Written Statements

Commons HCWS958

UK Export Finance contingency fund

The Export Credits Guarantee Department (operating as UK Export Finance) is seeking a repayable cash advance from the Contingencies Fund, following budget changes to an IT project to improve its tr...

Made: 2025-10-14

Chris Bryant

Minister for Trade

Lab

Department: Department for Business and Trade

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Commons HCWS957

British Steel

The Government committed to updating Parliament on British Steel every four sitting weeks for the duration of the period of special measures being applied under the Steel Industry (Special Measures...

Made: 2025-10-14

Chris McDonald

Minister for Industry

Lab

Department: Department for Business and Trade

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Commons HCWS956

Flood and coastal erosion resilience and investment

I wish to update the House on actions we are taking to strengthen resilience to flood and coastal risks in England, including investment and reforms to the Government’s flood investment policy. Ove...

Made: 2025-10-14

Emma Hardy

Minister for Water and Flooding

Lab

Department: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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Commons HCWS955

Health and Social Care Update

I would like to inform the House of several updates from the Department of Health and Social Care over the conference recess.National Commission on the Regulation of AI in Healthcare:This Governmen...

Made: 2025-10-13

Karin Smyth

Minister of State for Health (Secondary Care)

Lab

Department: Department of Health and Social Care

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Commons HCWS954

Iran Sanctions

We have long held concerns about Iran’s nuclear programme. It is for that reason that the UK was at the forefront of diplomatic efforts culminating in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPoA)...

Made: 2025-10-13

Yvette Cooper

Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs

Lab

Department: Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

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Commons HCWS953

Retrofit measures under ECO4 and GBIS

On 17 July the Government updated the House on widespread, systemic issues in the delivery of solid wall insulation (SWI) under the Energy Company Obligation 4 (ECO4) scheme and the Great British I...

Made: 2025-10-13

Martin McCluskey

Minister for Energy Consumers

Lab

Department: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

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Commons HCWS952

Local Government Pension Scheme in England and Wales – Scheme Improvements (Access and Protections)

I am today launching a consultation on proposed improvements to the Local Government Pension Scheme in England and Wales.With 6.7 million members and £400bn of assets under management, this governm...

Made: 2025-10-13

Alison McGovern

Minister of State for Local Government and Homelessness

Lab

Department: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

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Commons HCWS951

Home Buying and Selling Consultations

My Noble Friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Baroness Taylor of Stevenage) has today made the following statement:The government is determined to modernise the home buying and sellin...

Made: 2025-10-13

Matthew Pennycook

Minister of State for Housing and Planning

Lab

Department: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

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Commons HCWS950

Additional Funding for Homelessness & Rough Sleeping 2025/26

I am pleased to announce to the House that the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government has allocated £84 million in additional funding across four homelessness and rough sleeping gran...

Made: 2025-10-13

Alison McGovern

Minister of State for Local Government and Homelessness

Lab

Department: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

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Commons HCWS949

Transfer of Greater Anglia’s Services into Public Ownership

I can confirm to the House that yesterday, Sunday 12 October, Greater Anglia’s services became the third to successfully transfer into public ownership under the Passenger Railway Services (Public ...

Made: 2025-10-13

Heidi Alexander

Secretary of State for Transport

Lab

Department: Department for Transport

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Commons HCWS948

A New Generation of New Towns

One of the first actions this government took upon assuming office was to establish an independent expert advisory panel, the New Towns Taskforce, to support the delivery of our manifesto commitmen...

Made: 2025-10-13

Matthew Pennycook

Minister of State for Housing and Planning

Lab

Department: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

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Commons HCWS947

Correction to the Anti-Money Laundering Supervision Reform - PQ HL8160

It has been brought to my attention by officials that the Cabinet Office's written answer to Lord Booth's Parliamentary Question (HL6032) was inaccurate. Through this statement, I would like to apo...

Made: 2025-10-13

Anna Turley

Minister of State without Portfolio and Party Chair

Lab

Department: Cabinet Office

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Commons HCWS946

The United Kingdom’s Accession to the Convention on Supplementary Compensation for Nuclear Damage (CSC)

I am writing to inform the house of the UK’s accession to a further international Nuclear Third Party Liability (NTPL) treaty, the Convention on Supplementary Compensation for Nuclear Damage (CSC)....

Made: 2025-10-13

Michael Shanks

Minister of State for Energy

Lab

Department: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

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Commons HCWS945

Football Governance Act: Statutory Instrument on Specified Competitions

Today I am updating the House on the introduction of The Football Governance Act 2025 (Specified Competitions) Regulations 2025 which were laid before Parliament today and will be debated in due co...

Made: 2025-10-13

Stephanie Peacock

Minister for Sport, Tourism, Civil Society and Youth

Lab

Department: Department for Culture, Media and Sport

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Commons HCWS944

Upgrading of UK Bilateral Relationships with Armenia and Azerbaijan and Lifting the UK Arms Embargo

This Statement supersedes the Written Ministerial Statement of Wednesday 01 July 2025 on the ‘Arms Embargo (Azerbaijan and Armenia)’ (Statement UIN HCWS760).I wish to inform you of the significant ...

Made: 2025-10-13

Stephen Doughty

Minister of State for Europe, North America and Overseas Territories

Lab

Department: Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

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