Following today's meeting with French Defence Minister, Madame Michele Alliot-Marie, Defence Secretary John Reid said:

Over 1,000 construction workers fracture a bone or dislocate a bone every year. This February, as part of an initiative to reduce the number of slips and trips on construction sites, Health and Safety Executive (...

HIV related stigma and discrimination: Action plan

Consultation on increasing Disclosure fees and introducing a charge for POVAFirst checks

The purpose of this consultation is to seek comments on draft regulations intending to transfer the enforcement powers of the Ionising Radiation (Medical Exposure) Regulations 2000 to the Healthcare Commission (...

United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on HIV/AIDS - UK Report on progress

Part 36 of the Civil procedure rules (CPR) is a means of encouraging early settlement of cases. It allows parties to litigation to make offers to compromise the case. This paper sets out to build on recent judgments...

Notice under section 11A (3) of the Electricity Act 1989

Guidance to assist operators when preparing their PPC applications for landfill leachate treatment facilities.

We are applying to the government for regulations to support a more sustainable, safer cockle fishery on the Dee Estuary.

Asked if the intervention of Gordon Brown meant that it was less of a "high wire act" for the Prime Minister on the Education White Paper, the PMOS said that of course, the Prime Minister welcomed the remarks...

Asked if the Prime Minister had any view on the Council for Europe's report about rendition, the PMOS said that the Prime Minister had no view of it. The PMOS said that there seemed to be no new facts, therefore...

Asked if there was not a lot of fraud in the incapacity benefit system, why had the numbers of people claiming gone up from 700,000 to 2.7 million over the past few decades, the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman...

Asked if there was not a lot of fraud in the incapacity benefit system, why had the numbers of people claiming gone up from 700,000 to 2.7 million over the past few decades, the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman...

Press briefing from the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman on: Incapacity benefit, Rendition and the Education White Paper

The Government today announced a radical reform of the welfare state with the publication of the welfare reform green paper - A new deal for welfare: Empowering people to work.

The Minister for Africa at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Lord David Triesman, today expressed sadness following the deaths of 8 Guatemalan members of the UN peacekeeping force (MONUC) in the Democratic Republic...

Reforms to the welfare system will remove the "tragedy" of people becoming dependant on incapacity benefits, Tony Blair has said.

People out of work due to illness will be offered more support than ever before under new government proposals revealed in the Welfare Green Paper.

New pilot projects intended to improve and speed up the planning process for large and complex developments were launched today by Housing and Planning Minister Yvette Cooper.

Olympics Minister Tessa Jowell has opened the first-ever 2012 Business Summit by telling companies and their workers that every corner of the UK must see real benefits when the Games come to London in six years ...

The Foreign Secretary said today:

Mr Geoffrey Adams CMG has been appointed Her Majesty's Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Iran in succession to Sir Richard Dalton KCMG who will be transferring to another Diplomatic Service appointment. Mr Adams...

Motor manufacturer TVR Engineering Ltd (TVR) has stepped in following the OFT's response to a complaint made about TVR and its authorised dealer network refusing to supply independent repairers with spare parts - ...

State-of-the-art DNA databases to fight global crime; oxygen-free sealed picture frames to preserve priceless works of art and hi-tech tracking of shipping are just some of 29 innovative projects across the UK to...

Environment Minister Elliot Morley has today confirmed over £2 million pounds worth of funding to support projects looking at sustainable living.

Total production falls in the 3 months to Dec

64% of adults access the Internet

Revenues for printed classified directory providers have continued to rise despite the presence of the internet and there appears to have been limited switching of advertising spend between printed directories and...

Items on the agenda are as follows:Presidency Work Programme—The Austrian Presidency will give a presentation on its major priorities for the next six months;Stability and Growth Pact—ECOFIN will adopt Council Opinions...

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department, my hon. Friend the Member for Leigh (Andy Burnham) and I are today meeting with the banking industry to discuss the application of the Government...

My right hon. and noble Friend the Secretary of State and Lord Chancellor has made the following written ministerial statement."The Government announced plans for significant constitutional reform on 12 June 2003...

The television licence fee settlement announced by the Government in February 2000 provides for changes in the licence fee of RPI plus 1.5 per cent. for each year from 2000–01 to 2006–07. This settlement is designed...

I have today announced £11.4 million grant funding for fire and rescue authorities in England over the period April 2006 to March 2008 to support fire prevention work, including community fire safety, ...

I will be representing the United Kingdom at this month's Agriculture and Fisheries Council.This being the first Council of the Austrian Presidency, the new Chairman of the Council will start by setting out his ...

In my statements of 18 October 2005, Official Report, columns 49–50WS, and 1 December 2005, Official Report, columns 36–37WS, I set out the need to streamline strategic health authorities (SHAs) and strengthen primary...

Further to Baroness Scotland's statement of Wednesday 18 January, the Paymaster General and I are this afternoon meeting senior figures in law enforcement and the banking sector to discuss action against ID fraud...

Further to the statement made, by the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry on 29 November 2005 launching the Energy Review, I am pleased to inform the House that the Government have today launched the public...

Environment Minister, Elliot Morley, today urged businesses to report on their environmental impacts, especially as new Defra guidelines will make it easier than ever to do so.

First new centres for patients on the move improve access to GPs and nurses