Asked whether the Prime Minister had meant to widen the scope of the inquiry to include the Home Office, the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman (PMOS) said that the Prime Minister had not widened the scope of the...

Firefighters who helped deal with the huge fire in Hemel Hempstead last year have been honoured at a Downing Street reception.

Press briefing from the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman on: Tessa Jowell

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath, minister responsible for health and safety, today announced the 13 award winners from the third round of the Workers' Safety Adviser (WSA) Challenge Fund. The aim of the fund is to increase...

Responding to the report by the Public Accounts Committee into voluntary sector funding, Home Office Minister Paul Goggins said:

Responses to Consultation on Digital Inclusion Policy Review.

A painting in the possession of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, Portrait of a Young Girl in a Bow Window, attributed to Nikolaus Alexander Mair von Landshut was sold for a fair value at auction in 1936 to pay off...

Asked if the Prime Minister would consider meeting the families of those who had fallen in Iraq, the PMOS said that the Prime Minister had met the relatives of some of those killed, and he had corresponded with...

Asked if the Prime Minister was aware of who had paid for Ken Livingstone's legal fees, the PMOS replied that it was entirely a matter for Ken Livingstone...

Asked if the Government remained committed to closing tax avoidance loop holes, the PMOS replied that our position on tax was as it was. The PMOS was not going to get into hypothetical discussions....

Asked about the allegations from the Italian prosecution team that the Home Office had "sabotaged" the investigation, the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman said that the Home Office had dealt with the...

Climate change, the education Bill, social care and gas prices were on the agenda at this week's PMQs. The PM also sent his sympathy to the families of the two British soldiers killed in Iraq earlier this week.

Press briefing from the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman on: Tessa Jowell, Tax Avoidance, Mayor of London and Iraq.

Full details of a comprehensive programme of engagement on the future of local governance, including the issue of local government reorganisation, were confirmed today, with dates and locations now finalised for...

Malawi nationals will be required to have visas to travel to, or to transit through, the UK, while Croatian nationals will no longer be required to do so, the Home Office announced today.

Companies will face fines of up to £50,000 if they plague consumers with silent calls, Trade and Industry Secretary Alan Johnson confirmed today. The decision follows an analysis of responses to a DTI...

Asked if the PMOS could give any more information about whether Tessa Jowell had informed the permanent secretary in 2001 about the specific investment her spouse had made in 2000, the PMOS said he would not be ...

Asked if it was right to assume that the Prime Minister would not be announcing any new reforms in the Bill, the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman (PMOS) said the Prime Minister had made his thoughts known at ...

Climate change, the education Bill, social care and gas prices were on the agenda at this week's PMQs. The PM also sent his sympathy to the two British soldiers killed in Iraq earlier this week.

Action arising from Delivering for Health, to review all nursing services delivered in the community

Robert Bosch Ltd's Bosch Car Service (BCS) code of practice has completed Stage One of the OFT Consumer Codes Approval Scheme, which aims to promote and safeguard consumer interests. The code's membership consists...

A company distributing misleading premium rate scratchcard promotions, which charged consumers up to £9 to discover what they had 'won' has been stopped, following action by the OFT.

Issued by the Payment Systems Task Force, chaired by the Office of Fair Trading

Asked now that the Treasury and Health had given the go ahead to run London hospital projects whether there were there any comments from Downing Street, the PMOS said that the question had been stated as a matter...

Asked if there were any words from today's meeting, the PMOS said that the Prime Minister had written an open letter to Stop Climate Chaos where he made two commitments. One: to work towards the stabilisation goal...

Asked for the latest on the Cabinet Secretary's study, the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman (PMOS) said, as he had this morning, that his hunch was that it would not be today. It would take a little while longer...

Tony Blair is answering questions from MPs today in his weekly PMQ session. You will be able to watch the broadcast live here NOW!

Press briefing from the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman on: Tessa Jowell, Stop Climate Chaos and St Barts

The Queen has been pleased to approve the appointment of His Honour Mr Justice Goldring as a Commissioner of the Judicial Appointments Commission.

Legislation is needed to protect consumers using credit card cheques, says the OFT in its response to the DTI consultation paper on credit card cheques (see note 1).

The first water company to apply to the Government for the right to compulsorily meter all its customers has been given the go-ahead today.

To reduce the number of postal countermands issued by the Procurator Fiscal Service, as well as reducing the requirement for police process servers and police officers to be involved in delivering non-postal countermands...

To develop and deliver a vehicle to implement effective performance management within and across organisations.

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On 19 July 2004 a RAF Puma helicopter of 33 Squadron crashed on landing at Basra airfield, Iraq, resulting in the death of the non-handling pilot, and injury to the handling pilot and crewman.The RAF board of Inquiry...

Between 1 September 2003 and 12 March 2004 the future role of Crombie Study Team carried out a comprehensive and objective examination of business processes, working practices and staffing levels within the Defence...

I have today published the Government response to the Select Committee report on the White Paper "Higher Standards, Better Schools for All".I am grateful to the Committee for their work in producing the report. ...

On 18 March 2005, I announced that the UK Government and devolved Administration Ministers had agreed that a review of policy for the long-term management of the UK's low level radioactive waste (LLW) should be ...

The latest Report on the implementation of the Sino-British Joint Declaration on Hong Kong will be published tomorrow and copies will be placed in the Library of the House. A copy of the report will also be available...

On behalf of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, the BFI inspection reports on the following councils were published today: Borough of Poole Council, Rugby Borough Council, Cannock...

I am today placing in the Library the report of Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Probation into the tragic murder of John Monckton in Chelsea on 29 November 2004, which was committed by Damien Hanson and Elliot ...

In September last year, I invited John Randall, the independent chair of the Police Negotiating Board (PNB) and the Police Advisory Board for England and Wales (PABEW), to conduct a review of the negotiating and...

I am today launching a consultation on a draft National Strategic Reference Framework for EU Structural Funds Programmes in the UK during the 2007–13 period. The National Framework will establish the broad priorities...

On 22 February my right hon. Friends the Secretaries of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and Trade and Industry and I wrote to Vice-President Jacques Barrot, Vice-President Gunter Verhuegen and Commissioner...

The Downing Street website is holding an exclusive online Q and A this week with Jacqui Smith, the minister responsible for schools, to discuss the Education Bill. Make your voice heard!

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 government has published its Education and Inspections Bill, containing what the PM has called "extremely important" proposals.

Guernsey is celebrating the designation of its first Ramsar site, under the UN Convention on Wetlands of International Importance, otherwise known as the Ramsar Convention. The 426 hectare site encompasses Lihou...