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24 January 2014

Corporate report: Ministry of Defence mid year progress report
seen at 18:31, 24 January in Search (Our copy).

The Ministry of Defence (MOD) mid year report to Parliament for the period April to September 2013 by Jon Thompson, Permanent Secretary. This report summarises the progress defence has made towards its priorities...

Consultation outcome: NHS Pension Scheme: proposed changes to regulations
seen at 18:31, 24 January in Search (Our copy).

Updated: Updated to add the outcome of the draft National Health Service pension scheme, additional voluntary contributions, compensation for premature retirement and injury benefits (amendment) regulations 2014...

Correspondence: Letter to the New Schools Network (NSN)
seen at 18:31, 24 January in Search (Our copy).

Mela Watts informs New Schools Network (NSN) Director Natalie Evans that NSN has won the bid to provide free schools support.

Corporate report: Non-executive board members for PHE: biographies
seen at 18:31, 24 January in Search (Our copy).

Updated: Revised title and text for PHE board's name change.

Public Health England’s board includes non-executive members. The board and its chair support and advise the chief executive officer. The chair...

Policy paper: Water Bill: codes for agreements with water companies
seen at 18:31, 24 January in Search (Our copy).

This note explains the different types of codes introduced in the Water Bill and how these may be used to deliver reform in the new water and sewerage markets.

Transparency data: PHE board: register of interests
seen at 18:31, 24 January in Search (Our copy).

Updated: Title changed to reflect board's name change.

This register of interests records those interests that members of PHE’s board hold outside the agency.

R -v- Nimmo and Sorley
seen at 18:30, 24 January in Judicial Office: Home (Our copy).
Sentencing remarks of Chief Magistrate Howard Riddle
News story: Department for Education awards grant to New Schools Network
seen at 18:30, 24 January in News and communications (Our copy).

Following a competitive bidding process, the Department for Education has approved grant funding for New Schools Network (NSN) to provide pre-application support to parents, teachers and community groups and ...

News story: RAF shares knowledge in Afghanistan
seen at 18:30, 24 January in News and communications (Our copy).

Instructors from Australia, Denmark, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Belgium and Denmark came together with personnel from the RAF’s 904 Expeditionary Air Wing (EAW) to provide coaching in how to safely handle and shoot ...

Press release: FCO condemns death sentence of British national in Pakistan
seen at 18:30, 24 January in News and communications (Our copy).

Senior Foreign Office Minister Baroness Warsi said:

We are aware that Mohammed Asghar, a British national, was yesterday sentenced to death by a court in Rawalpindi in Pakistan. It is the longstanding...

Press release: Views sought on childminder agency inspections
seen at 18:30, 24 January in News and communications (Our copy).

View the full press notice and details of the consultation.

Press release: More information needed for a better understanding of private fostering
seen at 18:30, 24 January in News and communications (Our copy).

Read the full press notice.

Guidance: Capital allocations
seen at 16:32, 24 January in Search (Our copy).

This document provides detail on the 2014 to 2015 capital maintenance and devolved formula capital allocations. This was published by the Department for Education on 24 January 2014. The department is providing...

Open consultation: Tackling marketed tax avoidance
seen at 16:31, 24 January in Search (Our copy).

This consultation sets out the Government’s legislative proposals to change the economic incentives to avoid tax by requiring those using avoidance schemes to pay upfront and give them an incentive to resolve...

Consultation outcome: Raising the stakes on tax avoidance
seen at 16:31, 24 January in Search (Our copy).

Updated: Publication of response document

This consultation makes proposals on two avoidance issues. The first proposes a new set of obligations for high-risk promoters, their intermediaries and users. ...

Statistics: Cold Weather Payments 18 Jan 2014 to 24 Jan 2014
seen at 16:31, 24 January in Search (Our copy).

The 2013 to 2014 Cold Weather Payment season started on 1 November 2013.

There were no triggers for Cold Weather Payments at weather stations between 18 January 2014 and 24 January 2014 and no payments...

Policy paper: Finance Bill 2014: January 2014 draft legislation
seen at 16:31, 24 January in Search (Our copy).

Updated: added 'Promoters of tax avoidance schemes, amendment of return to take account of relevant judicial rulings and DOTAS' info

The government has published further draft legislation on Finance Bill...

