Britain to relieve suffering of iraqi people

Short welcomes global partnership against elephantiasis

British assistance to montserrat reaches over #50million

Clare short to visit bosnia, 1-4 february 1998

New members appointed to commonwealth scholarship commission

Britain backs campaign to eradicate polio

Britain backs tb & sexual health programmes in india

World water day - a chance to make a difference for billions

Britain backs tb & sexual health programmes in india

World water day - a chance to make a difference for billions

Britain funds development project in east timor

Britain funds development project in east timor

Britain leads race to find antidote to millennium bug

Britain leads race to find antidote to millennium bug

Core funding for un agencies

Core funding for un agencies

World health day-safe childbirth should be a right - clare short

British agencies for world health day

British agencies for world health day

Britain cancels jamaican debts

World health day-safe childbirth should be a right - clare short

Britain cancels jamaican debts

World book day - turning a new page for education worldwide

World book day - turning a new page for education worldwide

Meeting of afghan donor support group london 5/5/98

Meeting of afghan donor support group london 5/5/98

Britain backs war on malaria

Britain backs war on malaria

Sudan update: 2 - britain pledges further emergency support

Sudan update: 2 - britain pledges further emergency support

Britain brings safer water to people of iraq

Britain brings safer water to people of iraq

New plans for the development of montserrat

Csr - britain's investment in development set for rises year on year

Britain gives shot in the arm for war on polio

Help to sierra leone

Dfid launches first regional development forum

Britain to give #21 million to bangladesh flood crisis

Britain to join battle against elephantiasis

#2 million for kosovo refugees

International development minister Gareth Thomas today announced £10 million to support flood-affected people in Bangladesh. The funds, available to organisations involved in relief work, will be channelled...

UK Secretary of State for International Development Hilary Benn today (Tuesday 27 July) challenged world trade negotiators meeting in Geneva to reach an agreement delivering real benefits to the world's poorest ...

DFID has launched a new programme to help generate employment in southern Iraq. The £6m Southern Iraq Employment and Services Programme (SIESP) aims to provide 1.75 million days of employment throughout...

An airlift of vehicles from the UK this week will boost the African Union mission in its bid to resolve the crisis in Darfur, Sudan.

The UK government is to give at least £15m to help the victims of the Asian earthquake that struck on Boxing Day.

Hilary Benn, Secretary of State for International Development, today offered to assist the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) in transporting any items purchased from the Tsunami Earthquake Appeal to affected people...

A further 45 tonnes of bottled water and collapsible jerry cans are to be sent to the Maldives where there remains a pressing need for clean drinking water. The UK Department for International Development has booked...

Hilary Benn, UK International Development Secretary, who is in Nairobi today to attend the signing of the historic Peace Agreement between the Government of Sudan and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement, has ...

Gareth Thomas, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary at the Department for International Development today met the French Development Minister, Xavier Darcos, as lobbying intensifies in support of the UK's proposals...

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 Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, today set out measures to deliver the Government's objective of building a strong economy and fair society, where there is opportunity and security for all.

Budget 2005

A package of measures to tackle tax fraud and avoidance was announced by the Chancellor today. The reforms will protect revenue for investment in public services and ensure that an unfair burden does not fall on...

Philip Hampton today published his final report 'Reducing administrative burdens: effective inspection and enforcement'. His review considers how to reduce administrative burdens on business without compromising...

HM Treasury is today publishing an analysis of the critical role that the financial sector must play in helping the UK respond to long-term economic changes: The UK financial services sector: rising to the challenges...

Measures to deliver the Government's objective of building a strong economy and fair society with opportunity and security for all, were set out by the Chancellor in his Budget Statement last week.

Assalaamu alaikum

More people will have the opportunity to own an affordable well-designed home, the Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott and Chancellor Gordon Brown announced today.

