Three members of an organised criminal network were sentenced yesterday at Leeds Crown Court to a total of 41 years for smuggling over 38 kilograms of powder containing heroin into the UK. The drugs came into the...
Asked if the Prime Minister thought it was time to consider cutting the entitlement to free English lessons, the PMS replied that if it was a specific departmental issue, then it would be best to raise it with the...
Asked what would be on the agenda for the Prime Minister's meeting with the Italian Prime Minister, the PMS replied that the discussions would be wide-ranging; obviously there was the Lisbon summit next week where...
Asked if the Prime Minister had been upset with President Barroso's comments regarding the EU Africa summit, the PMS said one should not draw that conclusion. The Prime Minister had made his position very clear ...
Asked if the Prime Minister was concerned that two of the country's biggest supermarkets were fixing the price of milk, the PMS replied that it was often forgotten that it was the Prime Minister, when he was Chancellor...
Asked why the Prime Minister thought it was not necessary to go and sign the Reform Treaty in person, the PMS replied that we had made no such decision; as he had said endlessly at numerous lobby briefings, it was...
Asked why there was no Downing Street Christmas tree, the PMS replied that there was a Downing Street Christmas tree; it had been put up that morning. original source.
The Prime Minister's Spokesman (PMS) started by updating journalists on the Chinese Foreign Minister's visit to London yesterday when he met with David Miliband and had a pre-arranged meeting with Simon McDonald...
Briefing from the Prime Minister's Spokesman on: Chinese Foreign Minister, Downing Street Christmas tree, Reform treaty, supermarket price fixing, President Barroso, Prime Minister Prodi and English lessons
A new marketing strategy for promoting the UK's expertise in Information Communication Technology (ICT) was launched today by Minister of State for Trade & Investment Digby, Lord Jones of Birmingham.
"Heelies" are shoes that have wheels on them, but look like normal trainers...
The government and OFCOM are clearly trying to slowly wedge away 70cms from...
More than half of all UK homes now have a broadband connection, at an...
I am asking the government to scrap the personal capability assessment (PA)...
Wish the Government to curb the reach of the Health and Safety Executive....
Donations are placed in the "donations pipeline" addressed to the political...
The recent plan to introduce information booklets for juries in rape trials...
Due to the debacle of the 25 million persons details being lost by HMRC and...
Anyone suspected of having committed an extremely serious offence, such as...
Horrific rapes, bloody murders and ethnic cleansing are being carried out on...
I have recently been denied benefits, even though I am unable to work. As a...
Parking meters have recently been added to the car park on Priory Wharf...
Pigeon Racing is not currently classed as a sport. I wrote to Mr Blair a few...
Anyone who has had their driving licence taken off them by the courts is...
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has appointed a new director general for its finance and commercial divisions.
Post Offices play a vital role in rural life, providing access to services and often acting as the social hub for a village. Over the next year or so around 1250 rural Post Offices are ...
Stuart Burgess, our chair and the government's Rural Advocate, is visiting Cambridgeshire to find out more about healthcare provision in rural areas.
He'll be meeting people involved...
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Full agenda for visit by Stuart Burgess, our chair and the government's Rural Advocate, to Cambridgeshire, to investigate healthcare...
Stuart Burgess, our chair and the government's Rural Advocate, is visiting Cambridgeshire to find out more about healthcare provision in rural areas.
He'll be meeting people involved...
We're supporting this one-day event looking at the sustainable ways of working, living and travelling required to meet the demands of the present without compromising the needs of future generations...
A new panel of independent experts met for the first time today to discuss where the UK labour market needs migration and where it does not.
Armed Forces Minister Bob Ainsworth, today praised the outstanding generosity of the British public, which has responded to a national call to support troops overseas at Christmas by sending huge quantities of parcels...
Hi Londoners, For additional info: please read the BBC news website for an...
The Prime Minister states that because some people blatantly disregard the...
In a recent reply to a petition, the government said that it "has no...
That all carers, regardless of age, be paid a carers allowance, as a non-...
Allowing anyone to grow hemp for food would benefit the enviroment and...
Ethylene glycol, the main ingredient in almost all major antifreeze brands,...
the goverment should put the income support up to match the cost of living...
We petition the government to first downsize and then remove the taxpayer-...
