The Foreign Office today revised its travel advice for Indonesia. We are now advising avoiding the areas surrounding the volcanic Mt Merapi in Central Java.

Tessa Jowell today called on ticket agencies and sports, music and theatre bodies to squeeze ticket touts out of business and stop genuine fans being frozen out of the market.

The owners and master of a Belgium trawler, Blue Angel (Z60) from Ostend, have been fined £4500 and ordered to pay both legal and investigation costs totaling £2500 at Brighton Magistrates Court...

Culture Minister David Lammy has today announced measures to ensure the continued protection of the important Bartholomew Ledges wreck site, in St Mary's Sound off the Isles of Scilly. The wreck is a late 16th Century...

Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt today announced a review of the quality of care provided by NHS treatment centres run by the independent sector.

Asked if the Financial Times story that the government would not block Gazprom from buying Centrica was true, the PMOS said that the question came under two headings: One, he did not discuss commercial contracts...

The PMOS set out the overall context. Firstly, everyone should be clear that this was about whether people should be considered for deportation and not whether they should serve their sentence. They had served their...

Asked on the back of the foreign prisoners, the NHS budget and the Deputy Prime Minister's revelation how things were going, the PMOS said that government was about dealing with unforeseen events. The important ...

Asked whether the Prime Minister had spoken to John Prescott, the PMOS said that since we had said this was a private matter it would be entirely wrong for him to speak about it. It remained a private matter, as...

The Prime Minister's Official Spokesman (PMOS) told journalists that Peter Hain had published the latest and 10th Independent Monitoring Commission in Northern Ireland (IMC) report today. This was the most significant...

Press briefing from the Prime Minister's Spokesman on: Independent Monitoring Commission Report, John Prescott, Government's Programme, Foreign Prisoners and Gazprom

Gross Domestic Product for Scotland 2005 Q4

Being a Witness - the Use of Special Measures booklet

Being a Witness - Going to Court booklet

Cutting edge information technology that will see wounded soldiers treated faster and better moved a step closer today. Defence Minister Don Touhig has awarded LogicaCMG the £80m contract for a new electronic...

The MessageLabs Anti-Virus Service has today become the first managed service to be awarded the CSIA Claims Tested (CCT) Mark - a government quality mark initiative for information security products and services...

Jim Murphy, Cabinet Office Minister, today announced the appointment of John Suffolk as the Government Chief Information Officer (CIO). John will lead the work of the CIO Council* in delivering the Government's ...

An independent report into the future funding needs of the BBC has today been published by the Department for Culture Media and Sport.

Rural Affairs Minister, Jim Knight today announced thirteen appointments to the Board of Natural England, the new public body responsible for enhancing and managing the natural environment.

Professor Lynda Warren has been appointed as a new independent member of the Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC), Biodiversity Minister Jim Knight announced today.

New measures to combat infectious diseases outlined in a Government report published today could drastically cut mortality, save billions of pounds and eliminate the need for mass animal culling.

The business community was today urged to put forward their views on the Government's key medium term strategies for technology.

Crime, Iraq and the health service were on the agenda at this week's PMQs. The transcript of today's session will be available here later.

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A strategy to tackle the impact of the food industry on precious resources, such as energy and water, and its contribution to climate change, was published by Margaret Beckett, Secretary of State for Environment...

Tony Blair is answering questions from MPs in his weekly PMQ session.

A follow up report of the same as you? review of services for people with learning disabilities - on day services

The follow up report to the same aa you? review of services for people with learning disabilities - report on advocacy

Gross Domestic Product for Scotland 2005 Q4

Follow up report of The same as you? review of services for people with learning disabilities - report on children's services

Experimental: 0.8% 3 monthly rise into Feb

Total production falls in 3 months to March

Economy rose by 0.6% in Q1 2006

Asked when the Prime Minister first heard that over 1000 foreign prisoners in the UK had been released rather than deported, the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman (PMOS) said that what was important was that we...

Press briefing from the Prime Minister's Spokesman on: Foreign Prisoners

In a written answer of 19 December 2005, Official Report, column 2333W, I provided details of the number of personnel deployed overseas on operations. I regret that some of the information was incorrect; the table...

The United Kingdom is committed to helping the Afghan people rebuild their country as a stable, prosperous and democratic nation free from terrorism. Our deployment of the Helmand Task Force, announced by my right...

The United Kingdom will be represented at this month's Agriculture and Fisheries Council in Luxembourg by the Deputy Ambassador to the European Union and by the Director for Analysis and CAP Strategy in Defra.The...

On Friday 21 April the Government laid an Order before Parliament which will extend the Attorney General's powers with regard to unduly lenient sentences. Under part 4 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988, the Attorney...

I have today written to the Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee to inform them that, to the best of my knowledge, between February 1999 and March 2006, 1,023 foreign national criminals, who should have been...

This statement sets out how my Department, the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment intend to take forward action to help combat losses due to fuel smuggling in Northern Ireland.Honourable Members will...

On 13 February (WS 54–55) I announced in a Written Statement that the Information Committee had agreed to a trial of a new protocol on filming in the Chamber which would relax the rules and conventions that govern...

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.