The independent Prison Service Pay Review Body (PSPRB) today published their 2007 recommendations which included the restructuring of the pay scale for prison officers to a new seven-point scale and a restructuring...

The UK battle group in Bosnia-Herzegovina will be withdrawn at the end of next month, the Armed Forces Minister Adam Ingram announced today.

A project established by London-based AfriKids to tackle child trafficking and child labour in Ghana has secured over £300,000 from the Big Lottery Fund in funding announced today.

to re-introduce national service for 16 to 18year olds who do not wish to...

Currently in the United Kingdom the poorest 20% of the population pay more...

District judges and recorders authorised to hear contested care applications are to be given jurisdiction to hear related placement proceedings.

Government accepts pay review body recommendations

Community groups tackling gun crime and gangs will be able to apply for a share of £500,000 of Home Office funding from today.

AGREEMENT IN THE FIXED WING SECTOR

LOWEST PAID GET 9.2% - OVER £100 EXTRA PER MONTH

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A new UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) report highlighting the UK's competitive position in the critical areas of climate change and environmental solutions was launched today by Trade and Investment Minister Ian McCartney...

It has been revealed today that a £1 congestion charge has been proposed for...

Shisha cafes are different to pubs, restaurants, and other public places...

The property market is being unrealistically inflated due to bad practise...

Change the voting system so that at any time we can change whom we have...

We require the prime minister to make certain that all 1st time buyers. can...

A Private Members Bill has been introduced which seeks to exclude MPs from...

Asked in advance for a line on the Airbus restructuring announcement, the PMOS replied that it was important ahead of the announcement to bear in mind that this was an issue with which DTI had been very heavily ...

Put to him that Ryanair, British Airways and Easyjet had all said that air passenger duty was merely a "tax grab" and not an environmental matter, and asked if the Prime Minister had a view ion this, the...

Asked if the Prime Minister would be discussing new American thinking on Iraq with King Abdullah later today, specifically opening talks with Syria and Iran, the PMOS replied that firstly the Americans had always...

Asked if the Prime Minister was expecting defeat on the Probation Bill this evening, the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman (PMOS) replied that today was the day to put the arguments to the backbenchers. The important...

Asked if there were any news, the PMOS said no. Asked if there had been any indication that the police would tell No10 when they have completed their inquiries, the PMOS said it was entirely a matter for the police...

Asked if there will be a debate on Trident on 14th March, the PMOS said that he could not confirm any date....

Asked if there was any reaction to the new figures from DfES saying that 13 people who shouldn't be allowed to teach were allowed to teach given that they should have been on list 99, the PMOS said that the...

Asked if there was any reaction to Airbus, the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman (PMOS) said that the Prime Minister said it all at PMQs in terms of we obviously regret any job losses at all but in terms of securing...

No. Asked if the police had given any indication of when their inquiry is likely to conclude, the PMOS said, as he had said yesterday, that it was entirely a matter for the police not for No.10....

Asked is there were concerns of troop withdrawal after some had said that the UK had a moral obligation to remain in order to remove all the unexploded bombs, the PMOS said that first and foremost what should be...

Asked if the Prime Minister believed that the wave of congestions taxes introduced should be progressive, the PMOS said that the Prime Minister believes that first and foremost people have to recognise that doing...

Asked if all the Cabinet supported Manchester for the site for the super casino, the PMSO said that Tessa Jowell would put down the Government position. Asked that they would all be voting when it came to the House...

Asked if the pay awards would be with relation to top peoples pay or everyone, the PMOS said that it would be overall but the lobby should take it from what the Chancellor would say at Treasury questions....

Asked if there was any comment on the petrol problem, the PMOS said that he was not aware that the issue involved the Government, thankfully....

The Prime Minister's Official Spokesman (PMOS) said that Cabinet discussed the environment with a presentation by David Miliband which was an overview of environmental policy. Asked if it was true that the Prime...

Press briefing from the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman on: Cabinet, Petrol, Pay Awards, Super Casino, Road Pricing, Troops in Bosnia and Police Inquiry

The PM's Better Public Building Awards for 2007 are now open for entries.

