Written Ministerial Statements
Formal statements made by UK government ministers to Parliament.
3,440 statements
Education Update
On Friday 5 February, I laid before Parliament the Education (Coronavirus, Remote Education Information) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2021, which require schools to publish information on their website about the remote education they are providing to...
Local Elections
I am updating Parliament on the Government’s plans to proceed with the local elections on 6 May 2021 and the statutory instruments I am laying today on nominations.Safe and secure elections are the cornerstone of our democracy. The Government has long bee...
PNC Update
Further to my statement to the House on the 18 January, this is an update on the work being carried out to recover the records deleted from the Police National Computer (PNC) in error. The Home Office is taking forward a 4-phase plan to respond to the inc...
Capital Update
My Right Honourable Friend The Minister of State for School Standards (Nick Gibb) has made the following ministerial statement.I am confirming details of the first 50 schools to benefit from the new school rebuilding programme announced by the Prime Minis...
The Van Benefit and Car and Van Fuel Benefit Order 2021
My honourable friend the Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury (Kemi Badenoch) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement.The van benefit charge and fuel benefit charges for cars and vans will be uprated by the Consumer Price Index from 6 April 20...
Public Service Pensions Consultation Response and Update
My right honourable friend the Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Steve Barclay) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement.The government published a consultation document (CP 253, HCWS380) in July 2020 outlining proposals regarding public servic...
HMRC Powers and Safeguards
My right honourable friend the Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Jesse Norman) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement.On 22 July 2019, I announced a comprehensive package of measures that HMRC were taking to maintain and develop public tr...
Eleventh Annual Report of the UK’s National Preventive Mechanism
The United Nations Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (OPCAT), which the UK ratified in December 2003, requires States Parties to establish a “National Preventive Mechanism” (N...
Police Grant Report (England and Wales) 2021/22
My hon Friend the Minister of State for Crime and Policing (Kit Malthouse) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement:My Rt Hon Friend, the Home Secretary, has today laid before the House the Police Grant Report (England and Wales) 2021/22...
Ministry of Defence Votes A Supplementary Votes 2020/21
My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Defence (Ben Wallace) has today releaed the following written statement.The Ministry of Defence Votes A Supplementary Votes 2020/21, will be laid before the House on 4 February 2021 as HC 1126. This outlines...
Ministry of Defence Votes A Annual Estimate 2021/22
My right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Defence (Ben Wallace) has today released the following written statement.The Ministry of Defence Votes A Estimate 2021/22, will be laid before the House on 4 February 2021 as HC 1125. This outlines the maxi...
COVID-19 update
My Rt Hon Friend the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care (Matt Hancock) has made the following written statement:On 5 January 2021, the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (All Tiers) (England) Regulations 2020 (All Tier Regulations) w...
Ministerial Correction: Response to Lord Moynihan on Covid-19 vaccines
During the debate on 12 November 2020 on the Covid-19 Update statement, made in the House of Commons on 10 November 2020, I was asked by Lord Moynihan about undertaking work with the World Anti-Doping Agency and the offer of advice to the sporting world r...
Eleventh Annual Report of the UK’s National Preventive Mechanism
My right honourable friend the Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice (Robert Buckland) has made the following Written Statement."The United Nations Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Trea...
Ministerial and Other Maternity Allowances Bill
My Rt Hon Friend the Prime Minister has made the following statement:The Government has today introduced the Ministerial and other Maternity Allowances Bill in order to make provision for ministers and opposition office holders to be able to take maternit...
Operation of the UK’s Counter-Terrorist Asset Freezing Regime:1 July 2020 to 30 September 2020
Under the Terrorist Asset-Freezing etc. Act 2010 (TAFA 2010), the Treasury is required to prepare a quarterly report regarding its exercise of the powers conferred on it by Part 1 of TAFA 2010. This written statement satisfies that requirement for the per...
Planning update
The country needs more, better and greener homes in the right places.This Government’s ambition is to deliver 300,000 homes per year by the mid 2020s and one million homes over this Parliament. Increasing the number of up-to-date Local Plans across Englan...
Building Regulations Update
I am today announcing a package of changes in relation to Part L and F of the Building Regulations. This includes the Government’s Response to the 2019 Future Homes Standard consultation and the launch of the Future Buildings Standard consultation.40% of ...
Building Safety Update
I wish to update the House on the Government’s work to tighten regulatory oversight of construction product safety, so that people can feel confident that the products used to construct our homes will perform as they should.IntroductionShocking recent tes...
Education Update
On 15th December 2020 we announced that we would be deploying the latest rapid-result coronavirus tests using Lateral Flow Devices to secondary schools and colleges from 4 January to enable weekly screening of staff and daily contact testing of both staff...
Covid-19 Update
On 5 January 2020, the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (All Tiers) (England) Regulations 2020 (All Tier Regulations) were amended. These amendments instructed people across England to stay at home and only to leave where they have a legally ...
Planning and Heritage Update
Protecting our nation’s heritage I would like to update the House about the role of the planning system in relation to the protection of historic statues, plaques, memorials and monuments. I am concerned that, over the last few months, some such heritage ...
Awarding Qualifications in 2021
On Friday 15 January, Ofqual and the Department for Education published a joint consultation outlining detailed proposals for alternative arrangements for awarding general, vocational and technical qualifications in summer 2021.This consultation, outlined...
Use of the Industrial Development Act 1982 for Coronavirus related assistance
I am tabling this statement for the benefit of Hon. Members to bring to their attention spend under the Industrial Development Act 1982. In addition to the obligation to report on spend under the Industrial Development Act annually, the Coronavirus Act 20...
Update on Overseas Territories
The UK is extremely concerned about the state of good governance in the British Virgin Islands (BVI).A consistent and deeply troubling array of concerns have been put to the Governor by local institutions and the community. The Governor has set out these ...