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Commons HCWS213
Consultation on legal definition and defences for Ninja Swords
As part of the Government’s aim to halve knife crime within a decade, we have a manifesto commitment to ban Ninja swords and we will be making the relevant changes in secondary legislation. In prep...
Made: 2024-11-13
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 HCWS212
Consultation on personal liability on senior executives of online platforms and marketplaces regarding illegal content on weapons
As part of this Government’s aim to halve knife crime within a decade, the Government has a manifesto commitment to establish personal liability measures on senior executives of online platforms an...
Made: 2024-11-13
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 HCWS211
Carbon Capture, Usage and Storage Track 1 - Contingent Liabilities
IntroductionToday, I am pleased to have laid a Departmental Minute setting out the details of a series of contingent liabilities associated with the Carbon Capture Usage and Storage Track-1 cluster...
Made: 2024-11-13
Sarah Jones
Sarah Jones
Minister of State (Minister for Industry)
Lab
Department: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
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Commons HCWS210
Launch of Youth Strategy
The Government is today announcing the development and co-production of the National Youth Strategy. Young people’s needs have never been more complex. Through this Strategy, we will improve our un...
Made: 2024-11-12
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 HCWS209
Housing Design and Quality
The government are committed to building 1.5 million new homes over the next five years, but we have also been clear that increasing housebuilding rates cannot mean units at any cost. We want exemp...
Made: 2024-11-12
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 HCWS208
Notification of Contingent Liability
The independent Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Bank of England (“the Bank”) decided at its meeting ending on 3 February 2022 to reduce the stocks of UK government bonds and sterling non-fin...
Made: 2024-11-12
Rachel Reeves
Rachel Reeves
The Chancellor of the Exchequer
Lab
Department: Treasury
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Commons HCWS207
Reforms to The Bathing Water Regulations 2013
Our water system urgently needs fixing. There have been repeated failures for the public and record levels of sewage polluting our rivers, lakes and seas. This must be stopped. Fundamental reform o...
Made: 2024-11-12
Emma Hardy
Emma Hardy
Minister for Water and Flooding
Lab
Department: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
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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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