Gordon Brown has said he is confident of securing the UK's "red lines" in the EU Treaty to be discussed today in Lisbon.
The Maritime & Coastguard Agency (MCA) announced today that fourteen foreign ships were under detention in UK ports during September 2007 after failing Port State Control (PSC) inspection.
Gordon Brown has said he is confident of securing the UK's "red lines" in the EU Treaty to be discussed today in Lisbon.
English Heritage, the Government's lead adviser on the historic environment, will see its grant rise from £123.7 million at present to £130.7 million at the end of the three-year spending review...
Significant progress has been made in tackling poverty and social exclusion in the UK with fewer children and pensioners living in poverty and more people in work, according to figures released today.
Five medals stolen from Second World War veteran Harry Francis were replaced by Veterans Minister Derek Twigg during a presentation at the Ministry of Defence today.
Ofwat today published its first major consultation on how it will set price limits for customers' water and sewerage bills for the five years from 2010 to 2015. The consultation paper describes the approach that...
As a parent of St.Edwards primary school , i am disappointed to hear that...
I am fed up with the discrimination of Goverment funding for children in...
The United Families & Friends Campaign challenges the Prime Minister to...
'...ensure that the costs of any failed prosecution started by the CPS which is later described as inadequate or misguided or lacking in probity or politically motivated by the judge are paid by the CPS lawyer who...
This petition proposes Mr. Alan Wills, the Liverpool musician and...
The UK government should respect the spirit and the letter of the Antarctic...
We live in an age of multiple technologies, where music and film can be...
This latest idea to roam the streets almost 24/7 in an attempt to 'clean up...
We live in a free modern democracy and we the undersigned below feel that...
Having the Union Jack flying in every school and the national anthem sang...
This casual racism by the British media towards our European neighbours and...
I have been entertained by Bruce Forsyth for 50yrs and myself and everyone I...
More and more the drivers are fined for exceeding the speed limit wich is a...
Fed up with the deminishing range of bar snacks available in local pubs,...
We believe that mobile phone use should be banned on planes. Irrespective of...
In many theaters they do not do this so the benefit of modern hearing...
It is currently possible to ban pushchairs from buses under 'health and...
The London Agreement, which was approved by the French President today, could save British business over £10 million a year, Intellectual Property and Quality Minister Lord Triesman said.
The EU should put institutional debate behind it and focus on "the challenges of globalisation", the PM has said.
The Economic Secretary, Kitty Ussher, today announced that the Government would allow people who during the recent financial market disruption withdrew cash from Individual Savings Accounts (ISAs) held at Northern...
A company selling advertising space in a business-to-business crime prevention booklet has been wound-up by the High Court in Manchester following an investigation by the Companies Investigation Branch (CIB) of ...
11 Oct - More inequality, less social mobility - RSSS paper
15 Oct - Migrant Integration Policy Index
16 Oct - Holistic approach to road safety - PACTS report
16 Oct - Economic impact of immigration - HO/DWP report
17 Oct - Social impacts of migration - HO presentation
17 Oct - Tackling obesities: future choices - Foresight report
18 Oct - Use and impact of dispersal orders - JRF study
In the light of testimony and evidence emerging from the Health and Safety...
Alan Whicker represents everything that's good in a Englishman. Urbane,...
House prices are soaring and waiting lists are getting longer and longer,...
It is completely against all principles of British Justice and European Law...
close all US military bases. The continued occupation of the UK by US...
Endometriosis is a severe, chronic, extremely painful, debilitating disease...
Milton keynes was the first city in the country to have cable tv but since...
What is the point in spending billions of pounds on keeping unhealthy people...
Every where we go there's always somebody talking loudly on their mobile....
Is there a problem? Marrying someone who is themselves a close family member...
The proportion of sugars in foods has risen over past decades - correlating...
because some people pay and some dont dentist get more from paying people...
The flying and public displaying of a countries national flag is not a...
Police should protect the public in Parks. Many are Dangerous, sexual...
Priminster's Question Time is letting down the democratic system of Great...
Turkish ministers are debating a motion to send troops into northern Iraq to...
With reference to : UKHL 39 on appeal from: [2006] EWCA Civ 27. Pleural...
By comparison to many other European Countries, Britain has fewer public...
The Burmese military junta, having seized control in 1962 through Gen Ne Win...
My life, home & business are at risk because of the postal strike, my life...
Halls of residence can cost more than the maintenance loan provided by the...
Chocolate is addictive, highly calorifically dense and so cheap that in UK...
'...Enforce the law against so called "Cottaging" & "Dogging" Name & Shame these people' -- Thomas Bowman
In the light of the recent postal strikes there should be legislation to...
At presen you have no exemption unless you have reached retirement age...
The Vulcan Operating Company have tirelessly worked around the clock since...
I would be absolutely delighted to have Lord Carter and Gordon Brown...
7 Oct - Anti-gang strategies and interventions - ARACY report
8 Oct - Health and sustainable development - DH plan
10 Oct - Local government and climate change - NLGN report
- Victim Support report 10 Oct - Breaking the cycle of violence among young people
10 Oct - Child victims of crime - HLPR report
10 Oct - Youth poverty in Europe - JRF report
11 Oct - Personal travel planning - DfT report
11 Oct - Young people: positive behaviour and community-based activities
12 Oct - Primary review consultation report
Record numbers of drug users are now getting treatment meaning the Government target has been achieved two years early, Health minister, Dawn Primarolo, today announced today.
