Asked whether the PM has been influenced by Lynton Crosby on cigarette packaging, the PMS said that Lynton Crosby does not provide advice to government, he does election strategy for the Conservative party. Asked...
Updated: Added replacement documents and replacement detail.
All regular service leavers will receive a service leavers’ pack from the Termination Cell, SPVA(G), 9 months prior to their termination date...
Updated: New ad hoc statistics publication announced for 26 July 2013.
This spreadsheet provides details of upcoming DWP ad hoc statistical releases.
Updated: Added consultation response
As part of our drive to increase the efficiency, transparency and accountability of public bodies, we carried out an analysis of the Office of Communication’s (Ofcom...
Young people are being given the chance to learn new skills and help look after the fragile landscape of the Yorkshire Dales National Park.
Get crafty with the staff at Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority's Tenby Centre during the school summer holidays, with fun activities taking place each week.
At the request of York Potash the Authority has today agreed reluctantly to defer for a third time consideration of York Potash's planning application.
Tinderbox conditions in the North York Moors National Park have forced the Authority to call its second fire alert in three months.
As temperatures sizzle to near record breaking heights lakes, tarns and rivers have become popular ‘hot' spots to cool-off and swim.
Sun, smiles and a regal seal signalled the ‘best ever day' in the 62 year history of the Lake District National Park with the Queen's visit today.
That mountain: it's yours to climb. That coastal path: it's yours to wander. That sweeping moorland, that pristine river, that tranquil forest -- they belong to you and to all of us. They are ours to explore.
People are being urged to help prevent the risk of moorland fires in the Peak District National Park after some of the hottest July days on record.
The Peak District National Park Authority is to exclude trail-bikes, quad-bikes and 4x4s from a Derbyshire green lane, to protect the special qualities of the national park.
Due to the recent spell of dry weather, members of the public are advised that many parts of Northumberland are currently at risk of wildfires.
Periodic review 2013: consultative letter expanding on the discussion of the capacity charge
A Somerset drinks company has been fined for safety breaches after an employee severed an artery in an unguarded machine on a bottling production line and needed life-saving surgery.
The National Archives is working with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) to transfer and release colonial administration records, referred to as the 'migrated archives' between April 2012 and November...
A £1 million project to digitise BT's historical collection of photos and documents has today brought 165 years of UK telecoms heritage to the public's fingertips, with the launch of an interactive online...
2012-13 was the first full year of The National Archives' leadership of the archives sector in England. As part of this leadership role we have worked hard to give archives a stronger voice in the wider cultural...
HMG should expand alumni networks to capitalise on an ‘Affinity with Britain’ by building capacity in education, research and the development of global commercial and technical standards to stay ahead...
The code of practice has been written to provide guidance and standards for ACCEA, its sub-committees and its members. It should be read alongside the framework for the NHS Clinical Excellence Award scheme...
This report provides the methodological approach, the key data sources and the assumptions used to define the emission factors provided in the 2013 GHG Conversion Factors.
Further information Measuring...
Updated: FOI performance statistics updated to April 2013
Details of our performance in the handling of both initial FOI requests and internal review requests.
The guide includes information on:
why we are here how we operate what we believe in how we are organised how we are governedIt also looks at our relationships with partner organisations and...
Updated: Uploaded new updated version of MOD News Licence
MOD grants a worldwide, royalty free, perpetual, non-exclusive licence to use its images for the reporting of current news only. The attached document...
Updated: DH Complaints performance statistics updated to June 2013
Details of how the Department of Health performed in handling complaints during 2013.
Updated: Updated to include draft legislation
At Budget 2013 the Chancellor announced the Government would consult on proposals to strengthen obligations to ensure the correct income tax and NICs are paid...
FOI request for information on assessments carried out under the Green Deal
Updated: Added new report, Sustainable Communities Act 2007: update report on first invitation proposals
In October 2009, the then Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government issued an invitation...
New LEV events, taking place at various locations throughout October, November and December 2013 and January 2014, have been added to the diary. Book your place now.
