Written Ministerial Statements
Formal statements made by UK government ministers to Parliament.
3,440 statements
Protecting Our Oceans
The Government is committed to protecting the ocean. Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are pivotal to our ambitions to preserve and improve our seas. They are central to our international commitment to protect 30% of global seas by 2030. We have built a compr...
Online Safety – Super Complaints Mechanism
Today, I am laying before Parliament the draft Online Safety Super-Complaints (Eligibility and Procedural Matters) Regulations 2025. This important statutory instrument establishes the eligibility criteria and procedural framework for the super-complaints...
Contingencies Fund Advance: Independent Football Regulator
I am repeating the following Written Ministerial Statement made today in the other place by my Honourable Friend, the Minister for Sport, Media, Civil Society and Youth, Stephanie Peacock MP:I would like to notify the House that the Department for Culture...
School Food
This Government is today taking another step to delivering our Plan for Change as we announce that all children in households in receipt of Universal Credit will be eligible for free school meals from September 2026. This unprecedented step will put £500 ...
Eradicating modern slavery in NHS supply chains
Modern slavery includes forced labour, human trafficking and exploitative labour conditions and it remains a significant global rights violation, with an estimated 50 million individuals affected worldwide. The UK government is committed to eradicating th...
Remote Attendance and Proxy Voting
Today, we have published the government’s response to our recent consultation on remote attendance and proxy voting in local authorities. The government has previously set out its intention to reset the relationship between central and local government, a...
School Food
Today my Honourable Friend, the Minister for Early Education (Stephen Morgan) has made the following statement:This Government is today taking another step to delivering our Plan for Change as we announce that all children in households in receipt of Univ...
Eradicating modern slavery in NHS supply chains
My Hon friend the Minister of State for Health (Secondary Care) (Karin Smyth MP) has made the following Written Statement:Modern slavery includes forced labour, human trafficking and exploitative labour conditions and it remains a significant global right...
Remote Attendance and Proxy Voting
My Honourable Friend the Minister of State for Local Government and English Devolution (Jim McMahon OBE MP) has today made the following statement:Today, we have published the government’s response to our recent consultation on remote attendance and proxy...
Proposed Revision of the National Policy Statement for Ports
Today I am laying before Parliament the draft amended National Policy Statement for Ports (NPSP).The extant NPSP was designated in 2012. It sets out the need for development of ports in England, and at reserved trust ports in Wales, currently Milford Have...
Proposed Revision of the National Policy Statement for Ports
My Honourable Friend, the Parliamentary Under Secretary for Transport (Mike Kane), has made the following Ministerial Statement:Today I am laying before Parliament the draft amended National Policy Statement for Ports (NPSP).The extant NPSP was designated...
Independent Water Commission Interim Report
My Right Honourable Friend, the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Steve Reed MP, has made the following Written Statement.Today, the Independent Water Commission has published an interim report setting out its preliminary conclus...
Machinery of Government
My Rt Hon Friend the Prime Minister has made the following statement:I am making this statement to bring to the House’s attention the following Machinery of Government changes.I am today announcing that responsibility for government and public sector cybe...
Local Government Reorganisation
My Honourable Friend the Minister of State for Local Government and English Devolution (Jim McMahon OBE MP) has today made the following statement:On 24 March, I updated the House on the latest steps on Local Government Reorganisation. This set out the co...
Consulting on a reformed approach to investing in flood resilience and coastal erosion
My honourable friend, the Minister for Water and Flooding, Emma Hardy MP, has made the following Written Statement.The first role of any Government is to protect its citizens. Yet the previous Conservative Government left flood defences in their worst con...
Youth funding in 2025-26
This Government recognises the transformative role that youth services play in young people’s lives. We know that being part of supportive communities and having access to youth provision can improve a young person’s wellbeing, health and personal develop...
Local Government Pension Scheme – Member Benefits Reform
The Local Government Pension Scheme in England and Wales gives seven million dedicated public servants security in their later years. The majority of its members are women, on low-paid roles and often working part-time, and with average pensions in retire...
Fraud and Error in the Benefit System
The annual statistics for Fraud and Error in the Benefit System for the financial year ending 2025, were published on Thursday 15 May 2024, at 9.30am.Today's figures confirm the overall rate of overpayments is now 3.3% (£9.5bn) for 2024/25, compared to 3....
Transition of services from NATIS to the Insolvency service
Under the previous government, a contract was entered into in 2020 with Thurrock Council’s National Investigation Service (NATIS), to investigate Covid-19 Bounce Back Loan fraud. After scrutinising the recovery rates and performance of this contract, the ...
Private Intermittent Securities and Capital Exchange System (PISCES)
Today, the Government has laid The Financial Services and Markets Act 2023 (Private Intermittent Securities and Capital Exchange System Sandbox) Regulations 2025 (SI 2025/583). This legislation establishes the legal framework for the Private Intermittent ...
Changes to Media Mergers Legislation
This Government is committed to a pluralistic media landscape, where citizens are able to access information from a range of sources in order to form opinions. The public’s ability to access a wide range of news, views and information about the world in w...
NHS Very Senior Managers Pay Framework
I am pleased to announce today the publication of the NHS Very Senior Managers (VSM) Pay Framework.This Government’s 10-year plan to reform the NHS will focus on three big shifts; from analogue to digital, hospital to community, and sickness to prevention...
Government response to the consultation on the UK’s future exhaustion of intellectual property rights regime
Our parallel importation laws, which regulate the common practice of importing genuine physical goods that are first sold in other countries into the UK for re-sale, play an important role in many sectors of the UK’s economy. These laws are governed by th...
Contingencies Fund Advance
I would like to notify the House that the Department for Work and Pensions has obtained approval for an advance from the Contingencies Fund of £4,500,000. This will enable the department to start building an IT solution, for the delivery of the Eligibilit...
Transnational Repression Review
In response to global reports of incidents of transnational repression (TNR), the Defending Democracy Taskforce has conducted a review into the UK’s response to this phenomenon, focussing on building our understanding of the scale, nature, and impact dome...