Investment in Water Services Quality and Standards III Work Package 6 Report: Customer Service Standards

Investing in Water Services Quality and Standards III Work Package 3 Report Interaction with Outputs

Investing in Water Services Quality and Standards III Work Package 2 Report Scottish Water Assets

Following his meeting on 7 February with the President of the National Federation of Cypriots, Mr Haris Sophoclides, the Foreign Secretary made the following statement:   

Quality and Standards III Investing in Water Services 2006 - 2014: Analysis of Responses to the Scottish Executive Consultation

Paying for Water Services 2006-2010: Qualitative Research Summary

Paying for Water Services 2006-2010: Analysis of Responses to the Scottish Executive Consultation

Paying for Water Services 2006-2010 - Qualitative Research Report

Paying for Water SErvices 2006 -2010 - Analysis of Whether there are significant Cross-Subsidies Between the Different Customer Groups Served by Scottish Water: Final Report

Investing in Water Services Quality and Standards III Work Package 5 Report Drinking Water Quality and Water Resources

Investing in Water Services 2006-2014: Customer Views on the Investment Priorities for Scottish Water

Investing in Water Services 2006-2014: Analysis of Responses to the Scottish Executive Consultation

"Paying for Water Services 2006-2010" - Analysis of Responses to the Scottish Executive Consultation Final Report

New regulations introduced for recycling of end of life vehicles   

This consultation seeks comments on a range of proposals designed to improve police effectiveness and enhance community safety.

This report analyses responses to the housing consultation 'Maintaining Houses - Preserving Homes'

Put to him that the Foreign Secretary's comments this morning about the European Constitution being as far as we went contradicted the Prime Minister's stance that he didn't have time for people who weren't willing...

Asked if the Government was using the Freedom of Information Act as a propaganda tool, the PMOS said that first and foremost we should recognise that the information was being released because the Government put...

Asked if the Prime Minister would make an apology to those wrongly convicted of the Guilford Pub bombings at Prime Minister's Question Time, the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman (PMOS) said that it was entirely...

Briefing from the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman on: PM Apology, Freedom of Information Act and Europe.

Consumers have been warned to stop making life easy for fraudsters.

A pilot scheme designed to take rising stars of the teaching profession and place them in challenging urban positions is being expanded.

The MoD will not carry out any more work on the siting of radioactive material from decommissioned nuclear-powered submarines until at least 2006.   

EXTRA INVESTMENT TO SPEED UP OPERATIONS AND ADDRESS THE BIG KILLER DISEASES   

The first non-executive Directors of The Pensions Regulator have been confirmed today. The appointments were announced by the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Alan Johnson following recommendations...

This site needs some translation work done on it. I understand Drupal / CivicSpace can manage multilingual installs but I've not tried it before. It doesn't seem to be an easy or obvious a process...

Drop in hospital waiting times - The health minister says the gap with England is closing as new figures show Welsh waiting times are falling. [BBC News feed] Tories said waiting lists rose 83% during his predecessor Jane Hutt's five years in the job, and Liberal Democrats said there was still a rise in the wait for a first outpatient appointment.

Peter Hain, on the Assembly's management of the NHS in Wales: Wales must learn from Best Practice in England

'Shocked' nurses challenge Morgan - Nurses at Wales' biggest hospital invite First Minister Rhodri Morgan to see the problems they face first hand. [BBC News feed] According to the BBC, Mr Morgan told AMs the problems were usual for January, a comment that angered nurses. Tina Donnelly, director of the Royal College of Nursing in Wales, said Mr Ross and the new nursing director at the hospital had "inherited a nightmare" and the system needed to be "radically overhauled".

Election leaflet 'used BNP words' - A councillor denies being a racist after an election leaflet is found to have identical material to the BNP's. [BBC News feed] The leader of Swansea Council's response? He uses this disgraceful action by an 'Independent' to bad-mouth the Labour Party. The BNP has confirmed the material was originally theirs. There's no word on whether they gave explicit permission to Alan Robinson to use it. Alan Robinson denies any link to the BNP.