The Pensions Advisory Service (TPAS), the Pensions Management Institute (PMI) & JLT Employee Benefits are pleased to announce that they have started to develop an important new professional qualification...
This is part of a series of annual reports and accounts which present the government’s outturn and planned expenditure for 2012-13.
The accountability systems statement sets out how Defra’s system of ...
This document shows the findings of the 2013 review of progress towards implementing the conservation plan since its publication in 2011.
The conservation plan provides an outline of the role ...
The report focuses on practitioners’ views as assessed by evaluation questionnaires completed by participants at the conclusion of each training event. It covers the Probation Trusts included in the external ...
Updated: Added information about the new SI 2013.
The Enhanced Capital Allowance (ECA) Scheme for Water offers a 100 per cent first-year allowance for investments in certain water efficient plant and machinery...
Updated: Added Border Force and FSA as supporting departments.
This is the tenth annual review of controls on imports of animal products, also known as Products Of Animal Origin (POAO), into the United ...
Updated: Added the document: Report of the Consultation on the Implementation of Amendments to the Reservoirs Act 1975: the policy to be implemented in England
A joint consultation by Defra and the Welsh...
The Accountability for Regulator Impact (ARI) scheme was announced in the Autumn Statement 2012. It is one of a number of measures, alongside a proposed duty for regulators, intended to make the process...
This report provides the methodological approach, the key data sources and the assumptions used to define the emission factors provided in the 2013 GHG Conversion Factors.
Further information Measuring...
Updated: Added letter following the teleconference, audio of teleconference and Brandon Lewis' video message to firefighters.
These documents provide details of the firefighters’ pension scheme from 2015...
Updated: Contract let procurement programme event presentation added.
Information for customers prior to our supplier event. This includes:
outline agenda 18 July 2013 list of invited suppliers...
This guide provides information for digital drivers’ cards cardholders. If you drive a HGV or PSV and you’ve been issued with a card, you must produce it on request when driving any vehicle which is subject to...
The supply of dissolved iron to oceans around continental shelves has been found to be more variable by region than previously believed - with implications for future climate prediction.
A new International sport for development charity, International Inspiration (IN), launched on July 15th
This week's update includes news and results from Athletics, Badminton, Equestrian, Judo, Modern Pentathlon, Rowing and Sailing
This revised guidance, produced by the Health and Safety Executive in consultation with Waste Industry Safety and Health Forum (WISH), highlights the main health and safety issues to consider when designing, ...
There are legal requirements relating to notification and marking of sites that store certain amounts of dangerous substances or relevant ammonium nitrate mixtures. This additional guidance helps you identify...
Immigration enforcement officers today (Friday 19 July) assisted with a Metropolitan Police operation targeting a number of rough sleepers living in and around Marble Arch in London.
They questioned ...
The third instalment of the Jubilee Dialogue series considered the ways in which religion will shape foreign policy over the next ten years.
The Jubilee Dialogue How will religion shape foreign policy in ...
This consultation sets out proposals to amend part of the British Nationality Act (BNA) 1981 to allow the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) to centralise its consular birth and death registration service...
As announced at Budget 2013, the government has published a consultation paper on proposals for a tax regime for shale gas. The shale gas industry is in its early stages in the UK, but there is great potential...
DFID Government e-payments framework transactions June 2013
This is guidance for industry, minerals planning authorities and local communities on how shale gas (and other onshore oil and gas) developments should proceed through England’s planning system.
Updated: Prison population figures for 19 July 2013 published.
Latest prison population figures for 2013.
Earlier editions
Community Budgets are a way for local public service providers to work together to meet local needs. Community Budgets allow providers of public services to share budgets, improving outcomes for local people ...
Updated: Update PDFs removed to separate page which is available through new hyperlink on this page.
This call for ideas sought views on how we can support people in work and in receipt of Universal Credit...
HSE has a number of job opportunities for specialist engineers to advise and regulate health and safety within the high hazard industry. We offer a real opportunity to influence and improve safety across a wide...
The Home Office has today (17 July) set out a number of measures to tackle drunkenness and disorder blighting town centres in England and Wales.
