Angela Eagle In fulfilment of the commitments made by the former Home Secretary, the Rt Hon Member for Fareham and Waterlooville, I am today announcing the establishment of an Article 3 ECHR non-statutory...
Kerry McCarthy I hereby give notice of the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero’s intention to seek an advance from the contingencies fund of £55,000,000 for the UK Atomic Energy Authority...
Lucy Rigby The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) requires a Contingencies Fund Advance of £60 million to cover urgent payments of RDEL expenditures, such as February payroll and to pay suppliers...
Emma Reynolds HM Treasury has agreed additional Resource DEL and Capital DEL funding of £88,414,000 for National Savings and Investments (NS&I) as part of Spending Review 2025 phase 1 during the 2024...
Abena Oppong-Asare The Security and Intelligence Agencies will be seeking a Supplementary Estimate for 2024-25. As it will be some time before the associated legislation receives Royal Assent, the Agencies are...
Lilian Greenwood The UK is continuing to support Ukrainians following the illegal invasion by Putin. The Government is extending by 18 months the period for which certain Ukrainian driving licence holders can...
Baroness Twycross Today I am updating the House on the Government’s plans to introduce the statutory gambling levy, further to the government’s response to the levy consultation published on 27...
Michael Shanks This Statement concerns an application for development consent made under the Planning Act 2008 by Rampion Extension Development Limited for the construction and operation of an offshore...
Ed Miliband The UK’s nuclear sector is at the beginning of a significant expansion in both civil and defence nuclear programmes and will play a key role in delivering the Government’s Clean...
Stephanie Peacock I am repeating the following Written Ministerial Statement made today in the other place by my Noble Friend, the Minister for Gambling and DCMS Lords Minister, Baroness Twycross: Today I am...
Nick Thomas-Symonds In August 2024, I established the Infected Blood Compensation Scheme in regulations. This enabled the Infected Blood Compensation Authority (IBCA) to begin making compensation payments to people...
Rushanara Ali Our democratic systems and institutions are strong and are rightly admired around the world. This Government will build on this, further strengthening our democracy and encouraging full...
John Healey The Ministry of Defence Votes A Estimate 2025-26, has been laid before the House of Commons on 11 February 2025 as HC638. This outlines the maximum numbers of personnel to be maintained for each...
Anneliese Dodds The FCDO Annual Report and Accounts 2023-24, published in July 2024, set out that the FCDO would provide updates in due course on its 2024-25 Official Development Assistance (ODA) spending plans....
Baroness Jones of Whitchurch I am repeating the following Written Ministerial Statement made today in the other place by my Honourable Friend, the Minister of State for Data Protection and Telecoms, Chris Bryant MP. Today...
Stephen Doughty Today I am updating the House on the future of the UK’s Syria sanctions regime following the welcome fall of Assad’s dictatorship late last year. Sanctions remain a powerful foreign...
Diana R. Johnson The Government is today publishing its response to the public consultation that was run by the previous Government on firearms licensing controls. The consultation ran between 29 June and 23...
Lord Timpson Unlike the previous Government, this Government has a plan to ensure we are never again in a position where we have more prisoners than prison places. We have launched the Independent Sentencing...
Darren Jones Legislation governing public service pensions in payment requires them to be increased annually by the same percentage as additional pensions (State Earnings Related Pension and State Second...
Michael Shanks In January 2024, the previous government launched a consultation on supporting large scale biomass generators when existing support ends in 2027. Since this government came to office, we have...
Written Ministerial Statements were introducted in late 2002 to stop the practice of having “planted” or “inspired” questions designed to elicit Government statements.
They are just that – statements on a particular topic by a Government Minister.