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United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 13 May 2020
This statement concerns the Development Consent Order application for the M25 Junction 10/A3 Wisley Interchange Improvement made by Highways England under the Planning Act 2008, which had been submitted to the Planning Inspectorate on 19 June 2019.Under s...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 13 May 2020
Our Plan to Rebuild: the UK Government’s COVID-19 recovery strategy published by the Government on Monday 11 May makes clear that construction work can be undertaken across England providing sites are able to operate safely in line with the new COVID-19 S...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 13 May 2020
Virtual working and planning – Responding to Covid – 19 RestrictionsIntroductionThe planning system has a vital role to play in enabling the delivery of housing and economic growth that will support the UK’s economic recovery. It is important that the sys...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 13 May 2020
This week I have published guidance to set out how we will support early years, schools and colleges to welcome back more children from 1 June at the earliest.It is over seven weeks since we asked schools, colleges, and childcare settings to allow only vu...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 13 May 2020
To support employees who are working from home and need to purchase home office equipment as a result of the coronavirus outbreak, a temporary tax exemption and National Insurance disregard will come into effect to ensure that the expense will not attract...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 13 May 2020
My Right Honourable friend the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (Alok Sharma) has today made the following statement: I am tabling this statement for the benefit of Honourable and Right Honourable Members to bring to their a...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 13 May 2020
My Right Honourable friend, the Secretary of State for Transport (Grant Shapps), has made the following Ministerial StatementThis statement concerns the Development Consent Order application for the M25 Junction 10/A3 Wisley Interchange Improvement made b...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 13 May 2020
My Rt Hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (Robert Jenrick) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement:Our Plan to Rebuild: the UK Government’s COVID-19 recovery strategy publish...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 13 May 2020
My Rt Hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (Robert Jenrick) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement:Virtual working and planning – Responding to Covid – 19 RestrictionsIntrodu...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 13 May 2020
My right honourable friend the Secretary of State for Education (Gavin Williamson) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement.This week I have published guidance to set out how we will support early years, schools and colleges to welcome back mo...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 13 May 2020
My Rt Hon Friend the Secretary of State for International Trade (Liz Truss MP) has today made the following statement.Coronavirus is the biggest threat this country has faced in decades. The Government is doing all it can to protect business from the wors...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 13 May 2020
My right honourable friend the Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Jesse Norman) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement.To support employees who are working from home and need to purchase home office equipment as a result of the coron...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 12 May 2020
This statement concerns the application for the A38 Derby Junctions Development Consent Order made by Highways England under the Planning Act 2008, which had been submitted to the Planning Inspectorate on 23 April 2019.Under section 98(1) of the Planning ...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 12 May 2020
It is the normal practice when a government department proposes to make a gift of a value exceeding £300,000, for the department concerned to present to the House of Commons a minute giving particulars of the gift and explaining the circumstances; and to ...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 12 May 2020
The Government have today augmented the UK’s 2010 agreement to lend to the International Monetary Fund’s Poverty Reduction and Growth Trust by a total of 2 billion Special Drawing Rights (approximately £2.2 billion) to support economic recovery and respon...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 12 May 2020
The Government’s economic plan is one of the most comprehensive in the world. We have provided:Billions of pounds of grants and loans for businessesTens of billions of pounds of deferred taxesIncome protection for millions of the self-employedAnd a streng...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 12 May 2020
I am pleased to lay before Parliament today the Service Complaints Ombudsman’s Annual Report for 2019 on the fairness, effectiveness and efficiency of the Service complaints system. This report is published by Nicola Williams – her last as Ombudsman - and...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 12 May 2020
My Right Honourable friend the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (Alok Sharma) has today made the following statement: I am tabling this statement for the benefit of Honourable and Right Honourable Members to bring to their a...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 12 May 2020
My Right Honourable Friend, the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Dominic Raab), has made the following written Ministerial statement:It is the normal practice when a government department proposes to make a gift of a value exceedin...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 12 May 2020
My hon. Friend the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State and Minister for Defence People and Veterans (Johnny Mercer MP) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement. I am pleased to lay before Parliament today the Service Complaints Ombudsman’s ...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 12 May 2020
My right honourable friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Rishi Sunak) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement.The Government have today augmented the UK’s 2010 agreement to lend to the International Monetary Fund’s Poverty Reduction ...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 12 May 2020
My right honourable friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Rishi Sunak) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement.The Government’s economic plan is one of the most comprehensive in the world. We have provided:Billions of pounds of grants...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 12 May 2020
My Right Honourable friend, the Secretary of State for Transport (Grant Shapps), has made the following Ministerial Statement.This statement concerns the application for the A38 Derby Junctions Development Consent Order made by Highways England under the ...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 11 May 2020
I am tabling this statement for the benefit of Honourable and Right Honourable Members to bring to their attention the details of the new Bounce Back Loans Scheme (BBLS). The Bounce Back Loans Scheme was launched on 4 May, and is facilitated by the Govern...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 11 May 2020
The government today published new guidance to help UK employers get their businesses back up and running and workplaces operating as safely as possible.The new guidance covers eight workplace settings from outdoor environments and construction sites to f...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 11 May 2020
