UK Defence Secretary John Reid met US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice in Washington today to discuss the importance of building the Iraqi leadership on reconstruction and ways to cooperate further in economic...

The Health and Safety Commission (HSC) has today published the latest statistics on workplace injury and work-related ill-health in Great Britain. 'Health and Safety Statistics 2004/05' presents the top-level statistics...

The Highways Agency is inviting formal expressions of interest from potential bidders for a contract to widen most of the current three lane sections of the M25 motorway to four lanes in each direction. The contract...

Two of the Ministry of Defence's trading funds, the Defence Aviation Repair Agency (DARA) and the Army Base Repair Organisation (ABRO), are to be streamlined as the MoD takes the next steps to modernise its logistics...

Asked about the story in the Daily Express about whether Leo Blair had had the MMR vaccination, the PMOS said that the Express was told at 1600 yesterday afternoon that the story was not true in any respect. The...

Asked if given there seemed to be little movement this week by the French or the UK on the EU budget, the PMOS said that whenever this conversation came up before we had the presidency he had always declined to...

Asked about the list of working peers and the controversy that some of them seemed to be Labour donors, the PMOS said we should wait for the list to come out....

Asked if the Prime Minister would be raising human rights issues with the President of China when he met him this week, the PMOS said that as the Prime Minister had said in his Press Conference with Premier Wen ...

Asked if the Government was going to stick with the 90 days time limit for holding suspected terrorists, the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman (PMOS) said that the position was as the Prime Minister had set out...

Press briefing from the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman on: 90 Days, China, Working Peers, EU Budget and MMR

Tony Blair met with Poland's outgoing President Aleksander Kwasniewski in Downing Street today for talks.

The late Prime Minister Sir Edward Heath has been remembered in a service at Westminster Abbey, attended by more than 2000 people.

Resource document on mental health and inequalities in Scotland

Consultation on UK's Plans and Programmes

Statistics released today by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) show the rate of fatal and major injuries in the construction industry is reducing.

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) today published the national statistics on work related injuries and ill health for 2004/2005. These figures show progress on occupational ill health and the number of RIDDOR...

The Health and Safety Commission (HSC) has today published the latest statistics on workplace injury and work-related ill-health in Great Britain. 'Health and Safety Statistics 2004/05' presents the top-level statistics...

Lord Falconer, the Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs, today announced the appointment of Kenneth Parker QC as the new Public Law Commissioner. The appointment will start on 1 January...

Fishermen are being asked to help Defra simplify fisheries legislation.

The Lisbon goals may not be realised if Europe overlooks the needs of disabled people, the Government said today.

A key series of Regulations governing the Pension Protection Fund (PPF) will be consulted on by the Department for Work and Pensions confirmed Minister for Pensions Reform, Stephen Timms today.

A report prepared by Sir Gerald Hosker into the Occupational Pensions Regulatory Authority's handling of their investigation into the Cheney Pension Scheme is published today.

The Armed Forces will stage an awareness day at Sikh temples in Manchester as part of a drive to boost the number of recruits from the ethnic minorities.

Bird owners should be making plans on how their birds could be moved indoors at short notice, should it be necessary, Debby Reynolds, the Government's chief vet said today.

Benefit Fraud Inspectorate (BFI) Inspection Report on Boston Borough Council The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, John Hutton, has today published an inspection report by the BFI on Boston Borough Council...

We're proud to announce that TheyWorkForYou.com has won the 'Contribution to Civic Society' award at the New Statesman magazine's New Media Awards. Thanks to the kind souls who nominated us. We enjoyed ourselves...

Asked if the Prime Minister had a cold, the PMOS said that like for many of us the autumn cold had descended, but that it was on its way out now....

Asked about the rest of the reshuffle, the PMOS said that as they could see the Prime Minister was preoccupied with other things, but no doubt it would be before too long once other things were out of the way....

Asked when they would see the amendments to the Bill, the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman (PMOS) said that it would probably be later on this evening but journalists should speak to the Home Office as it depended...

The Prime Minister has announced the following Machinery of Government changes. Departments will implement these with immediate effect.

Scottish Executive's National Programme for Improving Mental Health and Well-Being has commissioned this research, The Equal Minds report, into mental health inequalities in Scotland.

The Competition Commission (CC) has formally cleared the completed acquisition by British Salt Ltd of New Cheshire Salt Works Ltd (NCSW). In its final report published today, the CC has concluded that the merger...

More than 150,000 older people will now receive care designed to keep them healthier and active for longer as a result of 19 ground-breaking new projects, announced today by Patricia Hewitt, Secretary of State ...

Press briefing from the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman on: Anti-Terror Legislation, Reshuffle and Cold

I will chair the Economic and Financial Affairs Council (ECOFIN) on 8 November 2005. The Paymaster General, right hon. Dawn Primarolo MP, will represent the UK. Items on the agenda are as follows:EC Budget Roadmap...

My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State and Lord Chancellor (Lord Falconer of Thoroton) has made the following written statement in the other place today:"I am pleased to announce that today I have laid before...

I intend to publish shortly a summary of the responses to the consultation paper "Burial Law and Policy in the 21st Century: The Need for a Sensitive and Sustainable Approach", which the Home Office issued last ...

We have today issued for consultation the drafts of the HRA subsidy and item 8 determinations for 2006–07, which set out proposed figures for subsidy allocations for individual housing authorities. Copies of the...

I am today announcing that we will be rolling out across the national health service a new programme of financial diagnostic checks and providing the opportunity for two-star acute specialist and mental health trusts...

The National Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease Surveillance Unit's (NCJDSU) 13th annual report has been published today. The report documents the unit's findings in relation to sporadic, familial and iatrogenic Creutzfeldt...

Hon. Members will recall I made a statement to the House on 11 January 2005 updating them on progress in implementing Sir Michael Richard's recommendations arising from his inquiry into issues surrounding the Soham...

The National Offender Management Service is to establish a project to develop a strategy and standard for the management of younger adult offenders in custody and the community.The purpose of the project will be...

Tourism Ireland Ltd. annual report and accounts 2004 were deposited in the Houses of Parliament today.Copies have been placed in the Library.

NEW DUTY WILL GIVE VOICE TO EXCLUDED COMMUNITIES

The Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw MP, will travel to Moscow to attend the EU-Russia Foreign Ministers' Troika and hold a bilateral meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Wednesday.