SPEECH BY THE RT HON GORDON BROWN MP, CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER AT THE LAUNCH OF THE GOVERNMENT'S CONSULTATION DOCUMENT ON HOUSING -'HOMEBUY: EXPANDING THE OPPORTUNITY TO OWN'

The Treasury today announces two new non-executive appointments to the Treasury Board. The appointments have been approved by the Chancellor of the Exchequer following an open competition involving the independent...

Improved energy efficiency in the public sector, and increased access to the arts and culture sector, will be priority areas for the allocation of £40 million from the Invest to Save - Inclusive Communities...

The Queen been pleased to approve the appointment to the Court of Directors of: - Paul Myners, Chairman, Marks and Spencers; and - Arun Sarin, Chief Executive, Vodafone Group Plc

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

Finance (no.2) Bill is published today. Chief Secretary Paul Boateng outlined the measures included in Finance (no.2) Bill in the Second Reading debate in the House of Commons earlier today.

Regulations for a new suite of financial products came into force yesterday. Known as the Stakeholder suite, and an outcome of the 2002 Sandler Review, the new regulations are a welcome step forward for consumers...

The 2005 edition of Public Expenditure Statistical Analyses (PESA) is published today as a Command Paper (Cm 6521). PESA is a compendium of statistical data on public expenditure, covering both outturns and spending...

SPEECH BY THE RT HON GORDON BROWN MP, CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER, AT THE BRITISH CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE ANNUAL CONFERENCE 25 APRIL 2005

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

The Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown has appointed Spencer Livermore and Damian McBride as his Special Advisers. Spencer will be the Chief Political and Strategy Adviser.

The Government today welcomed the publication of the National Employment Panel report on Increasing the Employment and Business Growth of Ethnic Minority and Faith groups.

CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY

The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, this morning launched a Better Regulation Action Plan to boost flexibility and enterprise. A full copy of the Action Plan is attached.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, this morning launched a Better Regulation Action Plan to boost flexibility and enterprise. A full copy of the Action Plan is attached.

The Financial Secretary to the Treasury, John Healey MP, today presented to the House of Commons the Main Supply Estimates for 2005-06. Supply Estimates seek parliamentary authority for departmental spending plans...

The first Finance Bill of the new Parliament is published today. The Bill, to be known as Finance Bill 2005, reintroduces legislation announced in Budget 2005 that was not enacted by Finance Act 2005. The Government...

The Chancellor has today announced to the House of Commons the appointment of David Walton to the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) to succeed Marian Bell. This appointment will take effect on 1 ...

Economic Secretary to the Treasury, Ivan Lewis, today announced that over £2 million has been refunded to the Band Aid Trust, equivalent to the VAT paid on more than 1 million purchases of the Christmas...

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

REMARKS BY CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER GORDON BROWN ON THE UK's G8 DEVELOPMENT AGENDA EDINBURGH 3 JUNE 2005

GLOBAL BRITAIN, GLOBAL EUROPE: A PRESIDENCY FOUNDED ON PRO EUROPEAN REALISM

CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY

CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY

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

Professor Martin Cave today invited views on issues that he will address in his Independent Audit of Spectrum Holdings, which focuses primarily on public sector holdings. These issues are set out in a consultation...

Let me say as I thank all of you and in particular the chair of the committee, Madame Pervenche Beres, and the three Vice-Chairs, that I have come to do what I believe is right and report first and directly to the...

The Association of Mutual Insurers (AMI) and the Association of Friendly Societies (AFS) have today responded to one of the key recommendations of Paul Myners' review of the governance of life mutuals by publishing...

New Activity and Learning Agreements to help thousands of young people back into education or training will be piloted in twelve areas from April 2006, the Government announced today.

CORRECTED VERSION

Two more national museums will be able to provide free admissions to the public while reclaiming their VAT bills, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, announced today.

This release provides new estimates of financial year outturns for some key public expenditure series that are complied and published by H M Treasury as National Statistics.