Announcements on the future of family legal aid were made today by the Legal Services Commission (LSC).

Digital Inclusion Strategy

Proposals to establish Scotland's first Coastal and Marine National Park: Summary of Consultation Responses

Housing markets and population levels in the nine pathfinder areas are in a better position than for many years, new research shows.

The NHS is still in dire need of money and we are constantly being told of...

Make all new homes have conection to a wind turbime either on the house...

I believe that the income of the person receiving maintenance should be...

Tens of thousands of British citizens believe that the time has come to put...

Like many millions of motorists iam not happy with the spy in my car debate...

For example. An endowment mortgage may have been sold in the 1980's...

many manufacturers do not cater for gifted people of this country who are...

The Government is to accept all the recommendations of the independent Casino Advisory Panel on the location of 17 new casinos - including the one regional casino in Manchester - Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell confirmed...

Information Bulletin

Pre-movement testing for bovine TB has today been extended to all cattle over 42 days old, unless the herd or movement meets an exemption.

Defra today announced changes to the disease control measures put in place to tackle the H5N1 outbreak in Suffolk.

Health Minister Rosie Winterton today expressed her deep concern about the impact on patient and public protection that the amendments the House of Lords has made to the Government's Mental Health Bill.

Science and Innovation Minister Malcolm Wicks has today announced that the UK's two major public funders of stem cell research will run a national public discussion about this cutting-edge area of science.

Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett is visiting Lashkar Gah today to see for herself the excellent work being carried out in difficult circumstances by UK civilian and military staff. She will also be discussing ...

We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to scrap plans to give...

The unbridled rise in the cost of tube, train and bus travel in London has...

Let all of us in the UK have the decency and courage to show our faces. It...

The civil service wage freeze must be renegotiated. People cannot live on...

If the government made it law, as in the USA and other countries, that...

A supermarket near our river would have a very negative impact on the...

We ask the Prime Minister to instruct the rail industry to take effective...

Travel speed is a more powerful incentive to use public transport than cost...

the cost of a return tube fare into zone 1 is the same as the congestion...

The current criteria for benefits claimants, results in many families to...

Although Microsoft's new Vista is issued in 34 languages, there does not...

'...make it a legal requirement for MPs to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth to restore faith in British Government and democracy' -- Terry Taylor

As in industry, we expect our employees to account for their personal...

'...review the recommendation to site the UK's first super-casino in Manchester, and support the Greenwich bid.' -- Danny Hayes

'...move away from the dishonest system of increasing tax revenues through indirect taxation and ring fence indirect taxes for the purpose that they were created. General taxation should be raised through income...

Considering that the vast majority of Christian church promoted community...

as O.A.P we shuld get our dental for free. not pay dentst over 42.00 for...

Smoking will be with us forever, regardless of legislation or social...

Paying National Insurance contributions in the belief if you are ill you are...

The recent example of anti-terrorist raids being immediately followed up in...

An independent report by Cranfield University on business continuity management in the food and drink industry has been published today.

Tens of thousands of NHS patients in England will get the chance to benefit from the very latest medical treatments at their GP surgery, dental practice or health centre thanks to a £2 million Government...

Consultation responses

'...Cut the MP'S salaries and expenses by 50%' -- Henri Ducommun

Council Tax is unfair. It is based on fictitious wealth - house values...

The urgency of the need to reduce world fuel consumption is well established...

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Defence Minister Lord Drayson today responded to a Defence Select Committee report on the future of Defence research and the work of the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl).

The Government are today publishing their strategy to combat money laundering and terrorist finance. This has been drawn up with law enforcement agencies, policy departments and the private sector in order to...

I would like to update the House on progress on commitments made in my statement of 20 June 2006, and previous commitments made in respect of List 99 by my predecessor the right hon. Friend the Member for Bolton...

Following a recommendation in the Legg Report into the Sandline affair in 1998, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) issued advice to officials on contacts with private military and security companies (PMSCs...

The latest Report on the implementation of the Sino-British Joint Declaration on Hong Kong was published today. Copies have been placed in the Library of the House. A copy of the report is also available on the...

The Companies Act 2006, which received Royal Assent on 8 November 2006, will bring major benefits to business by modernising and simplifying company law.

