West Northamptonshire Development Corporation (WNDC) will gain new planning powers from 6 April 2006 to enhance the regeneration of the area.

Revised building regulations that increase energy efficiency standards for new buildings were laid in Parliament today. The new measures taken together with changes to strengthen Building Regulations in 2002 will...

West Coast Traincare was yesterday fined £13,000 following a prosecution brought by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) after a train maintenance worker's hand was run over by a train. HSE's investigation...

Competition Commission invites evidence

"We warmly welcome the agreement today at the UN General Assembly to establish a new UN Human Rights Council to replace the Commission on Human Rights. The new Council will be better able to address some of the ...

Asked if the Prime Minister had discussed the current situation in Palestine during his meeting with the Egyptian Prime Minister yesterday, the PMOS said that in terms of this particular situation the more important...

Asked if the Prime Minister had had any meetings with backbenchers today, the PMOS said that the Prime Minister would do everything he could to win the argument right up until the vote. Asked why it was so important...

Asked if Dr. Chai Patel had withdrawn his name from the list of proposed peers, the PMOS said that his answer to all questions on this matter had remained the same since the beginning. That answer was that he would...

Asked if the Government had changed its plans on abolishing grammar schools in Northern Ireland, the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman (PMOS) said that the position on grammar schools in Northern Ireland remained...

Press briefing from the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman on: Northern Irish Grammar Schools, Peers List, Education Bill and Middle East

Asked if the Prime Minister was ruling out any compensation for pensioners, the PMOS said that there were a number of important points, as John Hutton had said this morning. First, we all fully understood the anger...

Asked if the Prime Minister minded having to rely on the Conservative vote in order to get the Education Bill through, the PMOS said that as people knew, he could not get involved in Party political matters. However...

Put to the PMOS that the employment figures published today had shown one of the biggest monthly rises in 15 years, and what was the reaction to them, the PMOS replied that people should look back at last month'...

Asked for information about a possible papal visit, the PMOS said that it was a matter for the Catholic Church, and he was not going to give people any headline at all. Put that as the Pope was a Head...

Asked if it was possible to withdraw names from the peers list if it had not yet been published, the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman (PMOS) replied that as he had said from the beginning, he was not going to...

Press briefing from the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman on: Peerages, Papal Visit, Employment Figures, Education Bill and Pensions

This is a booklet providing guidance on completing your IACS claim for 2006.

Guidance notes on the Land Management Contract Menu Scheme for 2006.

Palestine, pensions and education were on the agenda at this week's PMQs. The transcript of today's session will be available here later.

Agricultural and horticultural main census items by groupings of local authority areas.

Presents national figures for care homes for adults in Scotland; along with details of long stay residents in care homes for older people.

The appointments of the Chairman and members of the Horticultural Development Council (HDC) will be extended until 31 March 2007, Lord Bach, Minister for Sustainable Farming and Food announced today, on behalf of...

How we exploit world leading technologies that deliver a low carbon economy for the UK is the challenge facing hundreds of opinion formers from the worlds of science, industry and government who are gathering in...

Labour market figures published today show that the claimant count rose by 14,600 in February and ILO unemployment rose in the last quarter. However, the figures also show that:

Rate falls to 74.5% in 3 months to Jan 2006

Pay growth steady in year to Jan 2006

To create a large scale shared Catering Production Unit (CPU) and associated central distribution and local regeneration facilities to meet public sector needs for the provision of safe and nutritional meals for...

To develop a national spatial data infrastructure for central government Departments, Agencies and NDPBs in Scotland, to deliver the requirements of the Executive's GI Strategy - One Scotland - One Geography.

To creat Shared Document Management for receipt, scanning, storage and forwarding of mail. Shared ICT disaster recovery services and associated contingency facilities/equipment.

To fund a re-implementation of the Resourcelink Payroll and HR systems currently in use within the four councils.

To provide and electronic portable system for securely sharing data between social care and health staff, supporting shared assessment and care management in a scattered rural environment.

To develop a 24 hour response Repair Centre. Providing the contact and information centre to South Lanarkshire Council.

To develop the optimum model for a multi agency first stop shop including back office support, which would be transferable to all local authority areas.

To establish a service model which delivers improvements in the current procurement and administration processes involved in providing high-tec healthcare in the home environmnetn whilst improving the care of the...

To explore the possibility of providing Police Custody Units, co located with Court facilities and with other Criminal Justice Partners.

The Competition Commission (CC) has today accepted the final undertakings, which will allow Deutsche Borse AG (DBAG) to acquire London Stock Exchange plc (LSE) subject to specified conditions.

The Army's Board of Inquiry (BOI) into the death of Fusilier Gordon Gentle in Basra, Iraq, on 28 June 2004 has been presented to his family today. Fusilier Gentle, of C Company, 1st Battalion, the Royal Highland...

My noble Friend, Lord Bach, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State made the following written ministerial yesterday."I am pleased to be able to inform the House that regulations have been laid today confirming...

I would like to inform the House that the UK and the US withdrew our monitors from the Jericho Monitoring Mission on 14 March. As I made clear in my statement to the House on 29 April 2002, Official Report, column...

On 3 January this year The Sun newspaper published allegations made by an ex-employee about working practices at the Immigration and Nationality Directorate's (IND's) Public Enquiry Office (PEO) in Croydon. On 9...

Yesterday I announced the membership of the reconstituted Northern Ireland Policing Board with effect from 1 April 2006. The cross-community board is one of the great successes flowing from the Patten recommendations...

On behalf of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, the Benefit Fraud Inspectorate (BFI) has today announced its phase 15 programme of work.The authorities that will be inspected are ...

Troops from the Royal Irish Regiment arrived in Number 10 this week as Tony Blair returned the hospitality shown to him in Iraq.

Tony Blair has hosted a special reception in Number 10 to thank those involved with the City Academy programme. We have a gallery of images from the event.

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 Department for Work and Pensions today (Wednesday 15 March) responded to a report by the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman into alleged maladministration relating to occupational pension schemes from...