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United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 3 February 2020
I am making this statement to confirm that the Department for Exiting the EU closed on 31 January. Those of its functions which are still required have been transferred to relevant government departments. The administration of the closure of DExEU is bein...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 3 February 2020
This statement sets out the Government’s proposed approach to the negotiations with the EU about our future relationship. Further details on this and other trade negotiations will be made available to Parliament as the process develops.The Government wish...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 3 February 2020
Structures following the Closure of the Department for Exiting the European Union My Rt Hon Friend the Prime Minister has made the following statement. I am making this statement to confirm that the Department for Exiting the EU closed on 31 January. Thos...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 3 February 2020
UK / EU relations My Rt Hon Friend the Prime Minister has made the following statement:This statement sets out the Government’s proposed approach to the negotiations with the EU about our future relationship. Further details on this and other trade negoti...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 30 January 2020
In the Teacher Recruitment and Retention Strategy, published in January 2019, the Government committed to helping great people become teachers by introducing a new application system for initial teacher training. This application system will be easier to ...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 30 January 2020
Today I am announcing the preferred route for the Bedford to Cambridge section of the East West Rail line between Oxford and Cambridge. This follows a public consultation last year on five route options.The preferred route, route E from the consultation w...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 30 January 2020
Andreja Metelok-Zgombic, Croatian State Secretary for European Affairs, chaired the General Affairs Council (GAC) in Brussels on 28 January. I represented the United Kingdom.Adoption of A Items A number of A items were considered, including on accession n...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 30 January 2020
Today I am laying the School and Early Years Finance (England) Regulations 2020, which ensure that in 2020-21 every secondary school will receive at least £5,000 per pupil, and every primary school at least £3,750 per pupil – on the path to £4,000 the fol...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 30 January 2020
The new rates of war pensions and allowances proposed from April 2020 are set out in the tables below. The Annual uprating of war pensions and allowances for 2020 will take place from the week beginning 6th April. Rates for 2020 are increasing by 1.7 per ...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 30 January 2020
I am pleased to announce that today we will be introducing the government’s flagship Environment Bill. There is a clear and urgent scientific case, and growing public demand for acting decisively to address biodiversity loss and climate change, which this...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 30 January 2020
The Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission has published their final report today. I am depositing this report in the libraries of the House and made it available on www.gov.uk. I would like to thank the Commissioners for all of their hard work in...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 30 January 2020
The UK has strong partnerships with virtually every country around the world and aims to strengthen them as we leave the European Union. During the UK’s membership of the EU, important aspects of these relationships have been governed through EU arrangeme...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 30 January 2020
A meeting of the Economic and Financial Affairs (ECOFIN) Council was held in Brussels on 21 January 2020. The Council discussed the following: Early Morning SessionThe Eurogroup President briefed the Council on the outcomes of the 20 January meeting of th...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 30 January 2020
The Informal Justice and Home Affairs Council under the Croatian Presidency of the Council of the EU took place on 23 and 24 January 2020 in Zagreb. I represented the UK on Justice Day. My colleague Rt Hon Brandon Lewis MP, Minister for Security, attended...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 30 January 2020
My right honourable friend the Minister of State for School Standards (Nick Gibb) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement.In the Teacher Recruitment and Retention Strategy, published in January 2019, the Government committed to helping great ...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 30 January 2020
My Right Honourable friend, the Secretary of State for Transport (Grant Shapps) has made the following Ministerial StatementToday I am announcing the preferred route for the Bedford to Cambridge section of the East West Rail line between Oxford and Cambri...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 30 January 2020
My Right Honourable Friend, the Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Christopher Pincher), has made the following written Ministerial statement:Andreja Metelok-Zgombic, Croatian State Secretary for European Affairs, chaired the General ...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 30 January 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. The new rates of war pensions and allowances proposed from April 2020 are set o...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 30 January 2020
My Right Hon Friend the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Theresa Villiers)I am pleased to announce that today we will be introducing the government’s flagship Environment Bill. There is a clear and urgent scientific case, and gr...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 30 January 2020
My right honourable friend the Minister of State for School Standards (Nick Gibb) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement.Today I am laying the School and Early Years Finance (England) Regulations 2020, which ensure that in 2020-21 every seco...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 30 January 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.The Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission has published their final...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 30 January 2020
The Rt Hon Steve Barclay MP, Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union has made the following statement:The UK has strong partnerships with virtually every country around the world and aims to strengthen them as we leave the European Union. During...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 30 January 2020
My right honourable friend the Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice (Robert Buckland) has made the following Written Statement."The Informal Justice and Home Affairs Council under the Croatian Presidency of the Council of the EU took pl...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 30 January 2020
My right honourable friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sajid Javid) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement.A meeting of the Economic and Financial Affairs (ECOFIN) Council was held in Brussels on 21 January 2020. The Council discu...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 29 January 2020
The Diffuse Mesothelioma Payment Scheme (Levy) Regulations 2014 require active employers’ liability insurers to pay an annual levy, based on their relative market share, for the purpose of meeting the costs of the Diffuse Mesothelioma Payment Scheme (DMPS...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 29 January 2020
