The Foreign Office today revised its travel advice for East Timor. We are now advising against all travel outside of the capital Dili.

Tony Blair met the chair of the African Union Alpha Konare to discuss the Darfur peace agreement. We have their joint statement and press conference transcript.

We will be holding a special webchat with pensions minister James Purnell on Friday. Don't miss this chance to ask questions about the Government's forthcoming retirement reforms.

Final progress report on electronic service delivery in Scotland.

National Drug Worker and National Drug Team of the Year 2006 announced by Drugs Minister Vernon Coaker at ceremony in Westminster

The Competition Commission (CC) has provisionally concluded that the completed acquisition by Railway Investments Limited (a wholly-owned subsidiary of English Welsh & Scottish Railway Holdings Limited) (EWS) of...

Asked if the Prime Minister would be meeting any MPs today to try to get their backing for the Education Bill, the PMOS said that as Alan Johnson had made clear over the weekend, we recognised that votes were likely...

Asked about the numbers of foreign terror suspects claiming asylum here, the PMOS said that in terms of detail people should talk to the Home Office. He pointed out that if someone had a criminal record that was...

Asked to clarify the Prime Minister's remarks concerning a re-balancing of Human Rights, the PMOS said that this country has been a signatory of the European Convention on Human Rights for 50 years, and that was...

Asked how optimistic the Prime Minister was about Iraq, the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman (PMOS) said that yesterday we saw in Baghdad the benefits of democracy. We now had a national unity government which...

Press briefing from the Prime Minister's Spokesman on: Iraq, Human Rights, Home Office and Education Bill

Tony Blair met with European Commission President Barroso in Downing Street today, before holding talks with the chair of the African Union Alpha Konare.

Since 2004, the devolved government’s Strategy Unit has been developing the Futures Project which aims to help assess some of the key challenges and opportunities that Scotland will face over the next 20 years.

A scoping study to design a framework for evaluating the impact of CtOG, with particular emphasis on the six CtOG higher-level objectives and on CtOG aims as a whole

Culture Minister, David Lammy, has placed a temporary export bar on the archive of Reverend William Gunn. This will provide a last chance to raise the money to keep the archive in the United Kingdom.

Culture Minister, David Lammy, has placed a temporary export bar on the painting Portrait of an Artist by Michiel van Musscher, c. 1665-67. This will provide a last chance to raise the money to keep the painting...

Culture Minister, David Lammy, has placed a temporary export bar on two watercolours by JMW Turner, the Lake of Lucerne and the Dark Rigi. This will provide a last chance to raise the money to keep the paintings...

Joe Mann MBE and Ian Thornley have been appointed as Non-Executive Directors of Remploy, UK's leading provider of employment opportunities for disabled people.

Referring to the EU declaration on the result of the 21 May Montenegrin Referendum, the Minister for Europe Geoff Hoon said:

Foreign Office Minister Kim Howells said today:

The Queen has approved the nomination of the Right Reverend David Andrew Urquhart BA, Suffragan Bishop of Birkenhead, for election as Bishop of Birmingham.

Statistical Bulletin Housing Series HSG/2006/4 Housing trends in Scotland: quarter ending 31 December 2005

Report of the Judges

The first National Strategy for the Management of Offenders. The Strategy is to ceover the planning period to March 2008. A further three year strategy will then take forward this work for the period 2008-11.

More failed asylum seekers were removed in the first three months of this year than ever before, according to statistics published by the Home Office today.

A single test for more than 600 deadly viruses is being developed by a group of Defra funded scientists, offering the possibility of spotting a disease outbreak in hours rather than days.

Today I have deposited copies of The Freedom of Information Act 2000: First annual report on the operation of the Freedom of Information Act in central government—2005 in the Libraries of both Houses.This is the...

Treasury counsel is appointed by the Attorney-General. In the light of the increase in the complexity of cases prosecuted by Treasury counsel and the need to ensure that appointments are open and fair, I commissioned...

I am delighted to announce today the response to the Department for Education and Skill's consultation on Improving the Higher Education Applications Process. This response is issued on behalf of myself and my ministerial...

The Criminal Records Bureau has today published its five-year strategy and business plan 2006-07. Copies of the document will be placed in the Library of the House.

I am pleased to announce today, in conjunction with my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Wales and Northern Ireland, and with Andrew Davies AM, the Welsh Assembly Government Minister for Enterprise, Innovation...

Applications rise 5% in latest quarter

The Queen has approved the nomination of the Right Reverend David Andrew Urquhart BA, Suffragan Bishop of Birkenhead, for election as Bishop of Birmingham.

The purpose of this statistics release is to present the third set of national figures for services provided by local authorities in Scotland for adults with learning disabilities

PREPARED BY THE DEPARTMENT FOR WORK AND PENSIONS INFORMATION AND ANALYSIS DIRECTORATE

Falls in most sectors

A public consultation on the best ways to encourage young people, people with disabilities, those from inner cities and black and ethnic minority communities, to visit and enjoy local green spaces and the English...