UK Border Agency warning to bargain hunters.
A Glossop packaging manufacturer has been fined after a worker was killed when a machine he was working on was activated while he was still inside.
ID cards will be scrapped under the Coalition Government's first Home Office Bill to pass through Parliament.
Getting to grips with the snow
Health Minister Lord Howe today called for new ideas to help tackle some of the most challenging issues in healthcare, as he launched the NHS Innovation Challenge Prizes scheme.
Transcript of speech given by the Prime Minister David Cameron at the Olympic stadium in London on 20 December 2010.
Read the transcript:Prime Minister:
Thank you. In just one year, seven months...
Prime Minister David Cameron has joined local school children to officially turn on the lights at the Olympic Stadium for first time.
At the flagship venue in Stratford, the PM and school children from...
The Queen has approved that the Reverend Canon Vernon Philip White, MA, MLitt, be appointed to the Residentiary Canonry in Westminster Abbey as Canon Theologian in succession to the Reverend Canon Nicholas Sagovsky...
Institutional net investment 15.4 bn
Monthly: Record for net borrowing
A Government report by Infrastructure UK (IUK) today sets out a blueprint to save up to three billion a year on building and maintaining infrastructure.
Up to £20 million of funding to help get the least active children more involved in school sport is announced today by the Secretary of State for Health, Andrew Lansley.
A focus on preventing major offshore incidents is leading some companies to neglect the general maintenance of their oil and gas platforms.
The Secretary of State for Business, Innovation & Skills has presented petitions in the High Court to wind up in the public interest Virtual World Direct Limited (www.virtualworlddirect.com), a British...
The public is today invited to have its say on how the new public health service – Public Health England – will look and how the proposed funding arrangements will be implemented, Health Secretary Andrew Lansley...
ID cards will be scrapped under the Coalition Government's first Home Office Bill to pass through Parliament.
The Traffic Commissioner for Scotland, Joan Aitken, fined a Dundee bus firm £8,700 for early and late running of services and failure to operate services.
Local people are being warned by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) to be on the look out for traders selling counterfeit and smuggled cigarettes or alcohol as the Christmas season gets underway.
Party-going pedestrians are being reminded not to use the region’s motorway network as a short-cut during the Christmas and New Year festivities.
The Secretary of State for Business, Innovation & Skills has presented petitions in the High Court to wind up in the public interest two companies involved in marketing plots of land as an investment opportunity...
Following an investigation by The Insolvency Service, two companies Sunday Solutions Limited and Bradbury & Co Limited, each involved in a tax umbrella scheme called the Sunday Solutions Scheme, for self ...
The Secretary of State for Business, Innovation & Skills has presented petitions in the High Court to wind up in the public interest Viking Mining Resources Limited, Viking Gold Limited and VGRM Limited.
A building contractor was fined along with the director of a surgical centre after safety inspectors found multiple failings on the site of a new clinic extension.
A care home operator was today fined £80,000 for serious training failures following the death of a patient as a result of “inappropriate and dangerous” restraint techniques.
The Traffic Commissioner for Scotland, Joan Aitken, warned and fined three Highland and Island bus firms for maintenance and reliability issues.
The Financial Secretary to the Treasury, Mark Hoban, and the Minister for Consumer Affairs, Edward Davey, today launched a consultation on transferring the regulation of consumer credit from the Office of Fair...
UK Border Agency warning to bargain hunters.
The coalition Government are publishing today the allocation of science and research funding for 2011-12 to 2014-15.
Our world class science and research base is inherently valuable, as well as critical...
The Haldane principle means that decisions on individual research proposals are best taken by researchers themselves through peer review. This involves evaluating the quality, excellence and likely impact of ...
The Economic and Financial Affairs Council was held in Brussels on 7 December 2010. The following items were discussed:
Administrative Co-operation Directive
Ministers agreed a Council directive on...
I would like to inform the House about recent developments on the FiReControl project.
This is the third part of the last Government's resilience programme and set out to replace the stand-alone control...
I am today publishing the Department's work plan on major infrastructure planning reform. This Government believe that securing investment in new infrastructure is essential to deliver sustainable growth over...
The coalition agreement states that the Government will publish and present to Parliament a simple and consolidated national planning framework that covers all forms of development and sets out national economic...
This Government are committed to ensuring that new build homes post-2016 do not add extra carbon dioxide emissions to the atmosphere-while ensuring that the costs of building new homes do not prevent appropriate...
In the Belfast (Good Friday) agreement in April 1998, the UK Government undertook to explore the scope for achieving more widespread availability of the Irish language television station, Teilifis na Gaeilige...
This statement is to set out the Government's priorities for the legacy from the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic games. Further detail of the Government's plans is provided in the Government's legacy plan "Plans ...
Following a request by the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) Joint Command in Afghanistan a Company Group, formed around elements of the 2nd Battalion The Royal Welsh, from Task Force Helmand and...
I am pleased to lay in Parliament a Green Paper entitled "Equipment, Support and Technology for UK Defence and Security: A Consultation Paper".
The first duty of Government is the security of our nation...
The Government are committed to providing effective, through-life, health services for our service and ex-service personnel.
As part of this commitment, the Department of Health and devolved Administrations...
A bar on sentenced, serving prisoners voting was first put in place in 1870. Successive Governments have maintained the position that, when an individual breaks their contract with society by committing an offence...
Many households across the UK without access to the natural gas grid rely on deliveries of heating oil to heat their homes. Heating oil is also used by smaller commercial customers, notably, with demand focused...
I am announcing today the Government's publication of "Implementing Fulfilling and Rewarding Lives", guidance for local authorities and NHS organisations to secure implementation of the autism strategy. I launched...
