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The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has published further guidance on Whole Body Vibration (WBV). The guide, "Whole Body Vibration: The Control of Vibration at Work Regulations 2005" gives advice to employers ...

JOINT RELEASE WITH THE HIGHER EDUCATION FUNDING COUNCIL FOR ENGLAND

Foreign Office Minister Lord Triesman has welcomed the publication of the UN Association's (UNA) report, following completion of a series of nationwide public debates on UN reform organised by the UNA and paid for...

Asked if the Government believed it could come away with an agreement on the EU budget by the end of the week, the PMOS said that the end of the week wasn't a deadline. The deadline was the summit on...

Asked how much of Lord Turner's report on pensions would be implemented by the Government, the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman (PMOS) said that we couldn't say at this stage because we had ruled nothing in or...

Press briefing from the Prime Ministers Official Spokesman on: Pensions and EU Rebate

A definition of the leadership and managment capabilities of headteachers.

Tessa Jowell to ensure UK Tsunami victims' memories are protected

The Government today published its report setting out its research agenda to address the potential risks posed by the products of nanotechnology.

The following statistics were released today by the Health and Social Care Information Centre.

Asked if the Prime Minister was being kept informed of the situation with Mr. Kember, the PMOS said he had to be very careful about what he said about Mr. Kember. It was better to leave it to the Foreign...

Asked if the Government was co-operating into the investigation about extraordinary rendition flights coming through British airports, the PMOS replied that he had not yet seen anything other than assertion in terms...

Asked what the Prime Minster's take on the Turner Report was, the PMOS said that as the Prime Minister had said at the weekend, we would welcome the Turner Report, and we had. The Prime Minister had also said that...

Asked if the EU rebate was an "indivisible whole", the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman (PMOS) said that as the Prime Minister had said to Digby Jones yesterday, the position on the rebate was in line...

The report of the Gaelic Medium Teachers Action Group

The report of the Gaelic Medium Teachers Action Group

The Government is from today consulting on proposals on how statutory Tenancy Deposit Protection will operate from October 2006.

Defra has given the go-ahead for £1.2 million in funding to encourage landowners to voluntarily dedicate land for public access.

An agreement which could see carbon emissions stored in depleted oil fields in the North sea was signed today by UK Energy Minister, Malcolm Wicks and the Norwegian Energy Minister Odd Roger Enoksen. The two ministers...

The Pensions Commission report was today welcomed as an "important milestone towards a lasting pensions settlement", by Secretary of State for Work and Pensions John Hutton. He said its publication marks the beginning...

The UK Presidency of the EU strongly condemned the bomb attacks in Bangladesh on 29 November.

Tony Blair answered questions in Parliament today during his weekly PMQ session.

The government will ensure pensioners are provided for in the future, Tony Blair insisted today. On the day the Pensions Commission report was published, the PM told Parliament the issue was vitally important.

Press briefing from the Prime Ministers Official Spokesman on: EU Rebate, Turner Report, Flights and Norman Kember

Five fire and rescue authorities are to take forward Private Finance Initiative (PFI) schemes worth around £125m to support building new community fire stations and a new community life skills centre, ...

Guidance for the benefit and assistance of professional staff who are involved in advising owners of flats in tenements, including housing officers, solicitors, surveyors, architects and staff in advice bureaux.

Statistics providing a detailed snapshot of the supply and demand linkages that exist within the economy.

2005 Home Care Services, Scotland. Published on the 30th November 2005.

Statistics on criminal appeals concluded in 2004/05

The Housing Corporation is to manage the ODPM's Section 16 Tenant Empowerment Grant (TEG) Programme.

The Government is looking at ways to shift powers away from Whitehall giving the Greater London Authority more control on key strategic issues affecting the capital. Proposals issued today by the Office of the Deputy...

New powers to allow police to drug test people arrested for certain trigger offences will come into force for the first time tomorrow (1 December), the Home Office announced today.

