Briefing from the Prime Minister's Spokesman on: Miscellaneous
A meeting of the Metropolitan Police Authority (MPA) will be held in meeting room 1 (ground floor), 10 Dean Farrar Street, London SW1 on Thursday 24 July 2008 at 10.00 a.m.
Work and Pensions Secretary James Purnell spent over an hour answering your questions on welfare reform in a live webchat today.
Plans for closer links between the UK and Israeli film industries have been announced by Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who confirmed that negotiations will begin to allow closer collaboration between the two countries...
The Office of the Schools Adjudicator has published a decision on an objection by parents to the admission arrangements of George Abbot School for 2009/10.
From midday today Clyde Coastguard have been coordinating the search and rescue of a man after his single seat red slalom canoe was located 100 yards offshore near a fish farm at Cairndow on Loch Fyne near Inveraray...
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Work and Pensions Secretary James Purnell will be here taking your questions on welfare reform on 22 July from 1600 BST.
£96m construction contract awarded Carillion
The Highways Agency is showing visitors to the British Motor Show at ExCeL in Docklands how technology keeps our motorways and major 'A' roads moving and drivers up-to-date on traffic conditions.
Home improvements for older and disabled people will be supported and promoted by 'Foundations' after they were awarded the contract to run the national body for Home Improvement Agencies, Parliamentary Under Secretary...
The Parole Board has welcomed the conclusions and recommendations of the Justice Committee report published today (22 July 2008) with regard to imprisonment for public protection sentences and recalls and the pressure...
The detailed criteria and process for assessing where new nuclear power stations could safely and securely be built across England and Wales have been set out by the Government today.
Perhaps Mr Burgess can whisper to the prime minister that services and policy meetings about services should be taken to the people who use services (especially disabled people) - not the persistent expectation...
Thanks for your comments Mike, I'll pass them onto Stuart
The security situation in the southern Iraqi city of Basra has been "transformed", with a massive drop in incidents of indirect fire against British troops in recent months, the PM has said.
The Health and Social Care Act 2008, which will enhance the safety and quality of care and improve public health, has received Royal Assent.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer has today launched a consultation on the 'special resolution regime' which is designed to reduce the impact of a failing bank. The consultation document is published jointly by HM...
Met Office Chief Executive, John Hirst, announced today the new Chief Scientist for the Met Office:
Gordon Brown has set out the Government's plans to kick-start a motoring revolution by driving the shift to low-carbon and electric cars in the the UK.
Allan Stevenson has been appointed as Chair of the Potato Council Ltd.
£2.7 billion: new estimated cost of alcohol to the NHS
The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (Shaun Woodward) has made the following Ministerial Statement.
The Chief Electoral Officer for Northern Ireland is responsible for the administration of elections...
My predecessor, my right honourable friend Ian McCartney, committed in 2006 to make a Statement to the House once the UK National Contact Point had completed its investigation into DAS Air's behaviour in the ...
At its meeting on 15 July, the House Committee considered issues arising from the recent publication of the Register of Interests of Members' Secretaries and Research Assistants. The committee agreed the following...
Today my honourable friend the Minister of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills (Bill Rammell) has made the following Written Statement.
I inform the House that the Learning and Skills Council ...
The Minister of State for Northern Ireland (Paul Goggins) has made the following Ministerial Statement.
Copies of the new Framework Document for the Youth Justice Agency, an executive agency of the Northern...
My predecessor, my right hon. Friend the Member for Makerfield (Mr. McCartney) committed in 2006 to make a statement to the House once the UK National Contact Point had completed its investigation in to Das Air...
The Government will today—21 July 2008—publish their further response to the public consultation on UK Strategic Export Controls.
On Wednesday 6 February 2008, I announced to the House the publication...
The then Secretary of State for Education and Skills entered into a two-year contract with Serco Ltd in October 2006 for support for the development of children's centres and the modernisation of services for...
School inspection plays an important role in both the publicly funded and independent sectors to ensure quality of provision, to protect the interests of pupils, and to ensure parents have reliable information...
The Secretary of State has today laid the Audit Commission's Code of Data Matching Practice as required by part 2A of the Audit Commission Act 1998, as amended by the Serious Crime Act 2007.
The code governs...
Following the Government's announcement of provisional allocations for Housing and Planning Delivery Grant for 2008-09, a number of local authorities expressed concern that their grant had been abated for poor...
In my ministerial written statement on 5 March I said that the Government intended to prepare for an open market sale of the Tote, and would take advice on strategic options. I also announced that the overriding...
