The OFT announced on 5 April at a press conference that we considered credit card default fees had been set at too high a level and set a threshold for intervention on credit card default fees for the banks. We ...

The Foreign Office today revised its travel advice for the Solomon Islands. We are no longer advising against all but essential travel to the Solomon Islands.

Asked to comment on the alleged cabinet splits over nuclear power funding, the PMOS said that the time to talk about costs would be whenever the energy review was published. That said everyone should bear in mind...

Asked about the pensions briefing at Cabinet, the PMOS said that it was best that Parliament heard it first, which would probably be towards the back end of next week though it was not yet 100% decided....

Asked if there was any comment on Eric Forth's death, the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman (PMOS) said that when Jacqui Smith had broken the news to the Cabinet this morning there had been a genuine and spontaneous...

Press briefing from the Prime Minister's Spokesman on: Eric Forth, Pensions and Nuclear Energy

Culture Minister David Lammy has today announced measures to ensure the continued protection of the significant wreck site the Royal Anne Galley situated at the Stag Rocks off Lizard Point, Cornwall. The site is...

Self Assessment Questionnaire

This report looks at the ecology of urban gulls in Scotland, the problems they cause, and management solutions.

Guidance to Accountable Officers

The OFT has today published its study on the effects of public procurement on competition in the municipal waste management sector.

A ceremony was held today at RAF Brize Norton to mark the repatriation of five service personnel tragically killed in the Lynx helicopter crash on Saturday 6 May in Basra, Iraq.

Culture Minister David Lammy has today announced measures to ensure the continued protection of two significant wreck sites: Iona II located to the east of Lundy Island, Devon, and the Royal Anne Galley situated...

Government announces £100 million in capital funding

Targeting the early signs of disease, boosting the number of entrepreneurs, and getting UK creative industries into China are some of the award winning projects sharing in £52 million for higher education...

Asked if there would be further figures on the number of foreign prisoners deported, the PMOS said that we had committed to giving regular updates to Parliament, but it was better that the Home Office decided on...

Asked for an explanation for the Government giving £1.75bn to Royal Mail on the day Royal Mail had announced profits of £355m, the PMOS said that the money was allowing Royal to transfer reserves which...

Asked if there had been a discussion in Cabinet about nuclear energy, the PMOS said no. Asked when Cabinet had last been briefed about the cost of nuclear power stations, the PMOS said that the costs would obviously...

Asked if the Prime Minister might be going to Washington or Iraq soon, the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman (PMOS) said that he wasn't in a position where he could give any meaningful guidance, because we did...

Press briefing from the Prime Minister's Spokesman on: Iraq, Nuclear Energy, Royal Mail and Other business

Tony Blair inspected a closed-down drugs den as he saw first-hand how neighbourhood police teams are helping to tackle serious crime. We have some exclusive images from the visit.

Proposals to ensure the welfare of children is at the heart of the processes involved in taking a child into care were announced by Ministers today.

PUBLICATION OF DWP RESEARCH REPORT 349: AND PUBLICATION OF DWP WORKING PAPER 338:

My right honourable friend the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Margaret Beckett) will today lay before Parliament the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) departmental report for 1 April...

I am announcing today how the strategy which the Lord Chief Justice, the Chairman of the Judicial Appointments Commission and I have agreed to promote diversity within the judiciary is to be taken forward in the...

The Scottish Executive Minister for Education and Young People, Mr. Peter Peacock, and the UK Deputy Permanent Representative to the EU, Anne Lambert, will represent the UK during the Council in Brussels. Win Harris...

I am today launching the statutory consultation on a package of reforms to the Teachers' Pension Scheme (IPS).The reform proposals reflect an agreement that has been reached following several months of negotiations...

I am today laying before Parliament the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) Departmental Report for 1 April 2005—31 March 2006 (CM 6823).The report is a clear and comprehensive account of what the FCO has done...

I have placed an updated list of Cabinet Committees, and of who chairs them, in the Libraries of both Houses.A full list, including membership and terms of reference will shortly be placed in the Library of the ...

Asked whether the Prime Minister had seen much of DPMQs, the PMOS said that he thought the Prime Minsiter had sat down for the last the question to the Deputy Prime Minister and then it had moved on to Hilary...

Asked whether the Prime Minister had asked for an explanation from the Home Office as to why someone in such a senior position could not answers questions put to him on illegal immigration, the PMOS said that if...

Asked to clarify the Prime Minister's thinking on deporting people to unsafe countries, the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman (PMOS) said it was important to distinguish between two things: on the one hand if ...

Press briefing from the Prime Minister's Spokesman on: Deportations, Immigration and Deputy Prime Minister

512,993 in England & Wales in 2005

Fertility rate is highest for 13 years

Spring growth after New Year slowdown

This evaluation aimed to: assess he development of Breathing Space; evaluate the effectiveness of the service in terms of reach, results and impacts; and make recommendations for future development.

Ths evaluation aimed to: assess the development of Breathing Space; evaluate the effectiveness of the service in terms of reach, results and impacts; and make recommendations for future development.

Secondary Guidance

A report published today by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) shows that just over a fifth of British workers are concerned about work-related stress.

The Legal Services Complaints Commissioner, Zahida Manzoor CBE, announced today that she would be levying a penalty on the Law Society. The penalty, a quarter of a million pounds, is because of the inadequacy of...

The Government has set a new financing framework for Royal Mail which gives the company wider freedoms to use its resources and borrowing facilities to modernise and secure its future in the competitive market, ...

We announced in November last year that the Department for Transport will be undertaking a small number of trials at stations on London's surface and underground rail networks, to test the effectiveness of passenger...

I have today published my Department's annual report for 2006. Copies have been laid before Parliament and placed in the Libraries of both Houses.The report sets out the Department's activities and achievements ...

Nuclear power, renewable energy and energy efficiency are "back on the agenda with a vengeance", the PM told the CBI. We have the full speech and an update on the Energy Review.

Fife Constabulary Primary Inspection Report 2006