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United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 5 March 2015
Following a proposal from the Data and Communications Company (DCC) to adopt an alternative delivery plan, I have today approved the DCC’s plan as provided for under powers in the DCC’s licences – which were granted under sections 7AB(2) of the Gas Act 19...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 5 March 2015
My Noble Friend, the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the Department of Energy and Climate Change (Baroness Verma) and I will attend the EU Environment Council in Brussels on 6 March.Following the adoption of the agenda the list of “A” items wil...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 5 March 2015
Today, I am announcing the conclusions of HM Treasury’s second evaluation of departments’ compliance with the rules governing off-payroll appointments in central government. New, tighter rules were established in May 2012 when I published the review of th...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 5 March 2015
The British Business Bank has been established as an economic development bank supporting small and medium sized enterprises in the UK. The Wholesale Guarantee Scheme is a new scheme to be administered by the British Business Bank aiming to encourage part...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 5 March 2015
As Minister responsible for sport, I am committed to delivering a lasting sports legacy from London 2012 for all. For the last time this Parliament, I would like to update the House on progress on the Government’s sport legacy plan since October last year...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 5 March 2015
I am today announcing the outcome of the review of the Broadband Cabinet and Pole Siting Code of Practice.The Broadband Cabinet and Pole Siting Code of Practice came into force in June 2013 to complement planning improvement to fixed broadband infrastruct...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 5 March 2015
The Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) Council will be held on 12 and 13 March in Brussels. My hon Friend the Minister of State for Civil Justice and Legal Policy (Lord Faulks QC) and I will attend on behalf of the United Kingdom. As the provisional agenda st...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 5 March 2015
I would like to update hon. Members on further technical measures that the Coalition Government is making to improve the planning system, helping deliver more homes and increase certainty for both applicants and local residents. Reducing delays after pl...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 5 March 2015
My rt hon Friend the Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Danny Alexander) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement. Today, I am announcing the conclusions of HM Treasury’s second evaluation of departments’ compliance with the rules governin...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 5 March 2015
My right honourable friend the Secretary of State for Energy (Edward Davey) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement. Following a proposal from the Data and Communications Company (DCC) to adopt an alternative delivery plan, I have today appr...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 5 March 2015
My Hon Friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Dan Rogerson) has today made the following statement.My Noble Friend, the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the Department of Energy and Climate Change (Baroness Verma) and I will attend t...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 5 March 2015
My Hon Friend, the Minister of State for Culture and the Digital Economy (Ed Vaizey) has made the following statement:I am today announcing the outcome of the review of the Broadband Cabinet and Pole Siting Code of Practice.The Broadband Cabinet and Pole ...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 5 March 2015
My Hon Friend, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport (Helen Grant) has made the following statement:As Minister responsible for sport, I am committed to delivering a lasting sports legacy from London 2012 for all. For the...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 5 March 2015
Statement HLWS316 should have contained the following line at the start - My Honourable friend the Minister for the Constitution (Sam Gyimah) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement:It is normal practice, when a government department proposes...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 5 March 2015
My Right Honourable Friend the Secretary of State for the Home Department (Theresa May) has made the following written statement. "The Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) Council will be held on 12 and 13 March in Brussels. My Honourable Friend the Mini...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 5 March 2015
My hon Friend the Minister of State for Housing and Planning (Brandon Lewis) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement. I would like to update hon. Members on further technical measures that the Coalition Government is making to improve the pla...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 4 March 2015
It is normal practice, when a government department proposes to undertake a contingent liability in excess of £300,000 for which there is no specific statutory authority, for the Minister concerned to present a departmental Minute to Parliament giving par...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 4 March 2015
My honourable friend the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change (Baroness Verma) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement. Today in advance of the forthcoming Energy Council in Brussels on 5 March, I am writing to...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 4 March 2015
I am pleased to inform the House that the government has agreed the sale of its entire interest in Eurostar International Limited (“Eurostar”) for £757.1m. The Autumn Statement 2013 and National Infrastructure Plan 2013 set out the government’s ambition t...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 4 March 2015
The UK Statistics Authority has published the General Report of the 2011 Census.The General Report is the official, and comprehensive, account of the 2011 Census in England and Wales. It reviews the entire census operation and provides a wealth of detail ...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 4 March 2015
My noble Friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government (Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement:I am today announcing Key Performance Targets that have been agreed for the Quee...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 4 March 2015
I want to update the House on matters concerning the provision of concessionary fuel entitlements to the miners of UK Coal Production Ltd (UKC) On 15 January 2015, UKC submitted to Government a request for additional public sector funding to extend the li...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 4 March 2015
I am today announcing Key Performance Targets that have been agreed for the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre for the period 1 April 2015 to 31 March 2016.The agency’s principal financial target for 2015/16 is to achieve a minimum dividend payment to t...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 4 March 2015
My Honourable friend the Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General (Francis Maude) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement: The UK Statistics Authority has published the General Report of the 2011 Census.The General Report is the ...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 4 March 2015
My rt hon Friend the Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Danny Alexander) has today made the following written ministerial statement.I am pleased to inform the House that the government has agreed the sale of its entire interest in Eurostar International Lim...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 4 March 2015