This financial year, Culturenet Cymru, entirely funded through the Welsh Assembly, has been given half a million pounds of taxpayers' money - nearly £10,000 a week. Does anyone know what it has been doing with this money? Does anyone think it worth it?

The Welsh Assembly's own stats pages are, peculiarly, described as 'a free-to-use service'. Given this is data on the performance of publicly-funded bodies and is paid for by the taxpayer, it would be extraordinary...

From The Times, about State and Federal politics in the US: it is precisely at the level of local politics ... that laws ... emerge more from back-room deals and powerbrokers than from effective and broad-based public debate. The state level is ... where the loony Left and self-righteous Right operate at their best. Hmmm...

'Health News from the National Assembly', reports proceedings of a full session of the Welsh Assembly on the 30th June 2004 at which the Liberal Democrats and Plaid Cymru tabled amendments to proposed amendments...

Consultants attack cuts in beds - Twenty-three consultants at a west Wales hospital put their names to a newspaper letter criticising bed cuts. [BBC News feed]

We assume they're both interested in the Drupal-based CivicSpace website. Certainly, we wouldn't expect people at Hackney to be spending public money browsing this website for partisan reasons...and it's good to...

According to a BBC story, the Welsh Assembly government has been obliged to publish figures on MRSA infection in hospitals under the Freedom of Inormation act, having previously refused to divulge the statistics...

The Freedom of Information Act is becoming a valuable tool in the armoury of journalists and politicians to find out what is going on. As a matter of interest I have now had the reply to a written question detailing...

Full hospitals turn away patients - Ambulances queue outside two major hospital forced to close to all but critically-ill patients as no beds are free. [BBC News feed] Hospital chiefs admitted there were problems with capacity and expressed sympathy for staff and patients.

Perhaps he should talk to Rhodri Morgan, who made a personal visit to the accident and emergency department at Cardiff's University Hospital of Wales. Mr Morgan told AMs the problems were usual for January...

The Queen has been pleased to approve that, under the Public Works Loan Act 1946, Mr John Parkes be appointed Chairman and Mrs Rachel Terry be appointed Deputy Chairman of the Board each for a term of four years...

Statistical, collection and collation activities across ERAd

Consumer education key to stopping scams, says OFT   

Elliot Morley has today renewed Defra's offer of specialist consultancy support for local authorities to help them meet waste recycling and composting targets for 2005/6 and cut waste going to landfill...

Minister for Disabled People Maria Eagle today announced the appointment of a new Trustee for the Independent Living Funds.   

Asked about the soldier's injury package that had been brought up at the Committee meeting, the PMOS said it had been discussed at lobby last week, and the issue was being looked at. His hunch was, it would take...

Put to him that there had been much made recently about public figures setting an example to young people, with the example given of Wayne Rooney swearing at a referee, the PMOS broke in and said he thought he knew...

Asked when people could expect to see the report published by General Luck that the Prime Minister discussed in his Liaison meeting, the PMOS said that last April we had started to delineate the process of Iraqiisation...

Asked to clarify the Prime Minister's comments during his Liaison Committee meeting earlier today about NATO training in Iraq, and how did this differ from previous discussions regarding training in Istanbul and...

Asked what the thinking behind the timing of Ellen MacArthur's damehood was, the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman (PMOS) said the precedent had been set by Sir Francis Chichester in 1967 when he completed his...

Briefing from the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman on: Ellen MacArthur, NATO Training, General Luck Report, Bad Language and Soldier Injury Package.

This consultation seeks comments on a range of proposals designed to improve police effectiveness and enhance community safety.

Manufacturing: 0.2% three monthly rise

Rise in visits to and from the UK in 2004

£3.0 billion deficit in Dec 2004

Statement of issues   

A charity that takes surplus food from major retailers and passes it to hungry people on the streets has received a lottery grant.

A new 'call to action' to reinvigorate London's landscape over the next 10 years has been launched.