The Treasury today published the Public Expenditure Outturn White Paper (Cm 6639) showing provisional outturn for Departmental Expenditure Limits (DEL) and Annually Managed Expenditure (AME) in 2004-05 including...

Significant progress has been made on the Government's 10-year framework on science and innovation investment, according to the strategy's first annual report published today.

HM Treasury today published a consultation document on its proposals to strengthen and modernise the arrangements under which a limited number of commercial banks in Scotland and Northern Ireland are permitted to...

The Prime Minister today announced the appointment of Nicholas Macpherson as Permanent Secretary to the Treasury in succession to Sir Gus O'Donnell, recently appointed as Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Home Civil...

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

On the sixtieth anniversary of VJ Day, the Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown will today launch a new scheme for UK charities which will refund the VAT costs incurred in the construction, renovation and maintenance...

The Treasury today announced that it is donating £2 million to the Disasters Emergency Committee in recognition of the VAT collected on fund-raising events and sales in support of the Indian Ocean Tsunami...

The Government today announced changes in the bonus rates for the Save As You Earn (SAYE) Sharesave scheme, which will keep them in line with other interest rates.

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

The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown - with colleagues from France, Spain, Italy and Sweden, Graca Machel and Dr Lee Jong-Wook - today launched a new International Finance Facility for Immunisation (IFFIm...

Wicks committee publishes annual report

Wicks committee publishes action taken

Chris smith appointed to cospl

Advisory board for public research announced

Wicks committee announces inquiry

Ncsr awarded contract for wicks committee public research

Inquiry into standards of conduct in the house of commons

Inquiry into ministers, special advisers and civil service

Wicks committee studies scottish experience

Provisional schedule of witnesses for 28 may

Inquiry into parliamentary standards provisional schedule

Public hearings on mps'' standards of conduct concluded

Wicks committee begins public hearings into boundaries

Inquiry into boundaries between ministers, special advisers and civil servants - witnesses for 1 and 2 july

First public hearing into ministers, special advisers

Inquiry into boundaries between ministers

Inquiry into boundaries between ministers - witness list

Statement on seventh day of executive inquiry

House of commons - standards of conduct

Wicks committee launches phase 2 of public research

Two staff changes at wicks committee

Response to report of committee on standards and privileges

Changes recommended to boundaries between ministers special advisers and the civil service

Appointments to the committee on standards in public life

Appointments to the committee on standards in public life

Appointments to the committee on standards in public life

Sir Andrew Turnbull wrote to Sir Nigel Wicks on November 20th 2003 about a proposed amendment to the Code of Conduct for Special Advisers set out in the Government's Response to the Committee's Ninth Report (Cm ...

Annual report of the committee on standards in public life published

Inquiry into Processes for Maintaining High Standards of Conduct in Public Bodies, Local Government and the National Health Service Continues: Witnesses for Tuesday 15 June

The Committee on Standards in Public Life, chaired by Sir Alistair Graham, has started a series of public hearings in its inquiry to help establish whether current arrangements for promoting high standards of conduct...

Witnesses for Thursday 17 June in Edinburgh

The Committee on Standards in Public Life, chaired by Sir Alistair Graham, has started a series of public hearings in its inquiry to help establish whether current arrangements for promoting high standards of conduct...

Witnesses for Tuesday 29 June in Belfast

Witnesses for Wednesday 7 July in Cardiff

The sixth public hearing of the Committee's Tenth inquiry 'Getting the Balance Right: Implementing Standards of Conduct in Public Life' will take place on Tuesday 13 July at One Great George Street, Westminster, ...

The seventh public hearing of the Committee's Tenth inquiry 'Getting the Balance Right: Implementing Standards of Conduct in Public Life' will take place on Thursday 15 July at One Great George Street, Westminster...

