Today, Acas presented their research results on the impact of the Sexual Orientation Regulations and the Religion or Belief Regulations 2003. Since both sets of the regulations came into force, findings show that...

The Department of Health is today issuing the latest information about the numbers of known cases of Creutzfeldt Jakob disease. This includes cases of variant Creutzfeldt Jakob disease (vCJD) - the form of the disease...

The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, today announced that he has appointed James Sassoon to act as President of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) for a 12-month period beginning July 2007. The UK ...

This country needs grammar and private schools. Students who are achieving...

I am red-green colour blind. I think there are often misconceptions about...

Recently MPs awarded themselves a 66% pay rise. While overworked and grossly...

As a eurosceptic I do not like the fact that new numberplates bear the EU...

To make the department of works and pensions be legaly bound to check all...

After being promised a new childrens hospital to be built in Leeds, the...

We petition the Prime Minister to amend the Government Policy on Overseas...

There are several areas of the UK where delivery charges are exceptionally...

Non geographical numbers are now being used as another form of tax. Many...

SENRUG is the South East Northumberland Rail User Group which is a pro-rail...

These balloons travel short and long distances, but inevitably return to the...

Make sure you take part in our webchat with minister Jim Fitzpatrick next week.

Tony Blair visited HMS Liverpool at Rosyth to honour nine veterans from across Scotland who fought in the Falkland Islands.

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has today, on behalf of Government, published a consultation document, seeking views on how best to deal with societal risk around non-nuclear major hazard sites.

Following extensive consultation with the construction industry, the new Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2007 (CDM 2007) come in to force on Friday 6 April 2007. Making it easier for duty holders...

The Type 42 destroyer HMS Gloucester is to undergo improvements and essential maintenance under a contract agreed with Babcock Support Services Limited (BSSL) at Rosyth, the Ministry of Defence announced today.

As Codes Awareness Month draws to an end, the OFT is encouraging home buyers to look for estate agents who display the OFT Approved code logo. Independent research shows that customers of businesses that are members...

Lowlands and Uplands Scotland 2007-2013 Structural Funds Programmes: Analysis of Consultation Responses and Scottish Executive Response

Highlands and Islands 2007-2013 Structural Funds Programmes: Analysis of Consultation Responses and Scottish Executive Response

Summary of main findings

A review of the Scottish Executive Document Guidance on the Circumstances in which Parents may Choose to Educate their Children at Home

Prosecutor charging will be extended to all cases investigated by HM Revenue and Customs from 3rd April 2007. From this date, Revenue and Customs Prosecutions Office prosecutors will decide what and whether criminal...

A millionaire gambler was found guilty at Woolwich Crown Court today, for his role in the most sophisticated and successful global cocaine smuggling operation ever to target Britain.

Tough new powers giving teachers' clear and unequivocal authority to discipline badly behaved pupils become law this week.

BRIAN BRENDON WRIGHT GUILTY OF COCAINE SMUGGLING

As the hours we work in Britain have increased over the past few years I...

There have been a number of studies published by the scientific and medical...

My great grandparents, grandad and uncles graves have been violated either...

After 4 years of living in our house we still get post through the door for...

I have started this petition in regard to the disgraceful way that British...

Has a Married Couple we cannot get Council Housing even though I Myself have...

College were created to teach adults skills for their benefit after school...

I am blind and teach braille on a voluntry (unpaid) basis. I do this as it...

The removal of the 10p Tax band will adversley affect the low paid and...

Secondary schools commonly have more than 1,000 pupils. Disadvantages...

As road tax now seems to be based on the ammount of co2 a vehicle produces....

ITV have created a website to encourage viewers and programme followers to...

There are around 34000 vacancies in engineering but only 24000 graduates of...

I, respectfully submit that,the prime minister to,bring to the attention of...

Alan Robson mbe of Metro radios nightowls programme is a true legend and...

Anyone travelling from un-mainland UK i.e. N Ireland, Scottish Islands has...

Friedman was the most influential economist of the second half of the 20th...

Most Welsh people cannot speak Welsh, they should be able to speak as near...

I wanted to vote when I was 16 but couldn't. I think the situation should...

To ask for re-checks on personal details attached to number plates when...

Gun crime in recent times has shown itself to be growing, and its causes can...

The Government's target for a maximum waiting time of 4 hours for patients...

