Following yesterday’s emergency COBR meeting, Flood Recovery Minister Brandon Lewis chaired a meeting of key ministers today (Tuesday 7 January 2014) to ensure a co-ordinated approach is being taken to assist...
Freedom of Information query for the number of students and ex-students turned down for contribution-based and income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA) from September 2008.
Freedom of information query on occupational pension schemes and increases accrued after 1988 up to 3%.
The government financial reporting manual is the technical accounting guide for the preparation of financial statements.
HM Treasury publishes illustrative financial statements and other guidance and...
Disabled people are moving into jobs, training or work placements at a rate of more than 100 placements every working day, as part of the government’s drive to help more disabled people into work.
More...
‪Cuts to burdensome red tape will make it easier for farming businesses to flourish and improve our ability to prevent and control the spread of diseases such as bovine TB.
‪Speaking at the Oxford Farming...
A new fund has been launched today to help local authorities transform their services through the use of new delivery models such as mutuals and voluntary organisations.
Delivering Differently is a joint...
Three canoeists have been pulled from the water after getting into difficulty in Lough Neagh.
Belfast Coastguard received a call on VHF channel 16 just after 1pm this afternoon reporting that three canoeists...
The foul weather which lashed Britain almost non-stop over the festive period led to the Royal Navy’s search and rescue helicopters being called to action more than 2-dozen times.
In doing so the fliers...
Ahead of the Foreign Affairs Committee (FAC) enquiry into the Foreign and Commonwealth Offices (FCO) Consular services later this month, Matthew Rycroft, the FCO’s Chief Operating Officer, hosted an FAC visit...
Updated: Added new transparency data for October and November 2013.
There is a CSV file covering each month from April 2010, subsequent files will be added by the last working day following each month end...
Updated: Latest figures published.
This data is received from fixed gamma radiation dose rate monitors and measures the ambient (or background) gamma radiation dose rate across the UK on an hourly basis...
Parties - FOI information on centrally held Christmas and New Year parties for staff or paid for by the department.
Freedom of information request on expected benefits from Jobseekers attending Jobcentre adviser meetings weekly instead of fortnightly.
How many civil servants who have been made redundant by your department have since been reemployed by your department?
A list of EU subsidies and grants which are available to be claimed by OAG, but are not claimed.
Overall cost incurred in the reseach & preparation of any Scotland Analysis papers that have been published and any that are being prepared.
Updated: Email address for queries relating to eatwell plate was changed to phe.enquiries@phe.gov.uk.
The UK’s national food guide, the eatwell plate, defines the government’s advice on a healthy balance...
Updated: All live tables on this page are now discontinued.
Discontinued tablesThese tables have been discontinued and are no longer being updated.
Table 313: number and...
Request for information on DECC’s expenditure on Christmas parties.
Freedom of Information query – was the compatibility of the PPF scheme with Article 8 of Directive 2008/94/EC, during the review of the PPF compensation cap, condidered by The Secretary of State for Work and ...
Freedom of Information query on how the government decides the amount of Jobseekers Allowance a claimant gets, as enough for them to live on.
Annual return for DECC non-consolidated performance related payments 2011-12.
A letter from Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Schools Lord Nash to Academy Enterprise Trust regarding the unacceptably low standards of performance of pupils at Winton Community College.
TPAS welcomed in the New Year with a mention on the Martin Lewis show on Friday 3 January 2014.
The topic discussed was pension tracing. It is very easy to lose track of your pensions, especially...
IntroductionI am pleased to be here again this year. I’m sorry I wasn’t able to be with you this morning. I was in London updating Cabinet Colleagues on the recent and continuing floods.
At last year...
‪Cuts to burdensome red tape will make it easier for farming businesses to flourish and improve our ability to prevent and control the spread of diseases such as bovine TB.
‪Speaking at the Oxford Farming...
Foreign Secretary William Hague and Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs Avigdor Lieberman met today to discuss a wide range of bilateral and international issues.
After the meeting they said:
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Freedom of Information query on what planning tools are being used to manage development of the Universal Credit project and delivery dates achieved since the beginning of the project.
Freedom of information query on whether benefit sanctions for a Jobseeker’s Allowance claimant can be enforced by law.
Freedom of information query for clarification of the term ‘inalienable’ relating to the Social Security Administration Act 1992 – subsection 187.
