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United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 17 December 2015
My right honourable friend the Minister of State for Policing, Criminal Justice and Victims (Mike Penning) has made the following Written Statement."I am today publishing an update on the progress that has been made in addressing the rehabilitation n...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 17 December 2015
My right honourable friend the Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice (Michael Gove) has made the following Written Statement."I will today publish the government’s response to the Harris Review into self-inflicted deaths in custody of 18...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 17 December 2015
My hon Friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Home Office (Karen Bradley) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement:I am today publishing the independent review of the overseas domestic worker visa. The Government commissioned...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 17 December 2015
My Honourable Friend the Minister of State for Culture and the Digital Economy (Mr Ed Vaizey) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement.The Telecommunications Council took place in Brussels on 11th December 2015. The UK’s Deputy Permanent Repre...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 17 December 2015
My Right Honourable friend the Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General (Matthew Hancock) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement: Enhancing transparency and accountability continues to be at the heart of our approach to governme...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 17 December 2015
My Right Honourable friend the Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General (Matthew Hancock) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement: Achievements of the 2010-15 Public Bodies Reform ProgrammeIn May 2010, the Coalition Government co...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 17 December 2015
My honourable friend the Secretary of State for Education has today made the following statement:The government is reforming GCSEs and A levels to be rigorous and more knowledge-based and to match the qualifications used in the best education systems in t...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 17 December 2015
I am publishing today details of the charges incurred by Departments for the use of official government cars provided to Ministers by the Government Car Service (GCS) during the financial years 2012/13, 2013/14, and 2014/15. Charges to Departments have no...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 17 December 2015
My hon. Friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health (Ben Gummer) has made the following written ministerial statement.The Government remains committed to reform of the regulation of health and (in England) social care professionals. The G...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 17 December 2015
My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Defence (Mr Michael Fallon) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement. During my oral statement on 20 July 2015 (Official Report, column 1233), I committed to continue to be transparent about UK s...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 17 December 2015
My honourable friend the Economic Secretary to the Treasury (Harriett Baldwin) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement.The Treasury has laid before the House of Commons a report required under section 231 of the Banking Act 2009 coverin...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 17 December 2015
My hon. Friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health (Jane Ellison) has made the following written ministerial statement.The Health Council met in Brussels on 7 December 2015 as part of the Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Af...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 17 December 2015
My Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health (Jeremy Hunt) has made the following written ministerial statement.NHS England will today publish the Mazars report on Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust. It will be available on the NHS England websi...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 17 December 2015
My rt hon Friend the Minister of State for Policing, Crime and Criminal Justice (Mike Penning) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement:The Government is committed to building on the success of the Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) mod...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 17 December 2015
My hon Friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Home Office (Karen Bradley) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement:Section 48(7) of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 requires the Government to lay before Parliament a report setting...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 17 December 2015
My honourable friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice, Minister for the Courts and Legal Aid (Shailesh Vara) has made the following Written Statement."I will today publish the Government Response to the consultation on proposals...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 17 December 2015
My Rt hon Friend the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills (Sajid Javid) has today made the following statement.When the Steel Summit met on 16 October, I agreed that three Ministerial-led Working Groups would be set up immediately to add...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 17 December 2015
Today my hon Friend the Minister of State for Energy and Climate Change (Andrea Leadsom) has made the following statement. 14th Onshore Licensing RoundI am pleased to inform the House that the Oil & Gas Authority (OGA) – the UK’s oil and gas regulator...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 17 December 2015
My rt hon Friend the Minister of State for Policing, Crime and Criminal Justice (Mike Penning) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement:I have today placed in the Library my proposals for the aggregate amount of grant to Local Policing B...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 17 December 2015
My rt Hon Friend the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government (Greg Clark) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement.I would like to pay tribute to the excellent work of the emergency services, the army, local authority staff and...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 17 December 2015
My Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health (Jeremy Hunt) has made the following written ministerial statement.Today the Government has laid before Parliament the mandate to NHS England for 2016-17. This mandate has been produced following public...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 17 December 2015
My Rt Hon. Friend the Prime Minister has made the following statement to the House of Commons: I have today laid before both Houses the main findings of the internal review I commissioned in the last Parliament, to improve the Government's understanding o...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 16 December 2015
In January, my Noble Friend, Baroness Verma announced the commencement of the second Triennial Review of the Committee on Radioactive Waste Management (CoRWM). Today I am announcing the findings of that review, which I am pleased to say support the contin...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 16 December 2015
In November 2014, the Department for Transport launched a comprehensive study, chaired by Lord Jeffrey Mountevans, now Lord Mayor of the City of London, into maintaining the UK’s status as a world-leading maritime centre. The Maritime Growth Study: keepin...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 16 December 2015
