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United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 18 October 2021
My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Defence (The Rt Hon Ben Wallace MP) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement.In February 2017, the then Secretary of State for Defence announced that the Iraq Historic Allegations Team (IHAT) wou...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 14 October 2021
The Government wants to ensure that the UK has world-class fixed and wireless digital infrastructure as soon as possible, unlocking the huge economic and social benefits these will bring.On 24th June 2021 the Government therefore announced that we will de...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 11 October 2021
The Department for Education committed to our intention that exams and assessments would go ahead in 2022 in April. On 12 July, recognising that students taking exams in 2022 have had considerable disruption to their education, Ofqual and the department p...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 11 October 2021
My Right Honourable friend the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (Kwasi Kwarteng) made the following statement on the 20th September:Today I am laying before Parliament the draft revised energy National Policy Statements. The...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 11 October 2021
My Honourable friend the Minister for London and Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Small Business, Consumers and Labour Markets) (Paul Scully) made the following statement on the 22nd September:I welcome that Sir Wyn Williams, Chair of ...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 11 October 2021
My Honourable friend the Minister for London and Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Small Business, Consumers and Labour Markets) (Paul Scully) made the following statement on the 23rd September:The Government has today published a consu...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 11 October 2021
I am repeating the following Written Ministerial Statement made on 22 September 2021 in the other place by my Right Honourable Friend, the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, Nadine Dorries MP:I am pleased to lay before the House the...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 11 October 2021
I am repeating the following Written Ministerial Statement made on 22 September 2021 in the other place by my Honourable Friend, the Minister for Tech and the Digital Economy, Chris Philp MP:On 7 June the government announced that Malcolm Sheehan QC had b...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 11 October 2021
My Honourable friend the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Vaccines and Public Health) (Maggie Throup) made the following statement on the 21st September:I am today announcing the Government’s decision to introduce mandatory fortificati...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 24 September 2021
My Rt Hon Friend the Prime Minister has made the following statement:I am making this statement to bring to the House’s attention the following Machinery of Government change.Responsibility for driving forward the levelling up agenda and elections and UK ...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 23 September 2021
The Government has today published a consultation on flexible working and the response to our consultation on a new right to time away from work for unpaid carers. These deliver on commitments in our Manifesto and are an important part of our drive to bui...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 23 September 2021
The hon. Member for Angus (Dave Doogan) has replaced the hon. Member for Lanark and Hamilton East (Angela Crawley) as a Member of the United Kingdom delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 23 September 2021
On 20 May my predecessor, my Right Honourable friend, the member for Portsmouth North, announced the appointment of Sir Robert Francis QC to carry out an independent study to look at options for a framework for compensation for victims of infected blood. ...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 23 September 2021
A Protocol to the Agreement with the Taipei Representative Office in London was signed in London on 11th August and in Taipei on 19th August. The text of the Protocol is available on HM Revenue and Customs’ pages of the GOV.UK website and will be deposite...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 23 September 2021
As a major global financial centre, a key component of the UK’s economic strength and prosperity is our openness to investment and trade. However, this quality also makes the UK economy vulnerable to illicit finance activities, including proliferation fin...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 23 September 2021
The Government has set out an ambition to become one of the most digitally advanced tax authorities in the world.Making Tax Digital (MTD) is the first phase of our move towards a modern, digital tax service fit for the 21st century. It supports businesses...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 23 September 2021
I am making this statement to bring to the House’s attention the following Machinery of Government change.Responsibility for driving forward the levelling up agenda and elections and UK governance and devolution policy is being moved to create a new Depar...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 23 September 2021
My Rt. Hon. Friend, the Paymaster General (Michael Ellis QC MP), has today made the following written statement.On 20 May my predecessor, my Right Honourable friend, the member for Portsmouth North, announced the appointment of Sir Robert Francis QC to ca...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 22 September 2021
I welcome that Sir Wyn Williams, Chair of the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry, has today published a progress update which outlines the work already undertaken by the Inquiry and the planned next steps. The Government looks forward to receiving Sir Wyn’s f...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 22 September 2021
As part of the Government’s work to make the UK the best place in the world to be a veteran, I am committed to ensuring that all veterans who may be struggling are able to access dedicated support. Achieving this depends on a good understanding of where s...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 22 September 2021
I am pleased to lay before the House, the UK’s first National Artificial Intelligence Strategy, which represents a step change in the Government’s approach to this transformative technology. The UK is already a world leader in AI, from trailblazing pionee...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 22 September 2021
On 7 June the government announced that Malcolm Sheehan QC had been appointed to lead an independent review into the regulation of the Football Index gambling product and its operator, BetIndex Ltd. The Terms of Reference set out that the review was to pr...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 22 September 2021
Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs will incur new expenditure in connection with the government’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic in 2021-22. Parliamentary approval for additional resources of £6,000,000 for this new expenditure will be sought in a Suppl...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 September 2021
I am today announcing the Government’s decision to introduce mandatory fortification of flour with folic acid to help prevent neural tube defects in foetuses. The Government initiated a consultation in 2019 on the issue of folic acid fortification. Our re...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 September 2021
I am making this statement to bring to the House’s attention the following Machinery of Government change. Responsibility for the operation of the Vaccine Damage Payments Scheme will transfer from the Department for Work and Pensions to the Department of ...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 September 2021
