Gordon Brown today welcomed Norwegian PM Jens Stoltenburg to Number 10 for bilateral talks.
Gordon Brown has called on the international community to join together and help eradicate the world's major diseases.
Margaret Hodge today announced that the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) is commissioning a new study which will produce, for the first time, a national picture of amateur arts activity in England.
"Britain Britain Britain" as Tom Baker likes to say. I ask the people of...
We feel that the government should implement an increased penalty scheme for...
The recent news about the sudden drop in the amount of pupils having school...
The creation of human-animal embryos, for medical reasons, is aborhant to...
In Australia, the government has a specific regulation that each free-to-air...
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This statement sets out our plans for the report that we are producing at the request of the Prime Minister, on ways in which the rural economy...
The Prime Minister has asked Dr. Stuart Burgess, our chair and the government's Rural Advocate, to prepare a report on ways in which the rural economy can be further strengthened.
Consultation on the implementation of the E-PRTR and how we should address the requirements of the UN Protocol on PRTR's and the requirement to establish a national database on pollutants.
Young people are being forced from the housing market by crippeling costs of...
The RAF, hit the hardest by the last 17 years' cuts (cut by 16,000 people),...
Proselytising is the process of converting a person into a religious belief...
We're holding a breakfast fringe event at the NALC Annual Conference 2007.
Crispin Moor, our Whitehall Director and Justin Griggs of NALC will be on hand to hear what...
The main problem is the legislation which ties up planning departments in red tape so scrap the law and bring in standards and targets. Otherwise we will simply be talking about it for a couple ...
Representatives from the fashion, clothing, and textile industry as well as environmental and ethical groups are meeting today for the first time to look at how they can work with government to improve the sustainability...
The Foreign Office has amended the level of its Travel Advice for Nicaragua, Honduras and Guatemala.
The Ministry of Defence today signed a £30 million contract with Plymouth-based DML for 130 weapon mounted patrol vehicles which will be used by troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.
This docuument sets out the government's principles and priorities, including the legislative and non-legislative actions to be taken
A’ Taghadh Àm Ri Teachd Na h-Alba Còmhradh Nàiseanta.
Robert Napier, Met Office Chairman, announces today a new Chief Executive for the Met Office:
A lot of police officers time is spent completing huge amounts of paperwork...
The current law for fining drivers 3 points on their driving licence if they...
Lord Carters Legal Aid Reforms hopes to prevent the unnecessary delays...
Smokers aged 16 and 17 who are legally aloud to buy tobacco will not be able...
I have just returned from holiday in Cuba. On leaving the country, we had to...
The last time the Wisbech to March Train was used for passengers...
At the moment in the United Kingdom people accussed of crimes are allowed...
'...Safeguard professional women who give up their income on the birth of their first child to raise a family- then on separation and divorce find themselves alienated in the workforce and penniless.' -- Ali Cook...
This document is a transcript of the film Rural Disadvantage: Hidden Voices, made to support the Disadvantage study.
Waterways Minister Jonathan Shaw has appointed three new members with specialist expertise in civil engineering/asset management and finance to the Board of British Waterways.
The Department of Health today announced the award of a contract to host a NHS Chair in Pharmacogenetics to the University of Liverpool. The new post, to be funded by the Department of Health for 5 years, will be...
A new survey of 1500 GPs has found that two-thirds (64%) are unaware of the evidence that work is beneficial for physical and mental health. However, nearly 90% said that if they knew of this evidence it would affect...
Additional funding to help schools as Schools Minister praises efforts in flood areas to open for new term
The Prime Minister will today launch the International Health Partnership with the aim of accelerating progress on the Millennium Development Goals.
A £2 billion investment in jobs and skills in England over the next seven years from the European Union has today been welcomed by Work and Pensions Minister Mike O'Brien.
The Foreign Secretary will set out the UK's and Turkey's shared values and the importance of an increasingly close relationship in a keynote speech he will make at Bahcesehir University, Istanbul.
