Written Ministerial Statements

APPOINTMENT OF NON-EXECUTIVE BOARD MEMBERS AT THE DEPARTMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL TRADE

I wish to update the House on the appointment of Non-Executive Board Members (NEBMs) at the Department for International Trade.I am pleased to announce to the House that three independent NEBMs have been appointed to sit on our Departmental Board. A furth...

Education, Youth, Culture and Sport Council

The Education, Youth, Culture and Sport Council will take place in Brussels on 21 and 22 November 2016. Shan Morgan, the UK Deputy Permanent Representative to the EU will represent the UK at the Youth section of the Council. I will represent the UK at bot...

NHS Professionals Limited

My hon. Friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health (Lord Prior of Brampton) has made the following written statement:I am today updating the House on the future of NHS Professionals Limited (‘The Company’).The Company was set up as a lim...

Housing Benefit and Universal Credit

Following the recent Supreme Court judgments relating to the removal of the Spare Room Subsidy, and to ensure the facts of the cases are fully understood, I would draw colleagues’ attention to the following entry in Hansard:https://hansard.parliament.uk/c...

Housing Policy

This week it was announced that almost 190,000 new homes were delivered in 2015-16, with over 30,000 of these as a direct result of ‘change of use’. This is welcome progress but we know that there is more we need to do. That is why we are working on a Hou...

APPOINTMENT OF NON-EXECUTIVE BOARD MEMBERS AT THE DEPARTMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL TRADE

My Rt hon Friend the Secretary of State and President of the Board of Trade (Dr Liam Fox) has today made the following statement.I wish to update the House on the appointment of Non-Executive Board Members (NEBMs) at the Department for International Trade...

Education, Youth, Culture and Sport Council

My Rt Hon Friend the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport (Karen Bradley) has made the following Statement:The Education, Youth, Culture and Sport Council will take place in Brussels on 21 and 22 November 2016. Shan Morgan, the UK Deputy Perman...

NHS Professionals Limited

I am today updating the House on the future of NHS Professionals Limited (‘The Company’).The Company was set up as a limited company fully owned by the Secretary of State for Health in 2010. Whilst it is the largest single supplier of flexible staffing to...

Housing Benefit and Universal Credit

My Honorable Friend The Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Welfare Delivery (Caroline Nokes) has made the following Written Statement:Following the recent Supreme Court judgments relating to the removal of the Spare Room Subsidy, and to ensure the...

Housing Policy

Today, My Hon Friend the Minister of state for Housing & Planning & Minister for London made the following Written Ministerial Statement.This week it was announced that almost 190,000 new homes were delivered in 2015-16, with over 30,000 of these ...

Social Fund Annual Report 2014/15

In the Annual Report of the Social Fund by the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions on the Social Fund 2014/2015, published in June 2015, in Annex 9 on page 52 of the report the number of Social Fund appeals decided in the appellant's favour was incor...

ECOFIN: 11 October 2016

A meeting of The Economic and Financial Affairs Council (ECOFIN) was held in Luxembourg on 11 October 2016. The Government is committed to leaving the European Union; in the interim, it continues to participate fully in ECOFIN meetings. EU Finance Ministe...

Technical and Further Education

We have today introduced a Technical and Further Education Bill. My ambition is to drive long needed improvements in the quality of technical education in this country - mirroring the impact of this Government’s reforms to the quality of academic educatio...

Technical review of the current English Votes for English Laws Standing Orders

Today I am launching a scheduled technical review of the current English Votes for English Laws Standing Orders. The previous Leader of the House of Commons committed to a review of the Standing Orders 12 months after their introduction and I am now honou...

Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures (1 June 2016 to 31 August 2016)

Section 19(1) of the Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures Act 2011 (the Act) requires the Secretary of State to report to Parliament as soon as reasonably practicable after the end of every relevant three-month period on the exercise of her TPI...

Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures (1 June 2016 to 31 August 2016)

My rt hon Friend the Secretary of State for the Home Department (Amber Rudd) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement:Section 19(1) of the Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures Act 2011 (the Act) requires the Secretary of State...

Technical review of the current English Votes for English Laws Standing Orders

My Rt Hon. Friend the Leader of the House of Commons has made the following statement to the House of Commons:Today I am launching a scheduled technical review of the current English Votes for English Laws Standing Orders.The previous Leader of the House ...

Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council 13 October 2016

The Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council met on 13th October 2016 in Luxembourg. Damian Hinds MP, Minister of State for Employment at the Department for Work and Pensions, represented the UK. The Council reached a General Approac...

Correction to Description of the Calculation of Winter Fuel Payments in Parliamentary Question; UIN 167864, Official Report, 9 Sep 2013: Column 612W

An error has been identified in a reply to a written question given to the hon. Member for North Thanet, Official Report, 9 Sep 2013: Column 612W.The reply given was:Sir Roger Gale: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions which French tropical...

Supporting Apprenticeships

Apprenticeships transform lives and are vital in making this a country that works for everyone. As well as giving young people the chance to build a better future by taking their first step on the employment ladder, they give those already in work the opp...

Amendments to the founding Regulation establishing the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA)

The Government welcomes the efforts of the Commission to address the ongoing migration crisis, but has decided not to opt in to the JHA content in the proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EC) No. 140...

UK Guarantee for Hinkley Point C

The UK Guarantees scheme was announced in July 2012 with spending cover provided through the Infrastructure (Financial Assistance) Act 2012, receiving Royal Assent on 31 October 2012. The scheme provides a sovereign-backed guarantee to help infrastructure...

Foreign Affairs Council – 17 October 2016

My Right Honourable Friend the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs attended the Foreign Affairs Council on 17 October. The Foreign Affairs Council was chaired by the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Sec...

Contingent Liability arising from the Loan Guarantee Agreement with the World Bank Group Covering an IBRD Loan to the Government of Iraq

I have today laid a departmental Minute outlining details of a contingent liability of the US Dollar equivalent of £360 million which DFID has undertaken, in respect of the World Bank Group. The twin shocks of the Daesh insurgency and the 40% decline in g...

Correction to Description of the Calculation of Winter Fuel Payments in Parliamentary Question; UIN 167864, Official Report, 9 Sep 2013: Column 612W

My honourable Friend the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Pensions (Richard Harrington MP) has made the following Written Statement.An error has been identified in a reply to a written question given to the hon. Member for North Thanet, Official...