Written Ministerial Statements
Formal statements made by UK government ministers to Parliament.
3,440 statements
Publication of Compliance Improvement Review
On 9 May 2019 I made a Written Ministerial Statement to notify Parliament of compliance risks that MI5 had identified and reported within certain technology environments used to store and analyse data. In the statement I confirmed that I had established a...
Office for Tackling Injustices
On Friday 12 July, the Prime Minister announced the creation of the Office for Tackling Injustices. This is a new organisation that will hold the Government and wider society to account for tackling key social injustices. Despite the great progress we hav...
School Sport and Activity
A positive experience of sport and physical activity at a young age can build a lifetime habit of participation. It is central to meeting the Government’s ambitions for a world-class education system which promotes character, good physical health and ment...
Public Service Pensions
The government is committed to providing public service pensions that are fair for public sector workers and for taxpayers. This is why we brought forward reforms in 2015, based on the recommendations of the Hutton report, to ensure that these pensions ar...
Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council (EPSCO) 8th July 2019, Brussels
My honourable Friend The Minister of State for Employment (Alok Sharma MP) has made the following Written Statement.The Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council took place on 8th July 2019 in Brussels. The Deputy Permanent Representa...
Justice update
My Right Honourable friend the Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice (David Gauke MP) has made the following Written Statement:"Earlier today, I notified the market via the London Stock Exchange group that I would today lay a Statutory I...
Supply and Appropriation (Main Estimates) (No.3) Bill
I have made a statement under Section 19(1)(a) of the Human Rights Act 1998 that, in my view, the provisions of the Supply and Appropriation (Main Estimates) (No.3) Bill are compatible with the convention rights. A copy of the statement has been placed in...
Review of Inappropriate Behaviour in the Armed Forces
My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Defence (The Right Hon Penny Mordaunt MP) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement.In April of this year a report was commissioned to look into inappropriate behaviour in the Armed Forces. Our Ar...
Chemical Weapons Convention - Declaration of Protective Programme for 2018
The UK's chemical protection programme is designed to protect against the use of chemical weapons. Such a programme is permitted by the Chemical Weapons Convention, with which the United Kingdom is fully compliant. Under the terms of the Convention, we ar...
Serious Violence
My rt hon Friend the Secretary of State for the Home Department (Sajid Javid) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement:On 1 April 2019 the Government published a consultation paper on a new legal duty to support a multi-agency approach t...
Office for Tackling Injustices
My Rt Hon. Friend the Minister for Women and Equalities (The Rt Hon Penny Mordaunt MP) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement. On Friday 12 July, the Prime Minister announced the creation of the Office for Tackling Injustices. This is a new ...
Publication of Compliance Improvement Review
My rt hon Friend the Secretary of State for the Home Department (Sajid Javid) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement:On 9 May 2019 I made a Written Ministerial Statement to notify Parliament of compliance risks that MI5 had identified ...
School Sport and Activity
My right honourable friend the Secretary of State for Education (Damian Hinds) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement.A positive experience of sport and physical activity at a young age can build a lifetime habit of participation. It is cent...
Government’s Consultation on Measures to Reduce Health Related Job Loss
My honourable Friend, The Minister of State for Disabled People, Health and Work(Justin Tomlinson MP) has made the following Written Statement.I would like to make the following statement on behalf of myself and Jackie Doyle Price MP, the Parliamentary Un...
Public Service Pensions
My right honourable friend the Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Elizabeth Truss) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement.The government is committed to providing public service pensions that are fair for public sector workers and for ta...
Use of contingent liability by the Home Office – National Crime Agency Retention of Specialist Skills (ROSS) Litigation
I am today laying before the House of Commons a Departmental Minute on the use of contingent liability by the Home Office for the NCA Retention of Specialist Skills (ROSS) Litigation.The litigation relates to 15 claims from current NCA officers and the ap...
Additional contingent liability associated with International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) capital increases
Today I have laid a Departmental Minute relating to the intention by the Department for International Development (DFID) to create an additional contingent liability of 1,912,245,702.50 United States Dollars (USD) with respect to the World Bank’s Internat...
Housing update
Making sure the housing market works is a key priority for this government. Today I am announcing a number of additional measures the government is taking to ensure we deliver the homes this country needs and promote fairness for people, wherever they liv...
Environment and Climate Change: Response to the Resolution of the House, 1 May 2019
The Government is in no doubt that the we face an environmental and climate emergency – from climate change to biodiversity decline, from poor air quality to plastic pollution – which requires urgent action. The decisions we make today will affect the fut...
General Affairs Council, June 2019
I represented the UK at the General Affairs Council (GAC) in Luxembourg on 18 June 2019. Until we leave the European Union, we remain committed to fulfilling our rights and obligations as a full Member State and continue to act in good faith. A provisiona...
Media Matters
Times/Sunday Times application to vary 1981 conditions On 10 January 2019, News UK submitted an application to vary certain conditions put in place in 1981 by the then Secretary of State for Trade. The proposed changes would allow The Times and The Sunda...
Female Offender Strategy- First Anniversary
My honourable friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice, (Edward Argar) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement."Today marks the first anniversary of the publication of the Government’s female offender strategy. With ...
Annual Report of the Biometrics Commissioner
I am pleased to announce that my rt hon Friend the Home Secretary is today publishing the fifth annual report of the Biometrics Commissioner, together with the Government’s response.The Commissioner, Paul Wiles, is appointed under Section 20 of the Protec...
Report on Implementing Geological Disposal
My Honourable Friend the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Minister for Business and Industry (Andrew Stephenson MP) has made the following written statement:In 2010 the UK Government committed to report on progress in implementing geological dispos...
June Agriculture and Fisheries Council
My Rt Hon Friend Robert Goodwill has today made the following statement:I represented the UK at the Agriculture and Fisheries Council in Luxembourg on 18 June.The Council discussed the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF) budget for 2021-27, and ag...