The Foreign Secretary, Rt Hon Margaret Beckett MP, arrived in Baghdad this evening, beginning her first visit to Iraq since taking up her post. She said:

25 August - Ethnically mixed primary classes - ESRC research

The Solicitor General, Mike O'Brien MP QC, said today that enforcement agencies around the world need to cooperate in more sophisticated ways to catch criminals engaged in economic crime.

Chair of the Health and Safety Commission (HSC), Bill Callaghan was today in Northampton to promote the guidance document 'Waste and recycling vehicles in street collection' and to thank those in the industry who...

Responding to the attack on tourists in Amman today, the Foreign Secretary, Margaret Beckett said:

This consultation seeks views on proposed amendments to the Electricty Act 1989 which will allow wave and tidal devices, with generating capacity of greater than 1 megawatt, to use testing facilities at the European...

Asked if anything would happen between now and November, the PMOS said that Northern Ireland would be a very important part of the agenda this autumn. We had seen over the summer some genuine progress. The parties...

Asked whether the speech would be more philosophical than policy driven, the PMOS said that the speech would be a mixture of both. First of all we needed to get across the understanding of why we were focussing ...

Asked if the Prime Minister had any remarks on the latest serviceman death in Afghanistan, the PMOS confirmed that very sadly a suspected suicide bomber at about 10.30am local time this morning had attacked a UK...

Asked when the Prime Minister's trip to the Middle East would be, the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman (PMOS) said that there was no new information on that. We would announce it when we believed it would be ...

A government commitment to reduce the burden of form filling associated with applying for small business rate relief has been made good. In an Order laid before Parliament, Local Government Minister Phil Woolas ...

Guidance to Education Authorities on the Commencement of the Scottish Schools (Parental Involvement) Act 2006.

Pharmacists with Special Interests to offer care and advice about diabetes, STIs and long-term conditions on patients' doorsteps

Press briefing from the Prime Minister's Spokesman on: Middle East, Afghanistan, Social Exclusion and Northern Ireland

The Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs, Lord Falconer has appointed Hilary Jane Slater to be a Salaried Chairman of the Employment Tribunals (England and Wales) with effect from 4 ...

Farm Radio is an internet radio station aimed at people interested in farming and the countryside. It is proving a great success, clocking up nearly one million hits on its web site in the past year.

The Department of Health is today issuing the latest information about the numbers of known cases of Creutzfeldt Jakob disease. This includes cases of variant Creutzfeldt Jakob disease (vCJD) - the form of the disease...

The Lord Chancellor has approved the appointment of the Reverend Wendy Ann Wilby to the Residentiary Canonry at Bristol Cathedral.

A new multi-million pound package of measures to embed the school food revolution for the long term and help tackle childhood obesity was announced today by Education Secretary Alan Johnson.

Secure Accommodation Statistics 2005-06

Full report of the research carried out between November 2002-2005 to increase understanding of the use and effectiveness of secure accommodation in relation to young people placed on the authority of a children...

Research carried out between November 2002 - 2005 to increase understanding of the use and effectiveness of secure accommodation in relation to young people placed on the authority of a children's hearing.

Modernising Nursing Careers

Tony Blair has issued a statement following the death of 14 British servicemen in Afghanistan. He said his thoughts went out to the families of those who died.

Tony Blair will deliver the third of his Our Nation's Future lectures - on social exclusion - to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation on Tuesday September 5. You'll be able to watch it live here.

LADY JUSTICE SMITH: On 19th January 2006 at the West London Magistrates Court, the appellant pleaded guilty to one offence of theft from a motor vehicle and one offence of attempting to take a motor vehicle without...