It is normal practice, when a government department proposes to undertake a contingent liability in excess of £300,000 for which there is no specific statutory authority, for the Minister concerned to present a departmental Minute to Parliament giving par...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 4 March 2015
In advance of the forthcoming Energy Council in Brussels on 5 March, I am writing to outline the agenda items to be discussed. Under the first item on the agenda the Latvian Presidency has suggested an exchange of views on the Strategic Framework for the ...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 4 March 2015
My right honourable friend the Minister of State for Energy (Matthew Hancock) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement.I want to update the House on matters concerning the provision of concessionary fuel entitlements to the miners of UK Coal P...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 3 March 2015
I am today laying regulations requiring insolvency practitioners to provide additional information to creditors about their fees and expenses. Insolvency practitioners are given strong powers by legislation to administer insolvencies. They take decisions ...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 3 March 2015
I am pleased to announce that I have appointed Jonathan Cave, Alexander Ehmann, Nicole Kar and Jeremy Mayhew to the Regulatory Policy Committee, commencing on 16 March 2015. Term end dates of between three and four years have been set in order to ensure t...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 3 March 2015
Today I will be publishing the fuel poverty strategy for England as required under the Warm Homes and Energy Conservation Act 2000 following extensive consultation held from July to October 2014.[1] This new fuel poverty strategy, the first in nearly 14 y...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 3 March 2015
Professor Alexis Jay’s report into child sexual exploitation in Rotherham and Louise Casey’s follow up report on the performance of Rotherham Council both provide a terrible account of the appalling failures by the Council, the police and other agencies t...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 3 March 2015
The Strategic Policing Requirement (SPR) sets out my view, as Home Secretary, of the national threats that the police must address and the national policing capabilities required to counter those threats. The national threats currently in the SPR are terr...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 3 March 2015
The House will be aware that in May 2014 I launched the process to grant a concession to manage, and exploit the commercial potential of, the Marchwood Sea Mounting Centre. Following a strong competition, I am pleased to announce that Solent Gateway Limit...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 3 March 2015
The Government has today published a memorandum to the Foreign Affairs Committee and the Committees on Arms Export Controls on post-legislative scrutiny of the Cluster Munitions (Prohibitions) Act 2010.The Foreign and Commonwealth Office has carried out t...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 3 March 2015
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office has today laid a departmental Minute proposing the gifting of equipment to the Free Syrian Police.The conflict in Syria remains catastrophic, with an estimated 200,000 people killed and more than half the Syrian populat...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 3 March 2015
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office has today laid a departmental Minute proposing the gifting of search and rescue equipment to Syrian civil defence teams.The situation in Syria continues to deteriorate. An estimated 200,000 people have been killed since...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 3 March 2015
A meeting of the Economic and Financial Affairs Council was held in Brussels on 17 February 2015. Ministers discussed the following items: Investment Plan for Europe The Presidency gave a state of play update on the Commission’s proposal for a regulatio...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 3 March 2015
A Double Taxation Convention with the Republic of Senegal was signed on 26 February 2015. The text of the Convention has been deposited in the Libraries of both Houses and made available on the GOV.UK website. The text will be scheduled to a draft Order i...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 3 March 2015
This Government has taken significant steps to reform the UK’s system of financial regulation. In the Financial Services (Banking Reform) Act 2013 (“the Act”), we legislated to strengthen the accountability of bank senior management and to raise standar...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 3 March 2015
On 29 January 2015 I explained to the House (Official Report, Column 28WS) the Coalition Government’s commitment to protecting an independent free local press, and how the Government was seeking to take action on the practice by a small number of local au...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 3 March 2015
My right honourable friend the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change (Edward Davey) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement. Today. Today I will be publishing the fuel poverty strategy for England as required under the Warm Ho...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 3 March 2015
My Rt hon Friend the Minister of State for Business and Enterprise and Energy (Matthew Hancock) has today made the following statement.I am pleased to announce that I have appointed Jonathan Cave, Alexander Ehmann, Nicole Kar and Jeremy Mayhew to the Regu...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 3 March 2015
My hon Friend the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Employment Relations and Consumer Affairs (Jo Swinson) has today made the following statement.I am today laying regulations requiring insolvency practitioners to provide additional information t...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 3 March 2015
My honourable friend the Financial Secretary to the Treasury (David Gauke) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement. A Double Taxation Convention with the Republic of Senegal was signed on 26 February 2015. The text of the Convention has...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 3 March 2015
My right honourable friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer (George Osborne) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement. A meeting of the Economic and Financial Affairs Council was held in Brussels on 17 February 2015. Ministers discussed t...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 3 March 2015
My hon. Friend the Minister for Defence Equipment, Support and Technology (Mr Philip Dunne) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement. The House will be aware that in May 2014 I launched the process to grant a concession to manage, and exploit ...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 3 March 2015
My Right Honourable Friend the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Mr Philip Hammond) has made the following written Ministerial statement:The Foreign and Commonwealth Office has today laid a departmental Minute proposing the gifting ...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 3 March 2015
My Right Honourable Friend the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Mr Philip Hammond) has made the following written Ministerial statement:The Foreign and Commonwealth Office has today laid a departmental Minute proposing the gifting ...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 3 March 2015
My Right Honourable Friend the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Mr Philip Hammond) has made the following written Ministerial statement:The Government has today published a memorandum to the Foreign Affairs Committee and the Commit...