Asked what would be our next phase of activity in Iran in light of the IAEA report, the PMOS replied that the UN would discuss this report, and we were absolutely committed to dealing with this through the UN. We...
Asked if the Freedom of Information Bill as passed in the Commons was a valuable piece of legislation, the PMOS replied that this was a matter for Parliament. It was a matter for Parliament to strike the balance...
Asked if the Prime Minister had full confidence in Patricia Hewitt, the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman (PMOS) replied absolutely. That was obvious from listening to the substance of the Prime Minister's answers...
The search is on for the unsung heroes in the North West who are leading the fight against drug misuse.
A public consultation aimed at providing seamless services that meet the individual needs of children and their parents, was launched today by the Department for Education and Skills.
Asked if there would be press conference in June, the PMOS said that the diary would be continued to be looked at....
Asked to characterise the discussions between the Russian and UK Governments regarding the Litvinenko case, the PMSO said he did not want to get into the discussions. There was a legal process set in training yesterday...
Asked if the Government was confident of meeting the revised 1st of August deadline considering the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) say there should be a 12-week period of consultation on the shelf...
Put to the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman (PMOS) that though there was consultation regarding the future of energy in the UK there was a clear view that nuclear energy would pay a large part in the future, ...
Briefing from the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman on: Health, FOI Bill and Iran
Mr Hoon said:
Information for application for membership of the Children's Panel Advisory Committee (CPAC)
The Department for Transport today began the procurement of a dedicated air service for the Royal Household and senior ministers.
Various efforts are being made to prevent the slaughter of a bull that has...
Anti social behavior is a major problem in our cities, it is also a major...
Briefing from the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman on: Road Pricing, Litvinenko and Home Information Packs
Briefing from the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman on: Home Information Packs, Foreign Criminals, the Prime Minister, Alex Salmond and Litvinenko
Briefing from the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman on: Energy, Home Information Packs, Litvinenko and the Prime Minister's press conference
The famous Entrance Range including the Tote Board and the Kennels at Walthamstow Greyhound Stadium have been listed at Grade II, Culture Minister David Lammy announced today.
Rosie Winterton extends the reach of Government drive to deliver race equality.
Health Minister, Lord Hunt said:
Greater energy efficiency and a secure, low carbon energy mix for the long-term are at the centre of the Energy White Paper published by Trade and Industry Secretary Alistair Darling today.
Minister for Employment and Welfare Reform, Jim Murphy, today called for trade unions to play a central role in the provision of services and support to get people into work in a newly reformed Welfare State
A number of personnel from all three Services have been invested with their medals for gallantry in Afghanistan in 2006.
Consultation responses.
22 May - Teaching professionalism - Demos report
23 May - Improvement and modernisation of public services - Policy Network
The Office of the Schools Adjudicator has published a decision on an objection by Southam College to the admission number determined for it for September 2008 by Warwickshire County Council.
Met Office forecasters are predicting a change to cold, wet and windy weather during the bank holiday weekend. Saturday looks like being a fine day before heavy rain, strong winds and much colder weather sets in...
I was pleased to see new legislation come into force on 6 April 2007 that...
if statistically shown that some parking fines are wrongly issued, why...
It is simply not fair that those in Wales get free prescriptions and those...
Compliance with the law, in industry and commerce, in most cases, requires...
I wish to remove this anomaly where people not connected to mains drainage...
This petition is to highlight the continuing problem of clothes collection...
As a PAYE Employee it is disgraceful that I can be expected to pay National...
In September 2006 the three battalions of the Royal Irish Regiment (Home...
No money is put into improving the roads, buildings or environment in...
There are a disproportionate number of lawyers in Parliament. Lawyers have a...
His Government seem determined to bring about Regionalisation through the...
On 11 May 2007, Professor Phillip Esler, Chief Executive of the AHRC, wrote...
The Captive Animals' Protection Society (CAPS) and Marine Connection have...
I wish to bring to pm attention british waterways new policy on accepting...
There is no actual warning system in this country for when children do go...