My Rt Hon Friend the Prime Minister has made the following statement:I am making this statement to bring to the House’s attention the following Machinery of Government change.Responsibility for the operation of the Vaccine Damage Payments Scheme will tran...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 20 September 2021
I would like to update the House on the Department’s implementation of the Supreme Court judgment from July 2019 in the case of Secretary of State for Work and Pensions v. MM, known as MM. The judgment concerned the way we assess the help that someone mig...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 20 September 2021
Today I am laying before Parliament the draft revised energy National Policy Statements. The energy National Policy Statements were first designated in 2011. They set out the Government’s policy for the delivery of energy infrastructure and provide the le...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 16 September 2021
The haulage sector has been experiencing a shortage of HGV drivers worldwide for some time. The issue has been further exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic as driver testing had to be suspended for much of last year, meaning the shortage increased furt...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 16 September 2021
On 12 April, the Government announced that the Prime Minister had asked Nigel Boardman to investigate the development and use of supply chain finance in government, especially the role of Lex Greensill and Greensill Capital (including associated companies...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 16 September 2021
My Hon Friend the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Prevention, Public Health and Primary Care) (Jo Churchill) has today made the following written ministerial statement:Shielding was introduced at the start of the pandemic as one of th...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 16 September 2021
My Hon. Friend, the Minister of State for the Constitution and Devolution (Chloe Smith MP), has today made the following written statement:On 12 April, the Government announced that the Prime Minister had asked Nigel Boardman to investigate the developmen...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 16 September 2021
My Right Honourable friend, the Secretary of State for Transport (Grant Shapps), has made the following Ministerial Statement:The haulage sector has been experiencing a shortage of HGV drivers worldwide for some time. The issue has been further exacerbate...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 September 2021
On 16 March 2021, my Rt. Hon. Friend, the Home Secretary, announced to the House that the Government would be introducing legislation to change the voting system for all Police and Crime Commissioners (PCC), Combined Authority Mayors, and the Mayor of Lon...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 September 2021
This Government is committed to ensuring our democracy is secure, fair, modern and transparent and through the changes being brought in by the Elections Bill, we are updating our electoral systems to ensure they are kept up to date for our age.The Electio...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 September 2021
Shielding was introduced at the start of the pandemic as one of the few interventions available to support those who, at the time, were considered clinically extremely vulnerable.We know shielding advice is extremely restrictive and has a significant impa...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 September 2021
My Hon. Friend, the Minister of State for the Constitution and Devolution (Chloe Smith MP), has today made the following written statement:On 16 March 2021, my Rt. Hon. Friend, the Home Secretary, announced to the House that the Government would be introd...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 September 2021
My Hon. Friend, the Minister of State for the Constitution and Devolution (Chloe Smith MP), has today made the following written statement:This Government is committed to ensuring our democracy is secure, fair, modern and transparent and through the chang...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 14 September 2021
My noble Friend, the Minister of State in the Cabinet Office (the Rt Hon Lord Frost CMG), has today made the following written statement:On 31 December 2020, the UK left the EU’s Single Market and Customs Union. The Government put in place the staffing, i...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 14 September 2021
This Statement concerns an application for development consent made under the Planning Act 2008 by AQUIND Limited for the construction, operation, maintenance and decommissioning of the UK elements of a 2,000MW bi-directional subsea electrical power inter...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 14 September 2021
Her Majesty’s Government (HMG) has decided, based on advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) and further advice from the UK Chief Medical Officers (CMOs), that a first dose of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine should be offer...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 14 September 2021
The UK’s COVID-19 vaccination programme is a recognised success. As of 12 September 2021, 89% of people aged 16 and over in the UK have received one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, and 80% have had their second dose. Public Health England estimate over 143,60...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 14 September 2021
On 31 December 2020, the UK left the EU’s Single Market and Customs Union. The Government put in place the staffing, infrastructure, and IT to ensure a smooth transition. Thanks to the hard work of traders and hauliers, we did not see disruption at our po...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 14 September 2021
My Right Honourable friend the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (Kwasi Kwarteng) has today made the following statement:This Statement concerns an application for development consent made under the Planning Act 2008 by AQUIN...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 14 September 2021
My Hon Friend the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for COVID Vaccine Deployment) (Nadhim Zahawi) has today made the following written ministerial statement: Her Majesty’s Government (HMG) has decided, based on advice from the Joint Committ...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 14 September 2021
My Hon Friend the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for COVID Vaccine Deployment) has today made the following written ministerial statement:The UK’s COVID-19 vaccination programme is a recognised success. As of 12 September 2021, 89% of pe...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 13 September 2021
I am tabling this statement for the benefit of all members of this House to give notice of a Contingencies Fund Advance for the Live Events Reinsurance Scheme.A requirement for a Contingencies Fund Advance has arisen due to the need for the government to ...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 13 September 2021
I am tabling this statement for the benefit of all members of this House to bring to their attention the Departmental Minute issued today that provides the House with notice of a contingent liability created by my Department. This is in relation to the Li...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 13 September 2021
My Right Honourable friend, the Secretary of State for Transport (Grant Shapps), has made the following Ministerial Statement:The HGV driver shortage is a long-standing challenge facing countries across the world. As a result of the pandemic, driver testi...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 13 September 2021
I am repeating the following Written Ministerial Statement made today in the other place by my Honourable Friend, the Minister of State for Digital and Culture, Caroline Dinenage MP:I am tabling this statement for the benefit of all members of this House ...