Believe it or not, the legal speed limit on motorways is 70mph unless...
With many people buying new electrical items in time for Christmas, Consumer Direct is advising people to think carefully before deciding to buy an extended warranty.
Following the OFT's Statement of Objections (SO) of 20 September 2007 which provisionally found evidence of collusion between certain large supermarkets (Asda, Morrisons, Safeway, Sainsbury's and Tesco) and dairy...
The arc between Oxford and East Anglia is an area of major growth, both...
We want the Government to introduce compulsary military service for anyone...
Winner of the Enterprising Britain competition, North Staffordshire Regeneration Zone (NSRZ) and Enterprising Britain runner-up, The Paper Trail, are celebrating again today following the European Enterprise Awards...
The Government today published the Employment Bill, aimed at toughening penalties for rogue employers and affording greater protection for agency workers. It would boost powers for employment agency inspectors ...
Government calls on professionals and the public to be vigilant to help fight child trafficking- including UK born children
COMMUNITIES Secretary Hazel Blears has today published new guidance on translation for local councils as part of efforts to bring about a fundamental rebalancing with greater emphasis on learning English and ensuring...
Asked if there had been any news on the EU Summit, the PMS said that we were in exactly the same place in terms of scheduling, as we were this morning. original source.
Put that Ben Bradshaw said in the Commons that afternoon that the Government was considering legislation on cut-price alcohol and how could you legislate against that unless a minimum price was brought in, the PMS...
Asked to explain why 42-day detention was better than any other amount of time, the PMS said that he was happy to go through the issue again following that morning's detailed discussion on the subject if people ...
Asked what the Talent Challenge was and where it would be held, the Prime Minister's Spokesman told the assembled press that it was something being organised by Business in the Community. The Talent Challenge was...
Gordon Brown has called on business leaders to do more to nurture the talents of the British people.
Briefing from the Prime Minister's Spokesman on: Talent challenge, pre-charge detention, alcohol and Lisbon
The first report from a programme that will allow people to explore projections of climate change through the 21st century was welcomed by Environment Secretary Hilary Benn today.
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Funding aimed at reducing, and ultimately replacing, the use of animals in research will double, Science and Innovation minister, Ian Pearson, has announced today.
Provides information about the transport facilities available to households (e.g. cars, bus services) and some travel by household members (eg to school, to work) in each Council area in Scotland
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Following my closing speech at Second Reading on the Regulatory Enforcement and Sanctions Bill on 28 November, (Official Report, col. 1280), I would like to clarify to the House the Government's understanding...
My right honourable friend the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (Peter Hain) has made the following Statement.
The proposed rates of benefit for 2008 are set out in the table attached. The annual...
The Government are today publishing "Financial Inclusion: an Action Plan for 2008-11", setting out commitments by the Government and key partners to achieve further progress in promoting financial inclusion. ...
Following the Pre-Budget Report on 9 October, the Treasury has today published the following consultation documents:
Income shifting: a consultation on draft legislation
Securing a sustainable future...
My noble Friend the Minister of State for Trade and Investment (Lord Jones of Birmingham) has made the following statement:
Following my closing speech at Second Reading on the Regulatory Enforcement and...
I am today announcing a suspension of adoptions of Guatemalan children by UK residents in response to concerns about adoption practice in Guatemala. The suspension takes effect immediately.
We have had ...
The Government are today publishing provisional individual grant allocations to administering authorities for the Supporting People programme in 2008-09, 2009-10 and 2010-11. The grant will fund housing-related...
I have today announced the following three-year settlement for the general GLA grant, which is provided by the Government to support the core activities of the Mayor of London and Greater London Authority.
Earlier this year I commissioned a status review of the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office in Taunton to establish the optimum future structural and ownership arrangements for the UKHO.
This review has ...
I am delighted to announce that the Government has decided to acknowledge the contribution made by the Women's Land Army and the Women's Timber Corps by means of a badge which will be presented to veterans next...
The General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC) will be held on 10 December in Brussels. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Mr. David Miliband) will represent...
I have today placed in the Library my proposals for allocation of police grant for England and Wales from 2008-09 to 2010-11. I intend to implement the proposals on police grant subject to consideration of any...
On 16 November 2006, my right hon. Friend the Minister of State for Security, Counter-terrorism, Crime and Policing (Tony McNulty) announced a review of police pay arrangements led by Sir Clive Booth. The first...