My Right Honourable friend the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (Alok Sharma) has today made the following statement:The government today published new guidance to help UK employers get their businesses back up and running a...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 5 May 2020
Yesterday we launched the NHS Covid-19 app (“the app”) for initial rollout on the Isle of Wight over the next two weeks.This is the first phase in the development and roll out of a national ‘test and trace’ programme which will bring together the app, exp...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 5 May 2020
My Noble Friend the Minister of State, Home Office (Baroness Williams of Trafford) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement:Today I am pleased to announce the publication of the 2nd annual report of the Biometrics and Forensic Ethics Gro...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 5 May 2020
Today I am pleased to announce the publication of the 2nd annual report of the Biometrics and Forensic Ethics Group. The Group provides Ministers with independent advice on matters relating to data ethics and ethical issues in forensic science and biometr...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 5 May 2020
My Rt Hon Friend the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care (Matt Hancock) has made the following written statement:Yesterday we launched the NHS Covid-19 app (“the app”) for initial rollout on the Isle of Wight over the next two weeks.This is the ...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 4 May 2020
The Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills (Ofsted) intends to redeploy some employed staff and allocate some contracted inspectors to support government departments, their agencies, local authorities and the education and care ...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 4 May 2020
My right honourable friend the Minister of State for School Standards (Nick Gibb) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement.The Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills (Ofsted) intends to redeploy some employed staff a...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 30 April 2020
Article 121 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) requires the UK to send an annual convergence programme to the European Commission reporting upon its fiscal situation and policies. Submitting the annual convergence programme rema...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 29 April 2020
This statement confirms that it has been necessary to extend the deadlines for decisions on the following five applications made under the Planning Act as indicated below to allow for further work to be carried out before they are determined by the Secret...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 29 April 2020
I would like to update the House today on a change to the number of Total Allowable Catch limits (TACs) for quota stock that the UK has an interest in that will be fished at or below their Maximum Sustainable Yield in 2020.Analysing the UK’s progress towa...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 29 April 2020
Today, the Government is laying the Misuse of Drugs (Coronavirus) (Amendments Relating to the Supply of Controlled Drugs During a Pandemic etc.) Regulations 2020 (‘the 2020 Regulations’) in the House. These regulations enable emergency supply of controlle...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 29 April 2020
My Noble Friend the Parliamentary Undersecretary of State for Innovation (Lord Bethell of Romford) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement:I would like to inform the House that a written answer I gave on 15 April to the Noble Lord Shark...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 29 April 2020
During the course of the coronavirus outbreak, the Government’s strategy to increase ventilator capacity has focused on procuring more devices from existing manufacturers overseas, scaling up production of existing ventilator suppliers, and working with i...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 29 April 2020
I would like to update the House on the GOV.UK Verify programme and the provision of digital identity services to government, following the WMS of October 2018 by the former Minister for Implementation, Rt Hon Oliver Dowden CBE MP.As you will know, the co...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 29 April 2020
The Government warmly welcomes the expertise and resources offered by those who wish to come to the UK to combat the coronavirus, from anaesthetists through to engineers working on ventilator design and production. However, the actions and presence of the...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 29 April 2020
I would like to update Parliament on the loan to Ireland. In December 2010, the UK agreed to provide a bilateral loan of £3.2 billion as part of a €67.5 billion international assistance package for Ireland. The loan was disbursed in 8 tranches, and the fi...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 29 April 2020
I wish to set out to the House the financial support my department has provided to local government so that it can fulfil its essential role in the national response to covid-19.Additional FundingIn total I have announced over £3.2 billion of additional f...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 29 April 2020
I would like to inform the House that a written answer I gave on 15 April to the Noble Lord Sharkey contained information that was out of date at the time of answering. I wish to correct the formal record.In my reply, I stated that information on the Nati...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 29 April 2020
My Hon Friend the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State(Victoria Prentis) has today made the following statement.I would like to update the House today on a change to the number of Total Allowable Catch limits (TACs) for quota stock that the UK has an in...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 29 April 2020
My rt hon Friend the Secretary of State for the Home Department (Priti Patel) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement:Today, the Government is laying the Misuse of Drugs (Coronavirus) (Amendments Relating to the Supply of Controlled Dru...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 29 April 2020
My Right Honourable friend, the Secretary of State for Transport (Grant Shapps), has made the following Ministerial Statement.This statement confirms that it has been necessary to extend the deadlines for decisions on the following five applications made ...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 29 April 2020
My right honourable friend the Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Jesse Norman) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement.The Government warmly welcomes the expertise and resources offered by those who wish to come to the UK to combat t...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 29 April 2020
My Rt Hon. Friend, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (Rt Hon Michael Gove MP) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement:I would like to update the House on the GOV.UK Verify programme and the provision of digital identity services ...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 29 April 2020
My Rt Hon. Friend, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (Rt Hon Michael Gove MP) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement:During the course of the coronavirus outbreak, the Government’s strategy to increase ventilator capacity has fo...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 29 April 2020
My honourable friend the Economic Secretary to the Treasury (John Glen) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement.I would like to update Parliament on the loan to Ireland. In December 2010, the UK agreed to provide a bilateral loan of £3....