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United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 22 October 2015
I have today provided the Government’s response to the Work and Pensions Select Committee report on benefit sanctions.I am very grateful for the Committee's work which has set out many helpful recommendations.We have been building a labour market system i...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 22 October 2015
When I wrote to the Justice Select Committee on 29 September 2015 to announce our approach to smoking in prisons, I committed to inform Parliament through a written ministerial statement after recess. This statement confirms the announcement in my letter ...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 22 October 2015
The next Agriculture and Fisheries Council will be on 22 October in Luxembourg. My Hon friend, the Minister of State for Farming, Food and Marine Environment (George Eustice), will represent the UK. As the provisional agenda stands, the following items wi...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 22 October 2015
On 26 October, I will attend the Foreign Affairs Council for Development in Luxembourg. The meeting will be chaired by the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini. This is the first Council meet...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 22 October 2015
My rt hon Friend the Minister of State, Home Office (Lord Bates) has today made the following written ministerial statement:My rt hon. Friend the Home Secretary (Theresa May) is today laying before the House “Statistics of Scientific Procedures on Living ...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 22 October 2015
I am pleased to place in the Library of the House the annual publication of the Defence Equipment Plan. Building on the progress outlined in the previous three equipment plans, we again have a stable and realistic programme of work that sets out a strong ...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 22 October 2015
At the start of the last Parliament, the coalition set out its ambition to improve the tax policy making process through high levels of consultation and legislative scrutiny. That approach was welcomed by tax professionals, and more than 150 formal and in...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 22 October 2015
Further to the Explanatory Memorandum I deposited on 29 June, the Government has decided not to opt in to two Council Decisions relating to signature of the new Additional Protocol to the Council of Europe Convention on the Prevention of Terrorism and the...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 22 October 2015
Today the Government published a new Code of Practice for Victims of Crime (the Victims' Code). The Victims’ Code sets out how victims must be treated by the criminal justice system. The Coalition Government updated the Victims’ Code to give victims clear...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 22 October 2015
My Right Honourable Friend the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs attended the Foreign Affairs Council on 12 October. The Foreign Affairs Council was chaired by the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Sec...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 22 October 2015
My right honourable friend, the Secretary of State for International Development (Justine Greening) has made the following statement:On 26 October, I will attend the Foreign Affairs Council for Development in Luxembourg. The meeting will be chaired by the...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 22 October 2015
My honourable friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice, Minister for Prisons, Probation and Rehabilitation (Andrew Selous) has made the following Written Statement."When I wrote to the Justice Select Committee on 29 September 201...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 22 October 2015
My Right Honourable Friend The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (Mr Iain Duncan Smith MP) has made the following Written Statement.I have today provided the Government’s response to the Work and Pensions Select Committee report on benefit sanction...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 22 October 2015
My Right Hon Friend the Secretary of State (Elizabeth Truss) has today made the following statement.The next Agriculture and Fisheries Council will be on 22 October in Luxembourg. My Hon friend, the Minister of State for Farming, Food and Marine Environme...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 22 October 2015
My rt hon. Friend the Home Secretary (Theresa May) is today laying before the House “Statistics of Scientific Procedures on Living Animals Great Britain 2014” (HC 511)The adoption of the EU Directive 2010/63/EU has brought about changes to how the data on...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 22 October 2015
My hon. Friend the Minister of State for Defence Procurement (Mr Philip Dunne) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement. I am pleased to place in the Library of the House the annual publication of the Defence Equipment Plan. Building on the pr...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 22 October 2015
My honourable friend the Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr David Gauke) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement.At the start of the last Parliament, the coalition set out its ambition to improve the tax policy making process throu...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 22 October 2015
My rt hon Friend the Minister of State for Security (John Hayes) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement:Further to the Explanatory Memorandum I deposited on 29 June, the Government has decided not to opt in to two Council Decisions rel...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 22 October 2015
My right honourable friend the Minister of State for Policing, Criminal Justice and Victims (Mike Penning) has made the following Written Statement."Today the Government published a new Code of Practice for Victims of Crime (the Victims' Code). The V...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 22 October 2015
My right Honourable Friend, Minister for Europe (David Lidington), has made the following written Ministerial statement:My Right Honourable Friend the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs attended the Foreign Affairs Council on 12 Octob...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 October 2015
I announced on 23 July my intention to commission an Independent Review of Deaths and Serious Incidents in Police Custody.I am pleased to announce to the House that the Review will be led by Dame Elish Angiolini DBE QC.I said that the Chairman would be so...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 October 2015
EDF and its Chinese partner China General Nuclear Corporation (CGN) have committed to Hinkley Point C during this week’s landmark China State Visit, confirming that Somerset will have the first new nuclear power station in the UK for a generation.The comp...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 October 2015
My rt hon Friend the Secretary of State for the Home Department (Theresa May) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement:I announced on 23 July my intention to commission an Independent Review of Deaths and Serious Incidents in Police Cust...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 October 2015
Today my Rt Hon Friend the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change (Amber Rudd) has today made the following statement.EDF and its Chinese partner China General Nuclear Corporation (CGN) have committed to Hinkley Point C during this week’s landma...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 20 October 2015
The Government wrote to the Procedure Committee on Monday 19 October 2015, in response to the publication of its report on 'Government proposals for English votes for English laws Standing Orders: interim report (First report of Session 2015-16 - HC410). ...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 20 October 2015