Updated: Updated Consular fees as of 7 January 2014
A full list of Consular fees
Updated: December 2013 update - year end review
A round-up of forecasts and data with a special focus feature in each issue.
Previous issues of the GAD investment and risk update can be found on...
New rules for Housing Benefit were introduced in April 2013 for working-age people living in social housing. Some claimants will have their Housing Benefit reduced as a result, and will have to make up the shortfall...
Updated: Updated because page was incorrectly dated.
The Cabinet Office requires Non-Departmental Public Bodies (NDPBs) to be reviewed every 3 years by their parent department. The Triennial Review of the...
Updated: Added workforce management and payroll costs up to November 2013.
Details of the workforce management data for MOD. These figures are not official statistics. They are internal workforce management...
This factsheet is for claimants and gives information about Discretionary Housing Payments (DHP). These provide extra money when a council decides that someone needs extra help to meet their housing costs. The...
New rules for Housing Benefit were introduced in April 2013 for working-age people living in social housing. Some claimants will have their Housing Benefit reduced as a result, and will have to make up the shortfall...
New rules for Housing Benefit were introduced in April 2013 for working-age people living in social housing. Some claimants will have their Housing Benefit reduced as a result, and will have to make up the shortfall...
Freedom of information query on the Local Welfare Provision review –
is it still planned for 2014-15 when its findings will be published the questions the review will seek to answer if the department...
Freedom of Information query about Universal Credit on:
the number of trials how successful they have been any problems is it still to start from October 2013.
The National portfolio and Major partner museum application process is now open for 2015 – 2018
Five members of an organised crime group, which brought young women into the UK from Hungary for prostitution, have been convicted of conspiring to traffic women into the UK for sexual exploitation.
Updated: Minor changes to the press release.
Family Justice Minister Simon Hughes today set out the importance of the proposed change – in the week of the year when lawyers say more people start to seek...
Good morning. My thanks to the co-chairs of the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism and all our partners in this event, notably the Atomic Weapons Establishment, Ministry of Defence and Foreign and ...
The announcement comes ahead of Warwickshire Community Recycling’s busiest time of year as it prepares to recycle tons of Christmas packaging, wrapping and trees.
Warwickshire Community Recycling runs...
He will succeed Dr Antony Stokes LVO, who will be transferring to another Diplomatic Service appointment. Mr Lever will take up his appointment during July 2014.
Mr Lever joined the FCO in 1990 and has...
The Department for Work and Pensions has announced that Partha Dasgupta, Chair of The Pensions Advisory Service (TPAS), will stand down from the role at the end of September.
The Secretary of State will...
Minister for Sport and Tourism Helen Grant, who is co-ordinating the UK government’s commemorations of the centenary, has confirmed Liverpool will stage ‘Memories of August 1914’. The event is commissioned jointly...
Updated: Updated with details of No Lost Generation campaign on 7 January 2013
The crisis in Syria is gravely concerning. Hundreds of people are being killed or wounded every day and millions have been ...
The new members are;
Mrs Anne Marie Bennett Mrs Nathalie Laniado Miss Dawne Stephenson Mr Andrew Walker Ms Jessica Baldwin Mr Jeffrey Kelly Mr Nigel Barnes Mr Graham Barnes Ms Alison Cousins...
Asked how the PM would play his part in the Scottish independence debate, the PMS said he would continue to make the case for the UK. Share this page Share ...
Consultation description
The Gas and Electricity Regulated Providers (Redress Scheme) Order 2008 requires energy providers who provide a supply to domestic and micro-business customers to join a redress...
Carpet and wood briquettes EIRs: end of waste status on the briquettes produced at a specific company in the north-east of England.
Freedom of information query on Universal Credit and zero hour job contracts.
Updated: Workbook replaced with an editable Word version.
These induction guides and workbook are designed to help managers train staff to meet the training, support and development standards for short ...
UK scientists have used the ALMA telescope to help capture the remains of a recent supernova - or exploding star - that is brimming with freshly formed dust 160,000 light years from Earth. Supernovae are thought...
MESSAGE FROM HCSO. THE HOUSING AND COMMUNITY SUPPORT OFFICE (HCSO) AT BARKER BKS PADERBORN WILL CLOSE FOR BUSINESS AT 1200 HOURS DAILY UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE DUE TO A SHORTAGE OF STAFF.