We are today publishing further documents in relation to the forthcoming counter-terrorism bill. We are publishing a letter I have sent today to the Chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee setting out how ...
I am today publishing a Command Paper—"The Government's Response to the Report by Baroness Corston of a Review of Women with Particular Vulnerabilities in the Criminal Justice System" (Cm 7261). Copies are available...
Making best use of taxpayers' money is essential in the allocation of funding to transport schemes. With that in mind the Government announced in 2005 that it planned to commission a review of options for the...
The Transport, Telecommunications and Energy Council took place in Brussels on 29 November-3 December, I attended the first two days, as Europe Minister in the Department for Transport. The Portuguese Minister...
I have today made details available of our proposed distribution of special grant funding to local authorities to meet the additional costs of the new statutory minimum bus concession.
Around 11 million...
The proposed rates of benefit for 2008 are set out in the table attached. The annual up-rating of benefits will take place for State Pension and most other benefits in the first full week of the tax year. In ...
Sir Martin Doughty, Chair of Natural England, will be heading to the Western Weald to meet campaigners and see vulnerable local landscapes that could face exclusion from a South Downs National Park if Natural England...
The European Union has agreed the Rural Development Programme for England 2007-2013 through which Natural England will provide £2.9 billion of Environmental Stewardship Scheme funding for farmers.
ALEKSANDROVA v. RUSSIA - 28965/02 [2007] ECHR 1052 (6 December 2007)
BOLDYREVA v. RUSSIA - 23542/04 [2007] ECHR 1059 (6 December 2007)
FILATENKO v. RUSSIA - 73219/01 [2007] ECHR 1058 (6 December 2007)
LIU AND LIU v. RUSSIA - 42086/05 [2007] ECHR 1056 (6 December 2007)
CHAIR AND J. B. v. GERMANY - 69735/01 [2007] ECHR 1053 (6 December 2007)
JASINSKI v. POLAND - 72976/01 [2007] ECHR 1057 (6 December 2007)
KOZINETS v. UKRAINE - 75520/01 [2007] ECHR 1054 (6 December 2007)
LIND v. RUSSIA - 25664/05 [2007] ECHR 1055 (6 December 2007)
Shoukri & Ors, R v [2007] NICC 44 (30 November 2007)
JR14, Re Judicial Review [2007] NIQB 102 (22 November 2007)
Oyegbami, Re Judicial Review [2007] NIQB 95 (23 November 2007)
Udu & Anor, Re Judicial Review [2007] NICA 48 (4 December 2007)
This is a claim by the London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority ("LFEPA"), formerly the London Fire and Civil Defence Authority, against Halcrow Gilbert Associates Limited, the first defendant, and its parent...
The first claimant ("RDF") is a company which engages in the acquisition and distribution of television content, mainly in the factual entertainment, comedy, drama and children's programming genres. The ...
The Court is concerned with the trial of preliminary issues pursuant to an Order of HHJ Mackie made on 24 April 2007. They arise out of three agreements dated 14 August 2002 whereby the Defendant ("Wincanton") agreed...
LORD JUSTICE KEENE: On 23 February 2007, at the Crown Court at Manchester before HHJ Thomas QC, this appellant was convicted of sexual assault of a female under the age of 13. He was subsequently sentenced to...
On the 27th April 1998 in the Crown Court at Woolwich before HHJ Dunn QC, the appellant was convicted of a large scale conspiracy to supply heroin. He was sentenced to 22 years' imprisonment.
The appellant was convicted on 8th November 2006 at the Crown Court at Taunton of one count of possessing indecent photographs of a child. At the same time he was acquitted of 7counts of making indecent...
This is an appeal from the order of Mr Recorder Prosser made in the Dewsbury County Court on 7 July 2006 when he dismissed the appellants' claims against the respondent, Andrew Jones, for damages for breach of contract...
For a good many years before the Human Rights Act 1998 required it, departments of state had sought to ensure that delegated legislation and policies for which they were responsible were consistent with the United...
Chief Fire Officers from North Wales, South Wales and Mid and West Wales gathered together at Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service HQ in Carmarthen on 4 December 2007 to see the new firefighting kit for firefighters...
Governance Review: Turning Point Scotland