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  • Sustainable operations policy statement: February 2011

    This policy statement commits the department to maintaining its Environmental Management System to ISO 14001, and more specifically to the prevention…

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  • Local decisions: a fairer future for social housing

    I am today publishing a paper which sets out the next steps in the Government’s reform of the social housing system, in light of the responses…

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

  • Foreign Secretary to attend UN Human Rights Council in Geneva

    Foreign Secretary William Hague to lead international efforts to hold those responsible for the horrifying violence in Libya to account.

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

  • Prime Minister’s statement on Libya

    Prime Minister David Cameron updated Parliament on the situation in Libya and the UK Government response.

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

  • January progress report on Afghanistan

    Foreign Secretary William Hague has updated Parliament on the progress made in Afghanistan for the month of January.

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

  • Deputy Commander reflects on a year in Helmand

    Colonel Gerhard Wheeler from the Royal Welsh regiment was the Deputy Commander of Task Force Helmand throughout 2010. Here he reflects on the battles, losses and progress he witnessed.

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

  • 3 PARA troops educate Afghan civilians in perils of IEDs

    Locals in the northern Nad 'Ali area of Helmand province are being taught life-saving skills to spot Taliban bombs, thanks to an education programme organised by British paratroopers and their Afghan National Army (ANA) …

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

  • Prime Minister praises military effort in Libyan evacuations

    In an update to the House of Commons, Prime Minister David Cameron has praised the British Armed Forces for their ongoing work supporting the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in safely evacuating British and other forei…

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

  • Fond farewell to HMS Manchester

    The end of HMS Manchester's 30-year Royal Navy career was officially marked in a formal ceremony at Portsmouth Naval Base last week.

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

  • Willetts comments on UCAS application statistics

    “Demand for university places looks to be levelling off after unprecedented demand in 2010. We provided an additional 10,000 places last year…

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

  • Schedule of qualifying FITs cost, year 2: 2011 to 2012

    The Secretary of State’s determination of Feed-in Tariffs for FITS Year 2 (1 April 2011 to 31 March 2012).

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  • Two new non-executive members of Home Office supervisory board announced

    The remaining two non-executive members of a new-look Home Office Supervisory Board have been announced.

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

  • Security Minister sets out vision for future of counter-terror strategy

    Baroness Neville-Jones sets out the government's vision for the future of CONTEST in a speech to Cityforum.

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

  • Pauline Neville Jones: speech on CONTEST to the Cityforum

    Pauline Neville Jones gave this speech at Cityforum on 28 February 2011. This speech is as written and should be checked against delivery.

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

  • DFID and Gates join up on agricultural research

    Co-funded grants aim to reduce poverty in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia as world food prices mount

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

  • Embedding sustainability at the heart of Government

    How our commitment to mainstreaming sustainable development across Government will be fulfilled.

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

  • Transfer of Environment Agency navigations to new waterways charity

    In a Written Ministerial Statement to Parliament today, Minister for Inland Waterways Richard Benyon announced that the Government has decided the Environment Agency's navigations (waterways) should transfer to a new wat…

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

  • Two new non-executive members of Home Office supervisory board announced

    The remaining two non-executive members of a new-look Home Office Supervisory Board have been announced.

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

  • New family returns process begins

    A radical new process for managing the return of families found to have no right to be in the UK starts today.

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

  • Charging for immigration and nationality services 2011-12

    This written ministerial statement was laid in the House of Commons on 28 February 2011 by Damian Green, and in the House of Lords by Baroness…

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