Statistics: List of upcoming ad hoc statistical releases
seen at 16:31, 24 January in Search (Our copy).

Updated: New adhoc announced for 28 January 2014 - ESF Support for families with multiple problems: Job outcome rates

This document provides details of upcoming DWP ad hoc statistical releases.

Transparency data: Home Office senior officials travel report
seen at 16:31, 24 January in Search (Our copy).

This report shows international travel undertaken by Home Office senior officials at SCS2 (or equivalent) and above between July and September 2013. The report includes bookings made through the department’s ...

Transparency data: BIS senior officials travel: July to September 2013
seen at 16:31, 24 January in Search (Our copy).

This report shows international travel by BIS senior officials at SCS2 (or equivalent) and above. The report includes bookings made through the department’s central booking systems. This will include the majority...

Guidance: HS2 Phase One environmental statement volume 5: Table of omissions
seen at 16:31, 24 January in Search (Our copy).

Certain documents within the Volume 5 suite inadvertently omitted some information in a limited number of cases, prior to 13th December 2013. These items were fully updated on GOV.UK and elsewhere as soon as ...

Policy paper: English business survey: cessation notice
seen at 16:31, 24 January in Search (Our copy).

After reviewing the English business survey (EBS) to ensure it continues to meet both the needs of the department and users, BIS has decided to stop the collection of data and publication of statistics from the...

FOI release: Existing export licences for military and dual-use goods to Algeria, Morocco and Mauritania
seen at 16:31, 24 January in Search (Our copy).

Provides information for the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), on:

number of all existing licences for military and dual-use (military and civil use) goods to Algeria, Morocco and Mauritania...
Guidance: Memorandum of Understanding between the Secretary of State of Justice and the Information Commissioner
seen at 16:31, 24 January in Search (Our copy).

The Information Commissioner and the Secretary of State for Justice have agreed on Memoranda of Understanding on National Security Cases in relation to the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA), the Freedom of Information...

FOI release: DBS complaints procedure
seen at 16:31, 24 January in Search (Our copy).

FOI release 1118

Provide a copy of full complaints procedure and a copy of the decision to agree the complaints procedure.

IDBS has recently update their complaints procedure and updated their...

FOI release: DBS ineligible applications procedure
seen at 16:31, 24 January in Search (Our copy).

FOI release 1119

On 18 November 2013, I emailed the chief executive asking for a response to an ongoing complaint. I asked her to send me a copy of the Disclosure and Barring Service’s ineligible application...

FOI release: Criminal record checks on school employees in the BB postcode area
seen at 16:31, 24 January in Search (Our copy).

FOI release 1120

What crimes were flagged on CRB checks on people applying for positions at schools in the BB postcode area, annually for the last three years?

Please state the specific postcode...

The Prince's Trust Leadership reception
seen at 16:31, 24 January in (Our copy).
The Prince's Trust Leadership reception
European rugby nations come together in Unity Project
seen at 16:31, 24 January in UK Sport (Our copy).
UK Sport launch Unity Project with the Rugby Football Union, International Rugby Board and FIRA-AER
Leeds firm in court after trainee’s electric shock
seen at 16:31, 24 January in HSE RSS feeds (Our copy).
A Leeds firm has been fined for safety failings after a trainee technician needed skin grafts after receiving an electric shock while using unsafe testing equipment.
Judith Hackitt’s ‘Risk Assessment’ – Up for the ride
seen at 16:31, 24 January in HSE RSS feeds (Our copy).

HSE Chair on the importance of allowing children to learn important lessons about life from play.

Women and pensions survey
seen at 16:31, 24 January in TPAS News (Our copy).

The Pensions Advisory Service is pleased today, to launch its 2013-14 "Women & Pensions" Survey.  The survey is the third of its kind run by the organisation and has attracted a fantastic 1000 responses...

News story: Top infrastructure project enters final phase
seen at 16:30, 24 January in News and communications (Our copy).

Birmingham airport’s re-development programme, one of the country’s top 40 infrastructure projects, has entered its final stage before completion. Danny Alexander, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury and chair...

News story: David Cameron at the World Economic Forum (Davos) 2014
seen at 16:30, 24 January in News and communications (Our copy).