A ban on sales of alcohol below the level of duty plus ...
Tax Tribunal judgment
Presents a summary of the latest economic and labour market statistics for Wales.
Updated: Replaced attachment - new version of the proscribed list (coming into force 19 July) substituted
This document lists the terrorist groups or organisations banned under UK law, and provides the ...
Updated: Updated version uploaded.
This guide aims to explain the legal and prison system to British Nationals who are imprisoned. You can also read about how to apply for a transfer back to a UK prison...
HMG should expand alumni networks to capitalise on an ‘Affinity with Britain’ by building capacity in education, research and the development of global commercial and technical standards to stay ahead...
Presents a summary of the latest economic and labour market statistics for Wales.
Monthly Turnover, Exports, and Orders data for Production and Services industries.
Presents analysis of numbers of firms and employees broken down by size of firm and industry sector for the period 2001 to 2012. Figures are for London as a whole and for each of its 33 local authorities. The figures...
Contains estimates of government deficit and debt data submitted biannually to the European Commission by ONS in accordance with the protocol on the Excessive Deficit Procedure (EDP), annexed to the Maastricht Treaty...
Latest data on the Public Sector Net Borrowing, Net debt and the cash requirement.
Information on the waiting times of patients with suspected cancer and those subsequently diagnosed with cancer
Provides monthly and quarterly information on all HMRC taxes, including tax receipts, the number of taxpayers, personal tax credits, child benefit and estimates of the cost of tax expenditures and structural relief...
Monthly statistics on clearances of cigarettes & tobacco products and duty receipts for the UK.
Provides details of the quantities of products that have had UK excise duty paid on them and revenue receipts.
Bulletins provide a full historic series of data detailing amounts of goods cleared and amount of duty collected.
My Rt Hon Friend the Prime Minister has made the following statement:
On 6 June I laid before Parliament a report of the Intelligence and Security Committee entitled “Foreign Involvement in the Critical...
My Rt Hon Friend the Prime Minister has made the following statement:
I have today laid before both Houses copies of the latest annual reports from the Commissioners appointed by me to keep under review...
My hon Friend the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department of Health (Anna Soubry) has made the following written ministerial statement.
We have today laid before Parliament Government Response...
My Rt hon Friend the Secretary of State for Health (Jeremy Hunt) has made the following written ministerial statement.
The Government’s estimates of the costs and benefits of implementing policies...
It has been agreed through the usual channels that the two dates for tabling Questions for Written Answer during the Summer Recess this year will be Monday 2 September and Monday 30 September.
Answers to...
The business premises renovation allowances (BPRA) scheme provides 100% capital allowances for the capital costs of converting or renovating empty business property in certain disadvantaged areas of the UK, where...
Today I am announcing the outcome of the applications to the targeted basic need programme. The programme was launched in March this year to provide additional funding for school places in areas where they are...
The Government yesterday published for consultation the draft electricity market reform (EMR) delivery plan.
As laid out in my 27 June statement, Official Report, column 12WS,EMR is a central component ...
Since the launch of the FCO’s Charter for Business in May 2010, the FCO has made supporting British business abroad one of its core activities to help build Britain’s prosperity. This priority sits...
The Government’s estimates of the costs and benefits of implementing policies in the Health and Social Care Act were contained in the “Coordinating document for the Impact Assessments and Equality...
Robert Francis QC published his “Report of the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust Public Inquiry” on 6 February 2013. The public inquiry report looked at the roles and responsibilities of the ...
We have today laid before Parliament “Government Response to the House Of Lords Committee on Public Service and Demographic Change report “Ready for Ageing?” (Cm 8677).
This country faces...
We have today laid before Parliament “Government Response to the House of Commons Communities and Local Government Committee Eighth Report of Session 2012-13: The Role of Local Authorities in Health Issues...
Today we are publishing a significant consultation that looks at the practical detail of implementing our reforms to what and how people pay for their care and support.
We have published plans for a new...
The Government have decided at this time not to opt in to the European Commission’s proposal for a Europol regulation which
would establish the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Co-operation...
