Written Ministerial Statements
Formal statements made by UK government ministers to Parliament.
3,440 statements
AVIAN INFLUENZA
The Chief Veterinary Officer has confirmed a case of avian flu in a poultry farm in Lancashire. Test results have confirmed the presence of a high severity H7N7 strain of the disease. While this disease affects birds severely, the advice from Public Healt...
The Annual Report of the Veterinary Products Committee and its Sub-Committee 2014
I have received the annual report of the Veterinary Products Committee and its sub-committee 2014, which has been published today.A copy of the report has been placed in the Libraries of both Houses.
Productivity Plan
HM Treasury has laid a command paper before Parliament titled Fixing the foundations: creating a more prosperous nation CM 9098, setting out a 15 point plan with concrete policy measures for productivity growth in the UK over the next decade. The UK is ...
Statement of Changes in Immigration Rules
My rt hon Friend the Home Secretary is today laying before the House a Statement of Changes in Immigration Rules.These new rules make a number of changes to the Tier 4 route of the Points-Based System to reduce net migration and to tackle immigration abus...
Closure of the Equitable Life Payment Scheme
The Equitable Life Payment Scheme has issued payments of over £1.06bn to 902,000 policyholders as of 31 May 2015. With final tracing efforts now concluding, the Scheme is reaching the limit of how many policyholders it will be able to trace and pay. As an...
AVIAN INFLUENZA
My Right Hon Friend the Secretary of State (Elizabeth Truss) has today made the following statement.The Chief Veterinary Officer has confirmed a case of avian flu in a poultry farm in Lancashire. Test results have confirmed the presence of a high severity...
The Annual Report of the Veterinary Products Committee and its Sub-Committee 2014
My Hon Friend the Minister of State (George Eustice) has today made the following statement.I have received the annual report of the Veterinary Products Committee and its sub-committee 2014, which has been published today.A copy of the report has been pla...
Agenda for July Agriculture and Fisheries Council
The next Agriculture and Fisheries Council will be on 13 July in Brussels. My hon. friend, Minister of State for Farming, Food and Marine Environment (George Eustice), will represent the UK.As the provisional agenda stands, the following items will be dis...
Neighbourhood Planning
On 10 July 2014, my hon. Friend the former Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government (Nick Boles) amended for a period of 12 months the criteria for consideration of the recovery of planning appeals to include proposals f...
Statistics on police use of firearms 2013-14 & Statistics on police use of Taser 2014 in England and Wales
On 23 March 2015, the Home Secretary announced the suspension of the Police Use of Taser and Police Use of Firearms statistical publications due to data quality concerns, which has previously resulted in incorrect data being published and reported to Parl...
Agenda for July Agriculture and Fisheries Council
My Right Hon Friend the Secretary of State (Elizabeth Truss) has today made the following statement.The next Agriculture and Fisheries Council will be on 13 July in Brussels. My hon. friend, Minister of State for Farming, Food and Marine Environment (Geor...
Neighbourhood Planning
My hon. friend the Minister of State for Housing and Planning has made the following Written Ministerial Statement. On 10 July 2014, my hon. Friend the former Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government (Nick Boles) amende...
Statistics on police use of firearms 2013-14 & Statistics on police use of Taser 2014 in England and Wales
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: On 23 March 2015, the Home Secretary announced the suspension of the Police Use of Taser...
Charter for Budget Responsibility: Summer Budget 2015 update
Today I have published a draft updated Charter for Budget Responsibility, copies of which have been deposited in the Libraries of both Houses. It sets out a new fiscal framework to entrench a commitment to reach surplus and maintain it in normal times. Th...
Cremation Regulation
On 1 June 2015 David Jenkins published his report into the way infant cremations were carried out at Emstrey Crematorium in Shropshire between 1996 and 2012. The report established that during this time the crematorium failed to obtain ashes to return t...
Charter for Budget Responsibility: Summer Budget 2015 update
My right honourable friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer (George Obsorne) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement. Today I have published a draft updated Charter for Budget Responsibility, copies of which have been deposited in the Li...
Cremation Regulation
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."On 1 June 2015 David Jenkins published his report into the ...
The Financial Services Compensation Scheme deposit protection limit
The level of protection offered by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) is changing. The statutory level of deposit protection is set by the European Deposit Guarantee Schemes Directive (DGSD), which was updated last year. It requires that al...
RENEWABLE HEAT INCENTIVE: AMENDMENT REGULATIONS 2015
Today, I am pleased to announce the laying of the Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme and Domestic Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme (Amendment) (No.2) Regulations 2015. These amendments will introduce improvements that are essential to the smooth-running of bo...
The Financial Services Compensation Scheme deposit protection limit
My honourable friend the Economic Secretary to the Treasury (Harriett Baldwin) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement. The level of protection offered by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) is changing. The statutory leve...
ENDING NEW SUBSIDIES FOR ONSHORE WIND
The Government is committed to meeting objectives on cutting carbon emissions and the UK’s 2020 renewable energy targets. Onshore wind has deployed successfully to-date and is an important part of our energy mix. We now have enough onshore wind in the pip...
EU Transport Council
I attended the second Transport Council under the Latvian Presidency (the Presidency) in Luxembourg on Thursday 11 June. The Council adopted a General Approach on the proposed Directive laying down technical standards for inland waterway vessels. There wa...
Local planning
I am today setting out new considerations to be applied to proposed wind energy development so that local people have the final say on wind farm applications, fulfilling the commitment made in the Conservative election manifesto. Subject to the transiti...
Restoration and Renewal of the Palace of Westminster – Independent Options Appraisal
An independent appraisal of options for the restoration and renewal of the Palace of Westminster is published today. It was requested by the House of Commons Commission and the House of Lords House Committee in the last parliament following a pre-feasibil...
Assessment of Progress with the Transition to Individual Electoral Registration
The Electoral Commission has today published a report on its analysis of the May 2015 electoral registers in Great Britain. This is part of the Commission’s programme of work monitoring the progress of the transition to Individual Electoral Registration (...