The Competition Commission (CC) and the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) are to work together on a joint review of their respective guidelines for substantive merger analysis and assessment.

Asked why it was that the Prime Minister appeared to be so out of touch, the PMS said that he was not too sure whether that was a statement or a question and went on to say that the Prime Minister had been talking...

Asked why last week the had Prime Minister had denied plans to swap debts when asked about the subject, the PMS said that he thought that that question might come up and referred to the transcript of last week's...

Asked if the Prime Minister accepted that if the Government and the tri-partite authorities had acted earlier in providing support, the Northern Rock crisis could have been avoided, the PMS said that we would not...

Asked if the Prime Minister would regard a vote on the Budget as a confidence issue, the PMS replied that at this stage the amendment had not been tabled so we would have to wait and see what happened in Parliament...

Asked if anything could be said about the Prime Minister's meeting with President Jacob Zuma of the African National Congress (ANC), the PMS replied that there was not much he wanted to say ahead of the meeting ...

Asked if the group of people the Prime Minister would be meeting this week regarding food prices would include the head of the World Food Programme, the Prime Minister's Spokesman (PMS) said that the head of the...

Asked if there was any concern over the threat to petrol supplies with the possibility of a strike, and had there been any difficulty with liaising with the Scottish Government over this, the PMS replied that John...

Asked if the phone conference the Prime Minister was having later today was part of his efforts around the Millennium Development Goals, the PMS replied that this was in relation to the Global Campaign for Education...

Asked for more information about the Government timetable and process for reviewing the impact of the scrapping the 10p tax rate, the Prime Minister's Spokesman (PMS) replied that there was nothing more that he ...

Briefing from the Prime Minister's Spokesman on: World food prices, meeting with President of the African National Congress, 10p tax, Northern Rock and Bank of England Liquidity and misc

Briefing from the Prime Minister's Spokesman on: Tax, Global Campaign for Education and petrol

Gordon Brown has met with Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, father of microfinance and founder of the Grameen Bank.

The Prime Minister has given his support to the Global Campaign for Education's action week aimed at pushing forward the Millennium Development Goal of education for all children by 2015.

The Financial Secretary to the Treasury, Jane Kennedy MP, today presented to the House of Commons the Main Supply Estimates for 2008-09. Supply Estimates seek parliamentary authority for departmental spending plans...

Event organisers need to do much more to ensure that tickets get to real fans instead of expensive resale websites, Culture Secretary Andy Burnham said today.

NO DEATHS IN UNDER 19'S LAST YEAR FROM MENINGITIS

On 21 April Minister for Europe Jim Murphy MP announced that the UK Government would run a series of seminars, in the UK and around Europe, on Delivering a Global Europe. He said:

The 2008 Public Expenditure Statistical Analyses (PESA) National Statistics First Release is published today. This is an annual publication of statistical data on public expenditure outturn from 2002-03 to 2006-...

Version 4 of the MAPPA Guidance

Cancer patients want the best treatment possible and (providing they are...

Provides information about travel by adults, including journey purposes and the means of transport used, journey distance and duration, and times of day and days of week on which adults travel.

INSOLVENCY OFFENCE LEADS TO SUCCESSFUL CONFISCATION OF ASSETS

Also significant for rural populations... The lowest strata of workers in rural areas earn substantially less than their affluent neighbours but have to pay more to travel and to access services of all ...

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131 CHILDREN SAFEGUARDED FROM SEXUAL ABUSE 297 CHILD SEX OFFENDERS ARRESTED - A THREE FOLD INCREASE 6 ORGANISED PAEDOPHILE RINGS DISMANTLED 1.7 MILLION UK CHILDREN RECEIVING "SAFETY FIRST" EDUCATION

131 CHILDREN SAFEGUARDED FROM SEXUAL ABUSE 297 CHILD SEX OFFENDERS ARRESTED - A THREE FOLD INCREASE 6 ORGANISED PAEDOPHILE RINGS DISMANTLED 1.7 MILLION UK CHILDREN RECEIVING "SAFETY FIRST" EDUCATION

The annual winners and recipients of The Queen's Awards for Enterprise were announced on 21 April, The Queen's birthday. They are the UK's most prestigious accolades for business-related achievement and a total ...

A leaflet about the law on parental responsibilities and rights and joint birth registration.