Written Ministerial Statements
Formal statements made by UK government ministers to Parliament.
3,440 statements
COVID-19 Update
The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (England) (No.3) Regulations 2020 SI 2020/750 came into force on 18 July 2020 and have now been extended until 17 July 2021. These Regulations give powers to local authorities to issue a direction to impos...
Independent Reservoir Safety Review Report
My Hon Friend Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Domestic Environment) (Rebecca Pow) has made the following Statement.Today I am publishing Professor David Balmforth’s review into the application of current legislation for reservoir safe...
Maritime and Coastguard Agency Business Plan 2021-22
My Honourable Friend, the Parliamentary Under Secretary for Transport (Robert Courts) has made the following Ministerial Statement.I am proud to announce the publication of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency’s (MCA) business plan for 2021-22. The MCA does...
Financial Services update
My honourable friend the Economic Secretary to the Treasury (John Glen) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement.I can today inform the House of the disposal of £1.1bn worth of government-owned NatWest Group plc (NWG, formerly Royal Bank of Sc...
High Speed Two Phase 2a: Publication of Consultation Response Report
My Honourable Friend, the Minister of State for Transport (Andrew Stephenson), has made the following Ministerial Statement.I am today, 13 May 2021, publishing a consultation report as required under section 60(1) of the High Speed Rail (West Midlands - C...
Sport Broadcasting
My Honourable Friend the Minister for Sport and Tourism, Nigel Huddleston MP, has made the following Statement:The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has written to the Premier League and to Sky, BT, Amazon and the BBC, as the current...
Update on the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals
My Right Honourable Friend, the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs (Dominic Raab), has made the following Written Ministerial Statement: Promoting and enforcing international justice is central to Global Britain’s role as...
e-Commerce: VAT legislative changes
My right honourable friend the Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Jesse Norman) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement.The Government will be introducing changes to simplify the way VAT is administered for some goods sold between Nor...
Legislation to Counter State Threats (Hostile State Activity): Government Consultation
My rt hon Friend the Secretary of State for the Home Department (Priti Patel) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement:I am today publishing the consultation on the Government’s legislative proposals to counter the evolving and full rang...
Local Government Pensions
My Hon. Friend, the Minister for Regional Growth and Local Government (Luke Hall) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement:The Government is committed to public service pensions which are fair to public sector workers. In 2014, reforms w...
UK Listings Review: Government response
In November last year, I asked Lord Hill of Oareford CBE to carry out an independent review of the UK’s listing arrangements. Strong public markets are a vital component of the UK economy and the Government is committed to ensuring that the UK’s markets a...
Women, Peace and Security Annual Report 2020
I wish to inform the House that the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, together with the Ministry of Defence, are today publishing the 2020 annual report on progress against the UK's fourth National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security.Publ...
Contingencies Fund Advance
Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs?will incur new expenditure in connection with the government’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic in 2021-22. Parliamentary approval for additional?resources?of? £6,065,000,000 ?for this new expenditure will be sought in a...
London Capital and Finance
On 17 December 2020 I announced that the Treasury would set up a compensation scheme for bondholders who suffered losses after investing in London Capital & Finance (LCF) (HCWS678)[1]. This statement provides an update on the government’s approach, includ...
One year report on the status of the non-devolved provisions of the Coronavirus Act 2020: correction
On 22 March 2021, the One-Year Status Report on the non-devolved provisions in the Act was laid in Parliament. The Report provided a thorough assessment of whether the provisions within the Act remained necessary and proportionate to support the response ...
Women, Peace and Security Annual Report 2020
My Right Honourable Friend, the Minister for the Middle East and North Africa (James Cleverly), has made the following Written Ministerial Statement:I wish to inform the House that the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, together with the Minist...
UK Listings Review: Government response
My right honourable friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Rishi Sunak) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement.In November last year, I asked Lord Hill of Oareford CBE to carry out an independent review of the UK’s listing arrangement...
Contingencies Fund Advance
My right honourable friend the Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Jesse Norman) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement. Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs?will incur new expenditure in connection with the government’s response to the ...
London Capital and Finance
My honourable friend the Economic Secretary to the Treasury has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement. On 17 December 2020 I announced that the Treasury would set up a compensation scheme for bondholders who suffered losses after investin...
Domestic Abuse Bill
My honourable friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Safeguarding (Victoria Atkins) has made the following Written Statement. "This Thursday – 15 April - the House of Commons will consider the Lords amendments to the Domestic Abuse Bill ava...
Extending COVID Local Support Measures
The Covid Winter Grant Scheme has enabled Local Authorities in England to provide targeted support to families and individuals, keeping them warm and well fed over the winter period, with the principal focus being on disadvantaged children.The initial sch...
Notification of contingent liability – mortgage guarantee scheme
It is normal practice when a government department proposes to undertake a contingent liability in excess of £300,000 and for which there is no statutory authority, for the Minister concerned:to present a departmental Minute to parliament, giving particul...
Reporting contingent liabilities in relation to cancellation compensation for event organisers participating in phase one of the Events Research Programme
I am tabling this statement for the benefit of all members of this House to bring to their attention the Departmental Minute issued today that provides the House with notice of a series of small contingent liabilities created by my Department. This is in ...
COVID-19 Vaccination Update
I wish to inform the House of actions we are taking to improve uptake of vaccines across the adult social care sector. In February 2021, we published the UK COVID-19 Vaccines Delivery Plan setting out the significant programme of work underway to drive va...
Domestic Abuse Bill
This Thursday – 15 April – the House of Commons will consider the Lords amendments to the Domestic Abuse Bill available here. As we are approaching the end of the session and further consideration of this Bill is likely to proceed at pace, I am issuing th...