The Prime Minister says hosting the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2012 will be 'momentous and tremendous' for the capital.

New powers to improve consumer safety by giving enforcement agencies the power to recall dangerous products were published today by Consumer Minister Gerry Sutcliffe.   

Asked if Louise Casey had said apologised, or whether she had spoken to the Prime Minister, the PMS said not as far as she was aware. Asked if there was a problem with celebrity mandarins having a high profile, ...

Asked if the Prime Minister had any message of sympathy for President Chirac, the Prime Minister's Spokesman (PMS) said the Prime Minister had already been asked about this during his live broadcast earlier. The...

Briefing from the Prime Minister's Spokesman on: Olympics and Louise Casey.

The positive report from the Defence Select Committee on the MoD's 'Future Capabilities' plans and its endorsement of the MoD's proposals for modernising the Armed Forces were welcomed today by Defence Secretary...

A Staffordshire recruiting officer for the Royal Marines is sending one of its most extraordinary athletes to inspire young people attending The Mersey Youth Games this weekend (July 9-10).   

Two companies have been fined a total of £48,000 after workers were exposed to asbestos fibres during refurbishment work.   

World leaders have been arriving at Prestwick airport all day in readiness for this week's Gleneagles discussions.

Following a review of the NHS Research Ethics Committees (NHS RECS) system in England, a report was published on 6 June 2005. The report contains 9 recommendations all of which are of relevance to Scotland. The...

International Development Secretary Hilary Benn today announced a multi-million pound package of funding to eradicate polio by the end of 2005 or early 2006 and to boost the effort to ensure the world stays polio...

The OFT has obtained undertakings from the promoter of two premium rate prize competitions that it will not use misleading advertising to promote such competitions.   

Congestion busting Highways Agency Traffic Officers are to go on tour across the region to explain the role of the new £5 million Regional Traffic Control Centre.   

Traffic restrictions will begin on the A1 from 9 July, between Darrington and the M62 junction 33, near Ferrybridge, so that Highways Agency contractors can connect the new A1 motorway to the existing A1 carriageway...

A Northamptonshire farm is the first to be accredited as suitable for school visits under a national scheme to increase schools' access to farmland and provide safe, educational places for farmland and countryside...

Movement of fish to and from Nidderdale Trout farm, Low Laith, North Yorkshire has been prohibited following detection of Bacterial Kidney Disease (BKD).   

A new online publication outlining a vision of how health and social care services should work together to secure better services for older people was launched today by two Department of Health tsars.   

Changes to the BCG vaccination programme were announced today by the Chief Medical Officer, Sir Liam Donaldson.   

Asked what the Prime Minister thought of our Olympic presentation, the PMS said that he obviously thought it had been excellent having been in Singapore for the last two days he had seen at close hand the excellent...

Asked about remarks made by the head of the anti-social behaviour unit, Louise Casey, which were critical of Government policy, the Prime Minister's Spokesman (PMS) said that the Home Office were looking into the...

Schoolchildren from the G8 nations have spoken to Tony Blair this morning about their plans to solve the world's biggest problems.

The Prime Minister says hosting the Olympic Games will be 'momentous and tremendous' for the capital.

Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott took questions in the house today as Tony Blair was in Gleneagles for the G8 summit.

Briefing from the Prime Minister's Spokesman on: Louise Casey and Olympics.

The Trafalgar Garden has been awarded a victorious bronze medal at the Hampton Court Palace Flower Show this week.   

Over the last 30 years intensive fruit & veg farming at Lower Lulham, Madley in Herefordshire has largely given way to tree plantations as the farming partnership of H A Snell & Sons has diversified into The Poplar...

The first farm has been accredited as suitable for school visits under a national scheme to increase schools' access to farmland and provide safe, educational places for farmland and countryside teaching.   

The Drinking Water Inspectorate, the independent tap water watchdog, today announced figures showing how tap water quality in England and Wales measures up against the new more rigorous drinking water standards ...

Consumer satisfaction is every bit as important as passing scientific tests when it comes to drinking water quality, Environment Minister Elliot Morley said today.   

Scottish Index of Manufactured Exports 2005 Q1

Manufacturing: 1.9% three monthly fall

Prime Minister Tony Blair has arrived at Gleneagles, Perthshire, Scotland at the start of the G8 Gleneagles Summit.

Watch Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott take questions in the House of Commons live from 1200BST today.

In light of the judgments by Mr. Justice Crane in the case of Operation Venison on 24 June and by the Court of Appeal in the cases of Operation Hellvellyn and others on 4 July, I am announcing today that HMRC has...

The Chancellor of the Exchequer announced in the Budget that, owing to the sustained volatility in the oil market, the annual inflation only increase in main fuel duties would be deferred until 1 September.Following...

My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs and Lord Chancellor has made the following statement in the other place today:"I have today published a paper outlining Government proposals...

Today I am pleased to announce that BAE Systems Insyte has been selected as the preferred bidder for the FALCON Secure Trunk Communication System (increment A). The Ministry of Defence will now enter detailed negotiations...

I have today arranged for copies of the second report on the implementation of the Council of Europe's charter for regional or minority languages to be placed in the Library of the House.The report details the measures...

I am announcing today the publication of the consultation on the "Independent Mental Capacity Advocate service".During the passage of the Mental Capacity Bill Ministers committed to consulting with interested stakeholders...

The Healthcare Commission (the statutory name of which is the Commission for Healthcare Audit and Inspection) has today published the outcome of a review of national health service foundation trusts, copies of which...

My right hon. and learned Friend the Attorney-General has made the following written ministerial statement:"I refer to the statement made today by my hon. Friend the Financial Secretary concerning Operation Venison...

The eighth annual review of the Government Chemist has been received. The review will be laid before the Scottish Parliament and copies will be placed in the Libraries of both Houses plus those of the devolved Administrations...

The London 2012 team gave their final presentation to the International Olympic Committee in Singapore this morning.

Greater management and oversight is needed into residential short-term holding centres, HM Chief Inspector of Prisons Anne Owers said today as she published a report on three unannounced inspections.   

Responding to Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Prisons (HMCIP) inspection reports on the unannounced inspections of Harmondsworth Immigration Removal Centre and three short-term holding facilities, Home Office Minister...

Progress has been made at the Harmondsworth Immigration Removal Centre, but some fundamental concerns remain, according to the report of an unannounced inspection published today by Anne Owers, Chief Inspector of...