The Foreign Secretary called in the Sudanese Ambassador, Omer Siddiq, for a further meeting this evening. During the meeting, which lasted 45 minutes, the Foreign Secretary expressed in the strongest terms our concern...
The Prime Minister has welcomed members of the Stephen Lawrence Trust to Downing Street to mark the opening of the Stephen Lawrence Centre.
Following today's announcement by President Musharraf of Pakistan, the Foreign Secretary has commented:
The Police Service must be just as good at tackling anti-social behaviour as it is at tackling terrorism if it is to meet the challenge of leading a world class police service, Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said today...
The Amazon rainforest is a crucial component of the Earth's system; one which faces the dual threats of climate change and deforestation. Now, scientists across a number of disciplines have joined together to assess...
The new NERC act says that byways can be used by horse and cart, yet this is...
please can the goverment carefully review the abolition of the patient and...
The compulsory collection and retention of DNA samples by the police is a...
I am constantly being told I have won millions of pounds ! Please offer some...
Despite constantly assuring the public that it holds data securely, the...
The MoD has awarded a £470 million contract to Agusta Westland for the maintenance and support of Sea King helicopters.
The Prime Minister and Housing Minister Yvette Cooper today published the Thames Gateway Delivery Plan, setting out for the first time how cross-Government investment of more than £9 billion will be spent...
Fire safer cigarettes look set to be stocked on the UK's shop shelves. The Government strongly supports today's agreement across the EU to a set of standards that will enable the manufacture of these cigarettes...
I currently feel sorry for Des Browne. Hearing him today on the radio, he...
Currently (No. 10) website provides a form filling exercise. An e-mail...
We pay road tax, we pay income tax, we pay VAT on fuel, we pay duty on fuel...
The Armenian Genocide refers to the systematic slaughter and fatal...
we the undersighned propose the goverment to keep the law in place to keep...
I Have a terminally ill child that Gets High dla but we can not claim...
It is unjust that an MP can state he has spent money, to do what ever,...
The proposed "Mersey Crossing" intended to relieve the Runcorn bridge looks...
Despite numerous high-profile breaches of the Data Protection Act, most...
Staff and visitors accessing the offices/fire station based on the Northgate...
It has become apparent, particularly during the last few years, that...
The British Medical Association opposes an idea to introduce a new NHS...
The National Audit Office reported that in the UK, dementia costs £17bn...
We firmly believe that the proposed franchises will be very beneficial to...
This scheme has support of local people who see the longterm advantages to...
No matter how many children there are in a family there should only be a "...
FOCC and all the Chernobyl charities are facing a serious problem at the...
Admin Workers are on low pay currently for 37 hours after tax take home...
The government should stop confusing ICT with computer science. They are not...
Surely the Government must be aware that the costs to householders of fuels...
when a child is wrongly taken away from its family the social worker must...
The Habitual Residence test itself was introduced in 1994 to prevent ‘...
To prevent someone making hugh amounts of money out of motorists each day...
Natural England will not be issuing any new Entry Level Stewardship agreements for the next two weeks, while we await the outcome of formal EU procedures for approving the Rural Development Programme 2007-2013.
Asked if the Prime Minister, the Government or the Cabinet Secretary had taken any legal steps at this stage, the PMS replied not as far as he knew but that these were matters relating to the Labour Party. Asked...
The Prime Minister's Spokesman (PMS) started by giving an update on the situation in Sudan. The Foreign Secretary had summoned the Sudanese ambassador today and that meeting would take place at noon. The Prime Minister...
Briefing from the Prime Minister's Spokesman on: Sudan/Gillian Gibbons and funding
The Prime Minister will give a speech in London this afternoon on the subject of housing and regeneration in the Thames Gateway.
Unlocking economic potential will play a major part in creating "thriving communities" in the Thames Gateway, the PM has said.
Defra has today published the initial epidemiology report into the H5N1 avian influenza outbreak in Suffolk.
The next steps in an action plan to deliver greater water efficiency were set out by Environment Minister Phil Woolas today as he confirmed that a key cross-industry group will operate for another year.
Hain: Final Remploy plan will give a fair deal to disabled workforce
The Foreign Secretary met the Sudanese Ambassador, HE Omer Siddig, today. They discussed our serious concerns at Ms Gibbons' arrest and charge in Khartoum on charges of inciting hatred and insulting Islam for allowing...
The Ministry of Defence (MOD) announced today the outcome of the trials to select the vehicle design or designs to go forward to the next stage of the FRES Utility Vehicle programme.
The Office of the Schools Adjudicator has published a decision on the proposal by the Governing body of St Gregory's Catholic Primary School, Swarcliffe, Leeds to discontinue the school with effect from 31 August...
The Office of the Schools Adjudicator has published a decision on a proposal by Nottinghamshire County Council to discontinue Frederick Harrison Infant and Nursery School and Stevenson Junior Schools in Stapleford...
There are more and more cases reported everyday of Nhs Ambulance personnel...
WITHOUT PREDJUDICE FOR THE ATTENTION OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE GORDON BROWN,...
In November 2007, John Howard concluded his 11 years as one of the most...
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This article in the MJ magazine by Trevor Cherrett, our Programme Manager of our Planning for Sustainable Rural Communities programme, looks at the...
Trevor Cherrett, head of our Planning for Sustainable Rural Communities programme, has written a new article for the latest MJ magazine.