Given wider exceptional circumstances, the Department for Education will purchase the Kensington Centre (Wornington Road, London) and provide a 125-year lease to the Further Education institute formed by a merger between Kensington and Chelsea College (KC...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 29 January 2020
Wherever you live, you deserve a railway that widens your children’s horizon, gives you access to highly skilled, highly paid jobs, and provides a viable green alternative to getting in your car. For too long, millions of rail passengers in the north of E...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 29 January 2020
Today, I am laying before Parliament a departmental minute setting out the details of a contingent liability that the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government intends to take on. The contingent liability will be created by the £1billion ENABL...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 29 January 2020
My honourable Friend the Minister of State for Disabled People, Health and Work (Justin Tomlinson MP) has made the following Written Statement.The Diffuse Mesothelioma Payment Scheme (Levy) Regulations 2014 require active employers’ liability insurers to ...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 29 January 2020
My right honourable friend the Secretary of State for Education (Gavin Williamson) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement.Given wider exceptional circumstances, the Department for Education will purchase the Kensington Centre (Wornington Roa...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 29 January 2020
My Right Honourable friend, the Secretary of State for Transport (Grant Shapps), has made the following Ministerial Statement. Wherever you live, you deserve a railway that widens your children’s horizon, gives you access to highly skilled, highly paid jo...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 29 January 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.Today, I am laying before Parliament a departmental minute setting out the ...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 29 January 2020
My Right Honourable Friend, the Secretary of State for Education (Gavin Williamson) has this afternoon updated the written statement he made this morning:Given wider exceptional circumstances, the Department for Education will purchase the Kensington Cent...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 28 January 2020
The High Representative of the European Union (EU) for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy (HRVP), Josep Borrell, chaired the Foreign Affairs Council (FAC) in Brussels on 20 January. The United Kingdom’s Permanent Representative to the EU (Sir Tim Barrow)...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 28 January 2020
Today, I am announcing provisional allocations of up to £112 million for a third year of Rough Sleeping Initiative and Rapid Rehousing Pathway funding. This funding covers around 270 local authorities in England, including those that were part of joint fu...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 28 January 2020
UK TELECOMMUNICATIONS My Right Honourable Friend the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, Baroness Morgan of Cotes, has made the following Statement. The Telecoms Supply Chain Review - laid before Parliament in July 2019 - underlined ...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 28 January 2020
My Right Honourable Friend, the Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Christopher Pincher), has made the following written Ministerial statement:The High Representative of the European Union (EU) for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy (...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 28 January 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.Today, I am announcing provisional allocations of up to £112 million for a ...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 28 January 2020
UK TELECOMMUNICATIONS The Telecoms Supply Chain Review - laid before Parliament in July 2019 - underlined the range and nature of the risks facing our critical digital infrastructure. The Review addressed three questions:How should telecoms operators be i...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 27 January 2020
Signing of the Withdrawal Agreement On Friday 24 January, the Prime Minister signed the Agreement on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union and European Atomic Energy Community. The Presidents of the European Commission and European ...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 27 January 2020
The Agriculture and Fisheries Council takes place in Brussels on 27 January.As the provisional agenda stands, the main item for agriculture will be an exchange of view between EU ministers on the regulation on CAP transitional rules. The Commission will a...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 27 January 2020
The 2018/19 Annual Report and Accounts for the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority is being laid before the House today and published on www.gov.uk. Copies will be available in the Vote Office.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 27 January 2020
The Government will increase the retail discount from one-third to 50 per cent, extend that discount to cinemas and music venues, extend the duration of the local newspapers office space discount, and introduce an additional discount for pubs.The increase...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 27 January 2020
Section 19(1) of the Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures Act 2011 (the Act) requires the Secretary of State to report to Parliament as soon as reasonably practicable after the end of every relevant three-month period on the exercise of her TPI...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 27 January 2020
On Thursday 18 July 2019, Jeremy Wright MP, the then Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, announced to the House that he was consulting with Channel 4, the BBC, S4C, Ofcom and the International Paralympic Committee on the addition of ...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 27 January 2020
My Right Honourable Friend the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, Baroness Morgan of Cotes, has made the following Statement.The Government is today publishing its response to the independent review into the sustainability of high-q...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 27 January 2020
The Rt Hon Steve Barclay MP, Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union has made the following statement:Signing of the Withdrawal Agreement On Friday 24 January, the Prime Minister signed the Agreement on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from ...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 27 January 2020
My Hon Friend George Eustice (Minister of State for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food) has today made the following statement: The Agriculture and Fisheries Council takes place in Brussels on 27 January.As the provisional agenda stands, the main item for ag...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 27 January 2020
My hon Friend the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Safeguarding and Vulnerability (Victoria Atkins) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement:The 2018/19 Annual Report and Accounts for the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority ...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 27 January 2020
My rt hon Friend the Secretary of State for the Home Department (Priti Patel) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement:Section 19(1) of the Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures Act 2011 (the Act) requires the Secretary of Stat...