I see parents withdrawing their child benefit, then go to the off licence...
Scoliosis is curvature of the spine. 1 in 250 adolescent girls have it. I...
The Driving Standards Agency is urging all driving test candidates booked to take tests just before and after Easter to turn up regardless of the threat of strike action by examiners who are members of the Public...
Petition to attempt to save the fate of St Annes Swimming Baths which serves...
I find it outrageous that I, as a teacher, only benefited from a 2.45% pay...
To allow people the freedom they are entitled to under civil rights laws,...
Healthcare professionals work hard for their wages; let’s try to get extra...
Employment tribunals have the power to strike out claims or responses...
There are over one million people in Britain with sight loss, many of whom...
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Speech given by Stuart Burgess, our chair and the Government's Rural Advocate, to the 80/20 Rural Vision Conference, 14 March.
Stuart Burgess, our chair and the government's Rural Advocate, spoke at today's Yorkshire and Humber and Wolds Rural Community Council’s Landmark Conference.
Stuart...
Sixty thousand new doctors will be specifically trained in the next ten years to identify and treat people who are drinking too much, Public Health Minister Dawn Primarolo will announce today.
This leaflet provides advice and tips on how to play an active part in your NHS care and treatment.
If you're planning a trip to the kitchen showroom over the bank holiday weekend, taking advice from Consumer Direct could help you avoid some of the fitted kitchen pitfalls.
UK businessman Mehrdad Salashoor was today jailed for 18 months for illegally exporting 'gyrocompass' navigation devices to Iran.
The Minerals and Waste local plans have identified Manor Farm Bridgham (...
This petition would enable such people to have a stake in the cultural...
The current monitoring levels of air quality, fail to recognise that the...
With high petrol taxes and congestion charges the government is already...
As an adopted child, myself I have found for many years that the lack of...
Airside workers at UK airports are already subject to stringent security...
'...bring the salary payscales of the Northern Ireland Civil Service in line with the Home Civil Service.' -- Martin Gilliland
In the UK we have had a vibrant and strong independent games industry since...
'...sack ed balls' -- ken haslam
The Department for Children, Schools and Families has announced the preferred bidder for the contract to deliver Teachers TV.
Gordon Brown has hailed the "progress" on environmental issues at the EU Council in Brussels where he has been pushing for changes in VAT regulations that will help promote greener products.
Promoting an Integrated Approach - A Discussion Paper
Gordon Brown has said that getting young people involved in football enterprise could produce the next Alan Sugar or Karren Brady.
Two Manchester-based companies which used misleading sales practices to solicit sponsorship from businesses for anti-bullying books stated to be for distribution to schools in the locality of the sponsor have been...
Water companies must not dilute their efforts to improve the natural environment, Natural England has told water companies.
Asked for the Government's position on having US air marshals on transatlantic flights, the PMS said that the position had been set out by the Department for the Transport and that journalists should refer to that...
Asked if the Prime Minister had anything to say about incapacity benefits and concerns that changes in the Budget may be unfair, the PMS said that the Prime Minister thought that it was very important that we did...
Asked if the Prime Minister had spoken to Peter Mandelson about his future as the European Commissioner, the PMS said that the Prime Minister believed that Mr Mandelson has been a very good Commissioner. The PMS...
Asked if the Prime Minister thought that the report into MEPs' expenses should be made public, the PMS replied that, as the Prime Minister said frequently in a domestic context, it was important that action was ...
The Prime Minister Spokesman (PMS) started by telling assembled journalists that the Prime Minister was currently in the PES meeting and that the main Council session would start at approximately 1815 local time...
Briefing from the Prime Minister's Spokesman on: European Council/European Issues, MP's expenses, Peter Mandelson, Incapacity benefit and Air Marshals
Gordon Brown is at the EU Council in Brussels where he is pushing for changes in VAT regulations that will help promote greener products.
At Sheffield Magistrates Court on 12th March 2008 Mr John Allison pleaded guilty to four offences of not taking all reasonable precautions in using an insecticide containing bendiocarb. He was fined £200...
There are 6,625 more frontline clinical staff working in the NHS than a year ago, the latest official statistics show.
The Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, said:
The overarching purpose of the research was to undertake a process evaluation of thge Skills for Work pilot courses in order to inform the national roll-out o these courses. The evaluation of the Skills for Work...