Further to the Explanatory Memoranda published by the Minister for Countering Extremism on 30 September, the Government has decided not to opt in to two Commission proposals for Regulations of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a cris...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 16 December 2015
My right Honourable Friend, the Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Baroness Anelay of St Johns), has made the following written Ministerial statement:I wish to inform the House that the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, together with t...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 16 December 2015
Today I am launching a consultation which seeks views on proposals for a number of changes to the Cremation (England and Wales) Regulations 2008, and for improving other aspects of cremation practice.On 1 June 2015 David Jenkins published his report into ...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 16 December 2015
This written ministerial statement confirms that responsibility for the Pension Wise service will transfer from HM Treasury to the Department for Work and Pensions. This change will be effective from 1 April 2016.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 16 December 2015
Today my hon Friend the Minister of State for Energy and Climate Change (Andrea Leadsom) has made the following statement.In January, my Noble Friend, Baroness Verma announced the commencement of the second Triennial Review of the Committee on Radioactive...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 16 December 2015
My Honourable Friend, the Minister of State for Transport (Robert Goodwill) has made the following Ministerial Statement.In November 2014, the Department for Transport launched a comprehensive study, chaired by Lord Jeffrey Mountevans, now Lord Mayor of t...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 16 December 2015
My rt hon Friend the Minister of State for Immigration (James Brokenshire) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement:Further to the Explanatory Memoranda published by the Minister for Countering Extremism on 30 September, the Government h...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 16 December 2015
My honourable friend the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Women, Equalities and Family Justice (Caroline Dinenage) has made the following Written Statement."Today I am launching a consultation which seeks views on proposals for a number of ...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 16 December 2015
I wish to inform the House that the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, together with the Department for International Development and the Ministry of Defence, are today publishing a progress report on the UK's third National Action Plan on Women, Peace and ...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 16 December 2015
My Rt Hon. Friend the Prime Minister has made the following statement to the House of Commons: This written ministerial statement confirms that responsibility for the Pension Wise service will transfer from HM Treasury to the Department for Work and Pensi...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 December 2015
I am pleased to inform The House that today we notified the first transport companies who have been successful in their Pre-Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ) Passport application. The PQQ Passport is a new approach to the Department’s rigorous prequalific...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 December 2015
My Noble Friend The Minister of State, Department for Work and Pensions (Baroness Altmann) has made the following Written Statement.I am today announcing the proposed automatic enrolment thresholds for next year.It is intended to lay an Order before Parli...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 December 2015
I will attend the EU Environment Council in Brussels on 16 December. Following adoption of the agenda, the list of “A” items will be approved. There will next be legislative deliberations on the proposal for a Directive on the reduction of national emissi...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 December 2015
This is the first written statement of this Parliament on the security situation in Northern Ireland. It covers the threat from domestic terrorism in Northern Ireland, rather than from international terrorism, which members will be aware is the responsibi...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 December 2015
The Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council met on 7th December 2015 in Brussels. Baroness Neville-Rolfe, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, represented the UK. The Council ...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 December 2015
The government has today published its response to the consultation on creating a Secondary Annuity Market (CM 9046, March 2015). The response confirms that from 6 April 2017 tax restrictions for people looking to sell their annuity will be removed, givin...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 December 2015
On 04 December 2015 the Foreign and Commonwealth Office fulfilled the promise given by the Prime Minister at the NATO Chicago Summit in 2012 to contribute £70million in 2015 towards the sustainment of the Afghan National Defence and Security Forces (ANDSF...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 December 2015
I represented the United Kingdom at the 22nd Ministerial Council meeting of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), held in Belgrade, Serbia on 3-4 December 2015 and hosted by Serbian Foreign Minister and OSCE Chairman-in-Office I...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 December 2015
I chaired the fourth meeting of the Overseas Territories Joint Ministerial Council in London on Tuesday 1 and Wednesday 2 December. The Council was attended by elected leaders and representatives – Anguilla, Ascension Island, Bermuda, the British Virgin I...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 December 2015
The Government takes policing integrity very seriously. It is at the heart of public confidence in the police and underpins the model of policing by consent. It is what gives rank and file officers the legitimacy to do their jobs effectively. The Home Off...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 December 2015
My Honourable Friend, the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Transport (Claire Perry) has made the following Ministerial Statement:I am pleased to inform The House that today we notified the first transport companies who have been successful in th...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 December 2015
I am today announcing the proposed automatic enrolment thresholds for next year.It is intended to lay an Order before Parliament in the New Year which will include the following: - £43,000 for the upper limit of the qualifying earnings band. The automatic...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 December 2015
My Right Honourable Friend The Minister for Employment (Priti Patel MP) has made the following Written Statement.The Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council met on 7th December 2015 in Brussels. Baroness Neville-Rolfe, Parliamentary...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 December 2015
My honourable friend the Economic Secretary to the Treasury (Harriett Baldwin) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement.The government has today published its response to the consultation on creating a Secondary Annuity Market (CM 9046, ...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 December 2015
My right Honourable Friend the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (Theresa Villiers) has made the following written Ministerial statement: This is the first written statement of this Parliament on the security situation in Northern Ireland. It covers...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 December 2015
My Hon Friend the Parliamentary under Secretary of State (Rory Stewart) has today made the following statement.I will attend the EU Environment Council in Brussels on 16 December. Following adoption of the agenda, the list of “A” items will be approved. T...