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United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 July 2016
Sunday 17 July marked the Day of International Criminal Justice, a perfect opportunity to look at the UK’s support of the principles of international justice and its various institutions.International criminal justice and accountability is a fundamental e...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 July 2016
The Government believes that the public should expect that all those with whom they interact, within the sphere of public services, have the language abilities required to respond to their needs.A clear commitment in our Manifesto was to ensure that all p...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 July 2016
The NCA was established to lead the fight to cut serious and organised crime, and to focus on the relentless disruption of serious and organised criminals. It has the power to task other law enforcement and a capability that reaches from local to internat...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 July 2016
I am today announcing the Government’s decision to close Cedars pre-departure accommodation, and replace it with new pre-departure accommodation near Gatwick Airport, as a discrete unit at Tinsley House immigration removal centre. This will maintain the r...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 July 2016
My Right Honourable Friend the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs attended the Foreign Affairs Council on 18 July. The Foreign Affairs Council was chaired by the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Securi...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 July 2016
Keeping our people and interests safe – both here and overseas – is the primary duty of Government. The horrific attack in Nice last week was the latest terrible reminder that the threat from terrorism is more acute and more complex than ever before.Today...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 July 2016
I am today announcing student finance arrangements for higher education students undertaking a course of study in the 2017/18 academic year beginning in August 2017.Teaching Excellence Framework.As stated in the Government’s White Paper “Success as a Know...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 July 2016
I am today publishing a report on the performance of Departments and Agencies on handling correspondence from Members and Peers during the calendar year 2015. Details are set out in the table below. Correspondence statistics for 2014 can be found on 3 Jun...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 July 2016
The UK had been scheduled to host the rotating Presidency of the Council of the European Union in the second half of 2017. On Tuesday 19 July the Prime Minister confirmed to President of the European Council Donald Tusk that the UK would be relinquishing ...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 July 2016
NHS Shared Business Services (SBS) has today published the attached statement regarding an issue with a mail redirection service which was formerly provided by NHS SBS on behalf of NHS England as part of the Primary Care Support Service.This matter is als...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 July 2016
As announced in the 2015 Spending Review, in order to prioritise funding to allow the core adult skills participation budgets to be protected in cash terms, Whitehall Departments will be withdrawing their funding for the UK Commission for Employment and S...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 July 2016
I am today publishing the list of successful bidders to the First World War Centenary Cathedral Repairs Fund.Cathedrals are powerful symbols of Britain’s shared history and are important not only for their architecture, history and religious learning but ...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 July 2016
I wish to update the House on how the Government has been supporting our national security interests through conflict prevention, peace building, stabilisation, peacekeeping and conflict resolution using the Conflict Stability and Security Fund (CSSF).The...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 July 2016
This written ministerial statement confirms the following Machinery of Government change.The functions of the Office for Civil Society (OCS) have been transferred from the Cabinet Office to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS). The transfer ...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 July 2016
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has recently reviewed all correspondence and parliamentary proceedings on the subject of allegations of breaches of international humanitarian law (IHL) in Yemen by the Saudi-led Coalition. During this exercise it...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 July 2016
I am publishing today, following a twelve week public consultation, a government response on how we will implement the healthcare education funding reforms. A copy is attached.The reforms, which are for England only, will mean that from 1 August 2017, all...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 July 2016
The Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council met on 16 June 2016 in Luxembourg where Lord Freud, The Minister of State, Department for Work and Pensions, represented the UK.Ministers approved this year’s Country Specific Recommendati...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 July 2016
The Government is firmly committed to introducing fairer funding for schools, high needs and early years. This is an important reform, which will fairly and transparently allocate funding on the basis of schools’ and children’s actual needs, rather than s...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 July 2016
Copies of the British Council’s Annual Report and Accounts for the 2015-16 financial year have been placed in the libraries of both Houses. The Report can also be found at the British Council’s website www.britishcouncil.orgDuring the period the British C...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 July 2016
My Honourable Friend, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary for State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Alok Sharma), has made the following written Ministerial statement:Copies of the British Council’s Annual Report and Accounts for the 2015-16 financial...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 July 2016
The Government is firmly committed to introducing fairer funding for schools, high needs and early years. This is an important reform, which will fairly and transparently allocate funding on the basis of schools’ and children’s actual needs, rather than s...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 July 2016
My right honourable friend the Chief Secretary to the Treasury (David Gauke) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement. I attended this meeting in my capacity as the Financial Secretary to the Treasury. A meeting of the Economic and Finan...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 July 2016
My right Honourable Friend, the Secretary for State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Boris Johnson), has made the following written Ministerial statement:The value of unpaid Congestion Charge debt incurred by diplomatic missions and international org...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 July 2016
My right Honourable Friend, the Secretary for State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Boris Johnson), has made the following written Ministerial statement:The majority of diplomatic missions in the United Kingdom pay the National Non-Domestic Rates (N...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 July 2016
My right honourable friend the Chief Secretary to the Treasury (David Gauke) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement.In the 2015 Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR) the Prime Minister announced the creation of a new £1.3bn Cros...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 July 2016