Updated: Added links to reshoring content and the PM's speech

The Prime Minister attended the World Economic Forum with a British economy that is growing – faster than any other major European economy...

Press release: Competition and markets authority announces further wave of director appointments
seen at 16:30, 24 January in News and communications (Our copy).

They will work across the Enforcement or Markets and Mergers Directorates, and also the Office of General Counsel.

The new appointees in the Directorates are:

Peter Barron, Project/Inquiry Director...
News story: Government submits expanded application to the European Commission to extend rural fuel rebate
seen at 16:30, 24 January in News and communications (Our copy).

The government has submitted an application to the European Commission (EC) for seventeen of the most rural areas in mainland UK to receive an up to 5 pence per litre (ppl) fuel duty discount, Chief Secretary...

Press release: Foreign Office Minister condemns bomb attacks in Egypt
seen at 16:30, 24 January in News and communications (Our copy).

Speaking after the bomb attacks in Egypt, the Minister for the Middle East and North Africa, Hugh Robertson, said:

I condemn the terrorist attacks in Cairo this morning, in which a number of people...

News story: Tax avoiders to be told ‘pay now’ as government demands tax owed upfront
seen at 16:30, 24 January in News and communications (Our copy).

The government is changing the economic incentives to avoid tax and promote tax avoidance.

A consultation has been launched on proposals to add to the circumstances when HMRC will seek upfront ...

Press release: Help to Buy re-fires kilns at Lancaster brick works
seen at 16:30, 24 January in News and communications (Our copy).

Housing Minister Kris Hopkins has hailed the impact of Help to Buy in reviving local businesses and creating new jobs.

Visiting the Hanson’s re-opened Claughton Manor brick works near Lancaster...

Press release: Government doubles opportunities for talented young people
seen at 16:30, 24 January in News and communications (Our copy).

The number of government apprenticeships available to talented young people across the UK is set to double as applications for 200 places in the Civil Service Fast Track Apprenticeship scheme open next week.

Press release: Grenville Turner appointed Non-Executive Director
seen at 16:30, 24 January in News and communications (Our copy).

Grenville joins the Board as the fourth Non-Executive Director for the department in addition to Sara Weller, Stephen Hay and Nick Markham.

Permanent Secretary, Sir Bob ...

Press release: Government draws the line on bloated and wasteful IT contracts
seen at 16:30, 24 January in News and communications (Our copy).

The government has published “red lines” for its IT contracts to ensure maximum taxpayer value, the Minister for the Cabinet Office Francis Maude announced today. The new rules have been published to encourage...

Correspondence: Duncan Selbie's Friday message: 24 January 2014
seen at 14:31, 24 January in Search (Our copy).

Nothing is more critical to our overall health and wellbeing than good mental health. The Global Burden of Disease makes plain that mental illness accounts for more than twenty per cent of the overall burden ...

Guidance: Apply to supply services through G-Cloud
seen at 14:31, 24 January in Search (Our copy).

G-Cloud is a framework that lets providers of cloud-based services like software and platforms supply their services to public sector buyers. If your application to join G-Cloud is successful you can list your...

Transparency data: Foreign Office Spend over £25,000 for December 2013
seen at 14:31, 24 January in Search (Our copy).

The Coalition Government is committed to publishing departmental spend over £25,000 as part of its commitment to transparency and open government.

This is the Foreign Office spend in the UK ...

FOI release: Financial support provided to UK-based FCO staff to educate their children
seen at 14:31, 24 January in Search (Our copy).

Updated: Attachment added: Schools attended by children funded by Continuity of Education Allowance - 2009 to 2013.

Letter (13 Jan 14) Schools attended by children funded by Continuity of Education Allowance...
FOI release: Costs of 118 Directory Enquiries and 123 Speaking Clock services
seen at 14:31, 24 January in Search (Our copy).
Letter (13 Nov 13)
FOI release: Government Procurement Card (GPC) spending under £500 for 2010, 2011, 2012
seen at 14:31, 24 January in Search (Our copy).
Letter (13 Sept) Letter (25 Oct) GPC Data
Transparency data: DH senior officials international travel 2013 to 2014
seen at 14:31, 24 January in Search (Our copy).

This data is for DH senior officials at Senior Civil Servants level 2 (SCS2), director level, or equivalent grades. It includes bookings made through the department’s central booking system. This will include...