Affordable housing has a crucial role to play in...
The Prime Minister was joined by the Terrence Higgins Trust at Downing Street this evening in recognition of their work in fighting HIV/AIDS.
Traffic Managers from across the country are descending upon Birmingham this week for a conference aimed at showing how better traffic management and use of the latest technology can be used to cut congestion.
The Highways Agency today (Thursday, November 29) starts a public consultation over proposals to allow Traffic Officers to remove broken down or abandoned vehicles from the strategic road network.
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new appointment as attention turns to a initiating a sector dialogue and researching the needs of small and medium charities
Please could special Computer software, designed to assist those registered...
The UK's roads have become full of drivers who have either forgotten, or do...
Horses are still suffering unnecessarily as they are packed into overcrowded...
Many a guard will agree that security can be a dangerous line of work...
We have had to 'lose' a full time teacher at my children's junior school (...
Had I employed just one person subject to immigration control I would expect...
Street markets run by the traders, old fire stations turned into community centres and listed buildings being restored for the benefit of the general public are just some of the assets which will be transferred ...
THE BIGGEST REFORMS TO EDUCATION, TRAINING AND SKILLS IN A GENERATION
Put that the Prime Minister had mentioned that a document would be released rounding up the ideas that had been expressed at a meeting last week and was there anything that could be added to this, the PMS replied...
Asked if the Prime Minister thought the police should be informed, the PMS replied that the Prime Minister thought, as he had made clear on numerous occasions in the House, that this was a matter for the Electoral...
On the charging of British teacher Gillian Gibbons in Sudan, the PMS said that the Government was surprised and disappointed by this development and the Foreign Secretary would summon as a matter of urgency the ...
The Prime Minister's Spokesman began by telling the assembled press that he could confirm there would be no UK Minister at the EU/Africa summit, on the assumption that Mr Mugabe would attend. Should Mr Mugabe attend...
The Government will provide priority healthcare treatment and extra support to deal with mental health issues for armed forces veterans, the PM has said.
Briefing from the Prime Minister's Spokesman on: EU/Africa summit, Sudan, donations and binge drinking
The Queen has been pleased to approve that the honour of Knighthood be conferred upon Christopher David Floyd QC, on his appointment as a Justice of the High Court.
It has become common practice for companies to make a profit from offering...
The consequences of, and reactions to, the loss of records by HM Revenue and...
Radical reforms to modernise the tribunals system were set out in a consultation by the Ministry of Justice today.
Latest NHS finance figures published
One hundred and eighteen people have been arrested and over 1300 real and imitation firearms have been seized in Manchester, London, Liverpool and Birmingham as part of a co-ordinated day of action involving over...
Timetable updated November 2007.
I will represent the UK at the forthcoming Energy Council in Brussels in the morning of 3 December.
There are two substantive items on the Council agenda—the Internal Gas and Electricity Market, on which...
A meeting of the Education, Youth and Culture Council was held on 15 and 16 November. Anne Lambert, UK Deputy Permanent Representative, represented the UK for the culture agenda items taken on 16 November.
I have placed in the Library of the House the first Annual Report to Home Office and HM Treasury Ministers on the Suspicious Activity Reporting (SAR) regime to combat money laundering and terrorist financing. ...
Tropical cyclone "Sidr" hit Bangladesh late on the 15 November. In addition to wind speeds of 240 km per hour, people living on the coast were struck by a devastating storm surge—a wall of sea-water 10 to 15 ...
My Right hon. and learned Friend the Attorney-General has made the following Written Ministerial Statement:
"Today the Government are issuing its response to the consultation "Convicting Rapists and Protecting...
If a company who use the 0870 number does not answer the phone by a person (...
Change our currency so that it is backed 100% by gold and silver. This will...
To provide a service on the Cheddar Valley line, as it serves many torrist/...
You might find it useful to contact your local Rural Housing Enabler (RHE), Amanda Madden, who's employed to work with communities and landowners in Hambleton to help them provide affordable housing.
Defence Minister Derek Twigg today gave his initial response to the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee report on the work of Defence Estates.
Whaley & Anor v Lord Advocate (Scotland) [2007] UKHL 53 (28 November 2007)
Kola & Anor v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2007] UKHL 54 (28 November 2007)
Countryside Alliance and others, R (on the application of) v Attorney General & Anor [2007] UKHL 52 (28 November 2007)
University of Queensland v Siemens Magnet Technology Ltd & Anor [2007] EWHC 2258 (Pat) (10 October 2007)
This is the Claimant's ("Buyer's") appeal under section 69(1) of the Arbitration Act 1996 against the FOSFA Appeal Arbitration Award dated 22 March 2007 ("the Appeal Award"). The Appeal Award overturned the Umpire...
This is an appeal by Westone Wholesale Limited ("Westone") from a decision of the VAT and Duties Tribunal released on 19 March 2007. It concerns a preliminary issue raised by Westone in two consolidated appeals...
In this application for judicial review the claimants challenge the lawfulness of the decision of the defendant, Hampshire County Council, on 12 April 2007 refusing to reconsider decisions made by them on 22 March...
This appeal concerns the application of the principles set out in Johnson v Gore Wood [2000] UKHL 65 [2002] AC 1 to an attempt to strike out a claim for abuse of process on the basis that the claim could ...