Written Ministerial Statements
Formal statements made by UK government ministers to Parliament.
3,440 statements
Justice and Home Affairs pre-Council statement
The EU Justice and Home Affairs Council of Ministers will meet on 12 and 13 October in Luxembourg. The Minister of State for Immigration, the Rt Hon Brandon Lewis MP, and I will represent the UK for Justice day. The Home Secretary the Rt Hon Amber Rudd MP...
Royal Air Force Battle Honours
I am today announcing that Her Majesty The Queen has been graciously pleased to approve the award of Battle Honours to squadrons of Her Majesty’s Royal Air Force, for their participation in Operation TELIC during the period 1 May 2003 to 22 May 2011, Oper...
Double Taxation Convention between the United Kingdom and Belarus
My right honourable friend the the Financial Secretary to the Treasury has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement.A Double Taxation Convention with Belarus was signed on 26 September 2017. The text of the Convention has been deposited in t...
ECOFIN 10 October 2017 and Informal ECOFIN 15-16 September 2017
My right honourable friend the Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Elizabeth Truss) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement.A meeting of the Economic and Financial Affairs Council (ECOFIN) will be held in Luxembourg on 10th October. EU Fin...
General Affairs Council September 2017
I represented the UK at the General Affairs Council (GAC) meeting in Brussels on Monday 25 September. This was the first meeting of the GAC under the Estonian Presidency.The main items on the agenda were: Presentation of the Priorities of the Estonian Pre...
Justice and Home Affairs pre-Council statement
My Right Honourable Friend the Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice (David Lidington MP) has today made the following written statement:"The EU Justice and Home Affairs Council of Ministers will meet on 12 and 13 October in Luxembourg. ...
Infected Blood: Government response to consultation on the Special Category Mechanism (SCM) and other support in England
My hon. Friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health (Jackie Doyle-Price) has made the following written statement:In 2016 the Government decided to improve the way we support people who have suffered as a result of the infected blood trag...
Student finance update
My honourable friend the Minister of State for Universities, Science, Research and Innovation (Joseph Johnson MP) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement.I am today confirming the earnings threshold above which individuals are required to mak...
Commonwealth Games 2022
My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport has made the following Written Ministerial Statement.I wish to inform the House that, on 9 October 2017, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport laid a minute r...
Northern Ireland Update
My Right honourable friend the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (James Brokenshire) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement:The DUP and Sinn Fein continue their discussions towards the formation of an Executive in Northern Ireland. The...
Update on the Lugano and Hague Conventions
My Right Honourable Friend, the Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor, has made the following Written Ministerial Statement:“The United Kingdom has opted in to the following Council Decisions:(i) Council Decision of 7 February 2013, authorisi...
Appointment of new Bulgarian Commissioner to the European Commission
On 7 July 2017, the Council of the European Union supported the appointment of Ms Mariya Gabriel as the new Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society. The UK voted in favour of the appointment of Ms Gabriel as Commissioner. Ms Gabriel is scheduled to h...
Cabinet Committees and Implementation Taskforces
The First Secretary of State and Minister for the Cabinet Office has made the following Written Ministerial Statement.Today the Government is publishing an updated list of Cabinet Committees and Implementation Taskforces.Copies of the associated documents...
Edinburgh and South East Scotland City Region Deal
My Right honourable friend the Secretary of State for Scotland (David Mundell) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement:In March 2016, the Government announced their intention to negotiate a city region deal for Edinburgh and South East Scotla...
Publications relating to the former independent reviewer of terrorist legislation
My rt hon Friend the Secretary of State for the Home Department (Amber Rudd) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement:In November 2013, the then Home Secretary asked David Anderson QC to conduct a review of the framework of the UK’s Depo...
Provision of Security Assistance to Somalia
My Honourable Friend, the Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Rory Stewart), has made the following has made the following written Ministerial statement:The UK remains committed to building a stable, peaceful and prosperous future for ...
Rail update
My Right Honourable friend, the Secretary of State for Transport (Chris Grayling), has made the following Ministerial Statement.I wish to inform the House about some important developments regarding the rail networks of the Midland Main Line, South Wales ...
High Level Output Specification
My Right Honourable friend, the Secretary of State for Transport (Chris Grayling), has made the following Ministerial Statement.I am today publishing my High Level Output Specification (HLOS) and initial Statement of Funds Available (SOFA) for the railway...
Questions for Written Answer - 2016/17 session
I am today publishing data on departmental performance in answering Questions for Written Answer (QWA) for the 2016/17 session. Written questions are an important way in which Members hold the Government to account, and the House has agreed that they shou...
The Insolvency Service Performance Targets 2017-18
My honourable Friend the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Small Business, Consumers and Corporate Responsibility for the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy(Margot James) has today made the following statement:I have set perfo...
Inter-Pillar Transfer Rate in England
My Right Hon Friend the Secretary of State (Michael Gove) has today made the following statement.Today I am announcing that the amount transferred from farmers’ Pillar 1 direct payments to Pillar 2 rural development in England will remain at 12% for 2019 ...
Machinery of Government Changes: Home Buying Policy, Commonhold Law, and Protected Persons
My Rt Hon. Friend the Prime Minister has made the following statement to the House of Commons:This written statement confirms three machinery of Government changes.Responsibility for home buying policy, including estate agent regulation, will transfer fro...
Type 26 Frigates
My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Defence (Sir Michael Fallon) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement. Following the announcement earlier this month that the Ministry of Defence had signed a £3.7 billion contract for the first ...
Annual Human Rights and Democracy Report 2016
My right Honourable Friend, the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Boris Johnson), has made the following written Ministerial statement:I have today laid before Parliament a copy of the 2016 Foreign and Commonwealth Office Report on ...
Home Office Science Advisory Non-Departmental Public Bodies
My rt hon Friend the Secretary of State for the Home Department (Amber Rudd) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement:On 21 July 2014, my predecessor, Home Secretary Theresa May, announced in Parliament, through a Written Ministerial Sta...