Consultation outcome: Revised requirements relating to planning applications for onshore oil and gas
seen at 14:31, 24 January in Search (Our copy).

Updated: Added summary of responses. Published 24 January 2014.

On 19 July 2013 the government published planning practice guidance for onshore oil and gas. Its intention was to provide clarity on...

Impact assessment: Onshore oil and gas extraction
seen at 14:31, 24 January in Search (Our copy).

This impact assessment assesses the impact of the government’s changes to secondary legislation to make the procedural requirements for oil and gas extraction less onerous. The government’s proposals are:

...
Corporate report: HMRC Workforce Diversity Data for 2012 to 2013
seen at 14:31, 24 January in Search (Our copy).

In addition to these statutory categories, HMRC also monitors its workforce with regard to working patterns, religion or belief and sexual orientation.

Form: Winter Fuel Payment claim form for past winters
seen at 14:31, 24 January in Search (Our copy).

Updated: Published latest version of the claim form.

Winters from 1997 to 2000 only

You may be able to get a Winter Fuel Payment for past winters 1997 to 1998, 1998 to 1999 and 1999 to 2000 if you were...

Transparency data: DWP business plan transparency measures
seen at 14:31, 24 January in Search (Our copy).

Updated: Published figures for Incapacity Benefit (IB) recipients reassessed and those moving from IB to Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) nationally from September 2012 to November 2012 and updated figures...

Transparency data: CMA: structure
seen at 14:31, 24 January in Search (Our copy).

Updated: Updated structure chart.

This document sets out the structure of the CMA as at January 2014.

Statutory guidance: Children who run away or go missing from home or care
seen at 14:31, 24 January in Search (Our copy).

Updated: Updated statutory guidance to include a link to (http://www.childrenssociety.org.uk/what-we-do/resources) to the document.

This statutory guidance is for:

local authorities (LAs) chief ...
Policy paper: Canal & River Trust: grant agreement with Defra
seen at 14:31, 24 January in Search (Our copy).

Updated: Amendment of grant agreement added.

Grant, purpose, schedule of payment and terms of the agreement.

A grant agreement and memorandum of understanding between Department for Environment...

Firm fined after worker is injured in lift shaft fall
seen at 14:30, 24 January in HSE RSS feeds (Our copy).
A construction company has been fined after a lift engineer was severely injured when he fell down a lift shaft at a hospital construction site in Cambridge.
Case 248 – Shoes must be sold with a box
seen at 14:30, 24 January in HSE RSS feeds (Our copy).

Sales assistant informs customer that shoes must be sold with an accompanying box, on the advice of their health and safety man.

Cheshire cheese firm fined after worker falls from forklift
seen at 14:30, 24 January in HSE RSS feeds (Our copy).
A Cheshire cheese manufacturer has been fined for safety failings after a worker injured his leg and ankle when he fell from the forks of a forklift truck during an unsafe loading operation.
Will you be surprised by your pension income?
seen at 14:30, 24 January in TPAS News (Our copy).

Recent research carried out by Aviva has found some interesting trends regarding whether people's retirement income was higher or lower than they expected.  

In 2010, 75% of people surveyed...

AFF Redundancy Questions Answered
seen at 14:30, 24 January in GEO - GEO (Our copy).

Please click on the following link to questions and answers in regards to Redundancies.

 

http://m.aff.org.uk/site/aff_1/redundancy?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aff.org.uk%2Farmy_family_life...

Home Start February Half Term Activities
seen at 14:30, 24 January in GEO - GEO (Our copy).

Please find posters of activities that are being run by Home Start during the February Half Term.

Click 'Read More' for full information

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TUE 11 FEB - SAFER INTERNET DAY
seen at 14:30, 24 January in GEO - GEO (Our copy).

Safer Internet Day is 11th February. www.saferinternetday.org

Read More...

SSAFA VOLUNTEER WITH FORCES CHILDREN
seen at 14:30, 24 January in GEO - GEO (Our copy).

SSAFA are looking for amazing volunteers to coach and support military children in BFG who have additional needs and their siblings on an adventure break, this summer.  

Please click...

BFPO Mail Addressing
seen at 14:30, 24 January in GEO - GEO (Our copy).

