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My hon Friend the Minister of State for Skills (Nick Boles) has today made the following statement.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 a...
My Rt hon Friend the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills has today made the following statement.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 ...
My honourable friend the Financial Secretary to the Treasury (David Gauke) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement.HM Treasury has today provided a further report to Parliament in relation to the bilateral loan to Ireland as required un...
My honourable friend the Economic Secretary to the Treasury (Harriett Baldwin) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement.Money laundering is a key enabler of serious and organised crime. Money laundering can undermine the integrity and st...
My Hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport has made the following Written Ministerial Statement. On 16th July 2015, the TV Licence Fee Enforcement Review, independently led on behalf of the Government by David Perry QC, was publish...
My honourable friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Women, Equalities and Family Justice (Caroline Dinenage) has made the following Written Statement."The Government is committed to making sure bereaved people are at the very heart of...
My Right Honourable friend, the Secretary of State for Transport (Patrick McLoughlin), has made the following Ministerial Statement:The UK was represented at official level at the informal Transport Council held under the Luxembourg Presidency (The Presid...
My Right Honourable friend, the Secretary of State for Transport (Patrick McLoughlin), has made the following Ministerial Statement:The Secretary of State for Transport (Patrick Mcloughlin): I attended the first formal Transport Council meeting under the ...
The new State Pension comes into payment from April 6 Next Year. This reform will bring much-needed clarity to a system that few people truly understand, and will reduce the need for pensioner means-testing. Alongside this, over 5.4 million employees have...
Enhancing transparency and accountability has been at the heart of our approach to government over the last five years. We have opened up the books on central and local government spending to help drive out waste and inefficiency. We are publishing more a...
My Right Honourable Friend the Secretary of State for Education has today made the following statement: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 expan...
I am today announcing the start of a comprehensive review of the three Service Museums; the National Army Museum, RAF Museum and National Museum of the Royal Navy, all of which are Executive Non-Departmental Public Bodies (ENDPB) of the Ministry of Defenc...
My Right Honourable Friend the Secretary of State for the Home Department (Theresa May) has made the following written statement."Firstly I would like to send my apologies that a pre-Council letter was not sent ahead of the Council on this occasion. ...
An exchange of letters signed in London on 22 September 2015 and in St Peter Port on 7 October 2015, amends the 1952 Double Taxation Arrangement with Guernsey. The texts of the letters have been deposited in the Libraries of both Houses and made available...
An exchange of letters signed in London on 22 September 2015 and in St Helier on 1 October 2015, amends the 1952 Double Taxation Arrangement with Jersey. The texts of the letters have been deposited in the Libraries of both Houses and made available on th...
My honourable friend the Financial Secretary to the Treasury (David Gauke) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement. An exchange of letters signed in London on 22 September 2015 and in St Peter Port on 7 October 2015, amends the 1952 Dou...
My honourable friend the Financial Secretary to the Treasury has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement.An exchange of letters signed in London on 22 September 2015 and in St Helier on 1 October 2015, amends the 1952 Double Taxation Arrang...
The Government has made a further sale of Royal Mail plc shares equivalent to 13% of the company, at a price of 455p pence per share. The Government will also take this final opportunity to reward Royal Mail’s eligible UK employees for their hard work and...
Together with my Rt hon Friend, the Secretary of State for the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (Rt hon John Whittingdale). I am today announcing that Professor Michael Waterson, Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick, has been appoint...
I attended the EU Environment Council in Brussels on 18 September. Dr Aileen McLeod, Scottish Minister for Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform also attended. Following the final formal agreement on the Market Stability Reserve for the EU Emissions...
The Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council took place on 5 October 2015 in Luxembourg. Shan Morgan the UK Deputy Permanent Representative to the European Union, represented the UK. There was a policy debate on social governance. As...
Today I am publishing a Report on the enforcement provisions of the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008 (the “CPRs”). The report reviews the case for giving businesses a power to seek civil injunctions against ‘copycat packaging’ (pac...
Following a consultation exercise led by my Department in early 2015, the Government has made an amendment to the Order delegating the exercise of certain marine licensing functions to the Marine Management Organisation( MMO). These changes took effect on...
Further to my statement yesterday, I want to update the House on matters relating to SSI UK in Redcar.Yesterday afternoon, the Official Receiver, in his capacity as liquidator of SSI UK Ltd, announced that he had received no viable offers for the Coke Ove...
My Rt hon Friend the Secretary of State for Department of Business, Innovation and Skills has today made the following statement.The Government has made a further sale of Royal Mail plc shares equivalent to 13% of the company, at a price of 455p pence per...
My Rt hon Friend the Secretary of State for the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (Sajid Javid) has today made the following statement.Together with my Rt hon Friend, the Secretary of State for the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (Rt ...