Protection of Scotland's Water Environment: A cons
Asked if the Prime Minister would be watching any particular sport over the next few days, the PMS said he was sure the TV would be on in the background of the office for both the important football games taking...
The Prime Minister's Spokesman started by drawing attention to a letter the Prime Minister had written to the Portuguese Prime Minister, in his capacity as President of the European Union, copied to all other Heads...
The lack of progress made on some areas of the Millennium Development Goals now constitutes an international emergency, the Prime Minister has said.
The PM is to attend the EU council today to thrash out a deal on the EU Treaty.
Briefing from the Prime Minister's Spokesman on: Europe and Sport
Positive underlying growth continues
September: £3.8 bn current budget deficit
Two new non-party-political peers recommended by the House of Lords Appointments Commission were announced today. They will sit on the crossbenches in the Upper House. Haleh Afshar currently teaches Politics and...
We are being forced to switch over to digital TV, but why?? so that these...
There is frequently a terrible smell of rotten eggs around the Junction 4...
the treatment of our forces at the moment is disgusting, our wounded troops...
Some of us asked for a street party for the Queens royal golden jubilee but...
This year we celebrate 5o years since the club opened as a safe environment...
I believe if we let new migrants from the EU vote in British referendums,...
A programme is essential to conserve fossil fuels. Renewable energy is a...
All hospitals should employ a controlled cleaning force to cut the spread of...
There are currently plenty of civil airfields that "are popular with...
Crime in England and Wales remains stable according to the British Crime Survey (BCS) and has fallen by seven per cent according to the police recorded crime statistics, published in the quarterly update today.
Commenting on 'Statistics on Football-Related Arrests and Banning Orders' (2006/7)published today, Home Office Minister, Vernon Coaker said;
The Government is today publishing the 2008-09 rates and allowances for Income Tax, National Insurance Contributions, Working and Child Tax Credits, Child Benefit/Guardian's Allowance and State Pension and Pension...
An ambitious student listening programme which will put the voices of England's 2.3 million university students at the heart of Government was launched today by John Denham, Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities...
I can today confirm the new London Fire Brigade Regional Control Centre will be located at Morden, in the London Borough of Merton. This new control centre will provide a modern, effective control and mobilisation...
My Department has today published the audited figures for the NHS for the financial year 2006-07. These show that the NHS recorded a net surplus in 2006-07 of £514.6 million.
My Department's report...
My right honourable friend the Secretary of State for Health, Alan Johnson, has made the following Written Statement.
My department has today published the audited figures for the NHS for the financial ...
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Our response to the Department of Communities and Local Government's Housing Green Paper, and accompanying letter.
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Our response to the Department of Communities and Local Government's consultation on Shared Ownership and Leasehold Enfranchisement.
The Government has recognised the difficulties of providing affordable areas in some areas where development is constrained. They are consulting on changes that would limit the amount of a shared ownership...
We've formally responded to the Government’s Housing Green Paper ‘Homes for the future: more affordable, more sustainable’.
The lack of affordable housing is one...
Responding to the publication of the Healthcare Commission's annual health check report, Alan Johnson, said:
Moncrieff & Anor v. Jamieson & Ors (Scotland) [2007] UKHL 42 (17 October 2007)
R v. Kennedy [2007] UKHL 38 (17 October 2007)
R v. Abdroikof & Anor [2007] UKHL 37 (17 October 2007)
Premium Nafta Products Ltd (20th Defendant) & Ors v. Fili Shipping Company Ltd & Ors [2007] UKHL 40 (17 October 2007)
R v. Kennedy [2007] UKHL 38 (17 October 2007)
United Utilities Water plc v. Environment Agency for England and Wales [2007] UKHL 41 (17 October 2007)
White, R v. [2007] NICC 34 (15 October 2007)
There are various applications before me, some of which are contested, some of which are not. Essentially the contested issue is as to whether there should be an ordering of preliminary issues in this case.
Following upon my earlier judgement[1]
The main issue in this case is whether the Defendant ("Albingia") is entitled to avoid first loss fac/oblig reinsurance treaties protecting the energy accounts of Syndicates 1036 and 1037 at Lloyd's ("the Syndicates...
MR JUSTICE HODGE: The support provided by the United Kingdom for those involved in the asylum process is a matter of considerable public interest and of great concern to those individuals in that process. There...
MR JUSTICE WALKER: ICSTIS Limited is a company limited by guarantee. I shall refer to it as "ICSTIS". The word ICSTIS is an acronym and stands for the Independent Committee for the Supervision of Standards of...
This is a renewed application for permission to appeal against the order of HHJ McCahill QC, sitting in the Birmingham Mercantile Court, following refusal of permission on paper by Waller LJ.
Gater Assets Limited ("Gater") is the assignee of a New York Convention arbitration award and seeks to enforce it in England against the award debtor, Nak Naftogaz Ukrainiy (the National Joint Stock Company Naftogaz...
Section 327 of the Housing Act 1985 ("the 1985 Act") makes it a summary offence punishable by a fine for the occupier of a dwelling to cause or permit it to be overcrowded which it will be when the number of persons...
This is an appeal brought with the permission of the judge by the Owners of the Magdalena Oldendorrf, (the Owners), from a judgment of Christopher Clarke J dated 17 October 2006 by which he dismissed their application...
The Lord Chancellor, the Right Honourable Jack Straw MP, has appointed Parul Dilipbhai Desai to be a Salaried District Chairman of the Appeal Tribunals with effect from 1 November 2007. Ms Desai will be assigned...