The latest class of British nuclear submarines are the 'Astute' class, and...

Tax raised by government to be capped at 35% of the UK GDP. Where government...

Con artists are now befriending, living with & marrying in order to steal...

Please keep byways open to vehicles as alot of them have alot of historic...

Declare that we will use any and all means at our disposal to rescue our...

A ten year period of dual use of miles/mph and kilometres/kph would provide...

Please read the following, then decide if current government policies...

This government has, over the last 10 years, dramatically increased the...

Asked what actions the Government was going to take this week on the Iran hostages, the PMOS replied that the Iranians knew our position. They knew that stage-managed TV appearances were not going to affect that...

Put that Adair Turner, former Director-General of the CBI, had told the BBC that it was completely untrue to suggest that publicly or privately, he was responsible for any lobbying that took place in 1997, yet Ed...

Press briefing from the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman on: Pensions and Iran

Cabinet Office Minister Pat McFadden today announced a new Impact Assessment (IA) process to ensure that all new regulation is necessary and carried out with minimum burdens. This improves on the previous Regulatory...

Proposals for reducing the 109 million tones of waste produced by the UK construction industry every year were published today for consultation.

More consideration must be given to the links between climate change and air quality pollutants, according to a new report published by the Air Quality Expert Group (AQEG) today.

Climate Change and Environment Minister Ian Pearson announced today the reappointment of Kay Twitchen as a part-time non-executive member of the Environment Agency Board. The appointment is for three years.

An area of Sark, the smallest of the Channel Islands, has for the first time been recognised as a Wetland of International Importance under the international Ramsar Convention.

A total of £7million has been awarded to fund a range of international projects through the Darwin Initiative in 2007/08, Minister for Biodiversity, Barry Gardiner announced today.

Rosie Winterton thanks Caribbean staff for vital role in founding years of NHS

Fifteen areas across Britain will be given £32 million in a groundbreaking scheme to give local areas more control over plans to tackle worklessness, Work and Pensions Secretary John Hutton announced today...

The Government today outlined how it will further support for victims of sexual violence through better support facilities and improving the response from the justice system to such crimes.

We welcome this report which makes a series of useful recommendations for Government and the police about tackling drugs and alcohol in sexual assault.

Defence Minister Lord Drayson today launched a new organisation, called Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S), that will equip and support our armed forces for operations.

This report presents the findings of a social research project, the aim of which was to assess the range of impacts that experience of recent flooding in Scotland has had on people, their attitudes and behaviours...

This report presents the findings of a social research project, the aim of which was to assess the range of impacts that experience of recent flooding in Scotland has had on people, their attitudes and behaviours...

Ruth Kelly, Minister for Women, stepped up efforts to reduce the gender pay gap today by awarding nearly half a million pounds to a range of organisations to create more quality part time jobs at senior level.

The Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre has scooped gold, silver and bronze awards at the prestigious International Video and Communication Awards (IVCA).

The Easter weekend is often the first chance to 'get-away' for the season and many people will be hoping for some fine weather over the holiday period.

As a Member of the HM Forces and a working mum, Earning £1200 a month after...

Melton Mowbray is between the A1 and the M1. Besides normal traffic it is...

We live in an age where diversity is supposedly embraced, but do not...

The technlogy now exists to provide pay as you use motor taxation.Buying 1,2...

We the undersigned demand that the British Government does more to provide...

Degrees of varying difficulty currenlty have no distinction between them (eg...

Whilst the Slave Trade was indeed regrettable to say the least, the...

It is important to encourage the learning of other languages. Spanish is...

I wish to petition the prime minister to award Peter Alliss a Knighthood...

We want to see the original county of Lancashire from Furness in the north...

Barnet Football Club desperately need new a new stadium to replace their...

Women receive their state pension at age 60, many men have been compulsorily...

With the proposal to charge for parking an the town's railway station car...

Two years of painstaking negotiations to ensure the continued survival of...

In this era of single parents, divorce and blended families, the role and...

The Debt Purchase Industry, want to have access to Consumers Personal data,...

100s of companies are currently allowed to make employees redundant to...

I believe 4x4 owners should be compensated by the Government for having...

There have been problems building with many servicemen returning from combat...

Rick Stein, has for years spoken of the value of quality food, mainly in...

Germany is not one of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council...

Further Education Lecturers in Northern Ireland have had a long running...

