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  • Sweeping reforms to restore British liberties

    Unwarranted state intrusion into private lives will be brought to an end after the Protection of Freedoms Bill became law today.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Royal Assent for Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill

    The Government’s radical plans to reduce reoffending, reform the legal aid system and tackle the growth of compensation culture can start to…

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Caroline Spelman’s speech at NFU Scotland on CAP “greening”

    Caroline Spelman’s speech at NFU Scotland on CAP “greening”.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Developing Solutions Scholarship Programme celebrates 10 year anniversary

    Foreign Office Minister Jeremy Browne spoke at the 10th Anniversary of the programme at the University of Nottingham, which supports students from the developing countries to study in the UK.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Foreign Secretary launches Human Rights and Democracy report

    Foreign Secretary William Hague spoke at the launch of the 2011 FCO Human Rights and Democracy Report on 30 April.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Moore: UK network gives Scotch Whisky and Scottish business a "high platform" around the globe

    In a speech to the Scotch Whisky Association (SWA) Members' Day in Edinburgh the Minister said the sector's recent successes in exports - which have increased in value by 23% in the last year - benefited from the UK&…

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • First central government mutual launched

    MyCSP Ltd, the first mutual created from a central government service was launched today by Francis Maude.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Capita Reforming Housing Benefit Conference

    Speech by Lord Freud , Minister for Welfare Reform.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • This week at the Foreign Office

    A look at the work of the Foreign Office and its embassies overseas this week.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • More university places to be freed up

    It is expected that a further 35,000 students will now join the pool of unrestricted students which universities can recruit from. In total …

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Minister calls for radical changes to Common Fisheries Policy

    The process to agree a new Common Fisheries Policy is expected to continue into 2013.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Government’s pledge on child maintenance arrears as new figures show thousands of CSA parents owe 5-figure sums

    Child maintenance system - promise of intensive action against irresponsible parents who've failed to support their children.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Freud: councils’ chance to shape Universal Credit

    Local authorities will have a role in shaping and delivering Universal Credit, Lord Freud, Minister for Welfare Reform, said today.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • LEP network annual conference

    …Explaining what government is doing to invest in, reform and modernise the UK's local transport systems.…

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Local enterprise partnership network conference

    Transcript of the speech as delivered. First, thank you to David and the Network for the work they’ve done in the past year. It’s great …

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • £70 billion of potential government business published

    …Government's long term plan to reform the way the public sector does business ramped up today as new and updated data on potential future government contracts was published.…

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Foreign Office Minister welcomes Saudi Justice Secretary

    Foreign Office Minister Alistair Burt, met with the Saudi Justice Secretary, Dr Mohammed bin Abdulkareem Al-Issa to further strengthen relations following the Prime Minister’s successful visit to Saudi Arabia in January.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Britain in Asia

    Foreign Secretary William Hague said he hoped to turn our shared heritage, values and interests into common purpose and common action.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • £70 billion of potential government business published to boost UK growth

    Data has been published on £70 billion of potential future contracts over the next five years, across 13 different sectors including construction…

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Prime Minister's address at the Clean Energy Ministerial

    Prime Minister David Cameron spoke about the global challenge of facing increasing energy demands.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government