Please find information on the correct way to address BFPO mail from Defence Postal and Courier Services.

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Read More...

Speech: World Economic Forum (Davos) 2014: speech by David Cameron
seen at 14:30, 24 January in News and communications (Our copy).

The key challenge for politicians and business leaders in Europe is how we make a success of globalisation.

For years the West has been written off.

People say that we are facing some sort of ...

News story: David Cameron at the World Economic Forum (Davos) 2014
seen at 14:30, 24 January in News and communications (Our copy).

Updated: Added links to reshoring content and the PM's speech

The Prime Minister is attending the World Economic Forum with a British economy that is growing – faster than any other major European...

Press release: Peerage for General Sir David Richards
seen at 14:30, 24 January in News and communications (Our copy).

The Queen has been pleased to confer a peerage of the United Kingdom for Life on General Sir David Richards GCB CBE DSO ADC Gen upon his retirement as Chief of the Defence Staff.

General Sir David Richards...
Speech: Matthew Hancock speech on education technology at BETT show
seen at 14:30, 24 January in News and communications (Our copy).

Thank you, it’s a pleasure to be here.

What an extraordinary show - bigger and better than ever.

And what progress the march of technology makes.

The last year saw headlines about the...

Press release: Ian McLoughlin unduly lenient sentence case
seen at 14:30, 24 January in News and communications (Our copy).

In November last year, the Attorney General, Dominic Grieve QC MP referred the sentence of Ian McLoughlin to the Court of Appeal under the unduly lenient sentence scheme. The reference took place today in front...

Speech: Jeremy Hunt: message to NHS staff on patient care and safety
seen at 14:30, 24 January in News and communications (Our copy).

It is now 6 months since the Keogh review which led to 11 hospitals being placed in special measures. Since that time 3 others have also been placed in special measures, taking the total to 14. This process ...

News story: Couple jailed over South London sham marriage
seen at 14:30, 24 January in News and communications (Our copy).

Pakistan national Arfat Hussain, 24, and Bulgarian “bride” Aneta Kaleeva, 25, were arrested by Home Office Immigration Enforcement officers moments before their ceremony was due to take place on 3 January 2013...

News story: New tool shows causes of death that most contribute to differences in life expectancy
seen at 14:30, 24 January in News and communications (Our copy).

This tool should help local authorities identify causes of death that contribute most to their life expectancy gaps and, therefore, enable them to target interventions appropriately. The tool provides charts ...

Speech: HS2 Manchester Civic Society address
seen at 14:30, 24 January in News and communications (Our copy).

I’d like to thank John Kershaw, Chairman, Manchester Civic Society, for inviting me here to speak today (24th January 2014).

And it’s a great place to do it.

This is a city built by transport...

Guidance: Georgia Consular Fees
seen at 11:31, 24 January in Search (Our copy).

Details of consular fees

FOI release: Evidence of the effect of CO2
seen at 11:31, 24 January in Search (Our copy).

Updated: Further response published.

Request for information on experimental evidence the effect of increasing CO2 on atmospheric temperature and a response to a request for an internal inquiry into the...

Transparency data: Equality monitoring in VOSA 2012 to 2013
seen at 11:31, 24 January in Search (Our copy).

This report analyses staff diversity for, staff in post between 1 April 2012 and 31 March 2013.

The analysis in this report takes data on:

staff in post grievances and discipline sickness and...
FOI release: Defra spend on contractors
seen at 11:31, 24 January in Search (Our copy).

Total Defra spend on contractors in the year 2012

Illegal gas fitter risked lives in Darlington
seen at 11:30, 24 January in HSE RSS feeds (Our copy).
A Darlington man has been given a suspended prison sentence and ordered to carry out 200 hours of unpaid work after he put lives at risk by illegally carrying out gas work at three homes in the town despite specific...
Anglesey builder fined for worker’s fall through roof
seen at 11:30, 24 January in HSE RSS feeds (Our copy).
A building contractor has been fined for breaking safety legislation after a young worker plunged five metres through a barn roof onto a concrete floor causing extensive and permanent injuries.
Press release: Sir Winfried Bischoff appointed as Financial Reporting Council Chair
seen at 11:30, 24 January in News and communications (Our copy).

Sir Winfried Bischoff has been appointed as the new Chair of the Financial Reporting Council (FRC), Business Secretary Vince Cable announced today (23 January 2014).

