Updated: Updated on 20 December with latest version of factsheet (correct as of 17 December 2013)
This update is correct as of 17 December 2013. Further updates will be published as the situation changes...
Asked if the PM had a view on news that after Boris Johnson steps down as London Mayor in 2016 it will be ?his last big job in public affairs?, the PMS said he would let the Mayor of London speak for himself. ...
Asked if it was the government should stop dealing in shares after negative reports around Lloyds and Royal Mail, the PMS pointed media to the National Audit Office (NAO) report on Lloyds that said the sale provided...
Asked if the PM was convinced the Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) was the right organisation to examine rendition claims, the PMS said the approach set out in the House by Ken Clarke earlier in the day...
The directions apply to providers of high security psychiatric services. They set out the requirements for providers to make sure they have robust arrangements for safety and security, and for children visiting...
Details of the Foreign & Commonwealth Office’s (FCO) spend on government procurement cards.
This year has probably been the busiest 12 months that any of us in the fields of vaccination and immunisation can remember. Three new vaccination programmes:
rotavirus for babies shingles for older ...
The bulletin highlights are:
13 health protection research units created NHS Atlas of Variation in Diagnostic Services published National Cardiovascular Intelligence Network HPV vaccination coverage...
You should complete this affidavit by typing your details, but the document must be signed before a Consular Officer after the affidavit has been administered. Please remember to bring your passport.
Updated: Updated guidance to reflect new reporting process in connection with the transparency initiative.
This open general export licence (OGEL) allows, subject to certain conditions, people who would...
Updated: Updated tables DSA0401 (Motorcycle module 1 pass rates by gender, quarter and test centre) and DSA0421 (Motorcycle module 2 pass rates by gender, quarter and test centre) with data to September 2013.
Sentencing remarks of HH Judge McCreath
Sentencing remarks of Mr Justice Males
Dental surgeon Jochemus Venter has today (Friday 20 December) been jailed for 18 months at Cardiff Crown Court for submitting fraudulent claims to NHS Dental Services for the provision of dental treatments totalling...
Asked for the PM?s stance on prisoner voting, the PMS said his view had not changed. Share this page Share on Facebook ...
Asked to comment on the Chief of Defence Staff?s speech at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), the PMS said the Chief of Defence Staff had talked about making sure the forces were fully equipped and well...
This has been a fast moving and productive first year.
Today we have had the announcement of the outcome of the competitive exercise to establish research partnerships between PHE and leading ...
This document is designed to help local authority users submit SEN2 survey data using COLLECT (Collections Online - Learners, Education, Children and Teachers), the department’s centralised data collection...
The Civil Service Reform Plan set out plans to increase the accountability of civil servants. As part of this, the objectives of Permanent Secretaries who head Whitehall’s main departments, as well as ...
The Business Forum on Tax and Competitiveness provides the government with views from a range of different multinational businesses that can be used to inform the tax reform process and proposals.
The...
DAOs supplement guidance published in Managing Public Money
Updated: Added December 2013/January 2014 issue.
A bi-monthly newsletter produced by Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) Operations Accommodation for occupants of service family accommodation
The Secretary of State’s evidence to support the School Teachers’ Review Body (STRB’s) consideration of how the 2014 pay award should apply to teachers and school leaders.
This follows the Secretary...
Updated: Added issue 9 DIOlogue December 2013.
DIOlogue is the corporate magazine of the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO). It is read by DIO staff, customers, suppliers and other stakeholders. ...
Updated: The Consumer Contracts (Information, Cancellation and Additional Charges) Regulations 2013, which comes into force in June 2014, were published on 13 December 2013 along with guidance on their implementation...
Updated: Tables 15-20 added
This release provides statistics on UK Gross Public Expenditure (GPEX) on International Development from 2008/09 to 2012/13. The data includes expenditure by the Department for...
The National Audit Office (NAO) report reviews cost effectiveness evaluations in government. These cover government spending, taxation and regulation, across the 17 main departments and some of their bodies.
Updated: Updated guidance published.
Guidance on whether you need a licence to import various products from particular countries into the UK.
Updated: Public feedback section updated with three attachments.
The white list provides certainty that specified transactions will not be treated as trading activities and also acts to determine the types...
Updated: Added updated transparency files for April to November 2010, 2011, 2012 and January to March, October and September 2013.
There is a CSV file covering each month from April 2010, subsequent files...
