Written Ministerial Statements
Formal statements made by UK government ministers to Parliament.
3,440 statements
Energy Bill: Memorandum of Updated Analysis of English Votes for English Laws
I am pleased to announce the publication of updated analysis of the Energy Bill for the purposes of English Votes for English Laws.The English Votes for English Laws process applies to public bills in the House of Commons. To support the process, the Gove...
Enterprise Bill
I am today placing in the Libraries of the House the Department’s analysis on the application of Standing Order 83L in respect of the non-Government amendment passed at Commons Report stage for the Enterprise Bill.
Future of the National Measurement and Regulation Office
I wish to inform the House of a change regarding the future of the National Measurement and Regulation Office. The National Measurement and Regulation Office has responsibility for simplifying technical regulation for the benefit of British businesses thr...
NHS Learning Culture
I would like to inform the House of the steps the Government is taking to make the NHS the safest healthcare system in the world. Perhaps the single most important thing we can do is to create a learning rather than a blame culture, so that clinicians fee...
NHS Learning Culture
My Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health (Jeremy Hunt) has made the following written ministerial statement. I would like to inform the House of the steps the Government is taking to make the NHS the safest healthcare system in the world. Perh...
Armed Forces' Pay Review Body - 2016 Report
The 2016 Report of the Armed Forces’ Pay Review Body (AFPRB) has now been published. I wish to express my thanks to the Chair and members of the Review Body for their Report. The AFPRB recommendations are to be accepted in full and will become effective f...
ECOFIN: 8 March 2016
A meeting of the Economic and Financial Affairs Council will be held in Brussels on 8 March 2016. EU Finance Ministers are due to discuss the following items:Mandatory automatic exchange of information in the field of taxationThe Council will hold a discu...
Violence against Women and Girls
On Tuesday 8 March, to mark International Women’s Day, the Government is publishing it’s Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) Strategy for this Parliament. A copy will be placed in the House Library.We have made progress since publishing the original C...
Justice and Home Affairs pre-Council statement
The Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) Council is due to be held on 10 and 11 March in Brussels. I will be attending Interior Day on behalf of the United Kingdom.Thursday (Interior Day) will begin with a discussion on migration, continued over lunch, during w...
North Korea (the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, DPRK)
My right Honourable Friend, the Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Hugo Swire), has made the following written Ministerial statement:I would like to update the House on recent developments on the Korean Peninsula, the international re...
Report of the NHS Pay Review Body
My Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health (Jeremy Hunt) has made the following written ministerial statement. I am responding on behalf of my Rt. Hon. Friend the Prime Minister to the 29th Report of the NHS Pay Review Body (NHSPRB). The report ...
Report of the Review Body on Doctors' and Dentists' Remuneration
My Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health (Jeremy Hunt) has made the following written ministerial statement. I am responding on behalf of my Rt. Hon. Friend the Prime Minister to the 44th Report of the Review Body on Doctors’ and Dentists’ Rem...
Publication of the 2016 England and Wales Prison Service Pay Review Body Fitheenth Report
My honourable friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice, Minister for Prisons, Probation and Rehabilitation (Andrew Selous) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement. "The fifteenth report of the Prison Service Pay Revi...
Armed Forces’ Pay Review Body – 2016 Report
My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Defence (Mr Michael Fallon) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement. The 2016 Report of the Armed Forces’ Pay Review Body (AFPRB) has now been published. I wish to express my thanks to the Chair...
Violence against Women and Girls
My rt hon Friend the Secretary of State for the Home Department (Theresa May) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement:On Tuesday 8 March, to mark International Women’s Day, the Government is publishing it’s Violence Against Women and Gi...
Enterprise Bill
My Rt hon Friend the Minister of State for Small Business, Industry and Enterprise (Anna Soubry) has today made the following statement. I am today placing in the Library of the House the Department’s analysis on the application of Standing Order 83L in r...
Post-Council Written Ministerial Statement–Competitiveness Council 29th February
The Competitiveness Council took place in Brussels on Monday 29th February. I represented the UK for the Internal Market and Industry discussion. The Council started with the ‘competitiveness check-up.’ The discussion focussed on the issue of scale-up wit...
ECOFIN: 8 March 2016
My honourable friend the Finacial Secretary to the Treasury (David Gauke) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement.A meeting of the Economic and Financial Affairs Council will be held in Brussels on 8 March 2016. EU Finance Ministers are...
EU-Turkey Summit
My Rt Hon. Friend the Prime Minister has made the following statement to the House of Commons:I attended the EU-Turkey Summit and Informal European Council meeting in Brussels on 7 March. The context for this summit was the significant increase in the num...
Justice and Home Affairs pre-Council statement
The Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) Council is due to be held on 10 and 11 March in Brussels. My Right Honourable Friend the Home Secretary (Theresa May) will be attending Interior Day on behalf of the United Kingdom and I will be attending Justice Day. Th...
February Agriculture and Fisheries Council
I represented the UK at the Agriculture and Fisheries Council on 15 February in Brussels.The chair of the Council, Netherlands Minister for Agriculture, presented their work programme for the duration of the Dutch Presidency. It focused on the key areas o...
Justice and Home Affairs pre-Council statement
A meeting of the Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) Council will be held on 25th February, which I will attend on behalf of the UK.The Council will begin with a discussion of the proposed draft Regulation regarding the reinforcement of checks against relevant...
Assessment of December 2015 electoral registers in Great Britain
The Electoral Commission has today published a report on its analysis of the December 2015 electoral registers in Great Britain and its assessment of the Individual Electoral Registration (IER) activities carried out by Electoral Registration Officers (ER...
Operation of the UK’s Counter-Terrorist Asset Freezing Regime: 1 October 2015 to 31 December 2015
Under the Terrorist Asset-Freezing etc. Act 2010 (TAFA 2010), the Treasury is required to report to Parliament, quarterly, on its operation of the UK’s asset freezing regime mandated by UN Security Council Resolution 1373. This is the seventeenth report u...
February Agriculture and Fisheries Council
My Hon Friend the Minister of State (George Eustice) has today made the following statement.I represented the UK at the Agriculture and Fisheries Council on 15 February in Brussels.The chair of the Council, Netherlands Minister for Agriculture, presented ...