The Government has accepted the recommendation of the independent Spoliation Advisory Panel (the Panel) to make an ex gratia payment of £175,000 to the heirs of Dr Arthur Feldmann in compensation for four...

Booklet abotu family law and living together (cohabitation)

Useful addresses and source of help for families facing problems, part of Parenting Agreement for Scotland pack.

Booklet for young people about family law

Charter aimed at highlighting important role of wider family in raising children

Small folding flyer giving an vverview of the various Family Matters publications that are available

A new fact-finding study into online shopping is launched today by the Office of Fair Trading.

Flip phones, inbuilt cameras, prepaid, contract...its easy to become confused by all the options on offer when you're in the market for a new mobile phone.

MoD has exceeded its military readiness target two years ahead of schedule Armed Forces Minister Adam Ingram announced today.

Culture Minister, David Lammy, has placed a temporary export bar on a painting by Naddo Ceccarelli, the Madonna and Child. This will provide a last chance to raise the money to keep the painting in the United Kingdom...

Health Secretary, Patricia Hewitt, today highlighted recommendations from an NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement's report, showing that £78m could be saved by the NHS by driving down agency spend...

Asked for a reaction to the EU report suggesting that the CIA had operated 1,000 extraordinary rendition flights over EU countries in the past five years, the PMOS said that the Foreign Office had responded to that...

Asked if he believed this was a "moral Government", since people looked to their leaders to set a good example, the PMOS said that the issue relating to the Deputy Prime Minister was a private matter. He...

Asked if he thought it helped the Government's case to reform the NHS to dismiss expressions of anger as a "political stunt", the PMOS said he thought that the behaviour of the delegates at yesterday's nurses...

Asked by the Sun if he would agree that the fact that violent crime, sex offences and drug offences had all risen in the last three months would suggest that Charles Clarke was not the right person to be Home...

Asked if there had been any further offers of resignation "from anybody, anywhere at any time" within the last week, the PMOS said no. Asked whether the Home Secretary was still in post and was expected ...

Press briefing from the Prime Minister's Spokesman on: Deportation of Foreign Prisoners-Charles Clarke, Crime Statistics, Patricia Hewitt, Deputy Prime Minister and Rendition

Waiting times, GP practice consultations, Incidence, hospital discharges, operations, 30 day survival

The 25th Anniversary of the Falklands Conflict will be marked by special commemorative events in June next year, Secretary of State for Defence John Reid announced today.

An action plan to unlock the potential for renewable energy in biomass is published by the Government today.

An action plan to unlock the potential for renewable energy in biomass is published by the Government today.

The number of cervical smears processed by quarter, average reporting times, percentage of unsatisfactory smears and results of smears. Also, smears examined by NHS board of residence and NHS board performing analysis...

Overall crime and violent crime in England and Wales remain stable according to the latest crime figures published today.

The decision by BAE Systems to sell its 20% stake in Airbus is a commercial decision for the company. The remaining 80% is owned by EADS which has options on the BAE Systems holding.

Whilst today's decision is a commercial matter for Peugeot, I am extremely disappointed that Peugeot has decided to end manufacturing at Ryton, particularly given the substantial quality and productivity improvements...

Introduction

Sets out the objectives of green belt policy and the way in which it should be used and enforced. This policy replaces Scottish Office Circular 24/1985: Development in the Countryside and Green Belts. Policy in...

Analysis of 173 responses.

Amends requirements set out in The Scottish Office Development Department Circular No 4/1997 relating to the notification of planning applications.

The Industrial Injuries Advisory Council (IIAC)

Asked if the Prime Minister's packed diary was the reason he had not been able to meet with some of the families of soldiers who had dies in Iraq, the PMOS said that as we had said in the past,...

Asked if the Prime Minister had spoken to the Deputy Prime Minister at all today, the PMOS said that as he had said this morning, we believed it was a private matter and therefore the private discussions between...

Asked to explain exactly what the Prime Minister knew and at what time concerning the issue of foreign prisoners released without being considered for deportation, the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman (PMOS) ...

Crime, Iraq and the health service were on the agenda at this week's PMQs. You can watch the broadcast again or read the transcript here.

Press briefing from the Prime Minister's Spokesman on: Foreign Prisoners, Deputy Prime Minister and Other business

Criminal Proccedings in Scottish Courts, 2004/05

A lack of competition in the market for home credit means that home credit customers are being overcharged for their loans, the Competition Commission (CC) has found in its provisional findings report into competition...

The Informal Economic and Financial Affairs Council (ECOFIN) took place in Vienna on 7 and 8 April 2006. I represented the United Kingdom.The informal council discussed globalisation, with the participation of chief...

An independent report into the future funding needs of the BBC has been published today by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. The Department commissioned PKF to carry out a financial review of the BBC'...

I am pleased to be able to announce that a contract has been placed today with Logica CMG for the implementation of the information system component of DMICP. DMICP will for the first time provide a completely automated...

I am today announcing the Government's decisions on how the details of practitioners providing sensitive services should be recorded on the information sharing index.Section 12 of the Children Act 2004 provides ...

Following nearly three weeks of strikes and demonstrations across Nepal in which at least 14 people died, on 21 April King Gyanendra announced that he would hand over executive power to the Seven Party Alliance ...

Section 4(1) of the Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 provides that an NHS trust may make an application to Monitor (whose statutory name is the Independent Regulator of NHS foundation...

The Justice and Home Affairs Council will be held on 27–28 April 2006 in Luxembourg. I shall be attending the meeting with my noble and learned Friend, the Attorney-General, and my noble Friend Baroness Ashton will...

I have received the 10th report of the Independent Monitoring Commission (IMC). This report has been made under articles four and seven of the International Agreement that established the Commission. I have considered...

I attended the informal meeting of the Competitiveness Council on Saturday 22 April, hosted by the Austrian presidency in Graz. My ministerial colleague, Lord Sainsbury attended the Council on Friday 21 April.At...

In my answer of 30 March 2006, Official Report, column 1125W to a written parliamentary question (UIN 63004) from the hon. Member for Romford (Andrew Rosindell), I stated that the information requested was available...

The Justice and Home Affairs Council will be held on 27–28 April 2006 in Luxembourg. I shall be attending the meeting with my noble and learned friend the Attorney-General, Lord Goldsmith. The Home Secretary, the...

Following nearly three weeks of strikes and demonstrations across Nepal in which at least 14 people died, on 21 April King Gyanendra announced that he would hand over executive power to the Seven Party Alliance ...

Preliminary tests have this evening indicated that the avian influenza virus is present in samples from chickens found dead on a poultry farm near Dereham in Norfolk.

On 27 April 2006, the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS, also known as MI6) will begin open advertising for the first time in its 97 year history, as a means of expanding the Service to meet 21st Century challenges...