Sir Winfried will join the...

Press release: Statement by Ambassador Tim Morris, UK Envoy to South Sudan peace talks
seen at 11:30, 24 January in News and communications (Our copy).

Speaking in Addis Ababa at the signing of a Cessation of Hostilities Agreement on 23 January, Ambassador Tim Morris said:

As the Troika, the group of countries representing the support of the international...

Correspondence: Ministerial letter about universal infant free school meals
seen at 10:31, 24 January in Search (Our copy).

Joint letter from Secretary of State for Education Michael Gove and Minister of State for Schools David Laws issued to all state-funded primary school headteachers, about universal free school meals for infants...

Policy paper: Businesses are coming back
seen at 10:31, 24 January in Search (Our copy).

Information on reshoring - when UK business operations based overseas return to the UK.

Research and analysis: Genetically Modified Organisms: Rothamsted Research (14/R8/01)
seen at 10:31, 24 January in Search (Our copy).

Rothamsted Research has applied to Defra for consent to perform a deliberate release of a genetically modified organism (GMO) for research and development purposes.

Parts A and B of the application are...

Statistical data set: Commodity prices
seen at 10:31, 24 January in Search (Our copy).

Updated: Updated prices.

Prices for selected agricultural and horticultural produce are published on a weekly or monthly basis in the following spreadsheets. The data source depends on the item but includes...

Statistical data set: Monthly central Feed-in Tariff register statistics
seen at 10:31, 24 January in Search (Our copy).

Updated: Latest table published.

Statistics presented in the monthly table below show the number of installations and capacity installed by technology type and tariff band that are confirmed on the Central...

Statistical data set: Sub-regional Feed-in Tariffs statistics
seen at 10:31, 24 January in Search (Our copy).

Updated: Latest tables and maps published.

Quarterly sub-regional statistics show the number of installations and total installed capacity by technology type in England, Scotland and Wales at the end the...

Statistical data set: Monthly MCS and ROOFiT statistics
seen at 10:31, 24 January in Search (Our copy).

Updated: Latest table published.

The MCS and ROOFiT pipeline statistics show the number of installations each month that are registered on the Microgeneration Certification Scheme - MCS Installation ...

Research and analysis: UK Broadband Impact Study - Baseline Report
seen at 10:31, 24 January in Search (Our copy).

The Baseline Report brings together and presents a range of datasets related to the roll-out and impact of faster broadband in the UK. These include broadband coverage and take up, productivity growth, business...

Transparency data: Workforce management information, 2013
seen at 10:30, 24 January in Search (Our copy).

Updated: Updated with December data.

The data is broken down by headcount and number of posts (full-time equivalents). It includes the number of ‘non-payroll staff’, and the paybill costs relating to staff...

Guidance: EAGA guidance on HIV post-exposure prophylaxis
seen at 10:30, 24 January in Search (Our copy).

Updated: Updated advice regarding the need for PEP following occupational injuries resulting from needles, syringes and other sharp instruments contaminated with HIV.

Updated advice regarding the need for...

Guidance: Granting a necessary (compulsory) electricity wayleave: guidance for applicants and landowner and/or occupiers
seen at 10:30, 24 January in Search (Our copy).

Updated: Update to guidance published.

This document provides general guidance to electricity companies (holders of an electricity licence) who propose applying to the Secretary of State for the grant of...

Correspondence: Letter to local authorities on universal infant free school meals
seen at 10:30, 24 January in Search (Our copy).

Minister of State for Schools David Laws writes to all directors of children’s services about universal free school meals for infants.

The letter also includes an annex listing capital allocations for...

In the matter of Ian Brady
seen at 10:30, 24 January in Judicial Office: Home (Our copy).
Mental Health Tribunal decision
The Queen on the Application of David Tracey -v- Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Others
seen at 10:30, 24 January in Judicial Office: Home (Our copy).
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Statement to Parliament: 28th offshore round of oil and gas licensing
seen at 10:30, 24 January in News and communications (Our copy).

I am pleased to inform the House that I am today inviting applications for petroleum licences for unlicensed seaward blocks, in the 28th new round of offshore petroleum licensing.

The UK oil and gas...