WITNESSES FOR THURSDAY 9 SEPTEMBER IN LONDON

Inquiry into Processes for Maintaining High Standards of Conduct in Public Bodies, Local Government and the National Health Service Continues: Witnesses for Tuesday 14 September in London

The first results of a long-term research project into public attitudes towards conduct in public life were published today by the Committee on Standards in Public Life.

Inquiry into Processes for Maintaining High Standards of Conduct in Public Bodies, Local Government and the National Health Service Continues: Updated Witnesses for Tuesday 14 September in London

Inquiry into Processes for Maintaining High Standards of Conduct in Public Bodies, Local Government and the National Health Service Continues:

The Rt Hon Baroness Jay of Paddington and Mr Lloyd Clarke QPM have been appointed to the Committee on Standards in Public Life. Both appointments, announced by the Prime Minister are effective from today 1 November...

The Committee on Standards in Public Life, which was established by the then Prime Minister in 1994, has no mandate to investigate allegations against individuals. The Committee does not comment on individual allegations...

The Committee on Standards in Public Life, which was established by the then Prime Minister in 1994, has no mandate to investigate allegations against individuals. The Committee has however previously inquired into...

Proposals to counter perceived cronyism in the public appointments system, and improve the investigation of complaints against local government councillors, are put forward in a radical report published by the Committee...

1. After the publication of the Budd Report, Sir Alistair Graham, Chairman of the Committee on Standards in Public Life gave notice [PN 165, 22 December 2004] that the Committee would reflect on the Report and ...

The Committee on Standards in Public Life welcomed today the publication of new research, produced by MORI for the Public Appointments Commissioner. This shows that in addition to a low level of public awareness...

The Committee published its 2004 Annual Report today, Tuesday 22 March.

STATEMENT BY SIR ALISTAIR GRAHAM, CHAIRMAN OF THE COMMITTEE ON STANDARDS IN PUBLIC LIFE

STATEMENT BY SIR ALISTAIR GRAHAM, CHAIRMAN OF THE COMMITTEE ON STANDARDS IN PUBLIC LIFE

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.

The OFT has decided to ban High Wycombe estate agent Ian Patrick Hanna from engaging in estate agency work. The decision will not come into effect until the end of an appeal process (see Note 4).

It has been a year of results says Sir John Vickers, OFT Chairman, in the OFT annual report, published today. He says:

Shoppers in Oxford are being targeted by the OFT with hot shopping tips and advice as part of a major consumer awareness campaign.

Six roofing contractors have been found by the OFT to have agreed to fix the prices of flat roofing services in Western-Central Scotland through collusive tendering. They have been fined almost £260,000...

More rigorous scrutiny at Commission and national level is needed to ensure that government subsidies achieve value for money and do not distort competition, said Sir John Vickers, OFT Chairman at the UK Presidency...

The OFT has stopped the misleading claims and practices of a Dutch genealogist who claimed to produce individualised family trees for UK consumers with unusual family names.

Nearly a quarter of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) across Britain believe they are harmed by unfair practices such as cartel price fixing and collusion to set tender prices, says new research from the...

The OFT has issued a warning order to Suffolk estate agents Gobbitt & Kirby Property Services Ltd, that if they continue to engage in certain specified practices they will be banned from carrying out estate agency...

OFT campaign to promote consumer codes approval scheme

Request back of an EC merger made by OFT

The OFT has refused to issue a consumer credit licence to a Tamworth mortgage and general insurance broker.

The OFT has refused to renew a consumer credit licence of an East Sussex car dealer. This decision will not take effect until after an appeal process (see note 5).

Consumers using credit brokers to introduce them to sources of credit are reminded that if they are not found a suitable loan within six months and do not take up any loan offered - for whatever reason - the broker...

The OFT has decided to revoke the consumer credit licence of a debt consultant from London. Michael Brandon has had his credit licence revoked on the grounds that in 2001 he was disqualified from being a company...

The OFT has written to eight major credit card companies to consult on its provisional conclusion that the levels of default charges they impose (e.g. for late payments) are excessive.