I have today placed in the Library of the House a report giving a detailed account of the low flying training that has taken place in the UK low flying system for the training year April 2007 to March 2008.
In a written statement on 14 May (Official Report, column 60WS) I announced that there would be a public inquiry into the death of Baha Mousa, who died in Iraq in September 2003 while being detained by British...
I am pleased to announce that I am today publishing the Ministry of Defence's annual report and accounts 2007-08. It combines the Department's annual performance report and departmental resource accounts in a...
The Government are today publishing its response to a consultation on proposals to revise the regulations which implement the nitrates directive. Copies will be placed in the Libraries of the House.
The...
My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has today laid before Parliament a progress report as required by Section 81 of the Water Act 2003, setting out the action taken...
The 2007-08 annual report and accounts for the Rural Payments Agency will be laid before Parliament today.
We announced in December 2006 that uplands support will be integrated into environmental stewardship from 2010, replacing the Hill Farm allowance. At that time we said we were minded to do this through a specific...
The General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC) will be held on 22 July in Brussels. My right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary will represent the UK.
The agenda items are as follows:
External...
I am pleased to inform the House that I have today placed in the Library the annual report of the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Inspectorate for the year 2007. This is the fourth annual report published by ...
This is the fourth Annual Report from the IPCC. The report covers the work of the IPCC during 2007-08 and includes a discrete chapter on the discharge of their responsibilities in respect of Her Majesty's Revenue...
I am pleased to announce that the annual report 2007-08 and accounts of the Security Industry Authority (SIA) will be laid before Parliament today and published on 28 July 2008.
Copies of the report will...
I announce that copies of the 2007-08 annual report and accounts for the Criminal Records Bureau have been laid before the House today. Arrangements are now in hand for their publication.
I wish to respond to the publication entitled "Statistics of Scientific Procedures on Living Animals—Great Britain—2007", which was presented as a House of Commons Paper (933) today. Copies have been...
Further to the written ministerial statement made on 25 July 2007 announcing the establishment of an ethics group to provide Ministers with independent ethical advice on the operation and practice of the national...
I would inform the House that the Learning and Skills Council for England has today published its annual report and accounts for the period to 31 March 2008. Copies will be placed in the Libraries of both Houses...
The Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 received Royal Assent on 26 July 2007.
The Act applies to companies incorporated under companies legislation, other corporations including public...
In February this year I published the independent review of the Forum for Preventing Deaths in Custody (Official Report, 25 February 2008, Col. 68WS). I did so in order to canvass the opinions of those both inside...
The annual report of Her Majesty's Prison Service for 2007-08 (HC No 860) has today been laid before Parliament. The National Probation Service annual report has also been published today. Copies have been made...
My right hon. Friend the Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice has today published the eighth report by the president of Appeal Tribunals on the standards of decisions made on behalf of the Secretary...
The Office of the Public Guardian's annual report and accounts for 2007-08 have been laid before Parliament today. This document gives full details of the agency's performance and expenditure for the six months...
The Government have today published the response to the consultation paper: "Case Track Limits and the Claims Process for Personal Injury Claims". It summarises the responses received to the consultation paper...
I am today announcing that as part of the review of the law on homicide, on Monday 28 July we will be publishing a consultation paper setting out proposals for reforms on:
partial defences to murder of ...
The Chief Electoral Officer for Northern Ireland is responsible for the administration of elections in Northern Ireland. Section 14 of the Electoral Law Act (Northern Ireland) 1962—as amended by Section...
Copies of the new framework document for the Youth Justice Agency, an Executive Agency of the Northern Ireland Office, are available in the Vote Office.
This document has been reviewed and revised in line...
On 26 June I set out in the "Framework for a Fairer Future" document how the Government propose to make further progress towards a fair and equal society.
The Government are pleased to announce that today...
Wilton Park is an academically independent Executive Agency of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Its annual report and accounts for 2007-08 are laid before Parliament today.
Wilton Park continues to ...
Sir Bill Callaghan has been appointed the new Chair of the Legal Services Commission (LSC) by the Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice, Jack Straw.
The discussion section of this year's State of the Countryside report reflects on changes in the countryside over the last 10 years. What do you think have been the major changes over the last 10 years? ...
In response to the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee report on the National Audit Office Major Projects Report 2007, Minister for Defence Equipment and Support, Baroness Taylor, said:
HM the Queen has appointed Terry John Lynch to be a District Judge on the advice of the Lord Chancellor, the Right Honourable Jack Straw MP. The Lord Chief Justice, Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers, has assigned...