Majesty's most honourable Privy Council.
The Prime Minister has re-appointed Mr John Lessore and Mr Simon Burke as Trustees of the National Gallery for a period of four years from 10 and 21 February 2007, respectively.
Vulnerable people who have fallen into debt will be better protected from unscrupulous bailiffs thanks to Government reforms.
The board members who are advising on the development of the new Cancer Reform Strategy were announced today. Appointed by Health Minister Rosie Winterton, the board's membership is drawn from experts across the...
Rosie Winterton, MP, today called for "rapid improvement in the way mental health services respond to the needs of BME patients".
A new study examining how the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) manages and uses science as part of its planning and policy-making, was published today by Sir David King, the Government's Chief Scientific Adviser...
Analysis of responses.
It is not worth my husbands time and energy working any overtime as the...
i personally think as a gcse student that the option of choosing four...
Private prescriptions issued by hospital consultants must be paid for, in...
Tenants of period conversions regularly have their lives blighted by noise...
'...Behave like a liberal and let individuals have a life as independent of state interference as possible' -- Andrew Blayney
I am sick of being told to use public transport and to leave my car at home...
Using modern technology, many jobs (especially office-based ones) could very...
Currently, members of the UK Youth Parliament are promoting a campaign to...
Recent US rhetoric could lead us to believe that the build up of US troops...
If the government sort the transport system properly ie. reliable buses,...
Why is it that whatever we do in our chosen vocation, nearly every person...
Every year around 35 million pheasants are mass-produced like commercial...
See Hansard Debate 4th June 2004 columns 194 and 195, Hansard 4th Feb 2004...
The elderly of Great Britain are as vulnerable as our children and thus...
too many people are now growing cannabis in order to make money from it....
Legal aid should be used for people who are deserving and are really not...
Private hospitals in the UK are allowed to operate without having, on site,...
It is incongruous that reciprocal healthcare agreements should exist with...
cars are constantly penalised,how about an off peak reduced charge for cars...
Sir Patrick Moore's extensive contribution to the rich scientific heritage...
It is clearly and commonly publicised for Unemployed people to be entitled...
The Police, Fire Brigade, Ambulance Service, Coastguard, Bomb Squad and RNLI...