FloodingAsked about funding for flood defences, the PMS said the government had increased spending on flood defences from 2010 and frontline services concerned with flooding would continue to be prioritised ...
The Race2Recovery team is made up of 16 injured soldiers, some of whom are amputees, and civilian volunteers, including drivers, co-drivers, support vehicle drivers and a crew of technical and mechanical experts...
The Child and Maternal (ChiMat) Health Intelligence Network has published a first version of the Children and Young People’s Health Outcomes Framework.
This new resource brings together and builds...
Family Justice Minister Simon Hughes today set out the importance of the proposed change – in the week of the year when lawyers say more people start to seek a divorce than any other.
The first working...
Housing Minister Kris Hopkins today welcomed a deal that will release £500 million additional funding to build new affordable homes across the country.
This new investment, secured through an...
On 23 December 2013 the Government published their response to the child trust fund
consultation.
In response to the consultation the Government will be going ahead with their proposal to allow the...
I would like to update hon. Members on the main items of business undertaken by my Department since the House rose for recess on 19 December.
Helping councils with flood recovery
I would like to thank...
On 30 December 2013, I published a response to the recent consultation on proposed changes to the way temporary migrants and visitors access the NHS in England. The response sets out initial decisions and next...
I attended the European Council meeting in Brussels on 19 and 20 December. Discussion focused on defence; economic and monetary union; and EU enlargement and association agreements. The opening session was addressed...
I wish to inform the House that an error has been identified in the written answer given to the hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull North (Diana Johnson) on 21 November 2013, Official Report, column 1023W—...
HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) collects the UK’s international trade in goods data, which are published as two National Statistics series - the ‘Overseas Trade Statistics (OTS)’ and the ‘Regional Trade Statistics...
Updated: Latest road fuel prices published.
Table last updated on 7 January 2014.
Weekly fuel pricesMS Excel Spreadsheet, 247KB
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Experiments on badgers - EIRs whether Defra or AHVLA have experimented on badgers cage trapped as part of the pilot culls that ran from August to November 2013 in Somerset and Gloucestershire.
Updated: Consular fees as of 7 January 2014
A full list of Consular fees
Updated: Added the 6-7 January 2014 file.
In line with the government’s Transparency and Open Data initiative, the Military Court Service is to publish the court listings for the military court centres.
When you are unwell there is no need to go to the Medical Centre and wait. You can stay at home and give TAS a call.
Full details of the Telephone Advisory...
More than 1,800 champions will be on hand from this September to help parents navigate the new special educational needs process following a £30 million funding boost, announced today by Children and...
Number of births and deaths registered each month.
This publication provides details of the overseas trade in goods statistics (OTS) of the United Kingdom (UK) which are published as National Statistics by HM Revenue and Customs. The OTS are a detailed dataset...
Weekly prices of unleaded petrol and diesel
Updated: Change on contact details
The following list of English speaking lawyers and translators/interpreters has been prepared for the convenience of British Nationals who require legal advice
Updated: Control list classification text ML21 amended.
This open general export licence (OGEL) allows you to export components for military equipment, as long as the original equipment was exported with...
Updated: Corrected text - removed Croatia from list of excluded destinations.
This open general export licence (OGEL) allows, subject to certain conditions, the export of military goods to certain destinations...
Updated: Updated Consular Fees
A full list of Consular fees
David Cameron has said that he will keep the 'triple lock', which increases the state pension each year by the higher of inflation, the increase in average earnings or 2.5%.
Mr Cameron says...
The John Buchan Bake Off
On Tuesday 17th December teams of staff and pupils took part in the John Buchan School Bake Off. The Food Technology department hosted the event with 4 staff...
Please find updated version of the process to import a car into the UK.
Click 'Read More' for full details.
A portrait of Prince Don Diego (1575 – 1582), who died at the age of seven and was the son of King Philip II of Spain, has had a temporary export bar placed on it to provide a last chance to keep it in the UK...
Number of births and deaths registered each month.
This publication provides details of the overseas trade in goods statistics (OTS) of the United Kingdom (UK) which are published as National Statistics by HM Revenue and Customs. The OTS are a detailed dataset...
Weekly prices of unleaded petrol and diesel
Updated: Updated list of consular fees, from 7 January 2014
Details of consular fees (from 7 January 2014) - Liste des tarifs consulaires (Ã partir du 7 janvier 2014)