On 20 September 2007, the OFT issued a Statement of Objections (SO) setting out the OFT's provisional findings that certain large supermarkets and dairy processors had colluded to increase the retail prices of one...
Mr Alan Charlton CMG, CVO has been appointed Her Majesty's Ambassador to the Federative Republic of Brazil in succession to Dr Peter Collecott CMG who will be transferring to another Diplomatic Service appointment...
The Foreign Office today changed its travel advice for Bolivia. We now advise against all but essential travel to the cities of Santa Cruz, Cochabamba, Trinidad, Sucre, Tarija and Cobija, due to the current tense...
National Minimum Information Standards for all Adults in Scotland for Assessment, Shared Care and Support Plan, Review and Carers Assessment and Support - Consultation on the Compendium of Standards
Floods Recovery Minister John Healey today announced that Gloucestershire County Council will receive an interim payment of £1.1m from Government to help with its costs in clearing up after this summer...
The Met Office Hadley Centre and the University of East Anglia have today released preliminary global temperature figures for 2007, which show that the top 11 warmest years all occur in the last 13 years.
In view of the government's inability to protect our privacy, in particular...
"The grammar school system...was a response to the needs of a vanished...
We implore the Prime Minister and his Government to stop the proposed...
please sign this petition if you are or have been in the Sea Cadet Corps and...
Under the current law the "absent Parent" has to pay csa until the child...
If the goverment built a legal graffiti wall in every town, where anyone is...
The current system of administrative justice in England is causing...
In the week it emerged that the government was soon to announce that the £...
It is a scandal that companies are making huge profits out of HM Forces...
The father of a Chinese man who died of bird flu has also been infected and...
With the increase of the price of diesel. The govt should allow lorries and...
The demand for biofuels have accelerated the destruction of the rain forest...
Tap water is free of charge yet some restaurants either charge or refuse to...
Since 1964, Doreen and her late husband Don,given a loving and safe home to...
This would alleviate the burden on maternity services, provide continuity,...
British Board of Film Classification (Accountability to Parliament and...
As we pay our fuel bills in advance on a Pay As You Go Basis, we ask that...
The government has no place intermeddling with the business arrangements of...
The town centre in St Austell in Cornwal was fine as it was, but we have...
I have recently seen a GCSE Mathematics level test and the questions were...
Even if the festival only lasts a few days why should people living in the...
As a British citizen I would like a say in how, as a British citizen I am...
The Office of Fair Trading has imposed fines totalling almost £116m on major...
The Sefton Routeway programme is a programme that enables the unemployed...
'...please give us pensioners enough money to pay the council tax' -- g rowlands
Gordon Brown has signed the EU Treaty in Lisbon ahead of the EU Council starting tomorrow.
Options for improving energy efficiency across the public sector have been set out in a consultation document published today by Minister for the Environment Phil Woolas.
The latest Pesticide Residues Committee's (PRC) quarterly report found that 547 out of 1053 samples of 22 different foods tested had no detectable residues, and 473 contained levels below the maximum residues level...
The latest results from the Pesticide Residues Committee's (PRC) programme of pesticide residue testing in fruit and vegetables supplied to school children found that the residues detected were unlikely to affect...
More money for faster access and tackling infections
A radical shift from passive to active benefits in the welfare system, to achieve full employment and help eradicate child poverty, was announced today by the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Peter Hain.
The Armed Forces Minister, Bob Ainsworth, announced today that the Government has commissioned an independent study into how the British public can better express its support and gratitude for the nation's Armed...
Minister for Defence Equipment and Support, Baroness Taylor, has today launched a strategy to ensure that the UK Armed Forces reap the benefits of the latest developments in defence technology.
The OFT will make an announcement at an appropriate time setting out details in this case.The OFT is not able to provide further comment at this stage but notes some inaccurate reporting in the UK press which will...
The Financial Secretary to the Treasury, Jane Kennedy MP, today announced the publication of the summary of responses to the Treasury's Gift Aid consultation. The consultation visited seven cities across the United...
The Assets Recovery Agency has reached a successful settlement in the High Court in London for £100,940 concerning the assets of Carlos Graham Layne from High Wycombe, Bucks.
The Government today confirmed that the 23 August - UNESCO's day for the International Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition - will be adopted as the focal date for national commemorations in the years...
HM Revenue & Customs Interest Rates - Quarterly instalment payments, and early payments of Corporation Tax not due by instalments
At 10.25 this morning Holyhead Coastguard were alerted by a member of the public of a person who had entered the water at Barkby Beach in Rhyl.
Key learning from Land Registry's Chain Matrix prototype and valuable feedback from customers on electronic funds transfer have influenced Land Registry's decision to focus resource on introducing electronic discharges...
Are you a disabled or elderly person who has had their care provision cut...
Civilians pay should reflect the equal pay settlement that was agreed, this...
At the South Downs Pre-Inquiry meeting on Tuesday 11 December, the Planning Inspector outlined the scope of the forthcoming re-opening of the South Downs Public Inquiry which will commence on 12th February.
A bankrupt with debts of almost £500,000, together with his wife and their solicitor, were each handed custodial sentences today for conspiring to pervert the course of justice.
Today the Department for Business and Enterprise announced the appointment of Anne Richards and James Sassoon as Trustees with responsibility for the Nuclear Liabilities Fund (NLF).
Competitiveness Minister Stephen Timms has today set out the final timetable for the implementation of the Companies Act, and confirmed that a number of de-regulatory measures of benefit to business will come into...
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These notes have been prepared to help those interested in the rural proofing of Local Area Agreements (LAAs) to plan and achieve their objectives...