H G V and coach drivers have a maximum number of hours they are allowed to...

there is a draconian law that limits vans to 60mph and no-one abides by it...

I believe that the current time limit for complaints against solicitors is...

The £200 winter fuel payment for the over sixty-year-olds is very welcome,...

"Unfortunately, after careful consideration we regret to inform you that we...

At present the Working tax credit minimum age stands at 25 and not the...

There are many good teachers but there are many ineffective teachers in the...

Hollywood Park Combined Nursery, is a pre-school nursery in Stockport....

Why work hard and save all your life to buy a house (or have savings) to...

The Howard League for Penal Reform launched the Community Sentences Cut...

It is not fair to have prejudice against people who are a size 0, nor is it...

I would like to suggest that for all credit cards, an interest payment...

Passengers, at the moment, have no right to redress the problem of the...

Drivers purchasing light goods vehicles based CO2 emissions (doing your bit...

My friends and I firmly believe that if the government were to legalise...

Without naming names I have heard rumours from others that several...

Within the vivisection industry continued secrecy from public investigation...

A new digital TV service will offer viewers the opportunity to view thousands of job vacancies at the touch of a button.

The Government today launches a consultation that will seek to tighten legislation on computer generated child abuse images.

Drug facilitated sexual assault (DFSA), including rapes in which drugs are mixed with alcohol, is a significant problem, the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) said today.

The Department for Transport (DfT) and Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) have today launched a consultation to seek views on options to reform ATOL bonding.

Local residents who use the Dartford Crossing may be in line for discounts Transport Minister Dr Stephen Ladyman announced today.

Four new non-executive members take up their positions on the HMCS Board today. Each non-executive board member has been appointed for three years.

45 universities and colleges in the UK are known to invest in arms companies...

Enough is enough, time to act.

I want the U.K government to make a complaint to UEFA on behalf of British...

allowing the two new nearside lanes currently under construction to be used...

The data collected would help to reduce congestion and pollution. Councils...

'...stop TV companies transmitting pornography, sex ads and gratuitous violence.' -- Deborah Doyle

I wish that the Goverment would ban online gambling websites like JackpotJoy...

I have seen A LOT of petitions expressing anger about paying state benefits...

As some will now no doubt be aware of the chancellors recent headline...

Have you ever been choked by a car, van, lorry or bus whose exhaust fumes...

Women are discriminated against for a further 5 years after retirement, in...

It is deplorable for a Health Trust to close down such a wonderful facility...

Inheritance tax should be modified, such that no tax is paid below £1Million...

Over half of all major roadworks have been completed or suspended on motorways and major A-roads in England for the Easter holiday, the Highways Agency said today.

This study was commissioned to assess the current contribution, impact and future potential of Scottish indigenous sports that currently have no established regime or existing public sector funding, and have relatively...

The TSO provides excellent resoruces for the nations' schools and colleges...

As part of the development of the new UK Supreme Court, the Department for...

It is insane that the biggest killer drug in the world is sold in high...

At present Gurkha soldiers living in this country only receive a paltry...

Dear Prime Minister, I am a long suffering driver who uses the Carrington...

... for many in the community access to services comes at a significant cost...

A network of experienced regional reps is to be set up to move forward Government plans for an inspiring Cultural Olympiad in the run-up to the 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games, Culture Minister David Lammy...

PCTs able to commission self-management courses for people with long-term conditions

"2nd April marks the 25th anniversary of the Argentine invasion of the Falklands. The resulting loss of life on both sides is a source of continuing regret.

Following the arrest and beatings of nine members of the opposition and from civil society, the Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett said:

BORDER & IMMIGRATION AGENCY GOES LIVE

Six regional directors have been appointed to the new Border and Immigration Agency (BIA), which goes live today, the Home Office has announced.

A public consultation on proposed regulations to introduce a new route into bankruptcy.

Consultation on draft regulations regarding training of staff working in licensed premises

Supplementary public consultation on special protection for debts owed to Credit Unions in Protected Trust Deeds

Removing Class A drugs from the streets, establishing international communications networks to monitor 'Mr Bigs' and preventing mass fraud have all been key achievements of the first year's operation of the Serious...

The Asset Forfeiture Division of the Revenue and Customs Prosecutions Office has exceeded its 2006/07 target for the recovery of criminal assets. More than £23 million pounds has been seized so far from...