Today marks the beginning of an important shift in focus for the NHS and public health, away from focusing on politically motivated process targets, and towards what matters most: improving quality and delivering...
Today I am publishing a consultation document seeking views on proposals set out in the White Paper, "Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS" (Cm7881). We are consulting on proposals to create a new framework...
The coalition Government are firmly committed to protecting the security of their citizens and to restoring and protecting civil liberties.
The UK, in common with many other EU member states and third countries...
I am pleased to announce the appointment of a new Parades Commission for Northern Ireland. I have appointed Peter Osborne as chair and Douglas Bain, Delia Close, Brian Kennaway, Catriona King, Frances Nolan, ...
I am today publishing an interim report on the review of motorcycle testing in Great Britain, which I launched on 8 June 2010. Last week I met the working group established to conduct the review and we agreed...
A focus on preventing major offshore incidents is leading some companies to neglect the general maintenance of their oil and gas platforms.
The Traffic Commissioner for Scotland, Joan Aitken, fined a Dundee bus firm £8,700 for early and late running of services and failure to operate services.
The Traffic Commissioner for Scotland, Joan Aitken, warned and fined three Highland and Island bus firms for maintenance and reliability issues.
A Government report by Infrastructure UK (IUK) today sets out a blueprint to save up to three billion a year on building and maintaining infrastructure.
Up to £20 million of funding to help get the least active children more involved in school sport is announced today by the Secretary of State for Health, Andrew Lansley.
A focus on preventing major offshore incidents is leading some companies to neglect the general maintenance of their oil and gas platforms.
The Secretary of State for Business, Innovation & Skills has presented petitions in the High Court to wind up in the public interest Virtual World Direct Limited (www.virtualworlddirect.com), a British...
The public is today invited to have its say on how the new public health service – Public Health England – will look and how the proposed funding arrangements will be implemented, Health Secretary Andrew Lansley...
ID cards will be scrapped under the Coalition Government's first Home Office Bill to pass through Parliament.
The Traffic Commissioner for Scotland, Joan Aitken, fined a Dundee bus firm £8,700 for early and late running of services and failure to operate services.
Local people are being warned by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) to be on the look out for traders selling counterfeit and smuggled cigarettes or alcohol as the Christmas season gets underway.
Party-going pedestrians are being reminded not to use the region’s motorway network as a short-cut during the Christmas and New Year festivities.
The Secretary of State for Business, Innovation & Skills has presented petitions in the High Court to wind up in the public interest two companies involved in marketing plots of land as an investment opportunity...
Following an investigation by The Insolvency Service, two companies Sunday Solutions Limited and Bradbury & Co Limited, each involved in a tax umbrella scheme called the Sunday Solutions Scheme, for self ...
The Secretary of State for Business, Innovation & Skills has presented petitions in the High Court to wind up in the public interest Viking Mining Resources Limited, Viking Gold Limited and VGRM Limited.
A building contractor was fined along with the director of a surgical centre after safety inspectors found multiple failings on the site of a new clinic extension.
A care home operator was today fined £80,000 for serious training failures following the death of a patient as a result of “inappropriate and dangerous” restraint techniques.
The Traffic Commissioner for Scotland, Joan Aitken, warned and fined three Highland and Island bus firms for maintenance and reliability issues.
The Financial Secretary to the Treasury, Mark Hoban, and the Minister for Consumer Affairs, Edward Davey, today launched a consultation on transferring the regulation of consumer credit from the Office of Fair...
UK Border Agency warning to bargain hunters.
A Government report by Infrastructure UK (IUK) today sets out a blueprint to save up to three billion a year on building and maintaining infrastructure.
Up to £20 million of funding to help get the least active children more involved in school sport is announced today by the Secretary of State for Health, Andrew Lansley.
A focus on preventing major offshore incidents is leading some companies to neglect the general maintenance of their oil and gas platforms.
The Secretary of State for Business, Innovation & Skills has presented petitions in the High Court to wind up in the public interest Virtual World Direct Limited (www.virtualworlddirect.com), a British...
The public is today invited to have its say on how the new public health service – Public Health England – will look and how the proposed funding arrangements will be implemented, Health Secretary Andrew Lansley...
ID cards will be scrapped under the Coalition Government's first Home Office Bill to pass through Parliament.
The Traffic Commissioner for Scotland, Joan Aitken, fined a Dundee bus firm £8,700 for early and late running of services and failure to operate services.
Local people are being warned by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) to be on the look out for traders selling counterfeit and smuggled cigarettes or alcohol as the Christmas season gets underway.
Party-going pedestrians are being reminded not to use the region’s motorway network as a short-cut during the Christmas and New Year festivities.
The Secretary of State for Business, Innovation & Skills has presented petitions in the High Court to wind up in the public interest two companies involved in marketing plots of land as an investment opportunity...
Following an investigation by The Insolvency Service, two companies Sunday Solutions Limited and Bradbury & Co Limited, each involved in a tax umbrella scheme called the Sunday Solutions Scheme, for self ...
The Secretary of State for Business, Innovation & Skills has presented petitions in the High Court to wind up in the public interest Viking Mining Resources Limited, Viking Gold Limited and VGRM Limited.
A building contractor was fined along with the director of a surgical centre after safety inspectors found multiple failings on the site of a new clinic extension.
A care home operator was today fined £80,000 for serious training failures following the death of a patient as a result of “inappropriate and dangerous” restraint techniques.
The Traffic Commissioner for Scotland, Joan Aitken, warned and fined three Highland and Island bus firms for maintenance and reliability issues.
The Financial Secretary to the Treasury, Mark Hoban, and the Minister for Consumer Affairs, Edward Davey, today launched a consultation on transferring the regulation of consumer credit from the Office of Fair...
UK Border Agency warning to bargain hunters.
UK Border Agency warning to bargain hunters.