Asked when the rest of the reshuffle would happen, the PMOS said that we had not forgotten even if they thought we had. The PMOS said it was take as long as it took....

Put to him that given how security conscious we all were these days how concerned was the Prime Minister about this morning, the PMOS said that security was a matter we took very seriously, but this was a matter...

Asked if the Prime Minister's position was as Sir Digby Jones had put it to him that Britain would give up the rebate if and only if there was a commensurate and equal giving up of the agricultural subsidy that...

The Prime Minister's Official Spokesman (PMOS) explained for clarification following this morning's briefing that he had re-interrogated the figures. The 10% figure for the estimated turnover of staff who would...

Press briefing from the Prime Ministers Official Spokesman on: Pensions, Europe Rebate, CBI Speech and Reshuffle

Executive's Race Equality Scheme 2005

Publication of the 2nd quarter of the 2005 SHS data

I am pleased to inform the House that on 24 November 2005 I formally issued the New Opportunities Fund (NOF) and the Community Fund—now operating jointly under the name of the Big Lottery Fund—with policy directions...

The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister has today announced new financial arrangements for firefighters' pensions.The firefighters' pension scheme is currently financed on a pay-as-you-go system. This means that...

My right hon. Friend the Deputy Prime Minister will publish for public consultation on 29 November, a paper discussing security of tenure for residential boats.During the passage of the Bill which became the Housing...

I would inform the House that the Learning and Skills Council for England has today published its annual report and accounts for the period to 31 March 2005. Copies have been placed in the Libraries of both Houses...

DEFRA is today publishing an initial regulatory simplification plan.In its March 2005 report "less is more", the Better Regulation Task Force recommended that by September 2006 all Government Departments, in consultation...

The Government remain committed to the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe arms embargo against both Azerbaijan and Armenia, which we interpret as covering all goods and technology controlled under...

I am pleased to announce that the Department is publishing a guide today entitled "Commissioning Children's and Young People's Palliative Care Services".The provision of palliative care for children and young people...

After considering the responses to the consultation document published earlier this year I am pleased to announce the introduction of a reformed system of financing police pensions with effect from 1 April 2006....

The biennial Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting (CHOGM) took place in Valletta, Malta from 25 to 27 November.Her Majesty The Queen attended the meeting in herrole as Head of the Commonwealth. She also paid...

The 2005 Euro-Mediterranean Summit took place in Barcelona on 27–28 November. I co-chaired the Summit with the Spanish Prime Minister. My right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary also attended for the Government....

The Prime Minister and I are pleased to inform the House that we have asked the Energy Minister, the hon. Member for Croydon, North (Malcolm Wicks) to lead a review of UK energy policy and to bring forward policy...

I will be chairing the Telecoms Council of the UK's EU Presidency in Brussels in the afternoon of 1 December 2005.The first item on the agenda will look at the important theme of better regulation, focusing specifically...

I will be chairing the Energy Council of the UK's EU Presidency in Brussels in the morning of 1 December 2005. My right hon. Friend the Member for Cardiff, South and Penarth (Alun Michael) will occupy the UK seat...

The Highways Agency has an important role in delivering the successful management and operation of the strategic road network. It fulfils this role on behalf of the Secretary of State and the Agency's relationship...

The professionalism and dedication to duty of the British Transport Police (BTP) was illustrated to the full by their response to the terrorist attacks in London on 7 and 21 July. The Government appreciate the highly...

In July 2004, I took the decision to withdraw funding for the South Hampshire rapid transit (SHRT) scheme because of excessive cost increases. Since then, the scheme's promoters, Portsmouth city council and Hampshire...

On 13 June this year, I said that the £170 million Government funding that had originally been approved for Merseytram remained available if the scheme could be delivered at that cost.Since then we have...

Tony Blair will answer questions from MPs today in his weekly PMQ session. You will be able to watch the broadcast live here from 1200 GMT.

The inequalities faced by disabled children will be tackled by a new guide, launched today.