Written Ministerial Statements
Formal statements made by UK government ministers to Parliament.
3,440 statements
Transforming for a Digital Future: Government’s 2022-25 Roadmap for Digital and Data
Later today, I will publish Transforming for a Digital Future: Government’s 2022-25 Roadmap for Digital and Data, which sets out an ambitious plan to ensure that, by 2025, we deliver a transformed, more efficient digital government that provides better ou...
Storm Arwen Review: Publication of the Final Report
The Energy Emergencies Executive Committee Storm Arwen Review was commissioned in December 2021 by the Secretary of State for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, due to unacceptable levels of power disruption following Storm Arwen. The Interim Report ...
Medical Examiners
It is our intention to work towards commencing implementation plans for the statutory medical examiner system from April 2023, recognising the need for all relevant government departments to be ready and aligned to enable successful implementation. The st...
Public consultation on the draft statutory guidance on the Serious Violence Duty
The Government is today announcing the publication of a consultation on the draft statutory guidance on the Serious Violence Duty (the Duty) which will be issued by the Secretary of State as statutory guidance under Chapter 1 of Part 2 of the Police, Crim...
Health Update
In 2019, this Government set the bold ambition for England to be Smokefree by 2030 – reducing smoking rates to 5% or less.Today, Dr Javed Khan OBE published his Independent Review on Smokefree 2030, providing this Government with a wide range of recommend...
Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme Review – supplementary consultation 2022
Today I have laid before Parliament a public consultation on one of the eligibility rules of the statutory Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme 2012 (the Scheme). This follows the Criminal Injuries Compensation Review 2020 in which we consulted on propos...
Transport Update
Today, my Department launches a public consultation on the primary legislative changes required to deliver structural reform of our railways. This follows publication of the Williams-Shapps Plan for Rail (“Plan for Rail”) in May 2021 which heralded the st...
The Double Taxation Convention between the United Kingdom and Luxembourg
A Double Taxation Convention with Luxembourg was signed in London on 7 June. The Convention reflects the improvements made in the latest version of the OECD’s Model Tax Convention. The text of the Convention is available on HM Revenue and Customs’ pages o...
FCDO update
On 18 January 2021 (Hansard, HCWS716, column 32WS), The House was informed that the then Governor of the British Virgin Islands (BVI) had launched a Commission of Inquiry (COI) into claims that corruption, abuse of position and serious impropriety had tak...
Health Update
Following the increased prevalence of cases of monkeypox in England, and transmission within the community for the first time, I would like to inform the House that as of Wednesday 8 June 2022, the following amendments have been laid and come into force:1...
The Double Taxation Convention between the United Kingdom and Luxembourg
My right honourable friend the Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Lucy Frazer) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement.A Double Taxation Convention with Luxembourg was signed in London on 7 June. The Convention reflects the improvemen...
FCDO update
My Right Honourable Friend, the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs (Elizabeth Truss), has made the following Written Ministerial Statement:On 18 January 2021 (Hansard, HCWS716, column 32WS), The House was informed that th...
Health Update
My Rt Hon Friend the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care (Sajid Javid) has made the following written statement:Following the increased prevalence of cases of monkeypox in England, and transmission within the community for the first time, I woul...
Data Sharing under the Digital Economy Act 2017
The Cabinet Office's Central Digital and Data Office (CDDO) has today published the Government’s response to the public consultation on data sharing to support early learning and childcare in Scotland.In January 2022, the UK Government in partnership with...
Publication of Sir Robert Francis QC’s infected blood compensation study
Today the Government is publishing the study by Sir Robert Francis QC, which was commissioned by my predecessor as Paymaster General, the Rt Hon Penny Mordaunt MP.The study makes recommendations for a framework for compensation and redress for the victims...
Transport Update
My Honourable Friend, the Minister of State for Transport (Andrew Stephenson), has made the following Ministerial Statement.The "Golborne Link," part of the HS2 Crewe – Manchester scheme, is a proposed c.13 mile connection which would branch off the main ...
Data Sharing under the Digital Economy Act 2017
My Hon Friend the Parliamentary Secretary (Mrs Heather Wheeler MP) has today made the following statement:The Cabinet Office's Central Digital and Data Office (CDDO) has today published the Government’s response to the public consultation on data sharing ...
Publication of Sir Robert Francis QC’s infected blood compensation study
My Rt Hon Friend the Minister for the Cabinet Office and HM Paymaster General (Michael Ellis QC MP) has today made the following statement:Today the Government is publishing the study by Sir Robert Francis QC, which was commissioned by my predecessor as P...
Publication of report pursuant to Section 42 of the Agriculture Act 2020 on the UK-Australia Free Trade Agreement
My Rt Hon Friend the Secretary of State for International Trade (Anne-Marie Trevelyan MP) has today made the following statement.The Government has, today, laid before Parliament a report on the Australia-UK Free Trade Agreement. The report is required un...
Planning Update
My Honourable Friend, the Minister of State for Transport (Andrew Stephenson), has made the following Ministerial Statement.I have been asked by my Right Honourable Friend, the Secretary of State to make this Written Ministerial Statement. This statement ...
Fire Reform White Paper and improving Fire Safety for the public
My Noble Friend the Minister of State, Home Office and Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities (Lord Greenhalgh) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement:I am pleased to make a number of announcements to the House today that s...
The Defence and Security Industrial Strategy: Update
I wish to update Parliament on the progress made since the publication of the Defence and Security Industrial Strategy (DSIS) on 23 March 2021. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has highlighted even more the importance of a sustainable and resilient sector tha...
Fire Reform White Paper and improving Fire Safety for the public
I am pleased to make a number of announcements to the House today that set out both the Government’s fire reform agenda and the introduction of a package of fire safety measures that will protect the public for years to come. Taken together, this is about...
The Motoring Agencies Business Plans for 2022-23
My Noble Friend, the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Transport (Baroness Vere of Norbiton) has made the following Ministerial StatementI am pleased to announce the publication of the 2022-23 business plans for the Department for Transport’s Mot...
Public consultation on the code of practice for the extraction of information from electronic devices
Following?the?successful?passage of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act,?I am?pleased to announce that today I am launching a public?consultation on?the draft code of practice for the extraction of information from electronic devices. It is vital...