Written Ministerial Statements
Formal statements made by UK government ministers to Parliament.
3,440 statements
School Inspection
The Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills (Ofsted), has today announced a number of changes to its inspection process in England.Ofsted will be clear that, following the completion of a school inspection, it is for the head tea...
Homes for Ukraine Scheme Update
Over 120,000 Ukrainians have now arrived in the UK through the Homes for Ukraine scheme. The generosity of British families willing to open their homes to those seeking shelter has been extraordinary.Today, I am pleased to confirm the allocation of the £1...
Publication of the 2023 UK Biological Security Strategy
The Government is today publishing the 2023 Biological Security Strategy. The Strategy sets out the Government’s ambition to ensure that by 2030 the UK is resilient to a spectrum of biological threats and a world leader in responsible innovation, making a...
Publication of the Safe Care at Home Review
My hon Friend the Minister of State for Social Care (Helen Whately) and I are pleased to announce that the government has today published the Safe Care at Home Review, which has been jointly led by the Home Office and the Department of Health and Social C...
HM Revenue and Customs Update
The government intends to extend the deadline for eligible individuals to retrospectively fill gaps in their National Insurance record for the period covering April 2006 to April 2016. The current 31 July 2023 deadline will be extended to 5 April 2025. Th...
Update on the Omagh Bombing Inquiry
On 2 February, I announced that I would establish an independent statutory inquiry into the preventability of the Omagh Bombing, the Real IRA-perpetrated atrocity in August 1998 which killed 29 people and two unborn children, and injured 220 others. The r...
UK–Maldives Free Trade Agreement Update
Today the Department for Business and Trade has announced the launch of a public Call for Input into a prospective Free Trade Agreement with the Government of Republic of Maldives (Maldives). The Call for Input can be accessed via the following link – htt...
Trade Negotiations Update
The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) has made progress on three key trade negotiations in the month of May. This statement provides Parliament with an update on the UK’s trade negotiations with Israel, Mexico, and Switzerland. The Government will c...
Membership of the UK-EU Parliamentary Partnership Assembly (PPA)
The Lord Ricketts has been appointed as a Vice-Chair of the Parliamentary Partnership Assembly in place of the Earl of Kinnoull.The Baroness Bull CBE has been appointed as a full representative of the Parliamentary Partnership Assembly in place of the Ear...
Energy Prices Act 2022 and expenditure on energy schemes – Q1 2023
I am tabling this statement to update Hon. Members under the Energy Prices Act 2022, in line with the requirement under the Act for quarterly reporting to Parliament on expenditure incurred under it.This is the second quarterly report on energy scheme exp...
Pensions Dashboards Update
Pensions dashboards will transform the way in which people plan for retirement. On 2 March 2023, I announced that the Pensions Dashboards Programme would require additional time to deliver the connection of pension providers and schemes, in accordance wit...
Illegal Migration Update
Provisions within the Nationality and Borders Act 2022 (NABA), which came into force on 28 June 2022, set out the framework to differentiate between two groups of refugees who ultimately remain in the UK: “Group 1” and “Group 2”. The primary way in which ...
HIV Action Plan Annual Update 2022/23
I am pleased to update the House on the publication of the first Annual Update to Parliament on the HIV Action Plan. In January 2019, the government committed to an ambition to end new HIV transmissions, AIDS diagnoses, and HIV-related deaths within Engla...
Pensions Dashboards Update
My honourable Friend, the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Pensions (Laura Trott MP) has made the following Written Statement.Pensions dashboards will transform the way in which people plan for retirement. On 2 March 2023, I announced that the P...
Energy Prices Act 2022 and expenditure on energy schemes – Q1 2023
My hon. Friend the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Amanda Solloway) has today made the following Statement:I am tabling this statement to update Hon. Members under the Energy Prices Act 2022, in line with the requirement under the Act for quarterl...
UK–Maldives Free Trade Agreement Update
My Hon Friend the Minister of State for International Trade (Nigel Huddleston MP) has today made the following statement.Today the Department for Business and Trade has announced the launch of a public Call for Input into a prospective Free Trade Agreemen...
Membership of the UK-EU Parliamentary Partnership Assembly (PPA)
My Honourable Friend, the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Europe) (Leo Docherty), has made the following Written Ministerial Statement:The Lord Ricketts has been appointed as a Vice-Chair of the Parliamentary Partnership Assembly in place of the E...
Illegal Migration Update
My rt hon Friend the Minister of State for Immigration (Robert Jenrick) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement:Provisions within the Nationality and Borders Act 2022 (NABA), which came into force on 28 June 2022, set out the framework ...
Trade Negotiations Update
My Hon Friend the Minister of State for International Trade (Nigel Huddleston MP) has today made the following statement.The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) has made progress on three key trade negotiations in the month of May. This statement prov...
HIV Action Plan Annual Update 2022/23
My Hon Friend the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Primary Care and Public Health) (Neil O'Brien) has made the following written statement:I am pleased to update the House on the publication of the first Annual Update to Parliament on ...
Extension of the Ivory Act 2018
Today the Government is announcing it will extend the Ivory Act 2018 to hippopotamus, walrus, narwhal, killer whale (orca) and sperm whale, delivering on a key animal welfare manifesto commitment. These species are set to receive greater legal protections...
Elections Act: Postal and proxy voting safeguards
My Honourable friend the Minister for Faith and Communities (Baroness Scott of Brybrook) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement:Today I have published the draft statutory instrument “The Representation of the People (Postal and Proxy Voting ...
Children's Social Care Update
The Independent Review of Children’s Social Care was published a year ago today, setting out plans to reset children’s social care in England so it delivers for all the children and families it supports. This statement updates the House on progress made i...
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)
The Hon. Member for Birmingham, Northfield (Gary Sambrook MP) has been appointed as a full representative of the United Kingdom Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe in place of the Hon. Membe...
Membership of the UK-EU Parliamentary Partnership Assembly (PPA)
The Hon. Member for Wimbledon (Stephen Hammond MP) has been appointed as a full representative of the Parliamentary Partnership Assembly in place of the Hon. Member for Dudley South (Mike Wood MP). The Hon. Member for Northampton South (Andrew Lewer MP) h...