I feel VAT is being done to much and instead of 17.5% we are paying 35% or...
However irksome it may be for some of those asked from time to time by the...
'Tesco now controls 30% of the grocery market in the UK. In 2007, the...
Firstly I applaud the recent DVLA initiative to rid public roads of untaxed...
Speed camera deployment and police activity with hand held cameras are...
We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to scrap the pay scale of all...
Now that the anti smoking lobby have got their way. When is the Government...
For many years now it has become increasingly more noticeable that drivers...
It is a 'tradition' to purchase living lobsters and boil them alive. It is...
Currently, Sheerness and the Isle of Sheppey is part of Swale Borough...
Every day thousands of hectares of ancient forest are destroyed. When just...
I hereby state that all paedophiles should be given a sentence in prison, of...
The original petition, against which this petition is campaigning, says it...
Stop spending the money they do on building weapons of mass destruction and...
Why waste more and more public money on later appeals against removal when...
Tesco are seeking to demolish an existing store in Wolverton and replace it...
The Government has deemed that since 2005 the TB vaccination is no longer to...
There are many records of dangerous objects being thrown onto passing...
Britain is becoming over run with immigrants from one part of the world or...
Since the majority of Disabled people have limited incomes such legislation...
Why is it that everything we buy today is made in areas such as Asia? If you...
Scrap Capital Gains Tax. Why should the Government benefit from someone...
This is not to legalize it completly, but to be more understanding to...
Students who are currently attending University full time and have part time...
Many appliances continue to consume power when they appear to be turned off...
Make it mandatory for all football clubs participating in the Premier League...
Plans for a dedicated air ambulance service to cover Surrey and Sussex at...
Prison staff will not be allowed to smoke in Prisons as from the 1st july...
A strategy to reform tribunals into a more efficient, independent and user-focused service has been published today by the Tribunals Service (TS).
Put that the Russians had so far shown no inclination whatsoever to cooperate, the PMOS replied that the key words in the question were "so far". We should wait and see what their considered formal response...
Asked if the Prime Minister had still been too busy to pick up the phone to talk to Mr Salmond, the PMOS replied that as far as he was aware, phones were two-way communication devices. He was not sure whether...
Asked what the Prime Minister was working on when he was "working in Downing Street", the PMOS replied that the Prime Minister was working on lots of things that would be revealed in due course. But he gently...
Asked what we were now saying about the new number of foreign convicted criminals, four times larger the number John Reid had told Parliament there were, the PMOS replied that the important thing was what we were...
Asked if there had been a bit of a cave in on the Home Information Packs (HIPs), the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman (PMOS), replied that this not the case. The courts had to be taken account of, and this was...
Asked if there had been a bit of a cave in on the Home Information Packs (HIPs), the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman (PMOS), replied that this not the case. The courts had to be taken account of, and this was...
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Briefing from the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman on: Home Improvement Packs, Foreign Criminals, the Prime Minister, Alex Salmond and Litvinenko
Tony Blair has welcomed the Government's new Energy White Paper and its attempts to "ramp up" efforts to secure future energy supplies.
Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt today (Wednesday 23rd May) announced new sites that will use hi-tech home healthcare to help older people, and those with long term conditions, to lead more independent lives - helping...
Marking today's launch of the 2007 Tackling Drugs Changing Lives Awards, Home Office Minister Vernon Coaker will captain a Ministerial football team in a five-a-side National Tackling Drugs Day match in south London...
Animal Health and Welfare: Responsibility and Cost Sharing Principles: Summary of Consultation Responses
Charities receive a significant proportion of their income from their trading arms. The Charity Commission has today published its revised guidance on charities and trading to help charities avoid the potential ...
The Commissioners of the Australian, Canadian, UK and US tax administrations have decided to open a second JITSIC centre - in London, UK - in Autumn 2007. Japan has accepted an invitation to join JITSIC, and a ...
Baroness Ashton took part in a webchat to discuss human rights in the modern world.
SPPI inflation at 2.7% in Q1 2007
International Law and the Geneva convention state that you must claim...
