Health and Safety Commissioner, Danny Carrigan, today launched the construction industry's Working Well Together (WWT), 2005, health and safety roadshow at a Persimmon Homes site in Bathgate, West Lothian, Scotland...

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath, Parliamentary Under Secretary responsible for health and safety, will be launching the joint Health and Safety Executive (HSE)/Step Change in Safety stand at the Offshore Europe Exhibition...

The UK has announced an increase of £115 million funding to support Afghanistan's counter narcotics work.   

Report from Arneil Johnston evaluating the Single Survey pilot which ran from July 2005 to March 2005

Proposals to modernise the process for applying to the Environment Agency for licences to abstract and impound water are being published today for consultation.   

Mr Anthony Cantor has been appointed Her Majesty's Ambassador to the Republic of Armenia in succession to Miss Thorhilda Abbott-Watt who will be transferring to another Diplomatic Service appointment. Mr Cantor ...

Consultation paper

Antimicrobial Prescribing Policy and Practice in Scotland: Recommendations for Good Antimicrobial Practice in Acute Hospitals

The OFT has decided to make a Warning Order against South London estate agents Lynx Estate Agents Ltd, that if they continue to engage in certain specified practices they will be banned from carrying out estate ...

The OFT has stopped the misleading claims of Devon-based promotional holiday company, Travelworks Ltd.   

The Home Office, CBI and TUC have today issued a joint commitment to support managed migration in the interests of the UK economy.   

Asked for a response to accusations that British officials had been slow to assist British nationals in New Orleans, the PMS said that as the Prime Minister, among others, had already said, British officials had...

Put to her that the Prime Minister seemed to be implying that the government would be changing human rights legislation in order to allow more deportations, the Prime Minister's Spokesman (PMS) said that the Prime...

Tony Blair has held trade talks in Beijing during the EU-China summit. On the agenda today has been the recent dispute over textile imports.

Press briefing from the Prime Minister's Spokesman on: human rights and New Orleans.

Guidance on: - Antisocial Behaviour Strategies - Accountability Framework and Outcome Agreements - Reporting on Antisocial Behaviour Strategies and Outcome Agreements

Measures to reduce incidence of scalding

Part I: UK Government Foreign Currency Assets and Liabilities - August 2005   

The UK Passport Service (UKPS) is reminding its customers to make sure that photos supplied with their passport applications meet the international requirements announced last summer.   

The full membership of all eight new honours committees was announced today. For the first time, the Government has published details of the committee membership. In another new move, all appointments have been ...

Inspections focus on authorities that take too long to process claims and do too little to tackle fraudsters   

For the first time the government has published details of the honours committee membership - and all the appointments have been made through open competition.

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Tony Blair says 'everything possible' is being done to help Britons caught up in aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. He was speaking as British aid began to head out to the Gulf States to help those affected by the ...

Tony Blair has arrived in Beijing today for an EU-China summit. Topics to be discussed, as part of the European Union presidency programme, include trade, security and climate change.

Sixty per cent of smokers still light up without asking for permission despite the fact that most non-smokers don't like it, according to new research.

New NHS campaign raises awareness of invisible killer