Local Planning Authorities have been provisionally allocated figures for the first phase of £135m Planning Delivery Grant (PDG) which rewards improvements in planning performance today.

Internet shoppers, holiday travellers, consumers, and businesses across the EU will benefit from improvements in ways of addressing, resolving and enforcing outcomes in civil cases involving parties in different...

The Foreign Office today revised its travel advice for Bangladesh due to the increase in the threat level.

The European Union notes with deep regret that, with the execution of Kenneth Lee Boyd by the State of North Carolina on 2 December 2005, the US has carried out its 1000th execution since the reinstatement of the...

Britain will not pay more than its fair share into the EU budget, Prime Minister Tony Blair said today.

Here we reflect on some of the main business carried out by Tony Blair this week. This week has seen Mr Blair attend several important overseas summits, deliver a key policy speech to the CBI, and a major funding...

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Main Points This Month

Put to him that it was a month to the day since John Hutton had been made Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and his original post of Duchy of Lancaster still hadn't been filled, the PMOS pointed out...

Asked what progress had been made on the EU budget, the PMOS said that in the past ten days we had had a chance to find out the views of a range of countries, whether it was Malta at CHOGM...

The Prime Minister's Official Spokesman (PMOS) said that Brazil, China, India and South Africa would be attending the finance minister's meeting of the G7 this weekend to try to re-energise the run-up to Hong Kong...

Press briefing from the Prime Ministers Official Spokesman on: WTO-G7, EU Budget and Duchy of Lancaster

This report provides a post-campaign evaluation of the 2003 travel awareness media campaign.

Responses to consultation.

This report presents pre-campaign development research findings in relation to the 2004 Care media campaign.

This report presents pre-campaign research findings in relation to the 2004 Care media campaign.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown today met with US Treasury Secretary John Snow and European Commissioner Charlie McCreevy to discuss progress in the EU-US Financial Markets Regulatory Dialogue and ...

The outcomes of recent constructive discussions with local authority employers and trades unions through the Tripartite Committee were set out today by the Minister for Local Government, Phil Woolas, in a Written...

Historic airfields linked to the First World War, the Battle of Britain and the Dambusters are amongst 255 buildings listed by Culture Minister, David Lammy, it is announced today. The listed buildings include:

The challenge of reducing intermittent sewage overflow discharges into the Thames and River Lee is addressed in a report delivered to the Government today. Environment Minister Elliot Morley confirmed that the report...

Joint announcement by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the Department for Transport

The number of people on NHS waiting lists in England has fallen below 800,000 for the first time, new figures released today by the Department of Health have shown.

The next steps in the reform of NHS dentistry were laid out this week as dentists received details of what they will be paid from next April, as well as revised details of their new contractual arrangements. The...

Investment in creativity and design has a positive impact on business performance a new report published today by the Department of Trade and Industry suggests.

Mr Richard Wildash LVO has been appointed British High Commissioner to the Republic of Malawi in succession to Mr David Pearey. Mr Wildash will take up his appointment in February 2006.

Launching their joint paper, A Vision for Common Agricultural Policy, Gordon Brown and Margaret Beckett made the following statement:

Check against delivery

Defence Secretary John Reid was today visiting British forces in South East Iraq to see first hand the progress that is being made as the country prepares to go the polls in two weeks time.

Every year nearly 2 million employees are exposed to Crystalline Silica. The Health and Safety Commission (HSC) has today published a consultative document seeking comments on a proposal for a new Workplace Exposure...

0.5% 3 monthly rise into September 2005

The Queen has been pleased to approve that the honour of Knighthood be conferred upon Vivian Arthur Ramsey Esq QC on his appointment as Justice of the High Court.

The Queen has been pleased to approve that Sir David Edward KCMG and Francis Jacobs Esq be sworn of Her Majesty's most honourable Privy Council.

This report presents findings from the second phase of a 3-year monitoring project on the use of Antisocial Behaviour Orders (ASBOs) in Scotland

A campaign summary of the post-campaign evaluation of the 2003 travel awareness media campaign.

This is the 12th edition of the Scottish Economic Report. It is published twice-yearly and incorporates a review of the progress and prospects for the Scottish economy, together with a review of the broader economic...

The following statistics were released today by the Department of Health.

Output (Tables 1 to 3)

The Prime Minister has announced over £27.5 million for long-term global Aids prevention. The funding will be used for measures that will benefit people in both the developing and developed world.

The Prime Minister is meeting with the leaders of Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia today as he continues negotiations on the EU budget.

I informed the House by written ministerial statement on 15 November, Official Report, column 48WS of the publication of the epidemiological report into the incident of avian influenza in a quarantine premises in...

In my oral statement to the House on 26 October, Official Report, column 308, I referred to the work my Department is carrying out jointly with ornithologists to monitor wild birds for avian influenza in the UK. ...

In my statement of 18 October, Official Report, columns 49–50WS, I explained the need to streamline strategic health authorities (SHAs) and strengthen primary care trusts (PCTs)—all in the cause of improving services...

I am publishing today, for the first time, in-year financial forecasts for each National Health Service (NHS) trust, primary care trust (PCT) and strategic health authority (SHA). These figures—which, of course, ...

I am pleased to announce today the appointment of Roger Poole as the new Chairman of the Parades Commission for Northern Ireland. I am also appointing six new Commissioners—David Burrows, Dr. Joseph Hendron, Donald...

The second Transport Council of the UK presidency takes place in Brussels on 5 December. I will again be in the chair, with the Minister of State, my hon. Friend the Member for South Thanet (Dr. Ladyman) in the ...

I am pleased to inform you today of the launch of a new unit, the Office for Disability Issues (ODI), which fulfils a key recommendation of the Prime Minister's Strategy Unit report, "Improving the Life Chances ...

The Chancellor announced that Andrew Gowers, former Editor of the Financial Times, would lead an independent review into intellectual property rights in the UK.

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The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, and the Health Secretary, Patricia Hewitt, today set out measures to improve the nation's health and increase the nation's wealth by making the UK a world-class environment...

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Sir George Cox has today published his review of creativity and design in UK business. The Cox Review of Creativity in Business: building on the UK's strengths was concerned with ensuring that UK businesses - SMEs...

Government responds to UK Stem Cell Initiative Report