Asked if the Prime Minister had been briefed on hurricane Gordon, the PMOS said the Prime Minister, like all of us, had a keen interest in the weather, though for some reason, he suspected the question was about...

Asked for a reaction to the forthcoming handover of Dhi Qar province in Iraq, the PMOS said that it showed more process. The democratically elected government of Iraq was taking control of Iraq where it was possible...

Asked if there had been any contact from the Metropolitan Police yet, the PMOS said he had nothing new to say on the subject. Asked if Lord Levy was still the Prime Minister's Middle East envoy, the PMOS said he...

Asked if the Prime Minister supported the Attorney General's view on intercept evidence, the PMOS said there had been a misunderstanding. We had always been of the view that if it was possible to use intercept evidence...

Put that the letter from the Commission clearly indicated the political advisers in the Department for Education & Skills (DfES) had put pressure on the statistician, and that this was something we thought had...

Asked how the security announcement would be handled, the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman (PMOS) said we should wait for the announcement by the Department of Transport at midday. Asked if there would be anything...

Press briefing from the Prime Minister's Spokesman on: Revised Security Regime at Airports, Statistics Commission Letter to DfES, Intercept Evidence, Police Inquiry, Dhi Qar and Hurricane Gordon

Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs) should be linked to incentives such as green mortgages, Housing Minister Yvette Cooper said today. EPCs could also be linked to schemes run by energy companies which give homebuyers...

Sir Peter Spencer and General Sir Kevin O'Donoghue are together leading the work to merge the Defence Procurement Agency and Defence Logistics Organisation on 1 April 2007. The new organisation will be called Defence...

The Royal Air Force moved a step nearer to getting its new and highly advanced strategic and tactical transport aircraft - the A400M - with the official opening of the aircraft's Wing Assembly Centre at the Airbus...

Drivers were today advised that strong winds could affect their journeys particularly on exposed routes.

Culture Minister, David Lammy, has placed a temporary export bar on a watercolour by JMW Turner, The Blue Rigi. This will provide a last chance to raise the money to keep the painting in the United Kingdom.

A book to help parents with learning disabilities care for their children is to be provided free by health visitors, announced today by Nicola Smith, national director for people with learning disabilities.

An independent review of children's palliative care services, including how children's hospices will be funded in the future, was confirmed today by Health Minister, Ivan Lewis.

Mr James Watt CVO has been appointed Her Majesty's Ambassador to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan in succession to Mr Christopher Prentice who will be transferring to another Diplomatic Service appointment. Mr Watt...

Prospects for this coming winter are finely balanced, long-range forecasters at the Met Office are saying today, partly due to El Nino conditions becoming established in the Pacific Ocean.

UK CHILDREN TO BE SHOWN HOW TO USE VIRTUAL POLICE PRESENCE IN NEW CRACKDOWN ON CHILD SEX ABUSE

Revised arrangements to teachers' and head teachers' performance management that will support ongoing professional development and help to secure better outcomes for pupils will be in place by Autumn 2007 said Schools...

LA Guidance to assist assist Strategic Waste Fund applications on behalf of community sector partners proposing waste diversion services

Schools Minister Jim Knight today vowed to keep up the pressure on schools and local authorities to improve attendance as annual pupil absence data published today showed a small rise in unauthorised absence in ...

The Department for Transport has today published National Statistics on public transport in Public Transport Statistics Bulletin: Great Britain 2006 Edition. The key points are as follows:

Statutory consultation on review of ROS (support for wave and tidal power) 2006.

Today the Economic Secretary, Ed Balls, published the first annual Child Trust Fund (CTF) statistical report, highlighting the growing success of the CTF. In its first year of operation over three quarters of parents...

This report provides a pre- and post-campaign evaluation of the 2005/06 One Scotland Many Cultures advertising campaign.