My Hon Friend the Minister of State (George Eustice) has today made the following statement.Following a consultation exercise led by my Department in early 2015, the Government has made an amendment to the Order delegating the exercise of certain marine l...
My hon Friend the Minister of State for Skills (Nick Boles) has today made the following statement.Today I am publishing a Report on the enforcement provisions of the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008 (the “CPRs”). The report review...
My Rt hon Friend the Secretary of State for Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has today made the following statement.Further to my statement yesterday, I want to update the House on matters relating to SSI UK in Redcar.Yesterday afternoon, th...
My Rt. Hon Friend the Secretary of State (Amber Rudd) has today made the following statement.I attended the EU Environment Council in Brussels on 18 September. Dr Aileen McLeod, Scottish Minister for Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform also attend...
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 took place on 5 October 2015 in Luxembourg. Shan Morgan the UK Deputy Perma...
I am pleased to announce that the Government has published policy evidence to support the Low Pay Commission’s research towards recommendations due in 2016. I have written to the LPC to set out what we would like the Commission to consider on the National...
On 30 September, I was pleased to confirm that work to electrify Transpennine and Midland Mainline railways would resume under plans announced as part of Sir Peter Hendy’s work to reset Network Rail’s upgrade programme. Sir Peter Hendy, the Chair of Netwo...
I want to update the House on matters relating to SSI in Redcar, which entered Liquidation on Friday 2 October 2015.Both the Minister of State for Small Business, Industry and Enterprise and I were in Redcar during recess. SSI’s work reviving steel making...
With the expiry of the call-out order made on 1 October 2014, on 21 September 2015 a new order was made under section 56(1B) of the Reserve Forces Act 1996 to enable Reservists to be called into permanent service in support of United Kingdom operations to...
Changes made by the Defence Reform Act 2014 allow for Reservists to be called out under section 56(1B) of the Reserve Forces Act 1996 if it appears to the Secretary of State that it is necessary or desirable to use members of a reserve force for any purpo...
Further to my statement to the House on 25 February (Official Report, column 321) and my written statement of 6 March this year (Official Report, column 83), I wish to update the House on our support for the Ukrainian Armed Forces.The February ceasefire a...
I attended the informal Foreign Ministers meeting on 4–5 September in Luxembourg.The informal format of the Gymnich allows EU Foreign Ministers to engage in a free-ranging discussion on a number of issues. In contrast to the formal Foreign Affairs Council...
The UK’s Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance capabilities and equipping our Special Forces are two high priority issues for the Strategic Defence and Security Review. We have reached some early decisions in these two key areas. We will more than ...
Last week the Chancellor announced the Government’s intention to make significant reforms to the way in which local government is funded while taking a major step forward in our plans to place more power in the hands of local communities.Since 2013, local...
The Government is pleased to announce that it has reached an agreement with the National Housing Federation, which will extend Right to Buy discounts to at least 1.3 million more families across the country.We want more people to be able to own a home of ...
During the Westminster Hall debate “Arms Sales (Human Rights)” on Thursday, 17 September (HC Deb, col 407WH) I told my right hon. Friend, the Member for Twickenham (Dr Mathias), that Bahrain was “an example of a country that is on the list of concern”, re...
I have today laid before the House a Departmental Minute describing a package of equipment, with a total value of £2,407,450 which the UK intends to gift to the Jordanian Armed Forces . Conventional Jordanian forces lack the agility, as well as the traini...
On 15 July 2015 I made a statement regarding the inquest into the deaths of three Army reservists, Corporal James Dunsby, Lance Corporal Craig Roberts and Lance Corporal Edward Maher who died as a result of training activity on the Brecon Beacons in Wales...
Today I have laid before Parliament an updated Charter for Budget Responsibility. It sets out a fiscal framework to entrench a commitment to reach surplus and maintain it in normal times. It also includes the updates to the Charter recommended by the HM T...
I wish to inform the House of the latest developments on vehicle emissions testing, following the revelations of Friday 18 September that Volkswagen Group had been fitting so-called defeat devices to some of its vehicles.Volkswagen Group has admitted that...
My honourable Friend the Minister of State for Skills (Nick Boles) has today made the following statement.I am pleased to announce that the Government has published policy evidence to support the Low Pay Commission’s research towards recommendations due i...
My Right Honourable friend, the Secretary of State for Transport (Patrick McLoughlin), has made the following Ministerial Statement:On 30 September, I was pleased to confirm that work to electrify Transpennine and Midland Mainline railways would resume un...
My hon. Friend the Minister of State for the Armed Forces (Penny Mordaunt) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement: With the expiry of the call-out order made on 1 October 2014, on 21 September 2015 a new order was made under section 56(1B) o...
My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Defence (Mr Michael Fallon) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement.Further to my statement to the House on 25 February (Official Report, column 321) and my written statement of 6 March this yea...