My right Honourable Friend, the Secretary for State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Boris Johnson), has made the following written Ministerial statement:In 2015, 11 serious and significant offences allegedly committed by people entitled to diplomati...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 July 2016
My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Defence (Mr Michael Fallon) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement. I have today placed in the Library of the House a copy of a report into the condition of the Reserves and delivery of the Fut...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 July 2016
My right Honourable Friend, the Secretary for State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Boris Johnson), has made the following written Ministerial statement:In 2015, 4,858 parking fines incurred by diplomatic missions and international organisations in ...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 July 2016
My hon. Friend the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State and Minister for Defence Personnel and Veterans (Mr Mark Lancaster) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement. I am pleased to announce that I have invited Tim Flesher CB and Vilma Patte...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 July 2016
My right Honourable Friend, the Secretary for State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Boris Johnson), has made the following written Ministerial statement:Sunday 17 July marked the Day of International Criminal Justice, a perfect opportunity to look a...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 July 2016
My rt hon Friend the Secretary of State for the Home Department (Amber Rudd) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement:Keeping our people and interests safe – both here and overseas – is the primary duty of Government. The horrific attack...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 July 2016
My rt hon Friend the Secretary of State for the Home Department (Amber Rudd) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement:The NCA was established to lead the fight to cut serious and organised crime, and to focus on the relentless disruption...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 July 2016
My hon Friend the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Home Office (Sarah Newton) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement:My hon Friend Edward Timpson, Minister of State at the Department for Education, and I have today launched a pu...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 July 2016
My rt hon Friend the Minister of State for Immigration (Robert Goodwill) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement:I am today announcing the Government’s decision to close Cedars pre-departure accommodation, and replace it with new pre-de...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 July 2016
I am today publishing a report on the performance of Departments and Agencies on handling correspondence from Members and Peers during the calendar year 2015. Details are set out in the table below. Correspondence statistics for 2014 can be found on 3 Jun...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 July 2016
The UK had been scheduled to host the rotating Presidency of the Council of the European Union in the second half of 2017. On Tuesday 19 July the Prime Minister confirmed to President of the European Council Donald Tusk that the UK would be relinquishing ...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 July 2016
I am today publishing the list of successful bidders to the First World War Centenary Cathedral Repairs Fund.Cathedrals are powerful symbols of Britain’s shared history and are important not only for their architecture, history and religious learning but ...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 July 2016
My right honourable friend the Minister of State for Education (Robert Halfon) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement.As announced in the 2015 Spending Review, in order to prioritise funding to allow the core adult skills participation budge...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 July 2016
I wish to update the House on how the Government has been supporting our national security interests through conflict prevention, peace building, stabilisation, peacekeeping and conflict resolution using the Conflict Stability and Security Fund (CSSF).The...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 July 2016
My Honourable Friend, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary for State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Tobias Ellwood), has made the following written Ministerial statement:The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has recently reviewed all correspondenc...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 July 2016
My honorable friend the Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General (Ben Gummer) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement.The Government believes that the public should expect that all those with whom they interact, within the sphere...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 July 2016
On 29 June I repeated a written ministerial statement on the gifting of equipment to Syria Civil Defence and the Free Syrian Police (HLWS49). There was an error in that statement. The statement said “The departmental Minute laid today sets out our proposa...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 July 2016
My Right Honourable Friend, the Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Sir Alan Duncan), has made the following written Ministerial statement:My Right Honourable Friend the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs attended ...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 July 2016
My Rt Hon. Friend the Prime Minister has made the following statement to the House of Commons: This written ministerial statement confirms the following Machinery of Government change. The functions of the Office for Civil Society (OCS) have been transfer...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 July 2016
My hon. Friend the Minister of State for Health has made the following written statement:I am publishing today, following a twelve week public consultation, a government response on how we will implement the healthcare education funding reforms. A copy is...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 July 2016
My right honourable friend the Minister of State for Universities and Science (Joseph Johnson) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement.I am today announcing student finance arrangements for higher education students undertaking a course of st...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 July 2016
The Informal Competitiveness Council, chaired by the Slovak Presidency, took place in Bratislava on 18–19 July 2016. Baroness Neville-Rolfe represented the UK on day one (internal market and industry) with David Wilson, Deputy Director, International Know...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 July 2016
In line with the practice established by my predecessor in the last session I am today publishing data on departmental performance in answering Questions for Written Answer for the 2015/16 session. Written questions are an important way in which Members h...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 July 2016
My Honourable Friend The Minister for Employment (Damian Hinds MP) has made the following Written Statement.The Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council met on 16 June 2016 in Luxembourg where Lord Freud, The Minister of State, Depar...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 20 July 2016
Universal Credit is the biggest transformation of the welfare state since its inception; it has formed and will continue to form a key part of this Government’s action to reduce reliance on benefits and increase incentives to work. It is a reform which is...