This supplementary memorandum relates to government amendments to the Pensions Bill tabled on 17 December 2013 which confer power to make delegated legislation. It explains:
the purpose of the delegated...
This supplementary memorandum relates to government amendments to the Pensions Bill tabled on 12 December 2013 which confer power to make delegated legislation. It explains:
the purpose of the delegated...
Updated: This table was originally published on 29 November 2013 with data for July, August and September erroneously transposed for 8 area teams. The corrected data are included in this revised table and are...
The 2013 to 2014 Cold Weather Payment season started on 1 November 2013.
There were no triggers for Cold Weather Payments at weather stations between 14 December 2013 and 20 December 2013 and no payments...
Funding is available for 2013 to 2014 for NHS providers to improve the places where maternity care is provided across England.
Money will be available for projects that:
support services where ...
All providers of NHS healthcare services in England will need a licence from Monitor from April 2014, unless they are exempt. The licence will set out the conditions that licence holders will have to meet in ...
The Royal Observatory Edinburgh this week hosted a visit to Scotland by Astronaut Commander Chris Hadfield.
Highly anticipated demolition work has commenced at a key site in the Northampton Enterprise Zone. Over coming months, a series of properties will be cleared at St Peter’s Waterside, making way...
Great art and culture from 2013 – and here’s to the next twelve months
Southbank exhibition tours to West Bridgford Library
Coaches take part in their third residential session of the Elite Programme.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has revised guidance to help businesses understand how to work safely with asbestos.
A Scottish health board has been fined for a safety failing that led to several workers being exposed to potentially deadly asbestos fibres during a seven-year period.
A farming partnership has been fined for safety failings after a worker was seriously injured when he fell from the roof of a cowshed that was being dismantled.
We discuss the current situation with Iran and what will come out of this current diplomatic opportunity. We talk about what Iran’s expectations are from the rest of the world, why we are more concerned about...
Letter from PHE Chief Knowledge Officer John Newton to Paul Baumann, Finance Director at NHS England, following a presentation to the PHE National Executive by the team leading the review into the allocation ...
This Tax Information and Impact Note describes the measure that will expand the lists (commonly known as white lists) of ‘investment transactions’ for two purposes. Firstly to identify activities that may qualify...
Updated: Recompliance letter added to documents
This is the guidance for the health care provider taking part in the Employment and Support Allowance Health Care pilot in the Central England Jobcentre Group...
Updated: Daily update of the unclaimed estates list
The Division publishes a list of unclaimed estates which have been recently referred, but not yet administered, and historic cases which have not yet ...
Conflict Pool Concept Bid Form
Updated: Added new firing times for the periods 28 Dec to 3 Jan 2014 and 4 to 10 Jan 2014 in CSV and PDF formats.
The firing times are presented in 2 file formats. The PDF format is web browseable and accessible...
The Better Care Fund will provide £3.8 billion to local services to give elderly and vulnerable an improved health and social system. The guidance published today (20 December 2013) provides ...
The DWP stakeholder bulletin is a monthly publication for chief executives and policy leads in the department’s national stakeholder organisations. Each issue has short articles and links to more information. ...
Summary published by the Advisory Committee on the Safety of Blood, Tissues and Organs (SaBTO) that sets out the range of measures currently being taken in the UK to reduce the potential risk of transmitting ...
1) Please provide the number of referrals you have received from Her Majesty’s Prison Service or the National Offender Management Service concerning a member of staff employed in a young offender institution. ...
I am making a Freedom of Information request of all Registered Bodies who have been De-registered within the last 6 (six) months.
Could you please provide the following details relating to this enquiry...
I am making a Freedom of Information request of all Registered Bodies who have submitted less than 1500 applications during the past six months. Could you please provide the following details relating to this...
I am making a Freedom of Information request of all Registered Bodies who have submitted over 1500 applications during the past six months. Could you please provide the following details relating to this enquiry...
We are asking schools and organisations to present their approaches to pupil assessment. We can allocate funding to help create a simple, easy-to-use package for others schools to use.
A number of schools...
Updated: Document replaced with an updated version.
This document explains how to apply to Defra for designation of a new bathing water or de-designation of an existing one. It also explains the bathing...
This report is based on data provided to the European Commission under Article 13 of Directive 76/160/EEC (the Bathing Water Directive), as amended by Article 3 of Directive 91/692/EEC.
It provides a ...
Copies of funding allocation letters sent from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport to its arms-length bodies in March 2013.
Click the links above for the texts of both the treaty and status list.
