Written Ministerial Statements
Formal statements made by UK government ministers to Parliament.
3,440 statements
Foreign Affairs Council – 20 January 2020
The High Representative of the European Union (EU) for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy (HRVP), Josep Borrell, chaired the Foreign Affairs Council (FAC) in Brussels on 20 January. The United Kingdom’s Permanent Representative to the EU (Sir Tim Barrow)...
Rough Sleeping Initiative allocation of additional funding for 2020/21
Today, I am announcing provisional allocations of up to £112 million for a third year of Rough Sleeping Initiative and Rapid Rehousing Pathway funding. This funding covers around 270 local authorities in England, including those that were part of joint fu...
UK telecommunications
UK TELECOMMUNICATIONS My Right Honourable Friend the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, Baroness Morgan of Cotes, has made the following Statement. The Telecoms Supply Chain Review - laid before Parliament in July 2019 - underlined ...
Foreign Affairs Council – 20 January 2020
My Right Honourable Friend, the Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Christopher Pincher), has made the following written Ministerial statement:The High Representative of the European Union (EU) for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy (...
Rough Sleeping Initiative allocation of additional funding for 2020/21
My Rt Hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (Robert Jenrick) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement.Today, I am announcing provisional allocations of up to £112 million for a ...
UK telecommunications
UK TELECOMMUNICATIONS The Telecoms Supply Chain Review - laid before Parliament in July 2019 - underlined the range and nature of the risks facing our critical digital infrastructure. The Review addressed three questions:How should telecoms operators be i...
Exiting the European Union
Signing of the Withdrawal Agreement On Friday 24 January, the Prime Minister signed the Agreement on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union and European Atomic Energy Community. The Presidents of the European Commission and European ...
January Agriculture and Fisheries Council
The Agriculture and Fisheries Council takes place in Brussels on 27 January.As the provisional agenda stands, the main item for agriculture will be an exchange of view between EU ministers on the regulation on CAP transitional rules. The Commission will a...
Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority – Annual Reports and Accounts 2018/19
The 2018/19 Annual Report and Accounts for the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority is being laid before the House today and published on www.gov.uk. Copies will be available in the Vote Office.
Business rates reliefs
The Government will increase the retail discount from one-third to 50 per cent, extend that discount to cinemas and music venues, extend the duration of the local newspapers office space discount, and introduce an additional discount for pubs.The increase...
Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures (1 September 2019 to 30 November 2019)
Section 19(1) of the Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures Act 2011 (the Act) requires the Secretary of State to report to Parliament as soon as reasonably practicable after the end of every relevant three-month period on the exercise of her TPI...
Sport Broadcasting
On Thursday 18 July 2019, Jeremy Wright MP, the then Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, announced to the House that he was consulting with Channel 4, the BBC, S4C, Ofcom and the International Paralympic Committee on the addition of ...
DCMS Matters
My Right Honourable Friend the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, Baroness Morgan of Cotes, has made the following Statement.The Government is today publishing its response to the independent review into the sustainability of high-q...
Exiting the European Union
The Rt Hon Steve Barclay MP, Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union has made the following statement:Signing of the Withdrawal Agreement On Friday 24 January, the Prime Minister signed the Agreement on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from ...
January Agriculture and Fisheries Council
My Hon Friend George Eustice (Minister of State for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food) has today made the following statement: The Agriculture and Fisheries Council takes place in Brussels on 27 January.As the provisional agenda stands, the main item for ag...
Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority – Annual Reports and Accounts 2018/19
My hon Friend the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Safeguarding and Vulnerability (Victoria Atkins) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement:The 2018/19 Annual Report and Accounts for the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority ...
Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures (1 September 2019 to 30 November 2019)
My rt hon Friend the Secretary of State for the Home Department (Priti Patel) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement:Section 19(1) of the Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures Act 2011 (the Act) requires the Secretary of Stat...
Business rates reliefs
My right honourable friend the Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Jesse Norman) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement.The Government will increase the retail discount from one-third to 50 per cent, extend that discount to cinemas an...
Sport Broadcasting
My Honourable Friend the Minister of State for Sport, Media and Creative Industries, Nigel Adams MP, has made the following Statement.On Thursday 18 July 2019, Jeremy Wright MP, the then Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, announced ...
DCMS Matters
The Government is today publishing its response to the independent review into the sustainability of high-quality journalism in the UK, which was led by the journalist and academic Dame Frances Cairncross. The Government remains grateful to Dame Frances f...
E3C Report
On Friday 9th August 2019, over 1 million customers were affected by a major power disruption that occurred across England and Wales and some parts of Scotland. The power outage was due to the loss of a mix of generation including a gas fired power statio...
Business Update
I am writing to inform the House that the Government is pleased to accept all of the Low Pay Commission’s recommendations for the new National Living Wage and National Minimum Wage rates, which will come into force in April 2020. The Low Pay Commission is...
Cabinet Office Update
On Friday 27 December 2019 at 22:30, the Cabinet Office published the New Year Honours List 2020 on GOV.UK. As part of this publication a version of the honours list was published online which contained address details of the 1,097 recipients. This was do...
Departmental update
Troubled Families allocationsOn 5 January I announced up to £165 million of new funding for the Troubled Families Programme for 2020-21. This funding will provide intensive support for some of the most vulnerable families and place the programme on a stab...
NATO Leaders' Meeting 3-4 December 2019
My Right Honourable Friend, the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Dominic Raab), has made the following written Ministerial statement:On 3-4 December, NATO Leaders met in London to mark 70 successful years of the Alliance, in a valu...