The steel industry across Europe and around the world is facing challenges on a scale unprecedented in recent history. The situation facing the people of Redcar, Scunthorpe, and other communities across the UK where the local economy is built on steel, is...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 20 October 2015
I am announcing today the roll out of the second phase of the measures relating to the private rented sector as prescribed by sections 20-37 of the Immigration Act 2014, otherwise known as the Right to Rent scheme. Where these provisions apply, landlords ...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 20 October 2015
The Secretary of State for Wales (Stephen Crabb): I am pleased today to publish the draft Wales Bill for pre-legislative scrutiny.The draft Bill sets out the Government’s plans for a stronger, clearer and fairer devolution settlement for Wales that will s...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 20 October 2015
A meeting of the Economic and Financial Affairs Council was held in Luxembourg on 6 October 2015. Ministers discussed the following items: Mandatory automatic exchange of information in the field of taxationMinisters reached a political agreement on the t...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 20 October 2015
My rt hon Friend the Minister of State for Immigration (James Brokenshire) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement:I am announcing today the roll out of the second phase of the measures relating to the private rented sector as prescribe...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 20 October 2015
My Rt hon. friend the Secretary of State for Wales (Stephen Crabb) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement: The Secretary of State for Wales (Stephen Crabb): I am pleased today to publish the draft Wales Bill for pre-legislative scrutiny.The ...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 20 October 2015
My honourable friend the Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr David Gauke) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement. A meeting of the Economic and Financial Affairs Council was held in Luxembourg on 6 October 2015. Ministers discussed...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 20 October 2015
My Rt hon Friend the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills (Sajid Javid) has today made the following statement.The steel industry across Europe and around the world is facing challenges on a scale unprecedented in recent history. The sit...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 20 October 2015
My Rt Hon. Friend the Leader of the House of Commons has made the following statement to the House of Commons:The Government wrote to the House of Commons Procedure Committee on Monday 19 October 2015, in response to the publication of its report on 'Gove...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 19 October 2015
I am pleased to today publish our Counter-Extremism Strategy.Extremism poses a serious threat to this country. Our diverse society thrives because of the values that unite us, including democracy, the rule of law, free speech and mutual respect. Extremist...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 19 October 2015
My rt hon Friend the Secretary of State for the Home Department (Theresa May) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement:I am pleased to today publish our Counter-Extremism Strategy.Extremism poses a serious threat to this country. Our div...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 October 2015
In the last financial year HM Courts & Tribunals Service (HMCTS) collected over £550m of fines, other financial impositions, fixed penalties and orders, and that money has helped to fund vital services for taxpayers. To build on this work, in July 201...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 October 2015
The Secretary of State for Transport (Patrick Mcloughlin): I attended the first formal Transport Council meeting under the Luxembourg Presidency (The Presidency) on Thursday 8 October 2015. The Council unanimously agreed general approaches on two proposal...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 October 2015
My written statement of 25 June provided an update on work to move UK Green Investment Bank plc (GIB) into private ownership. It was always our intention that GIB should mobilise maximum private investment in the green economy. This reflects our policy ai...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 October 2015
On behalf of the Government, I am today announcing that we have published a response to the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) welcoming their report and recommendations in respect of the super - complaint made by Which? alleging pricing malpractice ...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 October 2015
The UK was represented at official level at the informal Transport Council held under the Luxembourg Presidency (The Presidency) on Wednesday 7 October 2015. The theme of the informal Transport Council was cycling as a mode of transport. The main agenda i...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 October 2015
I have today written to the head teacher at the Weald of Kent Grammar School in Tonbridge, Kent, to confirm that I have approved their proposal to expand on to a new site in Sevenoaks, Kent.It is this Government’s policy that all good and outstanding scho...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 October 2015
The Government is committed to making sure bereaved people are at the very heart of the coroner system. I am therefore pleased to announce the launch of a post-implementation review of the coroner reforms in the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 (‘the 2009 Ac...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 October 2015
Money laundering is a key enabler of serious and organised crime. Money laundering can undermine the integrity and stability of our financial markets and institutions. Countering terrorist financing is also important in protecting national security and fo...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 October 2015
My Noble Friend The Minister of State, Department for Work and Pensions (Baroness Altmann) has made the following Written Statement.The new State Pension comes into payment from April 6 Next Year. This reform will bring much-needed clarity to a system tha...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 October 2015
On 16th July 2015, the TV Licence Fee Enforcement Review, independently led on behalf of the Government by David Perry QC, was published and laid before Parliament.In accordance with section 77(3) of the Deregulation Act 2015, I am now pleased to present ...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 October 2015
HM Treasury has today provided a further report to Parliament in relation to the bilateral loan to Ireland as required under the Loans to Ireland Act 2010. The report relates to the period from 1 April 2015 to 30 September 2015.A written ministerial state...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 October 2015
My right hon. Friend the Minister of State in the House of Lords, Earl Howe has made the following Written Ministerial Statement. I am today announcing the start of a comprehensive review of the three Service Museums; the National Army Museum, RAF Museum ...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 October 2015
Firstly I would like to send my apologies that a pre-Council letter was not sent ahead of the Council on this occasion. This is a rare occurrence owing to a combination of late finalisation of the agenda for Council, and conference recess.The Justice and ...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 October 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."In the last financial year HM Courts & Tribunals Service (HMCTS) collecte...