Written Statements

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Commons HCWS206
The UK’s 2035 Nationally Determined Contribution emissions reduction target under the Paris Agreement
On Tuesday 12 November at the 29th UNFCCC conference of the parties (COP29) in Baku, the Prime Minister will?announce the UK’s 2035?Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) under the Paris Agreemen...
Made: 2024-11-12
Ed Miliband
Ed Miliband
Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero
Lab
Department: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
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Commons HCWS205
Completing the Implementation of Universal Credit
This government is committed to getting Britain working. Completing the implementation of Universal Credit will support this mission. Universal Credit provides greater support and incentives to get...
Made: 2024-11-12
Sir Stephen Timms
Sir Stephen Timms
Minister of State (Minister for Social Security and Disability)
Lab
Department: Department for Work and Pensions
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Commons HCWS204
Local Government Best Value
I have previously updated this House that this Government is committed to resetting the relationship between local and regional government, and to establish partnerships built on mutual respect, ge...
Made: 2024-11-12
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 HCWS203
Home Office contingent liability regarding accommodation provision under the Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures Act 2011
I have today laid before the House of Commons a Departmental Minute concerning a new uncapped contingent liability for the Home Office. The liability relates to Home Office approved accommodation f...
Made: 2024-11-12
Dan Jarvis
Dan Jarvis
The Minister of State for Security
Lab
Department: Home Office
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Commons HCWS202
Department for Education Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) Guarantee
I am today laying before both Houses a Departmental Minute on the use of a contingent liability by the Department for Education to provide a Local Government Pension Scheme guarantee to Further Edu...
Made: 2024-11-12
Bridget Phillipson
Bridget Phillipson
Secretary of State for Education and Minister for Women and Equalities
Lab
Department: Department for Education
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Commons HCWS201
UK Priorities for COP29
We are halfway through the critical decade for tackling climate change, but the world is off-track from limiting global warming to 1.5C. We are facing a triple planetary crisis of climate, biodiver...
Made: 2024-11-11
Ed Miliband
Ed Miliband
Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero
Lab
Department: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
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Commons HCWS200
Statement on Water
The Government is fixing the foundations to put public finances on a sustainable path to restore stability and taking difficult decisions on tax, welfare and spending. This includes needing to addr...
Made: 2024-11-06
Emma Hardy
Emma Hardy
Minister for Water and Flooding
Lab
Department: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
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Commons HCWS199
Strategic Partnership with Oxford Nanopore Technologies
My noble friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Patient Safety, Women's Health and Mental Health (Baroness Merron) has made the following Written Statement:We have announced the Gove...
Made: 2024-11-06
Andrew Gwynne
Andrew Gwynne
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Public Health and Prevention
Lab
Department: Department of Health and Social Care
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Commons HCWS198
Transparency and Accountability
The Ministerial CodeThe Government has today published an updated Ministerial Code. The Code is available on GOV.UK.The new Code will be instrumental in setting out the high standards that the Brit...
Made: 2024-11-06
Pat McFadden
Pat McFadden
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
Lab
Department: Cabinet Office
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Commons HCWS197
Report on the Use of the Bank of England’s Transfer Power to Resolve Silicon Valley Bank UK
In March 2023, the Bank of England used its transfer power under the Special Resolution Regime (provided for by the Banking Act 2009, as amended) to resolve Silicon Valley Bank UK by transferring o...
Made: 2024-11-06
Tulip Siddiq
Tulip Siddiq
The Economic Secretary to the Treasury
Lab
Department: Treasury
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Commons HCWS196
Outcomes from Nature COP16, Cali, Colombia
The climate and nature crisis defines our times and it is the most vulnerable who bear the brunt. Over half of global GDP is moderately or highly dependent on nature. Loss of biodiversity poses a s...
Made: 2024-11-06
Mary Creagh
Mary Creagh
Minister for Nature
Lab
Department: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
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Commons HCWS195
Energy Infrastructure Planning Projects
My Noble Friend, the Minister of State for Energy Security and Net Zero (Lord Hunt of Kings Heath OBE), made the following statement today.This Statement concerns an application for development con...
Made: 2024-11-06
Michael Shanks
Michael Shanks
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Minister for Energy)
Lab
Department: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
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Commons HCWS194
Inter-Ministerial Group on Tackling Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Winter Pressures 2024/25 Funding
I am pleased to announce to the House, the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government has today taken an important step towards tackling homelessness.The Deputy Prime Minister will chair...
Made: 2024-11-06
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 HCWS193
Defence Nuclear Enterprise
The UK is exploring options to re-establish a nuclear fuel cycle for reactor fuel for defence purposes. The Government is committed to modernising defence nuclear fuel production under the Defence ...
Made: 2024-11-06
John Healey
John Healey
Secretary of State for Defence
Lab
Department: Ministry of Defence
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Commons HCWS192
Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 - Guidance for the corporate offence of Failure to Prevent Fraud
My noble Friend the Minister of State, Home Office (Lord Hanson of Flint) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement:To strengthen corporate criminal liability a new offence of fail...
Made: 2024-11-06
Dan Jarvis
Dan Jarvis
The Minister of State for Security
Lab
Department: Home Office
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