Regional Transport Partnerships - Guidance on Membership

The Home Secretary, Charles Clarke, released the following letter today:

Guidance on smoking policies for the NHS, local authorities and care service providers

this publication describes the administration of the Less Favoured Area Support Scheme in Scotland in 2006

Ministerial statement on the abolition of priority need by 2012.

HOMELESSNESS AND THE ABOLITION OF PRIORITY NEED BY 2012 – TECHNICAL APPENDIX TO MINISTERIAL STATEMENT REQUIRED BY SECTION 3 OF THE HOMELESSNESS ETC (SCOTLAND) ACT 2003

HOMELESSNESS AND THE ABOLITION OF PRIORITY NEED BY 2012 – A SUMMARY OF RESPONSES TO THE CONSULTATION ON MINISTERIAL STATEMENT REQUIRED BY SECTION 3 OF THE HOMELESSNESS ETC (SCOTLAND) ACT 2003

The Governments of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland have today signed an Understanding Document, which is intended to establish a greater partnership in modernising...

A consultation into care home price information was launched today by Care Services Minister Liam Byrne. This fulfils the commitment made in the government's response to the Office for Fair Trading (OFT) report, ...

Over 12,000 low paid workers will celebrate Christmas with a pay boost following HM Revenue & Customs investigations into cases where the national minimum wage was not being paid.

Today the Government published the 3rd Annual Report on the UK's programmes to address WMD proliferation threats across the Former Soviet Union (FSU).

A consultation draft of the Commission's Statement of Principles on Licensing and Regulation

Today the Government published the 3rd Annual Report on the UK's programmes to address WMD proliferation threats across the Former Soviet Union.

The Arts Council has played a key role in ensuring that the arts are now healthier, more optimistic and more central to national life than ever before, according to an independent peer review, published today by...

A High Court ruling today has upheld Defra's decision to forward the application seeking protected food name status for the name 'Melton Mowbray Pork Pie' to the European Commission.

Environment Secretary Margaret Beckett today welcomed a UK/China landmark agreement on the development of clean coal technology with carbon dioxide capture and storage, which aims to reduce significantly the climate...

Mr Stephen Evans, CMG, OBE has been appointed Her Majesty's Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan in succession to Dr Rosalind Marsden who will be transferring to another Diplomatic Service appointment...

The Foreign Secretary has approved the appointment of John Duncan OBE to be the UK Permanent Representative to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva and Ambassador for Multilateral Arms Control and Disarmament...

Tony Blair has reflected on the success stories of 2005 in health, education, the economy and law and order but says there it still lots of work to do.

The Prime Minister has today appointed Anish Kapoor as a Trustee of the Tate Gallery. The term of appointment will be for four years from 22 November 2005.

PowerPoint presentation on Transport Assessment and Implementation: A Guide

Minutes of Third Meeting of EAFRE: 29 November 2005.

SPP 17 Power Point presentation.

Report of an omnibus survey of smoking in public places

Guidance on smoking policies for the NHS, local authorities and care service providers

PowerPoint presentation on PAN 75.

PowerPoint presentation on New Ways to New Streets.

Thousands of travellers across England are being reminded of the information now available from the Highways Agency and the Met Office to help combat seasonal delays on the roads.

Defra has announced that it is seeking representatives for a new Non-Departmental Public Body (NDPB) for Bovine Tuberculosis (bTB).

Today the Government publishes the 3rd Annual Report on the UK's programmes to deal with weapons of mass destruction legacies of the Cold War across the Former Soviet Union.

The Neighbourhood Statistics website now contains historic information on air quality.

Russia and Kazakhstan are set to receive £2.2 million of UK money to help decommission their reactors and reduce the risk of nuclear proliferation Energy Minister Malcolm Wicks announced today.

In a letter to the Chairman of the Treasury Select Committee on 29 September 2004 (a copy of which was deposited in the Library of the House), I reported that the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) was conducting...

I have today published the Cabinet Office 2005 Autumn Performance Report (Cm 6725). Copies of the report have been placed in the Libraries of both Houses.

I am pleased to announce that we have been able to agree to a change to the already successful Skynet 5 PFI deal, to enable a revised risk mitigation approach to be adopted.Rather than relying on space insurance...

The European Union Agriculture and Fisheries Council will meet in Brussels from 20 to 22 December 2005.I will chair for the agriculture items and my hon. Friend, the Member for Exeter, (Mr. Bradshaw) will chair ...

States Party to the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC) met in Geneva, 5–9 December. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss and promote common understanding and effective action on the content, adoption...

Copies of the British Council Annual Report, incorporating the Trustees' Annual Report and Accounts, for the year ended 31 March 2005 have been placed in the Library of the House. During the period the Council received...

The Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council met on 8–9 December. The Secretary of State for Health chaired the meeting and I represented the United Kingdom. Items on the agenda relating to...

I am announcing today statistics relating to Antisocial Behaviour Orders (ASBOs).An ASBO is a civil order which protects the community from behaviour that has caused or is likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress...

The National Probation Service has today published its Annual Report for 2004–05. The Prison Service and the Office for Contracted Prisons published their Annual Reports and Financial Accounts for 2004–05 on 19 ...

The Justice and Home Affairs Council was held on 1–2 December in Brussels. I chaired the meeting along with my right hon. and noble Friend the Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs and Lord Chancellor. My...

I have decided to reduce UK budget support this year to Uganda by £20 million. Some £15 million of this money will be used to provide humanitarian relief in northern Uganda, and £5 ...

The European Council on 15–16 December agreed to establish a 10th European Development Fund (EDF) to provide development assistance to African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries that are signatories to the ACP...

I am placing in the Libraries of both Houses a copy of a discussion paper, "The EU's contribution to the international response to the 2004 Asian Tsunami: Achievements, next steps and lessons learned".The paper ...

I am pleased to announce that Her Majesty in Council has approved the appointments of Janet Paraskeva as the First Civil Service Commissioner and Janet Gaymer CBE as the Commissioner for Public Appointments. Janet...

In summer 2004, I commissioned Sir. Patrick Brown to undertake a review of the Business Appointment rules. The terms of reference were:"To review the Business Appointment Rules to ensure that they are compatible...

I chaired the extraordinary Competitiveness Council in Brussels on 13 December 2005 on the draft regulation for the registration, evaluation, authorisation and restriction of chemicals (REACH), and establishing ...

As the Prime Minister explained in his statement to Parliament of 19 December, the European Council of 15–16 December 2005 succeeded in achieving agreement on the next EC budget for the 2007–13 Financial Perspective...

Institutional net investment £10.7 bn

Total production lower in 3 months to Nov

Tony Blair has held talks with the sisters of a man killed in a street fight in Northern Ireland.

Tony Blair will answer questions from national and international journalists today during his monthly Number 10 press conference.

Drivers travelling home for Christmas this year are at risk of being distracted by illegal roadside adverts that also blight the countryside. New measures to crack down on this nuisance to drivers were announced...

Hundreds of same-sex couples up and down the country will be celebrating today as they get legal recognition for their relationships for the first time.