Written Ministerial Statements
Formal statements made by UK government ministers to Parliament.
3,440 statements
Health Update
My Hon Friend the Minister of State (Minister for Care and Mental Health) (Gillian Keegan) has made the following Written Statement:Today, I am delighted to announce the launch of a national Call for Evidence to inform the development of the draft Down Sy...
School Funding Update
My Honourable Friend, the Minister of State for School Standards (Will Quince), has made the following statement.Today I am confirming provisional funding allocations for 2023-24 through the schools, high needs and central school services national funding...
Tutoring Update
My Honourable Friend, The Minister of State for School Standards, (Will Quince), has made the following statement.This update presents the latest performance data for the National Tutoring Programme the Government is publishing today. On 26 May, the Secre...
Canada Trade Negotiations: Update
My Rt Hon Friend the Secretary of State for International Trade (Anne-Marie Trevelyan MP) has today made the following statement.The second round of UK-Canada Free Trade Agreement negotiations began on 20 June and concluded on 24 June. Owing to concurrent...
Transport Update
My Right Honourable friend, the Secretary of State for Transport (Grant Shapps), has made the following Ministerial Statement.Today 19 July 2022, the Government has made available £959 million of additional funding to continue to progress the delivery of ...
Update on Government the Response to Protecting Those Who Protect Us: 'Women in the Armed Forces from Recruitment to Civilian Life’
My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Defence (The Rt Hon Ben Wallace MP) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement. I am delighted to provide an update on developments one year on from the publication of the comprehensive report of t...
Jet Zero Strategy
My Right Honourable friend, the Secretary of State for Transport (Grant Shapps), has made the following Ministerial Statement.Today I am launching the ‘Jet Zero Strategy’ – setting out this Government’s approach for achieving net zero aviation by 2050.It ...
International Development – 0.7 per cent of GNI on ODA target 2021
My Right Honourable Friend, the Minister for Asia and the Middle East (Amanda Milling), has made the following Written Ministerial Statement:In November 2020, my Rt Hon Friend the Deputy Prime Minister and former Foreign Secretary delivered a statement ou...
Combat Air Strategy Update
My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Defence (The Rt Hon Ben Wallace MP) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement.The 2018 Combat Air Strategy set out how the UK will deliver the military capability we need to operate in highly cont...
Cabinet Office Update
My Hon Friend the Parliamentary Secretary (Mrs Heather Wheeler MP) has today made the following statement:I am today announcing the Government’s decision on pay for the Senior Civil Service.The Government received the Senior Salary Review Body’s (SSRB) 20...
Expanded Delivery of the Government’s Mid-Life MOT Offer
The Mid-Life MOT is a policy intervention designed to assist participants’ wealth, work and wellbeing. It provides access to tailored information to allow older people to return to or remain in work. Through the face-to-face programme the Mid-Life MOT wil...
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Transport
In 2017, the government published the first ever statutory Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy (CWIS1), which covered the period between 2016 and 2021.The first Report to Parliament on the delivery of the strategy and on the progress made towards meet...
Energy Update
As the world has emerged from the Covid-19 pandemic, global demand for energy has risen significantly – this has been exacerbated by Putin’s malign invasion of Ukraine. As a result, the wholesale price of gas has reached historically high levels.That is w...
Linking the Foreign Interference Offence to the Online Safety Bill
This is a joint statement with the Home Office.Some states seek to further their strategic interests by going beyond overt political influence towards more covert influencing activity. These ‘interference’ activities are typically not conducted transparen...
Atomic Weapons Establishment Pension Scheme
My right hon. Friend the Defence Scretary (Ben Wallace MP) has today Laid a Departmental Minute to advise that the Ministry of Defence is creating a new contingent liability associated with the provision of a Crown Guarantee to the Trustees of the Atomic ...
Sweden and Finland NATO Accession
On 18 May 2022 Finland and Sweden submitted formal applications to join NATO. This is a historic moment. Finland and Sweden are NATO’s closest partners.They share our principles and values, including liberty, human rights, democracy, and the rule of law. ...
Expanded Delivery of the Government’s Mid-Life MOT Offer
My honourable Friend, the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Pensions & Financial Inclusion (Guy Opperman MP) has made the following Written Statement.The Mid-Life MOT is a policy intervention designed to assist participants’ wealth, work and well...
Energy Update
My right honourable friend the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (Kwasi Kwarteng) has today made the following statement:As the world has emerged from the Covid-19 pandemic, global demand for energy has risen significantly – ...
Second Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy - July 2022
My Honourable Friend, the Parliamentary Under Secretary for Transport (Trudy Harrison) has made the following Ministerial Statement:In 2017, the government published the first ever statutory Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy (CWIS1), which covered t...
Education Update
The Key Stage 2 (KS2) national statistics released today show that the percentage of pupils meeting the expected standard in all three subjects of reading, writing and maths at age 11 was 59% in 2022. This is lower than it was before the pandemic: 65% of ...
Departmental Update
Today I have laid before the House a Departmental Minute giving notice of a contingent liability for the issuing of an indemnity in respect to the formation of the Curriculum Arm’s Length Body.The proposed indemnity will be reported as a contingent liabil...
Finance Bill 2022-23: L-Day Update
The Government will introduce the Finance Bill following the next Budget.In line with the approach to tax policy making set out in the government’s documents ‘Tax Policy Making: a new approach’, published in 2010, and ‘The new Budget timetable and the tax...
Publication of the Final Report of the Jermaine Baker Inquiry
On 12 February 2020, I announced the establishment an independent Inquiry, under the Inquiries Act 2005, to investigate the circumstances involved in the death of Jermaine Baker during a Metropolitan Police Service operation on 11 December 2015. Today, th...
Continued Support to Ukraine
Today, I am pleased to update the House with further details on the UK-led training programme of Ukrainian armed forces announced by the Prime Minister on his recent visit to Kyiv. In response to Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine, the UK Government is ...
Departmental Update
My Honourable Friend, The Minister of State for School Standards (Robin Walker), has made the following Written Ministerial Statement:Today the Department has laid before the House a Departmental Minute giving notice of a contingent liability for the issu...