Click on the links above to access the texts of both the treaty and status list.
Click the links above to access the texts of both treaty and status list.
Click on the above links to access the texts of treaty and status list.
The seventh statement of new regulation is a forward look of all regulations in scope of government’s ‘1 in, 2 out’ system (including measures which are deregulatory) that are scheduled to come into force between...
The latest report on International Comparative Performance of the UK Research Base, commissioned by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills every two years, shows UK environmental science research now...
To mark the publication of a special edition of Physica Scripta, ISIS muons for materials and molecular sciences, ISIS looks back on the last 25 years of muons and their achievements.
UK scientists and engineers are celebrating today after the successful launch into space of the European Space Agency's GAIA mission that will revolutionise our understanding of the Universe.
Visit to Queen Elizabeth Hospital
London International Horse Show
Highly anticipated demolition work has commenced at a key site in the Northampton Enterprise Zone. Over coming months, a series of properties will be cleared at St Peter’s Waterside, making way...
High Court (Queen's Bench Division) Administrative Court
Business investment estimates are a short term indicator of capital expenditure by manufacturing and non-manufacturing businesses within the UK, Q2 2012 revised results.
In the first of a two-part blog on funding for habitat restoration, David Thompson takes a look at the decisions due by the Government on the next round of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). Specifically, ...
Each month, the CPS celebrates the outstanding work of teams and individuals up and down the country by publishing their stories on the CPS website.
IT management - FOI various questions including: how is IT managed within Defra, if through outsource partners who are these companies; if managed internally what is the organisation structure and key contacts...
Shooting EIRs: how many badgers were killed by free shooting in Somerset and Gloucestershire cull zones, and how many killed by cage trapping in Somerset and Gloucestershire cull zones.
This bulletin has been developed by Public Health England and the Department of Health, with input from and the support of the Local Government Association, the Association of Directors of Public Health and the...
FCO Counter-Proliferation Programme 2014-2015 concept form for the The Counter Proliferation Programme.
FCO Counter-Proliferation Programme bidding form.
Updated: Prison population figures for 20 December 2013 published.
Latest prison population figures for 2013.
Programme Strategy for FCO Counter-Proliferation Programme.
This guide is intended to supplement the India Travel Advice and sets out essential information for British nationals residing in India, including advice on health, education, benefits and more.
Contents...
Updated: Added updated 'Minute of roundtable meeting on fitness and capability held on 4 December 2013'.
These documents provide details of the firefighters’ pension scheme from 2015. Further details on...
The latest report on International Comparative Performance of the UK Research Base, commissioned by the Department for Business, Innovations and Skills every two years, shows UK environmental science research now...
Olympic Champion collects The National Lottery Spirit of Sport Award at the Sports Journalist's Association Awards
Oliver Morley, our present Chief Executive and Keeper, has accepted a role as Chief Executive of the Driver & Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA).
Big Ideas is a series of briefings on big ideas coming out of The National Archives' research programme. Covering themes of innovation, creativity and excellence each Big Idea will share with colleagues and professionals...
Over the festive period, we will be closed to the public from Wednesday 25 December to Saturday 28 December inclusive (closing at 17:00 on Tuesday 24 December). We will also be closed on Wednesday 1 January.
The OTS Board sets the strategic direction of the Office. It is made up of the OTS Chairman, the OTS Tax Director, a senior official from both HM Treasury and HM Revenue & Customs and two co-opted members...
Updated: Additional information has been provided in Annex C to describe workarounds for identified anomalies in the APT
The Education Funding Agency has developed the authority proforma tool (APT) that...
Records FOI: information concerning assessment standards applied to Defra’s information, numbers of files due and overdue appraisal, and files transferred to bodies other than the National Archives.
All VAT registered businesses (apart from those excepted on religious grounds and those subject to insolvency procedures) must file their VAT returns using an approved means of electronic communication. This ...
Updated: Added consultation outcome document
At Budget 2012 the Government announced a consultation on the transfer of assets abroad legislation. The consultation sought views on whether proposed amendments...
Head of a Peasant Woman - early Van Gogh painting donated to the National Gallery under the Cultural Gifts Scheme
Court Martial Appeal Court and Divisional Court of The Queen's Bench Division
Presents a summary of the latest economic and labour market statistics for Wales.
Supplementary tables containing additional data relating to the Public Sector Finances statistical bulletin will be released on the same day as the PSF release (20th December) because of the holiday period.