The government should protect home sellers by adopting asap the system...
The National Trust seem to have got some exemption for historic houses - why...
Senior Management and Labour Councillors have consistantly let down the...
'...Stop motorcyclists being descriminated by businesses who insist that they remove their crash helmets before they enter premises using the excuse that Health and Safety legislation and the law requires that ...
Customary units of measurement (miles, feet, inches, pounds, ounces, stone,...
The industry has long been plagued by non-qualified people carrying out work...
Why is it that every time i drive along any motorway in the country that...
The government’s Planning White Paper is expected to be published on Tuesday...
Make All who dig up roads and footpaths to repair them so that there are no...
The original intentions of the CAP were to (set out in article 39, Treaty of...
Alan Moore has lead the world in the creation of high quality graphic novels...
At night it can be very difficult to distinguish what is a car headlight...
In order to encourage employment, businesses (especially small business)...
The Places of Worship Registration Act hinders many people from practicing...
This is a petition to stop the proposed ID Card Scheme. You will: Attend...
The government should phase out the manufacture and sale of 4x4s over a...
Some deprived areas, particularly in Wales are being regenerated by...
I have contacted several mps over the past few months.Not one of them had...
The ema system favours those of lower incomes, but gives no recognition to...
Every year thousands of man hours are wasted during the recruitment process...
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The people of Great Britain should have the opportunity to elect their head...
As a vegetarian I do not wish to use products of any kind which animals have...
My honourable friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (James Plaskitt) has made the following Statement.
On behalf of my right honourable friend the Secretary of State for...
Today, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has announced that it has decided, after applying the evidential and public interest tests set out in the Code for Crown Prosecutors, to prosecute Mr Andrey Konstantinovich...
My honourable friend the Economic Secretary to the Treasury (Ed Balls) has made the following Written Statement.
I am today laying before Parliament the annual European Community Finances White Paper Statement...
The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (Peter Hain) has made the following Ministerial Statement.
I am announcing the membership of the reconstituted Northern Ireland Policing Board to take effect ...
I am today laying before Parliament, the annual European Community Finances White Paper "Statement on the 2007 EC Budget and measures to combat fraud and financial mismanagement" (Cm 7090). This White Paper is...
The tax credit system has delivered three key achievements: it has improved incentives to work, reduced the tax burden on low to middle income families and helped to dramatically reduce child poverty. The National...
I am announcing today, subject to trades union consultation and appropriate Parliamentary consent, the creation of a new defence support group by merging together ABRO, retained DARA business units and certain...
I represented the United Kingdom at this month's Agriculture and Fisheries Council in Brussels.
The Council once again failed to reach agreement on measures to establish a recovery plan for the European...
The Government have today sent a copy of the Department's review of all officially held papers for the period 1970-1985, including those returned to the Department from a firm of private solicitors, on blood ...
The Government have today laid before Parliament their response to the Health Select Committee Report on Workforce Planning (Cm 7085).
The Government are responding to the conclusions and recommendations...
Copies of the Government's fourth progress report on implementing the recommendations of Sir Michael Bichard's Inquiry into events surrounding the murders of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman have been placed in...
Further to my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary's statement to Parliament on 16 January, I would like to provide an update to the House on the work that has been undertaken to deal with the issue of overseas...
I am announcing the membership of the reconstituted Northern Ireland Policing Board to take effect from today. The cross-community Board is one of the great successes flowing from the Belfast Agreement. I would...
The Department for Transport has today published the East Midlands Regional Planning Assessment for the railway (RPA), the latest in the series of 11 RPAs covering England and Wales.
Copies of the document...
I am today publishing a draft Local Transport Bill, for public consultation and parliamentary pre-legislative scrutiny. The draft Bill contains legislative proposals to help tackle congestion and improve public...
On behalf of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, the BFI inspection reports on the following councils were published on Manchester City Council, South Lakeland District Council ...
Transport Minister Gillian Merron today congratulated Peterborough, Darlington and Worcester as the Sustainable Travel Towns, on the good results they have achieved in boosting sustainable transport in their areas...
