Written Ministerial Statements
Formal statements made by UK government ministers to Parliament.
3,440 statements
Response to Water Supplies Situation following Severe Weather
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ECOFIN: 20 February 2018
A meeting of The Economic and Financial Affairs Council (ECOFIN) was held in Brussels on 20 February 2018. The UK was represented by Mark Bowman (Director General, International and EU, HM Treasury). EU Finance Ministers discussed the following:Early Morn...
Abortions performed in England for women from Northern Ireland
On 29 June 2017, the then Minister for Women and Equalities wrote to MPs and informed them that women normally resident in Northern Ireland would no longer be charged for abortions received in England. An update informing the House of progress was given o...
Financial Services
Following the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) announcement that it has now concluded its enforcement investigations into the Co-op Bank and related individuals, I have today laid a Direction before Parliament requiring the Prudential Regulation Author...
Protocol to the Double Taxation Convention between the United Kingdom and Mauritius
A protocol to the Double Taxation Convention with Mauritius was signed on 28 February 2018. The text of the Protocol is available on HM Revenue and Customs’ pages of the Gov.uk website and will be deposited in the Libraries of both Houses. The text will b...
Review of the National Employer Advisory Board
The Ministry of Defence (MOD) has conducted a review of the role and status of the National Employer Advisory Board (NEAB), a Non-Departmental Public Body sponsored by the Department. The review found that the NEAB had made a major contribution to shaping...
Meeting of States Parties of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention
States Parties to the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC) held their annual meeting 4-8 December 2017. This was the first such meeting since the Convention’s Eighth Review Conference in November 2016, on which I made a statement to the House on...
Contingent Liability
I am pleased to inform the House that I am today laying a Departmental Minute to advise that the Ministry of Defence (MOD) has received approval in principle from Her Majesty’s Treasury (HMT) to recognise new contingent liabilities associated with the Ast...
Response to Water Supplies Situation following Severe Weather
The exceptionally cold spell last week and the rapid thaw that followed has caused widespread water supply issues in the country. Over the weekend and at the start of the week tens of thousands of people across the south east of England have experienced l...
February Agriculture and Fisheries Council
Agriculture and Fisheries Council took place in Brussels on 19 February. Counsellor Rory O’Donnell represented the UK. The most substantive Council discussion was an exchange of views on ‘The Future of Food and Farming’, a continuation of early discussion...
Planning Policy
The Government has made it clear that we need to get our country building. At Budget 2017 we set out reforms to enable us to achieve 300,000 homes built each year by the middle of the next decade. The Housing White Paper, published in February last year, ...
Relaxation of licensing hours during the Royal Wedding, 2018
The Government has consulted on a proposal to make a Licensing Hours Extension Order under section 172 of the Licensing Act 2003 to relax licensing hours nationally to celebrate the wedding of HRH Prince Henry and Ms Meghan Markle on 19 May 2018. Followin...
Independent Monitor Annual Report 2016
The 2016 Annual report from the Independent Monitor is being published today on www.gov.uk. A copy of the report will also be placed in the House Library.
Safeguarding and Child Protection
The Minister for Children and Families at the Department for Education and I have today published the Government’s response to the consultation exercise on reporting and acting on child abuse and neglect.The consultation, which ran from 21 July 2016 to 13...
Relaxation of licensing hours during the Royal Wedding, 2018
My hon Friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Crime, Safeguarding and Vulnerability (Victoria Atkins) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement:The Government has consulted on a proposal to make a Licensing Hours Extension ...
Independent Monitor Annual Report 2016
My hon Friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Crime, Safeguarding and Vulnerability (Victoria Atkins) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement:The 2016 Annual report from the Independent Monitor is being published today on...
February Agriculture and Fisheries Council
My Hon Friend Minister of State for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (George Eustice) has today made the following statement:Agriculture and Fisheries Council took place in Brussels on 19 February. Counsellor Rory O’Donnell represented the UK. The most sub...
Planning Policy
My Rt Hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government (Sajid Javid) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement.The Government has made it clear that we need to get our country building. At Budget 2017 we s...
Safeguarding and Child Protection
My hon Friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Crime, Safeguarding and Vulnerability (Victoria Atkins) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement:The Minister for Children and Families at the Department for Education and I ha...
Oversight of investigatory powers
My Rt Hon. Friend the Prime Minister has made the following statement to the House of Commons: On 1 September, the Investigatory Powers Commissioner, Lord Justice Fulford took on responsibility for overseeing the use of investigatory powers by public auth...
Working Group on an Independent Complaints and Grievance Policy
In November, my Rt Hon Friend the Prime Minister convened a cross-party Working Group to establish a new independent complaints and grievance procedure, in response to reports of sexual harassment and bullying in parliament. As Chairman of the Working Gro...
January Agriculture and Fisheries Council
I represented the United Kingdom at the Agriculture and Fisheries Council on 29 January in Brussels. Council began with a presentation by the Bulgarian Presidency, outlining its work programme until the end of June. This set out that discussion on the Com...
Local Government improvement in Suffolk
On 7 November and 30 November respectively I told the House that I was minded to implement, subject to Parliamentary approval, locally-supported proposals I had received from the respective councils to merge district councils in East Suffolk and in West S...
Social Work England update
My honourable friend the Minister of State at the Department of Health and Social Care (Caroline Dinenage) and I are today launching a public consultation on the policy to establish regulations and the regulatory framework for Social Work England. The fra...
Infected Blood Inquiry
I am announcing today the appointment of Sir Brian Langstaff to head the public inquiry into the Infected Blood scandal. The inquiry will be established under the 2005 Inquiries Act, with full powers, including the power to compel the ?production of docum...