Latest data on the Public Sector Net Borrowing, Net debt and the cash requirement.
Provides detailed estimates of national product, income and expenditure, UK sector accounts and UK balance of payments.
This release contains quarterly net investment data arising from financial transactions (investments) made by insurance companies, self-administered pension funds, investment trusts, unit trusts and property unit...
Shows the monthly movements in gross value added for the service industries, which overall account for around 75 per cent of UK Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
Contains summary of balance of payments accounts and detailed statistics for the current account including - trade in goods and services, income, current and capital transfers, transactions in UK external assets...
Contains detailed breakdowns of the components of GDP as well as key sector accounts aggregates
Contains details of Household Final Consumption Expenditure (HHFCE) for the UK. The main tables include all expenditure on goods and services by members of UK households.
Commentary and tables on investment trends by businesses. Contains capital expenditure data for various sectors of the economy at current prices, constant prices and seasonally adjusted.
Findings from the Northern Ireland Crime Survey focusing on crime victimisation and prevalence rates in both Northern Ireland and England & Wales.
Immunisation Statistics. Prior to June 2010 this publication was released as part of an overall "Immunisation Statistics" publication.
Provides monthly and quarterly information on all HMRC taxes, including tax receipts, the number of taxpayers, personal tax credits, child benefit and estimates of the cost of tax expenditures and structural relief...
Provides monthly and quarterly information on all HMRC taxes, including tax receipts, the number of taxpayers, personal tax credits, child benefit and estimates of the cost of tax expenditures and structural relief...
Provides monthly and quarterly information on all HMRC taxes, including tax receipts, the number of taxpayers, personal tax credits, child benefit and estimates of the cost of tax expenditures and structural relief...
Monthly statistics on clearances of cigarettes & tobacco products and duty receipts for the UK.
Provides details of the quantities of products that have had UK excise duty paid on them and revenue receipts.
Bulletins provide a full historic series of data detailing amounts of goods cleared and amount of duty collected.
Today I am publishing a Government consultation on zero-hours contracts. The Government are part way through an ambitious programme of employment law reform designed to make the UK labour market flexible and ...
The Cabinet Office is today publishing the “Public Bodies 2013” data directory on gov.uk. This provides a single source of top-level data including on all UK Government-sponsored non-departmental ...
Outside providers deliver high-quality public services every day. Public services are too important to too many people to be allowed to be the monopoly of the public sector. We need a vibrant
mix of the...
The insurance industry is a vital asset for the UK. It employs over 300,000 people across the country, attracts global capital, serves the needs of consumers, and is a major British exporter. This Government ...
I have today placed in the Library of the House a paper setting out the planned growth of the trained strength of the reserve forces, together with the enlistment targets for the next five years that will support...
The Department of Energy and Climate Change requires a cash advance of £1,500,000 from the Contingencies Fund in 2013-14 to fund the costs of assuming the concessionary fuel allowances of former miners who...
I wish to inform the House that today the Government are publishing the electricity market reform (EMR) delivery plan. As laid out in my 18 July statement, Official Report, column 112WS, it
was our intention...
Today I am publishing the Government’s response to the recent public consultation on the implementation of the common agricultural policy (CAP) in England. This will determine how we distribute £15...
On 11 November I informed the House that the Government were determined to ensure that the Geneva peace talks include a direct role for women’s groups in accordance with UN Security Council resolutions ...
The UK has secured important reforms to the way the World Bank delivers aid at international negotiations that were completed on Tuesday.
The International Development Association (IDA) is the part of the...
On 11 July, Official Report, column 573, I made a statement to the House about significant anomalies that my Department had identified in the billing practices under MOJ’s electronic monitoring contracts...
On behalf of the Deputy Prime Minister and other members of the National Security Council (NSC), I am pleased to present the third annual report of progress in implementing the 2010 National Security Strategy...
I would like to update Parliament on the outcomes of the UK presidency of the G8 and the costs of the 2013 G8 summit in Lough Erne.
Progress
Since the G8 summit on 17 and 18 June, we have made very...
In May 2012 the Government introduced primary legislation to Parliament that would
create a new offence of driving with a specified controlled drug in the body above the specified limit for that drug. The...
Updated: updated with november release
The public sector finances statistical bulletin is published jointly by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and HM Treasury on a monthly basis and provides the...
OSCAR: publishing data from the databaseThe 2nd set of in-year data recorded on the OSCAR reporting system covers the first 6 months of 2013-14 (April to September). This dataset, in addition to the previous...