Action Fraud, run by the National Fraud Authority (an executive agency of the Home Office), now receives all reports of fraud on behalf of all police forces in England and Wales. Between November 2012 and July...
I have today laid before both Houses copies of the latest annual reports from the Commissioners appointed by me to keep under review public authority use of covert investigatory techniques. The reports are from...
On 6 June I laid before Parliament a report of the Intelligence and Security Committee entitled “Foreign Involvement in
the Critical National Infrastructure” (Cm 8629). Today the Government ...
I have decided to exercise an option that was contained in the Intercity Express Programme (IEP) contract, signed in July 2012 with Agility Trains, a consortium made up of Hitachi and John Laing.
The option...
I am today correcting a figure that I quoted during the Ways and Means resolution debate
on the HGV Road User Levy Bill, on Tuesday 23 October 2012, and during the Second Reading debate on Tuesday 20 November...
Updated: Updated user guide published.
Guidance to help people to interpret the results of the English Business Survey. It explains broad concepts which are important to understanding the statistical releases...
The government has completed a review of the current licensing regime for fish-eating birds (cormorants, goosanders and red-breasted mergansers).
All wild birds are protected under the Wildlife and Countryside...
We share and understand the disappointment across the public health family that neither standardised packaging nor minimum unit pricing are to be taken forward for the moment by Government. With tobacco and ...
This analytical publication provides an overview of the analysis and data behind the Winter Fuel Payment temperature link proposal, and considers the number of people who would lose the payment under the proposal...
Updated: Updated with latest weekly banana prices.
Prices for selected agricultural and horticultural produce are published on a weekly or monthly basis in the following spreadsheets. The data source depends...
This note and the accompanying tables update projections of pensioner benefit expenditure published in January 2013. These projections include the single-tier pension reforms which are part of the Pensions...
Updated: June update
The public sector finances statistical bulletin is published jointly by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and HM Treasury on a monthly basis and provides the latest available...
The Pensions Regulator has confirmed that the millionth worker has been automatically enrolled into a workplace pension.
The PSF Statistical Bulletin, is published jointly by ONS and HM Treasury on a monthly basis, and provides the latest available measures for key public sector financial statistics such as Public Sector Current ...
Third in a series run by Wilton Park and the party School of the Communist Party of China, this meeting will seek to discuss developments in social media in the context of interaction with public services.
Presents a summary of the latest economic and labour market statistics for Wales.
Presents analysis of numbers of firms and employees broken down by size of firm and industry sector for the period 2001 to 2012. Figures are for London as a whole and for each of its 33 local authorities. The figures...
Contains estimates of government deficit and debt data submitted biannually to the European Commission by ONS in accordance with the protocol on the Excessive Deficit Procedure (EDP), annexed to the Maastricht Treaty...
Monthly Turnover, Exports, and Orders data for Production and Services industries.
Latest data on the Public Sector Net Borrowing, Net debt and the cash requirement.
Information on the waiting times of patients with suspected cancer and those subsequently diagnosed with cancer
Provides monthly and quarterly information on all HMRC taxes, including tax receipts, the number of taxpayers, personal tax credits, child benefit and estimates of the cost of tax expenditures and structural relief...
Monthly statistics on clearances of cigarettes & tobacco products and duty receipts for the UK.
Provides details of the quantities of products that have had UK excise duty paid on them and revenue receipts.
Bulletins provide a full historic series of data detailing amounts of goods cleared and amount of duty collected.
A media research paper, investigating the impact of the Games on print media regarding disability, the reputation of the UK and perceptions of East London. This was analysed further in the London 2012 Meta...
A survey of participants in Inspire projects, drawing together the views of more than 2,000 participants to ask about their awareness of the programme and its impact on their views and behaviour. This was analysed...
A short summary of a survey of Games Makers, assessing the impact of the Games on volunteers. This was analysed further in the London 2012 Meta Evaluation Report 5.
Report 5 of the London 2012 meta-evaluation provides a post-Games assessment of impacts
This report describes the activities since the Games to build a lasting legacy across a number of commitments including: sport and healthy living, the regeneration of east London, bringing communities together...