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Commons HCWS1199
Modification of the NHS Fetal Anomaly Screening Programme to include screening for Edwards’ syndrome on the antenatal quadruple test
I would like to inform the House that I have accepted the UK National Screening Committee’s recommendation to add the quadruple screening test to the Fetal Anomaly Screening Programme pathway for E...
Made: 2025-12-17
Ashley Dalton
Ashley Dalton
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Public Health and Prevention
Lab
Department: Department of Health and Social Care
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Commons HCWS1198
Government response to storms in South Asia and Southeast Asia
Today, I am updating the House on the UK Government’s response to the recent storms in South Asia and Southeast Asia. These storms have caused devastating floods and landslides, killing thousands o...
Made: 2025-12-17
Seema Malhotra
Seema Malhotra
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Indo-Pacific)
Lab
Department: Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
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Commons HCWS1197
Education Funding
Today the Department for Education has published local authorities’ allocations through the Dedicated Schools Grant (DSG) for schools, high needs, central schools services and early years for 2026-...
Made: 2025-12-17
Georgia Gould
Georgia Gould
The Minister of State for School Standards
Lab
Department: Department for Education
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Commons HCWS1196
UK Sanctions
Today, at my direction, the Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI) issued a licence permitting the transfer of over £2.5 billion from the sale of Chelsea Football Club to a new charita...
Made: 2025-12-17
Rachel Reeves
Rachel Reeves
The Chancellor of the Exchequer
Lab
Department: Treasury
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Commons HCWS1195
Grenfell Tower Inquiry Recommendations – Progress
The Grenfell Tower fire in 2017 was a national tragedy that highlighted profound failures across systems, safeguards and oversight and led to the avoidable deaths of 72 innocent people.Eight years ...
Made: 2025-12-17
Samantha Dixon
Samantha Dixon
Minister for Building Safety, Fire and Democracy
Lab
Department: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
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Commons HCWS1194
Thompson Supreme Court Judgment
I would like to make a statement to the House regarding the Supreme Court judgment today in the Thompson case.The Government welcomes the unanimous judgment handed down by the Supreme Court. This i...
Made: 2025-12-17
Hilary Benn
Hilary Benn
Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
Lab
Department: Northern Ireland Office
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Commons HCWS1193
Telegraph Media Group – update on sale
I wish to update the House on the sale of the Telegraph Media Group. As I noted in my statement on 24 November, under the terms of the Order made in January 2024, transfer of the ownership of the T...
Made: 2025-12-17
Lisa Nandy
Lisa Nandy
Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
Lab
Department: Department for Culture, Media and Sport
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Commons HCWS1192
Third-Party Litigation Funding
I would like to inform the House that this government intends to take action to mitigate the impact of the 2023 Supreme Court judgment in PACCAR and implement proportionate regulation of third-part...
Made: 2025-12-17
Sarah Sackman
Sarah Sackman
Minister of State for Justice
Lab
Department: Ministry of Justice
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Commons HCWS1191
Marine Recovery Fund Launch
I am pleased to confirm that the Marine Recovery Fund (MRF), one of the major reforms in the Clean Power Action Plan, has launched today.This underlines the Government‘s clear commitment to making ...
Made: 2025-12-17
Emma Hardy
Emma Hardy
Minister for Water and Flooding
Lab
Department: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
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Commons HCWS1190
Government support for Ineos Chemicals Grangemouth
The Government has agreed a landmark partnership with INEOS to secure the strategically important ethylene cracker in Grangemouth, Scotland. This agreement ensures that the future of this vital sit...
Made: 2025-12-17
Chris McDonald
Chris McDonald
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Minister for Industry)
Lab
Department: Department for Business and Trade
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Commons HCWS1189
Ministerial correction
The Minister for Digital Economy (Baroness Lloyd of Effra CBE) has today made the following statement.The Government’s answer to Written Question HL985, published on 8 October 2024, included the fo...
Made: 2025-12-16
Chris McDonald
Chris McDonald
Minister for Industry
Lab
Department: Department for Business and Trade
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Commons HCWS1188
Annual Report of the Investigatory Powers Commissioner 2024
I have today laid before both Houses a copy of the Annual Report of the Investigatory Powers Commissioner, Rt Hon Sir Brian Leveson. This report covers the activities of the Investigatory Powers Co...
Made: 2025-12-16
Sir Keir Starmer
Sir Keir Starmer
Prime Minister
Lab
Department: Prime Minister
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Commons HCWS1187
Planning Reform: Next Phase
England remains in the grip of a housing crisis that is both acute and entrenched. The detrimental consequences of this disastrous state of affairs are now all pervasive: a generation locked out of...
Made: 2025-12-16
Matthew Pennycook
Matthew Pennycook
Minister of State for Housing and Planning
Lab
Department: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
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Commons HCWS1186
Electoral Resilience
His Majesty’s Government is today announcing an independent review into countering foreign financial influence and interference in UK politics. The review will be led by former Permanent Secretary ...
Made: 2025-12-16
Steve Reed
Steve Reed
Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government
Lab
Department: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
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Commons HCWS1185
Government response to Independent Review conducted under Schedule 6A Northern Ireland Act 1998
Following the Northern Ireland Assembly's democratic consent motion on the trading arrangements under the Windsor Framework, on 9 January 2025 I commissioned Lord Murphy of Torfaen to lead an Indep...
Made: 2025-12-16
Hilary Benn
Hilary Benn
Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
Lab
Department: Northern Ireland Office
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