Press release: Recovery boost for North Sea oil and gas through the 28th licensing round
seen at 10:30, 24 January in News and communications (Our copy).

The economy is set to receive a further boost as the Government opens the 28th licensing round. Companies can now apply for new licences to drill for offshore oil and gas in the North Sea. Increasing recovery...

Speech: World Economic Forum (Davos) 2014: speech by David Cameron
seen at 10:30, 24 January in News and communications (Our copy).

The key challenge for politicians and business leaders in Europe is how we make a success of globalisation.

For years the West has been written off.

People say that we are facing some sort of ...

News story: David Cameron at the World Economic Forum (Davos) 2014
seen at 10:30, 24 January in News and communications (Our copy).

Updated: Added links to reshoring content and the PM's speech

The Prime Minister is attending the World Economic Forum with a British economy that is growing – faster than any other major European...

Key Welsh Economic Statistics - January 2014
seen at 09:31, 24 January in Latest UK National Statistics releases (Our copy).
Presents a summary of the latest economic and labour market statistics for Wales.
Central Feed-in Tariff register statistics - December 2013 data
seen at 09:31, 24 January in Latest UK National Statistics releases (Our copy).
Total installed capacity and the number of installations by tariff band and technology type.
Consumer Rights Bill (Viscount Younger of Leckie)
seen at 09:31, 24 January in Written Ministerial Statements (Our copy).

My Hon Friend, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Employment Relations and Consumer Affairs (Jenny Willott MP), has today made the following statement:

Today the Government is introducing the...

Immigration (Lord Taylor of Holbeach, - Shadow Minister (Also Shadow Minister for Work and Pensions), Shadow Minister)
seen at 09:31, 24 January in Written Ministerial Statements (Our copy).

My rt hon Friend the Secretary of State for the Home Department (Theresa May) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement:

I would like to inform the House that changes have been made to ...

Machinery of Government Change: CANparent Trial (Lord Hill of Oareford)
seen at 09:31, 24 January in Written Ministerial Statements (Our copy).

My Rt Hon Friend the Prime Minister has made the following statement to the House of Commons:

This written ministerial statement confirms responsibility for the CANparent trial and associated market development...

Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 (Baroness Northover)
seen at 09:31, 24 January in Written Ministerial Statements (Our copy).

My Hon friend, The Minister for Sport, Tourism and Equalities (Helen Grant MP): has made the following statement:

The Government has today published a consultation paper on the future of civil partnership...

Scotland Analysis: Borders and Citizenship (Lord Taylor of Holbeach, - Shadow Minister (Also Shadow Minister for Work and Pensions), Shadow Minister)
seen at 09:31, 24 January in Written Ministerial Statements (Our copy).

My rt hon Friend the Secretary of State for the Home Department (Theresa May) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement:

I am today laying before the House the tenth paper in the Government...

Consumer Rights Bill (Jennifer Willott)
seen at 09:31, 24 January in Written Ministerial Statements (Our copy).

Today the Government are introducing the Consumer Rights Bill. This Bill is a fundamental reform of consumer legislation so that consumers’ and businesses’ key rights and responsibilities are clear...

Land Registry (Michael Fallon)
seen at 09:31, 24 January in Written Ministerial Statements (Our copy).

The Department has today launched a consultation around proposals to help Land Registry deliver more efficient and modern services.

Land Registry is responsible for keeping and maintaining details of the...

Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 (Helen Grant)
seen at 09:31, 24 January in Written Ministerial Statements (Our copy).

The Government have today published a consultation paper on the future of civil partnership in England and Wales. This is the full public consultation required under section 15 of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples...

Gift of Equipment (Syria) (William Hague)
seen at 09:31, 24 January in Written Ministerial Statements (Our copy).

It is now over two years since the Syrian conflict began and the situation remains catastrophic. Our estimates are that over 100,000 people have been killed, with more than half of the Syrian population now in...

Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration (Theresa May, Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (Also Shadow Minister for Women), Work and Pensions)
seen at 09:31, 24 January in Written Ministerial Statements (Our copy).

I would like to inform the House that changes have been made to the arrangements for publishing reports of the independent chief inspector for borders and immigration. The reports prepared by the chief inspector...

Scotland Analysis (Borders and Citizenship) (Theresa May, Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (Also Shadow Minister for Women), Work and Pensions)
seen at 09:31, 24 January in Written Ministerial Statements (Our copy).

