Written Ministerial Statements

Triennial Reviews by the Foods Standards Agency

My hon. Friend the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State. Department of Health (Jane Ellison) has made the following written ministerial statement. I am today announcing the start of the Triennial Review by the Food Standards Agency (FSA) of the six Scie...

Inquests into the deaths of service personnel on operations and exercises overseas

My honourable friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice, Minister for Women, Equalities and Family Justice (Caroline Dinenage) has made the following Written Statement."My Honourable friend, the Minister for Defence Personnel an...

Proceeds of Crime Act 2002

My rt hon Friend the Minister of State for Policing, Crime and Criminal Justice and Victims (Mike Penning) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement:My rt hon Friend the Secretary of State for the Home Department is today laying before Pa...

GCSE and A level subject content consultation

My honourable Friend the Minister of State for Schools (Nick Gibb MP) today made the following announcement: Today 10 September 2015 I am launching a public consultation on revised subject content for 6 GCSEs and 9 A levels which will be taught from 2017....

General Affairs Council: 14 September

I will attend the EU General Affairs Council (GAC) on 14 September. The Council will be held in Brussels and be chaired by the Luxembourg Presidency.The GAC is expected to focus on: the Luxembourg Presidency Work Programme; preparation of the agenda for t...

Cap on Care Costs

My noble Friend Lord Prior of Brampton has made the following written ministerial statement. In 2010 the previous Government asked Sir Andrew Dilnot to lead the Commission on Funding of Care and Support to make recommendations on how to achieve an afforda...

Supply and Appropriation (Main Estimates) Bill

I have made a statement under Section 19(1)(a) of the Human Rights Act 1998 that, in my view, the provisions of the Supply and Appropriation (Main Estimate) Bill are compatible with the convention rights. A copy of the statement has been placed in the Lib...

Freedom of Information

We are committed to being the most transparent Government in the world.To deliver that goal we are opening up government to citizens by making it easier to access information and increase the volume available, with a record 20,000 datasets now on data.gov...

Cap on Care Costs

In 2010 the previous Government asked Sir Andrew Dilnot to lead the Commission on Funding of Care and Support to make recommendations on how to achieve an affordable and sustainable funding system for care and support for all adults in England. The Commis...

Infected Blood

Before 1991, thousands of patients contracted HIV, hepatitis C, or both viruses, from treatment with NHS-supplied blood or blood products. This is aptly described by many as one of the great tragedies of modern health care and on the 25 March 2015 the Pri...

GCSE and A level subject content consultation

My Hon Friend the Minister of State for Schools (Nick Gibb) has today made the following statement:Today I am launching a public consultation on revised subject content for seven GCSEs and five A levels which will be taught from 2017.This represents an im...

Chief Coroner’s second annual report to the Lord Chancellor

My honourable friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice, Minister for Women, Equalities and Family Justice (Caroline Dinenage) has made the following Written Statement."I am pleased to lay and publish the Chief Coroner’s second ...

School funding in 2016-17

My Hon Friend the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Education and Childcare (Sam Gymiah) has today made the following statement:World class schools are a vital part of the Government’s long term economic plan, and are one of the key drivers of th...

Whiplash Reform Programme: Review and Call for Evidence

In response to widespread concerns about the high number of whiplash claims and the impact they have on the price of motor insurance premiums, the Government has recently implemented a whiplash reform programme. A key component of these reforms was the ...

Judicial Conduct Investigations Office – Annual Report 2014 – 2015

My right honourable friend the Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice (Michael Gove) has made the following Written Statement."With the concurrence of the Lord Chief Justice, I will today publish the second Annual Report of the Judicial...

Consulting on revisions to the Victims’ Code

My right honourable friend the Minister of State for Policing, Crime, Criminal Justice and Victims (Mike Penning) has made the following Written Statement."The previous government updated the Code of Practice for Victims of Crime (the Victims’ Code)...

Annual Statement on the Government Wine Cellar 2014-15

My Honourable Friend, the Parliamentary Under Secretary for State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Tobias Ellwood), has made the following written Ministerial statement:I have today placed a copy of the Annual Statement on the Government Wine Cellar ...

Foreign Affairs Council: 20 July

My right Honourable Friend, Minister for Europe (David Lidington), has made the following written Ministerial statement:My Right Honourable Friend the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs will attend the Foreign Affairs Council on 20 Ju...

Reports of Review Body on Doctors’ and Dentists’ Remuneration and NHS Pay

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 Seven Day Services Reports of the Review Body on Doctors’ and ...

Operation of the UK’s Counter-Terrorist Asset Freezing Regime: 1 January 2015 to 31 March 2015

My honourable friend the Economic Secretary to the Treasury (Harriett Baldwin) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement. Under the Terrorist Asset-Freezing etc. Act 2010 (”TAFA 2010”), the Treasury is required to report to Parliament, qu...

Justice & Home Affairs post-Council statement

My Right Honourable Friend the Secretary of State for the Home Department (Theresa May) has made the following written statement. “An informal meeting of the Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) Council took place on 9 and 10 July in Luxembourg. I attended on...

Closure of the Equitable Life Payment Scheme

My honourable friend the Economic Secretary to the Treasury (Harriett Baldwin) made the following Written Ministerial Statement yesterday.The Equitable Life Payment Scheme has issued payments of over £1.06bn to 902,000 policyholders as of 31 May 2015. Wit...

Triennial Review of the Information Commissioner’s Office

My honourable friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice, Minister for Human Rights (Dominic Raab) has made the following Written Statement."On Tuesday 25 November 2014 the Triennial Review of the Information Commissioner’s Offic...

SMALL WASTE OIL BURNERS

My Hon Friend the Parliamentary under Secretary of State (Rory Stewart) has today made the following statement.As part of our commitment to cleaner air the Government will amend the current Environmental Permitting Guidance to state clearly that all Small...

Economic Development and future of development capital

My right honourable friend, the Secretary of State for International Development (Justine Greening) has made the following statement:I am pleased to announce that I have agreed with my Rt. Hon friend the Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Greg Hands MP) to ...