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Commons HCWS378
Local Government Best Value
All Honourable Members will recognise the importance of having well-functioning local councils which provide essential statutory services that local residents rely upon. To do this we need to get t...
Made: 2025-01-22
Jim McMahon
Jim McMahon
Minister of State for Local Government and English Devolution
Lab
Department: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
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Commons HCWS377
Post Legislative Scrutiny of the Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Act 2019
The Government has today submitted a Memorandum to the Home Affairs Committee regarding post-legislative scrutiny of the Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Act 2019. The Home Office has carried ...
Made: 2025-01-22
Dan Jarvis
Dan Jarvis
The Minister of State for Security
Lab
Department: Home Office
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Commons HCWS376
Automatic Enrolment: the Earnings Trigger and Qualifying Earnings Band Review 2025/26
Automatic enrolment (AE) into workplace pensions has transformed workplace pension saving for millions of workers. The Government is committed to looking at long-term steps we can take to further i...
Made: 2025-01-21
Torsten Bell
Torsten Bell
Parliamentary Secretary, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Pensions)
Lab
Department: Department for Work and Pensions
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Commons HCWS375
The State of Digital Government and Blueprint for Modern Digital Government
I am pleased to present the "State of Digital Government Review" and “Blueprint for Modern Digital Government” to Parliament. We have already shown how technologies like AI can drive econ...
Made: 2025-01-21
Peter Kyle
Peter Kyle
Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology
Lab
Department: Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
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Commons HCWS374
Stormont Brake: Response to the notification made under Schedule 6B Northern Ireland Act 1998
On 20 December 2024, the Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly provided to me a notification signed by 35 Members of the Assembly under Schedule 6B of the Northern Ireland Act 1998, seeking to p...
Made: 2025-01-21
Hilary Benn
Hilary Benn
Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
Lab
Department: Northern Ireland Office
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Commons HCWS373
Energy Company Obligation 4 and Great British Insulation Scheme
This statement will be made at a later date.
Made: 2025-01-20
Miatta Fahnbulleh
Miatta Fahnbulleh
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Minister for Energy Consumers)
Lab
Department: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
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Commons HCWS372
Higher Education Student Support
The Government announced on 4 November a significant package of measures to support students and stabilise the university sector.We need to put our world-leading higher education sector on a secure...
Made: 2025-01-20
Bridget Phillipson
Bridget Phillipson
The Secretary of State for Education
Lab
Department: Department for Education
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Commons HCWS371
Rough Sleeping Winter Pressures 2024/25 Funding
I am pleased to announce to the House, the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government has announced additional funding to local authorities to support people sleeping rough this winter.O...
Made: 2025-01-20
Rushanara Ali
Rushanara Ali
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Homelessness and Democracy
Lab
Department: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
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Commons HCWS370
Government Response to the consultation on the update to the Code of Practice about the sanctions for non-compliance with the biometric registration regulations
The transition to eVisas is a key element of our move to a digital, streamlined UK border and immigration system, replacing physical immigration documents with digital proof of immigration status. ...
Made: 2025-01-20
Seema Malhotra
Seema Malhotra
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Migration and Citizenship
Lab
Department: Home Office
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Commons HCWS369
UK Soft Power Council
My honourable friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Latin America and Caribbean (Baroness Chapman of Darlington) has today made the following statement:I would like to update Parlia...
Made: 2025-01-17
Mr Hamish Falconer
Mr Hamish Falconer
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan and Pakistan
Lab
Department: Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
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Commons HCWS368
Machinery of Government
I am making this statement to bring to the House’s attention the following Machinery of Government change. On 10 October 2024, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury announced the creation of the Nati...
Made: 2025-01-17
Sir Keir Starmer
Sir Keir Starmer
Prime Minister
Lab
Department: Prime Minister
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Commons HCWS367
Gas Shipper Obligation Consultation
Today the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero is publishing a consultation on the design of a Gas Shipper Obligation. The Government intends for the Gas Shipper Obligation to be the long-te...
Made: 2025-01-16
Sarah Jones
Sarah Jones
Minister of State (Minister for Industry)
Lab
Department: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
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Commons HCWS366
Firearms Licensing Fees
The Government is today laying a statutory instrument before Parliament which will increase firearms licensing fees to provide full-cost recovery for police forces, giving effect to a commitment in...
Made: 2025-01-15
Dame Diana Johnson
Dame Diana Johnson
The Minister of State for Policing, Fire and Crime Prevention
Lab
Department: Home Office
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Commons HCWS365
Legislative proposals to counter ransomware
Today the Government is launching a public consultation on proposed legislative measures to combat the threat of ransomware. We want to protect UK businesses from the most harmful cyber crime facin...
Made: 2025-01-14
Dan Jarvis
Dan Jarvis
The Minister of State for Security
Lab
Department: Home Office
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Commons HCWS364
UK Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
The Hon. Member for Lichfield (Dave Robertson MP) has been appointed as a full member of the United Kingdom Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in place of the Hon. Me...
Made: 2025-01-14
Stephen Doughty
Stephen Doughty
Minister of State for Europe, North America and Overseas Territories
Lab
Department: Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
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