Lord Sainsbury made a statement to the House of ...

My right honourable friend the Minister of State for Industry and the Regions (Margaret Hodge) has made the following Written Statement.

The Companies Act 2006, which received Royal Assent on 8 November...

My honourable friend, the Economic Secretary to the Treasury (Ed Balls) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement.

The Government are today publishing their strategy to combat money-laundering...

Schools Minister Jim Knight has welcomed a record proportion of 14-year-olds reaching and exceeding expectations for their age in maths and science last year.

Dabas v. High Court of Justice, Madrid [2007] UKHL 6 (28 February 2007)

Rogers, R v. [2007] UKHL 8 (28 February 2007)

H, R v. [2007] UKHL 7 (28 February 2007)

Ofrasio, R v [2007] NICC 5 (23 February 2007)

King v St Colman's High School & Ors [2007] NIQB 11 (23 February 2007)

Zekaj, Re Application for Judicial Review [2007] NIQB 13 (26 February 2007)

Miller v Northern Ireland Office [2007] NIQB 12 (26 February 2007)

Zhanje, Re Application for Judicial Review [2007] NIQB 14 (26 February 2007)

This is the hearing of the Claimant/Part 20 Defendant's application for security of costs in respect of the Defendant/Part 20 Claimant's counterclaim. The sum sought is £200,000 in respect of the costs of...

Abaco Machines (Australasia) Pty Ltd ("Abaco") claim to have invented a clamping device for lifting panels or slabs. They filed an application for a patent for that invention in Vietnam. The application had a priority...

The Claimant is a well known gambling club. The Defendant is a wealthy man with a penchant for gambling who joined the club in October 1994. The scale of both his wealth and his gambling instincts are revealed by...

Reeves v Sprecher & Ors [2007] EWHC 117 (Ch) (05 February 2007)

I have before me applications for permission to appeal against three orders:

Following my judgment on 24 August 2006, the Defendants took the opportunity which I had afforded for more detailed proposals to be put forward. The matter came back before me on 11 December 2006. No agreement...

This is an appeal by way of case stated from the decision of Barnet Magistrates' Court of 18 August 2005 convicting the Appellant of the offence of driving a motor vehicle on a road when the proportion of alcohol...

On 26 September 2006, at the Crown Court at Manchester, before His HOnour Judge Kokhar, the appellant pleaded guilty to breach of section 35 of the Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants) Act 2004 ("the...

This is a judgment to which all members of the Court have contributed. The appeal is primarily concerned with joint enterprise in cases of homicide and, in particular, with the rule the effect of which is that a...

This appeal from Elias J, as President of the Employment Appeal Tribunal, who was hearing an appeal from a Chairman of an Employment Tribunal, concerns issues arising under the "Minimum Wage" provisions. Those...

This is the judgment of the court.

The claimant is a company incorporated in England and Wales. It carries on business as consultant telecommunications engineers and systems integrators. The defendant is a company incorporated in Germany. It carries...

This is an appeal from the judgment of Langley J. dismissing the claim of Tradigrain S.A. and its insurers, Societa Italiana Assicurazioni e Riassicurazioni (SIAT) S.p.A. ("SIAT") and others, against Intertek Testing...

This is an appeal against the dismissal on 27 January 2006 by His Honour Judge Yelton in the Colchester County Court of a Part 20 Claim involving a dispute between insurance brokers. The Judge refused the Part ...

The appellant is a singer and songwriter known professionally as Seal. The song which first made his name was "Killer", which he produced in collaboration with the artist "Adamski" in 1989. It was released in ...

The claimant, Mr Sutcliffe, is a builder and developer. The first defendant, Mr Lloyd, is an entrepreneur. The second defendant, MGL (Rugby) Ltd ["MGL"], is a company controlled by Mr Lloyd. Between 2001 and 2003...

The 2012 Olympics, the British film industry and the NHS were on the agenda at this week's PMQs. You can read the transcript of the session, or watch the broadcast again.

Road pricing may or may not be the answer to congestion, but it must be considered as an option, Tony Blair has told Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond in our new podcast.