Scottish Energy Study: Volume 2: A Changing Picture: Comparison of 2002 Energy Study findings with an earlier study using 1990 data

Scottish Energy Study - Volume 1 - Energy in Scotland, Supply and Demand

Scottish Energy Study - Summary Report

Scottish Executive Response on the Cultural Review

With the introduction of the Special Constable Reward Payments in Scotland there was a particular need to to modernise the Police (Scotland)(Special Constable)Regulations 1966 and determinations.

Plans to mark the 200th anniversary of Parliament's abolition of the slave trade in the former British Empire today received the support of the Deputy Prime Minister, David Lammy (Culture Minister) and Paul Goggins...

A drive urging younger people in North Wales to become magistrates started today.

Culture Minister, David Lammy, has placed temporary export bars on a Naval Gold Medal and a silver presentation cup and cover, known as the Shannon cup. Both items were awarded to Captain Philip Bowes Vere Broke...

Culture Minister, David Lammy, today announced the establishment of the first Government Dance Forum at the Critic's Circle National Dance Awards ceremony which took place at the Royal Opera House.

Trade and Industry Secretary Alan Johnson today announced the appointment of Paul Myners, chairman of the Guardian Media Group, as the new Chair of the Low Pay Commission.

Coverage: Great Britain Theme: Social and Welfare

Responding to the arrest of political leaders and activists in Nepal on 19 January, in advance of their planned demonstrations on 20 January, Dr Howells, MP, said:

I wish to send our sincere sympathies to those injured and affected by the attack today in Tel Aviv.

GPs, nurses and other health professionals will be in a better position to help victims of domestic violence through a new staff handbook offering practical, up-to- date advice.

Budget Bill 2006-07

The number of ineffective trials in Crown and magistrates' courts has gone down again from last year, the Court Service Annual Report and Accounts for 2004/05 published today show.

Defra is today publishing advice for Local Authorities, the Police and Community Safety Partnerships on the maintenance of byways and the illegal use of motor vehicles on rights of way.

Press briefing from the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman on: Cabinet, Extraordinary Rendition, Education White Paper and Cannabis

A new partnership between businesses, research and technology organisations and universities will help give UK manufacturing an edge as global markets become ever more competitive, Science and Innovation Minister...

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Scottish Local Government Financial Statistics 2004-05

Latest figures for local authority spending on school education, together with revised figures for 2003-04

STATISTICAL RELEASE

Long-term improvements to air quality and low pollution levels in our towns and cities are being maintained in the UK, new figures released today show.

During Foreign and Commonwealth Office oral questions on Tuesday 10 January, in response to a supplementary question from my hon. Friend for Northampton, North (Ms. Keeble), I said that "the United Kingdom is providing...

Section 4(1) of the Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 provides that a National Health Service trust may make an application to Monitor (the statutory name of which is the independent...

As a result of intelligence received in 2001 and July 2004 suggesting systematic fraud in applications for UK Ancestry from Zimbabwean nationals, consideration of such applications was suspended pending further ...

Copies of Dr Bill Norris's annual report for 2005 have been placed in the Library of both Houses. This is the final report to be submitted by the Commissioner and I am grateful to him for all the hard work he has...

Asked if the Prime Minister were disappointed that Lord Kinnock planned to come out against the white paper tomorrow, the PMOS said that Lord Kinnock would do what Lord Kinnock did. It was best for people not to...

Asked if there was anything in the Adam Boulton claim on Sky that it was a Downing Street wheeze, the PMOS said first and foremost that he genuinely wished he did not have to answer this question. But we had...

Asked if at any time Ruth Kelly had offered her resignation, the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman (PMOS) said that he was not aware of any such occasion. The Prime Minister had himself made it clear the issue...

Asked for further timings on the Education Bill, the PMOS said that it would be published in February, and would be put to the vote sometime in March. Asked if the Prime Minister was involved in various discussions...

Asked to comment on the story on page 4 of The Times about sex offenders, the PMOS replied that rather than relying on reports in The Times, instead, people should wait for the full report from Ruth Kelly tomorrow...

Asked when the Prime Minister had been told about a plot concerning Leo Blair, the PMOS said we did not talk about security matters, and that this story illustrated precisely why we were wise not to talk about security...

Asked if David Miliband was for or against empowering the state, the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman (PMOS) replied that David Miliband was for empowering. Asked if we were "burying bad news" by putting...

Press briefing from the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman on: Announcements, Leo Blair, Ruth Kelly and Education Bill

Press briefing from the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman on: Education, Leo Blair, Schools White Paper and Reshuffle

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