The OFT has refused an application to renew a credit licence from a motor dealer in Dartford.

The OFT has recently searched the premises of 22 companies in Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Derbyshire and South Yorkshire under warrant as part of an investigation into allegations of collusive tendering for...

The OFT has launched a market study into public sector information holders (PSIHs).

The OFT has refused an application for a credit licence by a motor dealer from the vale of Glamorgan.

The OFT has decided to revoke a Manchester mail order supplier's consumer credit licence. The trader has appealed against the decision.

The OFT has decided to revoke the consumer credit licence of a Mid Glamorgan motor dealer.

The OFT today referred the completed acquisition by Ardagh International Holdings Ltd of Redfearn Glass Limited (previously Rexam Glass Barnsley Limited) to the Competition Commission (CC). The OFT has decided that...

OFT considers undertakings instead of reference to the Competition Commission

OFT concludes review of Supermarkets Code

Taxi numbers increased since OFT report

The OFT today referred the anticipated acquisition by National Express Group plc (NEG) of the Thameslink and Great Northern (TGN) rail franchise to the Competition Commission (CC).

Advertised discounts must be from genuine prices

417 licensing actions carried out by OFT

The director of a Devon based promotional holiday company has given binding undertakings not to publish misleading advertisements, rely on identified unfair terms, or breach the legislation relating to package travel...

The OFT today announced that the acquisition by Red Football Limited of Cubic Expression Company Limited's interest in Manchester United plc will not be referred to the Competition Commission.

For the first time the Office of Fair Trading will be taking part in the London Mela in Gunnersbury Park, Ealing on Sunday 14 August, bringing consumer rights information to the South Asian community.

The OFT has refused to issue a consumer credit licence to a Ramsgate motor dealer.

A review to find out how the OFT's guidance to debt collectors has changed behaviour in the sector has been launched by the OFT. The OFT's guidance on debt collection, issued in July 2003, sets out minimum standards...

The OFT has refused to renew a consumer credit licence held by a Hull property developer. This decision will not take effect until after an appeal process (see note 5).

The OFT welcomes today's positive response to its care homes report from the English, Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish administrations and the national regulators.

The OFT has decided to ban Belfast estate agent William Faulkner from engaging in estate agency work and to revoke his consumer credit licence. These decisions will not come into effect until the end of an appeals...

The Carpet Foundation has become the first association in the furniture sector to complete Stage One of the OFT's Consumer Codes Approval Scheme (CCAS), which aims to promote and safeguard consumer interests (see...

Chris Mayock has been appointed as a branch director in the OFT's competition enforcement division. He will be responsible for conducting competition investigations in sectors which include the media, sport and ...

Issued jointly by the Office of Fair Trading and the Department of Trade and Industry

Promoters of a website scheme that offered expensive hi-tech gadgets as a 'free gift' in return for buying a low-value product have given binding undertakings to the OFT that they will no longer promote such schemes...

The OFT has decided to refuse an application for a consumer credit licence from a Malton motor dealer, Linda Susan Cook. This decision will not take effect until the end of any appeal process (see note 5).

The London Borough of Newham has given undertakings to the OFT that it will remove potentially unfair terms from tenancy agreements used in providing housing to previously homeless people.

A vehicle hire trader from Kent has had his application for a consumer credit licence refused by the OFT.

New guidance to help make caravan contract terms clearer and fairer has been published by the OFT.

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 OFT has found that a collective agreement between members of MasterCard UK Members Forum (MMF), including most major banks, setting the multi-lateral interchange fee (the MMF MIF) paid on virtually all purchases...

New guidance on how the Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Regulations apply to tenancy contracts has been issued by the OFT to help landlords provide clear and fair contract terms to their tenants.

The Ombudsman for Estate Agents Company Limited (OEA) has secured OFT approval for its consumer code of practice. The code is designed to ensure consumers get a fairer deal when using OEA estate agents' services...