This is a test petition. You can sign it if you want to try out signing a...
Saddleworth Hotel v The White Hart Inn [2007] DRS 4487 (9 May 2007)
Verbatim Ltd v Toth [2007] DRS 4331 (10 May 2007)
Tattersall v Brainfire Group [2007] DRS 4575 (13 May 2007)
Newsquest Media Group Ltd v Brainfire Group [2007] DRS 4551 (14 May 2007)
Comite Interprofessionel du Vin de Champagne (CIVC) v Jackson [2007] DRS 4479 (15 May 2007)
Pursuant to a contract evidenced in two letters of 3rd November and 5th November 2003, the applicant (whom I shall call "the Stern Trustees") engaged the respondent (whom I shall call "Levy") to act as the building...
The principal issue in this action is the meaning and effect of a clause in an option deed dated 10 March 2005 ("the option deed") and made between the claimant ("GHP") and the defendants. The clause in question...
MR JUSTICE STANLEY BURTON: In these proceedings Looe Fuels Limited, the claimant, seeks judicial review of a decision by Looe Harbour Commissioners, the defendant, in relation to a new fuel tank which has been...
MR JUSTICE SULLIVAN: This is an appeal by way of case stated against a decision of District Judge Bayne, sitting at the South Western Magistrates' Court on 3 October 2006, that the interested party was not guilty...
MR JUSTICE HOLMAN: This is an appeal under section 11 of the Tribunals and Inquiries Act 1992 from a decision of the Special Educational Needs and Disability Tribunal reached in October 2006. It is important to...
The First Claimant, Neptune Wharf Limited, is the freehold owner of land and premises comprising 2.43 ha of warehouse and offices with yards, outbuildings, entrances, access ways and verges and bank of the Hertford...
MRS JUSTICE RAFFERTY: This is an appeal pursued by Mr Skroudys, a Lithuanian, under section 26 of the Extradition Act 2003 against an order by Deputy Senior District Judge Wickham of 26th March 2007, during uncontested...
Wray Farm is one of Surrey's jewels. It is a Grade II 17th century listed building in a built-up part of Reigate. It is of considerable architectural and historic interest. Sir Colin and Lady Chandler live...
The claimant, the Independent Police Complaints Commission ("the Commission"), directed the defendant, the Chief Constable of West Mercia, to bring disciplinary proceedings against the interested party, PC David...
This case concerns the question as to whether the Special Educational Needs and Disability Tribunal [SENDIST] have jurisdiction to hear an appeal by the Interested Party Sally Smith in respect of the failure by ...
For several years past the Claimant in these three actions, Mr Richard Bezant, together with his wife, Dr Bezant, has through the courts sought to obtain from their former employer the compensation to which the ...
On Friday 11 May 2007 following the handing down of my judgment in this action I heard among other submissions, submissions on behalf of the claimants and on behalf of Strutt & Parker as to an issue concerning the...
MR JUSTICE RAMSEY: On 13th September 2006, at West Dorset Magistrates' Court, the appellant pleaded guilty and was committed to the Crown Court for sentence. On 6th October 2006, at the Crown Court at Dorchester...
MR JUSTICE GROSS: On 15th March 2006 in the Crown Court at Winchester before His Honour Judge Barnett, the appellant, Patrick Franklin Denton, now aged 31, was convicted of three counts of possession with intent...
This is a sad case in that it involves an application for leave to appeal against a six month prison sentence by an 82 year old woman. Mrs Dorothy Evans, the applicant, lives with her daughter in Park Crescent...
This is an appeal from the order of HHJ Copley dated 18 July 2006 fixing the open market rent payable on the grant of a new business tenancy of lock-up shop premises at 104 Walm Lane London NW2 (the Property) by...
This appeal raises the question whether a local authority can lawfully bind itself by contract to subject its statutory power, to vary its tenancy agreements by notice, to the approval of tenants' representatives...
As these are ongoing proceedings, I propose to write this judgment in anonymised form.
The Facts
Introductory