The Foreign Office has amended its travel advice for Belize as Hurricane Felix continues its path across central America. We have withdrawn our advice against all travel to the coastal areas of Belize and all but...
The presentation of the 500,000th Armed Forces Veteran's Badge to Sonia Hartord by the Veteran's Minister, Derek Twigg, will be marked today by a flypast of a Lancaster and Eurofighter Typhoon as well as a gun salute...
As many are aware, many constituent countries of the united kingdom (the U.K...
The late Jane Tomlinson spent her last seven years raising over a million...
we want to STOP physical education for pupils in year 11 as we think it puts...
A large proportion of most peoples waste is plastic packaging. Why can't the...
The Government and police should be are aware that youths use sites such as...
On 5 July 2007, the Rt Hon John Denham announced an increase in the...
Hillwood Primary School is in a small rural village on the outskirts of...
This would abolish grievances about some employees earning far more than...
so that children can learn the basics and are able to work WITHOUT a...
Please also read, and hopefully sign, those petitions that are both literate...
Why do 4x4 owners have to pay increased road tax along with fuel duty when...
The proliferation of surveillence being proposed goes way beyond that needed...
Action to amend employment law so that employers cannot use equal...
UK OFFICIAL HOLDINGS OF INTERNATIONAL RESERVES:
A justice circular for the Implementation of the second risk assessment tool for use with sex offenders, stable and Acute 2007.
31 Aug - Children's social/behavioural outcomes - IoE report
3 Sep - Predicting multiple deprivation in adulthood - NCB report
We work far too long hours as a nation, and now have to work until we are...
We instructed an Estate Agency branch of one of the largest groups to sell...
The Prime Minister has asked Liberal Democrat MP Matthew Taylor to prepare a report for the Government on how land use and planning can better support rural business and deliver affordable...
A charitable society where people are more than likely to volunteer or give money to charity is revealed in an extensive survey published today by the Cabinet Office.
The presentation of the 500,000th Armed Forces Veteran's Badge to Sonia Hartford by the Veteran's Minister, Derek Twigg, will be marked today by a flypast of a Lancaster and Eurofighter Typhoon as well as a gun ...
KALANYOS AND OTHERS v. ROMANIA - 57884/00 [2007] ECHR 703 (26 July 2007)
J.A. PYE (OXFORD) LTD and - 44302/02 [2007] ECHR 700 (30 August 2007)
J.A. PYE (OXFORD) LTD and - 44302/02 [2007] ECHR 705 (30 August 2007)
The issues for determination in this case arise as a result of articles 10 and 11 of the compendiously entitled 'Council Regulation (EC) No 2201/2003 (Brussels II) of 27th November 2003 concerning Jurisdiction and...
This is an appeal from the decision of Master Teverson dated 13th September 2006, whereby the Master dismissed an application dated 12th April 2006 made by PR Records Limited ("PR") against Mr Adrian Owlett. By ...
LORD JUSTICE LEVESON: As long ago as 12th October 2006 the Secretary of State ordered the claimant's extradition to the United States of America. He then appealed to this court seeking an order that the extradition...
This appeal raises a question of law which, though inconsequential in its immediate effect, is capable of having significant effects in other proceedings under Part 2 of the Extradition Act 2003: in deciding whether...
MR JUSTICE COLLINS: This is an application for permission for judicial review ordered to be listed as what is described as a rolled up hearing; that is to say that if permission is granted then the substantive ...
These two appeals under the Extradition Act 2003 have been conjoined by order of the court because they raise related issues. Both appellants are now represented before us by Edward Fitzgerald QC and Ben Cooper; ...
On 6 December 2006, the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced, in his Pre-Budget Report (referred to as the "PBR"), the doubling of Air Passenger Duty ("APD" or "the Duty") with effect from 1 February 2007, only...