The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) has published its Sustainable Development Action Plan to highlight progress in implementing its commitment to sustainable development through its policies for creating...

Pellikaan Construction Ltd, of Bucklersbury House, Cannon Street, London, was this week fined £45,000 at Stevenage Magistrates Court (15 March 2006). The prosecution brought by the Health and Safety ...

Department of Health also publishes new national tariff

Asked if the Prime Minister read the Economist and did he value its advice, the PMOS replied that the Economist could do its own publicity, as the PMOS was not part of its PR department....

Put that Patricia Hewitt had said this morning that she had favoured a fully elected House of Lords, and did the Prime Minister agree with that view, the PMOS said that as people knew, there were different views...

Asked what the status of Chai Patel's peerage was, the PMOS replied that as he had said throughout, we would announce them whenever we were ready to announce them. As the Prime Minister had said yesterday, he had...

The Prime Minister spoke about the government's public sector reform agenda during his opening remarks to the conference.

This week has seen foreign leaders visit Number 10, a special reception for education stars, British troops dropping into see the PM and Tony Blair's monthly press conference.

The Prime Minister today hailed the Nissan workforce as an example to the rest of the country for the "tremendous" work they were doing.

Tony Blair is to take part in a video webchat - the first of its kind - as he answers questions live over the internet. Find out how to take part.

Press briefing from the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman on: Peerages, Lords Reform and Economist

To provide an efficient and flexible workspace for the delivery of efficient, effective public services at the point of greatest need.

The Polar Quest Expedition Team will launch an ambitious and inspirational polar expedition by the Royal Navy and Royal Marines in the appropriately icy location of the Xscape Snowzone in Milton Keynes at 1030 on...

The Health and Safety Executive's (HSE) HM Railway Inspectorate (HMRI) today published its web-based report into the Central Line train derailment at Chancery Lane tube station on 25 January 2003. ( www.hse.gov...

Statement of issues

Information Bulletin

Eighty previously licensed North Sea blocks that are inactive are to receive a shake up in the 24th Offshore Oil and Gas Licensing Round announced today by Energy Minister Malcolm Wicks.

The Full SP: Supporting People: Issue 20, March 2006

Supporting People matters: Issue 20 March 2006

The people of Iraq have shown remarkable restraint in light of recent terrorist activities, said UK Defence Secretary John Reid as he arrived in Baghdad today.

The Chief Medical Officer, Professor Sir Liam Donaldson, today announced the appointment of Professor Martin Marshall as Deputy Chief Medical Officer at the Department of Health to take forward the healthcare quality...

The Prime Minister has today appointed Ms Louise Charlton to the Board of the Natural History Museum with effect from 1 May for a period of four years.

Consultation responses and analysis of responses

Full inspection of HMP Perth

Households in deprived areas and other topics

Project aims to increase collaboration between the three emergency services in respect of the procurement, supply, operation, maintenance and disposal of vehicle fleet and associated equipment.

I am pleased to announce that, following a competition, QinetiQ has been selected as the preferred bidder to supply and operate the subsonic target element of the combined aerial target service (CATS) programme. ...

On 8 November 2005 I announced to the House proposals for a second phase of rationalisation of the ABRO Trading Fund to address its need to become a significantly more efficient business in a rapidly changing market...

This House, and the farming industry in England, has I know, been concerned about problems with the Rural Payments Agency's delivery of the Single Payment Scheme. The Government fully share this concern and I would...

On the afternoon of 14 March, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) suspended a phase 1 clinical trial for a new product that is being developed to treat chronic inflammatory conditions ...

This is a statement of policy, made by me pursuant to article 4 of the Strategic Planning (Northern Ireland) Order 1999, which provides that the Department for Regional Development (DRD) shall provide policy guidance...

The Equality Commission for Northern Ireland has today laid before both Houses a copy of the report on its investigation of a complaint made by the Children's Law Centre under paragraph 10 of schedule 9 to the Northern...

I have today published the Government's final response and accompanying regulatory impact assessment to the public consultation on changes to the Export Credits Guarantee Department's anti-bribery and corruption...

I attended the Competitiveness Council in Brussels on 13 March. Martin Bartenstein, Austrian Minister for Economics and Labour, chaired the Council in the morning and Elisabeth Gehrer, Austrian Minister for Education...

I am today advising Parliament of my intention to engage consultants to conduct a strategic review of the future business options for Remploy Ltd., in the context of the Government's strategy for supporting greater...

ISSUED BY DEFRA PRESS OFFICE ON BEHALF OF ACRE

The wider environmental impacts of changes to the way that crops are grown are considered in two new reports published today. The studies follow up the Farm Scale Evaluations (FSE) programme which examined the ...