Work and Pensions Minister Chris Pond added his voice to praise for London projects funded by the European Social Fund (ESF) today.   

Statement of Compliance with the National Statistics Code of Practice and Protocols

The first ever international Veterans Ministers summit has ended with agreement from all Ministers to work closely together to share best practice information. The five Ministers agreed the following communique...

The Chancellor will unveil his Budget tomorrow. We will be running one continuous live broadcast on this website from 1200 GMT - to include PMQs - until the Chancellor finishes his statement.

This guide aims to assist practitioners, managers and commissioners in reviewing the way that they design, record and deliver screening and assessment services to people with drug problems.

A consultation on draft regulations to reform legislation protecting employees' rights when companies change ownership was launched today by the Department of Trade & Industry.   

A bankrupt, who conspired with his mother to avoid paying his creditors by hiding the proceeds of his house sale, has been ordered to pay up for face 15 months in prison following a DTI prosecution.   

Gordon Brown has said that human-made climate change is the most 'far-reaching and threatening' of all the environmental challenges facing the world.

Alters AnnexD of Scottish Office Circular 4/1997 relating to consultation on development proposals with the Executive's Trunk Road Network Management Division

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The proprietor of an estate agency and lettings business has undertaken to comply with the law and deal fairly with consumers following action by the OFT. Darren Russell, who carried on a business under...

The government has put renewed focus on tackling isolation and social exclusion among older people with the publication of a new report from the Social Exclusion Unit.   

Britain's front-line Artillery Regiments are set to get an advanced and more effective light artillery shell under a contract announced by Defence Procurement Minister Lord Bach today.   

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Dame Yve Buckland has been appointed as the Chair designate of the new Consumer Council for Water, Elliot Morley, Minister for Water, announced today. Dame Yve will start work in April on establishing...

The Government will publish its radical plans to scrap Incapacity Benefit (IB) and replace it with a system focused on helping people into work this summer, Alan Johnson announced today.   

Foreign Office Minister Douglas Alexander MP will visit Indonesia on 15 -16 March. Mr Alexander will start his visit in Jakarta with calls on President Dr Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, senior members of the...

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Asked what the Prime Minister's view on abortion issues was, the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman (PMOS) said that the Prime Minister had said in the House last July and repeated in his interview with Cosmopolitan...

A new law enforcement body will make offenders pay for their crimes by collecting unpaid fines and ensuring that they turn up for court appearances.

Parents will soon be able to see how their child is progressing at school with a simple click of a mouse.

Briefing from the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman on Abortion.

The Queen has been pleased to re-appoint Mr Oliver Crosthwaite-Eyre to the post of Official Verderer of the New Forest for a further term of three years.

Leaflet giving simple advice on E. Coli O157

The Highways Agency is working to make its roads even safer with the introduction of new flexible motorway signs.   

Fine dodgers, bail bandits and those who think they can ignore the order of the court will be brought to book by a specialist team of enforcement officers, in a new National Enforcement Service Lord Falconer...

UK and Devolved Administration Agriculture Ministers today announced arrangements for an independent review of farming and food levy bodies, including their roles, responsibilities and funding.   

Health Minister Rosie Winterton pledges to strengthen local NHS monitors   

Science and Innovation Minister, Lord Sainsbury, today announced £100 million for the next round of the Technology Programme with automotive, energy and aerospace sectors set to benefit.   

Asked if the Prime Minister and Chancellor would be meeting face to face over the next few days the PMOS said that, as you would expect, the usual communications had and would take place....

Asked who approached whom on the Paul Boateng appointment and whether Paul Boateng had approached the Prime Minister to seek a post after political life, the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman (PMOS) said, as he...

Briefing from the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman on: Paul Boateng and Budget.

The Chancellor will unveil his Budget tomorrow. We will be running one continuous live broadcast on this website from 1200 GMT - to include PMQs - until the Chancellor finishes his statement.

Statistics about parental requests to place a child in a different school

Shows the trends in vehicle-kilometres, passenger journeys and receipts; describes the availability of services and people's use of and views on them, particularly the use of buses for commuting.

More than eighty per cent of home-buyers and sellers say the introduction of Home Information Packs is a good idea and when asked unprompted what would most improve the home buying process, the top answer...

A new £5 million programme to support the drive by councils and local agencies to create cleaner, safer and greener communities was today launched by Liveability Minister Phil Hope.   

Sir Michael Bichard reports good progress, but says a great deal still to do on his most important Inquiry recommendations   

International Development Secretary Hilary Benn has made a statement in Parliament about the Commission for Africa report.

The Competition Commission (CC) has formally cleared the completed acquisition by Napier Brown Foods PLC (NBF) of James Budgett Sugars Ltd (JBS).   

A new booklet full of handy information for lone parents has been published. The guide brings together help on everything from housing to healthcare.

HM Treasury is today publishing a new analysis: Long-term global economic challenges and opportunities for Europe. The paper sets out the global economic challenges that Europe must meet to deliver high...