Updated: Updated weekly prices.
Prices for selected agricultural and horticultural produce are published on a weekly or monthly basis in the following spreadsheets. The data source depends on the item but...
The English Business Survey (EBS) statistics for October 2013 provide information on the current economic and business conditions across England.
The statistical release provides background information...
The English Business Survey (EBS) statistics for quarter 3 2013 provide information on the current economic and business conditions across England.
The statistical release provides background information...
Report: Additional voluntary National Insurance contributions at State Pension age: Results from an online survey.
By Maria Strudwick and Patrick Raffan
At the Autumn Statement 2013 the government...
Updated: Table updated to include 2012/13 figures
These tables are only updated once a year and therefore the totals used in breakdowns may not be consistent with those published in the main expenditure...
Starting in 2013 to 14, local authorities were requested to provide details to DWP of their use of Discretionary Housing Payment funds. This information is being collected twice yearly, in the middle of the financial...
Updated: The tables have been updated to reflect 2012/13 outturn. A New Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit statistics added.
These notes and tables are consistent with the Autumn Statement 2013 (5 ...
The provisional awards are currently published at the end of April and December. These statistics are as close to real-time as possible and represent the picture as at the beginning of April and December. These...
IOSH event for anyone in the public sector responsible for health and safety or service procurement, PSG members and colleagues in Healthcare, Education, Environment and Waste Management Groups. Ruth Sleigh, ...
The Balance of Payments (BOP) is a key macro-economic indicator as it measures the UK's financial flows with the rest of the world.
Business investment estimates are a short term indicator of capital expenditure by manufacturing and non-manufacturing businesses within the UK, Q3 2013 results.
The PSF Statistical Bulletin, is published jointly by ONS and HM Treasury on a monthly basis, and provides the latest available measures for key public sector financial statistics such as Public Sector Current ...
This release contains estimates of the key components of GDP from the output, income and expenditure approaches. Gross Domestic Product measures the chained volume index movements of the UK. The services sector...
Index of Services shows the monthly movements in gross value added for the service industries, which overall account for around 78% of UK Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
The Consumer Trends publication presents comprehensive estimates of Household Final Consumption Expenditure (HHFCE), constructed to conform to the European System of Accounts 1995 (ESA 95) Classification of Individual...
This release presents information about the investment choices of insurance companies, self-administered pension funds, investment trusts, unit trusts and property unit trusts. Reported in this release are quarterly...
Presents a summary of the latest economic and labour market statistics for Wales.
Supplementary tables containing additional data relating to the Public Sector Finances statistical bulletin will be released on the same day as the PSF release (20th December) because of the holiday period.
Latest data on the Public Sector Net Borrowing, Net debt and the cash requirement.
Provides detailed estimates of national product, income and expenditure, UK sector accounts and UK balance of payments.
This release contains quarterly net investment data arising from financial transactions (investments) made by insurance companies, self-administered pension funds, investment trusts, unit trusts and property unit...
Shows the monthly movements in gross value added for the service industries, which overall account for around 75 per cent of UK Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
Contains summary of balance of payments accounts and detailed statistics for the current account including - trade in goods and services, income, current and capital transfers, transactions in UK external assets...
Contains detailed breakdowns of the components of GDP as well as key sector accounts aggregates
Contains details of Household Final Consumption Expenditure (HHFCE) for the UK. The main tables include all expenditure on goods and services by members of UK households.
Commentary and tables on investment trends by businesses. Contains capital expenditure data for various sectors of the economy at current prices, constant prices and seasonally adjusted.
Immunisation Statistics. Prior to June 2010 this publication was released as part of an overall "Immunisation Statistics" publication.
Provides monthly and quarterly information on all HMRC taxes, including tax receipts, the number of taxpayers, personal tax credits, child benefit and estimates of the cost of tax expenditures and structural relief...
Provides monthly and quarterly information on all HMRC taxes, including tax receipts, the number of taxpayers, personal tax credits, child benefit and estimates of the cost of tax expenditures and structural relief...
Provides monthly and quarterly information on all HMRC taxes, including tax receipts, the number of taxpayers, personal tax credits, child benefit and estimates of the cost of tax expenditures and structural relief...
Monthly statistics on clearances of cigarettes & tobacco products and duty receipts for the UK.
Provides details of the quantities of products that have had UK excise duty paid on them and revenue receipts.
Bulletins provide a full historic series of data detailing amounts of goods cleared and amount of duty collected.