This report is the result of an inspection of the promotion arrangements used by the police service in Scotland by HMICS.
THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT IS ISSUED BY THE PRESS SECRETARY TO THE QUEEN
British citizens and people applying for citizenship must be prepared to accept a range of duties and responsibilities as well as rights, the PM has said.
Sir Bill Callaghan has today published his review of the regulatory framework for handling of animal pathogens in the United Kingdom.
David Norgrove has been reappointed Chair of the Pensions Regulator for a further three years.
Stephen Timms, Minister Competitiveness, today announced five new appointments to the management board of the Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA).
Schools Minister Andrew Adonis and Birmingham City Council Leader Mike Whitby will be joined by pupils on centre stage today for a major announcement regarding Birmingham Academies.
The Department for Transport has today published Regional Transport Statistics: 2007 Edition.
Briefing from the Prime Minister's Spokesman on: Afghanistan, Iraq, Russia, Police Pay/Public Sector Pay and Lisbon
Briefing from the Prime Minister's Spokesman on: Lord Ashdown, Lisbon and Pensions
Gordon Brown answered a range of questions from the cross-party Liaison Committee in Parliament today.
Gordon Brown has praised a joint initiative launched by central banks from across the world to tackle the international credit crisis.
The Prime Minister has promised to deliver "wider and deeper" reform across public services such as health and education.
A blueprint to help to deliver improved protection for people and property nationally, from coastal flooding and erosion has today been set out by Phil Woolas, Minister for Climate Change and Flooding.
Fraud and Error in the Benefit System October 2005 to September 2006
Consultation on the Eggs and Chicks (Scotland)Regulations 2008
My honourable friend the Economic Secretary to the Treasury (Kitty Ussher) has made the following Written Statement.
Following the March 2005 Treasury Committee report on ATM (Automatic Teller Machine) ...
My honourable friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for International Development (Gareth Thomas) has made the following Statement.
I represented the UK for the session on economic partnership...
Following the March 2005 Treasury Committee report on ATM (Automatic Teller Machine) charging, the Treasury invited the Chairman of the Treasury Select Committee, the right hon. John McFall, to chair a working...
I am today announcing a review of the Housing Revenue Account subsidy system to be led jointly by officials in my Department and in HM Treasury, reporting to Ministers in both Departments.
In the housing...
This Government are strongly committed to ensuring that social housing meets the needs of all tenants. The John Hills review found that while investment in social housing had delivered real improvements, tenants...
Today the Department is to launch a consultation on proposals for a strategic framework for funding and investment support to third sector organisations. The document has been placed in the Library and copies...
Section 14(1) of the Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005 (the 2005 Act) requires the Home Secretary to report to Parliament as soon as reasonably practicable after the end of every relevant three-month period on...
The Home Office has today published a summary of responses to the consultation paper, "Banning Offensive Weapons", which sought views on further measures to restrict the supply of weapons which are being used...
I wish to inform the House of a recent error in processing an application for section 44 Stop and Search powers under the Terrorism Act 2000.
The application by Sussex police, dated 3 September 2007, did...
I represented the UK for the session on Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) at the General Affairs and External Relations Council in Brussels on 10 December 2007. The Foreign Secretary attended all other sessions...
In their consultation paper on the law on damages which was published on 4 May 2007, the Government announced their intention to increase the level of bereavement damages awarded under section 1A of the Fatal...
I am today announcing the next stage in the review of the law of homicide.
In July 2005, the Law Commission was asked by the Government to review the law of murder in England and Wales. In December 2006...
I am announcing today that the Community Development Foundation will be the lead national partner for Grassroots Grants, the Government's programme to help develop and sustain the grant funding available to small...
The Department for Transport has today published the Compendium of Motorcycling Statistics: 2007 edition. The compendium brings together information from a range of sources to provide a comprehensive picture of ...
New changes to UK Patent law will make the patent system clearer and more flexible for business, Intellectual Property and Quality Minister Lord Triesman said today.
Orders in the twelve months to October 2007 were unchanged compared with the previous twelve months, but orders in the three months to October 2007 fell by three per cent compared to the same period a year earlier...
Saber v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2007] UKHL 57 (12 December 2007)
Al-Jedda, R (on the application of ) v Secretary of State for Defence [2007] UKHL 58 (12 December 2007)
Campbell v. Royes (Jamaica) [2007] UKPC 66 (03 December 2007)
R v N T D [2007] NICC 47 [2007] (5 December 2007)
This case concerns bonuses to which the Claimant says he is entitled in relation to work carried out for the Defendant in the years 2004, 2005 and 2006. He seeks an account of all bonus payments due under two bonus...
This is a claim by the South Cambridgeshire District Council for an injunction under section 187B of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 to restrain actual and apprehended breaches of planning control. The Claimant...
Societa Esplosivi Industriali Spa v Ordnance Technologies (UK) Ltd & Ors [2007] EWHC 2875 (Ch) (05 December 2007)
This is the judgment of the court.
On 29th November 2007 this Court heard argument on this appeal. After argument, the parties were told that the appeal would be dismissed, with reasons to be given later. These judgments contain those reasons.
This appeal arises from the hearing of a claim for possession brought against a number of gypsies who occupied various pitches at a gypsy caravan site at Caegarw Farm Caravan Park, Pyle, Port Talbot, Wales. The...
This is the judgment of the court, to which all of its members have contributed. Because of the urgency inherent in the nature of the proceedings, we indicated at the close of the hearing of this appeal that the...
Summary of North Ayrshire performance inspection report
Performance inspection of social work services in North Ayrshire
Gordon Brown will answer questions from a cross-party panel of MPs later today.