I am today laying before the House the 10th paper in the Government’s Scotland analysis programme, “Scotland analysis: Borders and citizenship”. This series of publications is designed to inform...

EU Treaties (Chris Grayling)
seen at 09:31, 24 January in Written Ministerial Statements (Our copy).

The Ministry of Justice and the Home Office have prepared the fourth annual report to Parliament on the application of protocols 19 and 21 to the treaty on European Union (TEU) and the treaty on the functioning...

Machinery of Government Change: CANparent Trial (David Cameron)
seen at 09:31, 24 January in Written Ministerial Statements (Our copy).

This written ministerial statement confirms responsibility for the CANparent trial and associated market development contract will transfer from the Department for Education to the Department of Health on 1 April...

Dartford-Thurrock Crossing Charging Scheme (Robert Goodwill)
seen at 09:31, 24 January in Written Ministerial Statements (Our copy).

The Dartford-Thurrock crossing charging scheme account for 2012-13 is published today under section 3(1)(d) of the Trunk Road Charging Schemes (Bridges and Tunnels) (Keeping of Accounts) (England) Regulations...

Pensions (Steve Webb)
seen at 09:31, 24 January in Written Ministerial Statements (Our copy).

This Government are committed to tackling high charges in workplace pension schemes, in particular, for those workers who do not exercise any choice, where they are automatically enrolled into a scheme then remain...

Form: Service Request Form
seen at 09:31, 24 January in Search (Our copy).

Service Request Form for legalisation and notarial services

Index of Private Housing Rental Prices, September to December 2013
seen at 09:30, 24 January in Media Centre RSS (Our copy).
The Index of Private Housing Rental Prices (IPHRP) measures the change in price of property rented by private landlords. The index is published as a series of price indices covering Great Britain, its constituent...
Assisted suicide of Dr and Mrs Arnold
seen at 09:30, 24 January in Crown Prosecution Service Press Releases (Our copy).
Malcolm McHaffie, Deputy Head of CPS Special Crime Division said: "The CPS was asked to consider all the evidence in relation to the very sad deaths of Dr David Arnold and his wife Mrs Elizabeth Arnold, to determine...
Man charged over messages allegedly sent to Stella Creasy MP
seen at 09:30, 24 January in Crown Prosecution Service Press Releases (Our copy).
Baljit Ubhey, Chief Crown Prosecutor for CPS London, said: "The CPS has today authorised the Metropolitan Police Service to charge Peter Nunn, 33, from Bristol, under section 127 of the Communications Act (2003) ...
CPS decision on investigation into police handling of protected witness in Kevin Nunes murder case
seen at 09:30, 24 January in Crown Prosecution Service Press Releases (Our copy).
Simon Orme, specialist lawyer in the CPS Special Crime decision, said: "I have been asked to consider evidence in relation to six former or serving Staffordshire police officers to determine whether or not they ...
German Local Events
seen at 09:30, 24 January in GEO - GEO (Our copy).

Attractions and events to visit in the local area - January/February 2014

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Key Welsh Economic Statistics - January 2014
seen at 02:31, 24 January in Latest UK National Statistics releases (Our copy).
Presents a summary of the latest economic and labour market statistics for Wales.
Central Feed-in Tariff register statistics - December 2013 data
seen at 02:31, 24 January in Latest UK National Statistics releases (Our copy).
Total installed capacity and the number of installations by tariff band and technology type.
Corporate report: Britain Open for Business: The Next Phase
seen at 02:31, 24 January in Search (Our copy).

The strategy update sets out plans to provide practical support to exporters and inward investors over the next 2 years.

Press release: Forth Bridge on track for World Heritage status
seen at 02:30, 24 January in News and communications (Our copy).

The Forth Bridge carrying the railway connecting Edinburgh with Fife has been put forward today by Culture Secretary Maria Miller as the UK’s latest nomination for World Heritage site status.

If successful...

Press release: New government support to encourage manufacturing production back to the UK
seen at 02:30, 24 January in News and communications (Our copy).

UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) has joined forces with the Manufacturing Advisory Service (MAS) to launch Reshore UK, a new 1-stop-shop service to help companies bring production back to the UK.

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