This report, which draws on data from the first sweep of the Growing Up in Scotland study, starts from the position that in order to understand the types of formal support services that parents of young children...
This report draws on data from the first sweep of the Growing Up in Scotland ( GUS) study. The Sweep 1 Report highlighted the persistence of inequalities between advantaged and disadvantaged families which impact...
This report uses data from the Growing up in Scotland ( GUS) study to explore what is distinctive about growing up in rural, remote and small-town Scotland in comparison with urban Scotland. Findings are based on...
The overarching purpose of the research was to undertake a process evaluation of the SfW pilot courses in order to inform the roll-out of these courses. The evaluation of the SfW pilot was based around a qualitative...
List of products approved for use with drinking water
Consultation detailing the proposed Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (TSE) costs that may be shared with industry.
In October 2007 the House of Commons Education and Skills Committee published "Special Educational Needs: Assessment and Funding". The report identified parental confidence in the special educational needs (SEN...
I have today laid before the House an amendment to the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (Amendment) (England) Order 1995 (the GPDO) which will apply from 6 April 2008. The amendment provides...
I represented the UK at the Environment Council in Brussels on 3 March 2008.
At this Council, member states set out their positions on the 2020 climate and energy package. The UK intervened to welcome the...
In parallel with the work on the new Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) strategic framework, that I announced to the House on 23 January, I should like to inform the House of our plans for the future of scholarships...
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 ...
Today I am publishing two documents: "Innovation Nation", a White Paper on Science and Innovation, and one on implementing "'The Race to the Top': Lord Sainsbury's review of Government's Science and Innovation...
The National Offender Management Service (NOMS) takes the misuse of drugs in prisons very seriously. Since 1996-97, the overall random MDT positive rate has decreased from 24.4 per cent. to 8.8 per cent. in 2006...
I am today publishing a consultation document on proposals to reform local bus subsidies. The proposals particularly focus on changes to my Department's bus service operators grant to link it more effectively...
The new Home Office policy states that all rejected Iraqi asylum seekers who...
'...abolish plans to send disabled people back to work weather they are able to or not' -- Christopher Finn
I have just moved into a new property wherby my only gas supplier is LPG...
First Generaton Biofuels have been sold to us as one of many solutions to...
'...revaluate the proposed contract of the Camden Road Surgery, the Brunswick Centre and the King's Cross Road Practice to a large foreign company. We want our GPs to stay local.' -- Clare Jenner
The current legislation for vehicle tax is based on CO2 emissions. This,...
Children are making better progress in schools as a result of the introduction of phonics as a method of teaching early reading and writing according to Jim Rose, the independent expert who wrote an influential ...
I believe that in order to ensure a supply of affordable houses in rural areas there needs to be a change in planning law, in the Alnwick area of North Northumberland they are developing new housing estates...
Not everyone can afford to buy affordable houses, the government seems to forget that affordable houses need to be avaliable either as shared ownership schemes or as rental property.
Thanks for your comment. It's also important that local authorities take advantage of existing planning guidance where possible, such as PPS3.
Thanks for your comment. We agree that it's important that a range of affordable housing is provided, not just for purchase. We're continuing our work to try and influence policy to ensure that there ...
It is unfair that an expression of love can be expressed if the persons...
Recent reports confirmed the A12 is the UK’s worst road for congestion. The...
chefs waiters receptionists infact anyone working in the hospitality...
Many M.P's do not give their full attention to doing the job that they were...
Mr. Gordon Brown promised that by the year 2010 all young people would have...
It files in the face of the civil liberties of any citizen seeking...
As part of his drive towards identifying Britishness will the PM cause...
De-merging the regiments merged by the SDR (how can so small regiments...
The 2008 Budget has targeted ALL DRINKERS, not just antisocial mainly young...
This country's identity crisis lies in its name. We are currently called "...
'...confirm that his sale of our gold reserves was good for the country. Gold is now nearly $1,000 an oz yet was sold at under $300 an oz. If this is good economic sense would he explain why?' -- Paul Wing
make foriegn trucks pay to use our roads. also make them pay any motoring...
Enterprise Skills To Be Taught At Premiership Football Clubs
The new IT systems in the NHS are on course to deliver better care and an estimated £1.14 billion in savings by 2014, according to the first annual Benefits Statement published by the Government.