My right honourable friend the Secretary of State for Defence (Des Browne) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has today launched its strategy for creating greater innovation within the defence supply chain. The MoD innovation strategy builds on the defence industrial strategy (DIS) published...

My right honourable friend the Secretary of State for Defence (Des Browne) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has today launched its strategy for creating greater innovation within the defence supply chain. The MoD innovation strategy builds on the defence industrial strategy (DIS) published...

The Ministry of Defence (MOD) has today launched its strategy for creating greater innovation within the defence supply chain. The MOD innovation strategy builds on the Defence Industrial Defence Strategy (DIS) published in 2005 as a Defence White Paper (Cm6697). The DIS set out a commitment to achieve a better...

The Ministry of Defence (MOD) has today launched its strategy for creating greater innovation within the defence supply chain. The MOD innovation strategy builds on the Defence Industrial Defence Strategy (DIS) published in 2005 as a Defence White Paper (Cm6697). The DIS set out a commitment to achieve a better...

My honourable friend the Minister of State for Energy (Malcolm Wicks) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement. I represented the UK at the Energy Council in Brussels on 3 December. The council was dominated by exchanges on progress on the internal market. There was a positive outcome from a...

My honourable friend the Minister of State for Energy (Malcolm Wicks) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement. I represented the UK at the Energy Council in Brussels on 3 December. The council was dominated by exchanges on progress on the internal market. There was a positive outcome from a...

I represented the UK at the Energy Council in Brussels on 3 December. The Council was dominated by exchanges on progress on the internal market. There was a positive outcome from a UK perspective, with growing support for ownership unbundling. The rest of the meeting was taken up by a...

I represented the UK at the Energy Council in Brussels on 3 December. The Council was dominated by exchanges on progress on the internal market. There was a positive outcome from a UK perspective, with growing support for ownership unbundling. The rest of the meeting was taken up by a...

My honourable friend the Minister of State for Energy (Malcolm Wicks) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement. I will represent the UK at the forthcoming Energy Council in Brussels in the morning of 3 December. There are two substantive items on the council agenda: the internal gas and electricity...

My honourable friend the Minister of State for Energy (Malcolm Wicks) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement. I will represent the UK at the forthcoming Energy Council in Brussels in the morning of 3 December. There are two substantive items on the council agenda: the internal gas and electricity...

I will represent the UK at the forthcoming Energy Council in Brussels in the morning of 3 December. There are two substantive items on the Council agenda—the Internal Gas and Electricity Market, on which there will be a progress report and, we hope, a policy debate; and energy technologies on...

I will represent the UK at the forthcoming Energy Council in Brussels in the morning of 3 December. There are two substantive items on the Council agenda—the Internal Gas and Electricity Market, on which there will be a progress report and, we hope, a policy debate; and energy technologies on...

I am pleased to confirm the agenda items for which DIUS is responsible, at the forthcoming EU Competitiveness Council on 23 November in Brussels. The Council will be chaired by Mr. Gago, Portuguese Minister for Science, Technology and Higher Education. I will be attending. There are seven substantive agenda items:...

I am pleased to confirm the agenda items for which DIUS is responsible, at the forthcoming EU Competitiveness Council on 23 November in Brussels. The Council will be chaired by Mr. Gago, Portuguese Minister for Science, Technology and Higher Education. I will be attending. There are seven substantive agenda items:...

My right honourable friend the Minister for Science and Innovation (Ian Pearson) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement. I am pleased to confirm the agenda items for which DIUS is responsible, at the forthcoming EU Competitiveness Council on 23 November in Brussels. The council will be chaired by Mr...

My right honourable friend the Minister for Science and Innovation (Ian Pearson) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement. I am pleased to confirm the agenda items for which DIUS is responsible, at the forthcoming EU Competitiveness Council on 23 November in Brussels. The council will be chaired by Mr...

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what plans he has to work with outside agencies to improve young people's understanding of science, technology, engineering and mathematics; and if he will make a statement.

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what plans he has to work with outside agencies to improve young people's understanding of science, technology, engineering and mathematics; and if he will make a statement.

My Lords, I am conscious that the Bill has been given the most careful overview and pre-legislative scrutiny, and I begin by echoing the remarks made by the noble Baroness, Lady Jay, when she said that this Bill is a remarkable example of the attempt to involve the legislature in...

My Lords, I am conscious that the Bill has been given the most careful overview and pre-legislative scrutiny, and I begin by echoing the remarks made by the noble Baroness, Lady Jay, when she said that this Bill is a remarkable example of the attempt to involve the legislature in...

My Lords, I am delighted to take the opportunity to stand in for Northern Rock on this occasion and to provide, I hope, some useful insight in the light of the absence of the opposition spokesmen. I am at the same time extremely delighted to see the Bill come to...

My Lords, I am delighted to take the opportunity to stand in for Northern Rock on this occasion and to provide, I hope, some useful insight in the light of the absence of the opposition spokesmen. I am at the same time extremely delighted to see the Bill come to...

My Lords, like the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of St Albans, I was a member of the Joint Committee. I join him in saying that pre-legislative scrutiny of what is by any standards a complex and controversial Bill has proved its purpose. Perhaps I may refer briefly to two...

My Lords, like the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of St Albans, I was a member of the Joint Committee. I join him in saying that pre-legislative scrutiny of what is by any standards a complex and controversial Bill has proved its purpose. Perhaps I may refer briefly to two...

My Lords, I should point out that the chair was taken by Mr Phil Willis of another place.

My Lords, I should point out that the chair was taken by Mr Phil Willis of another place.

My Lords, the noble and learned Lord may have misheard me. I was talking about the equally contentious issue of assisted dying in order to make the point that that Select Committee, which inevitably did not reach a conclusion, was nonetheless able to inform the debate by producing weighty documents...

My Lords, the noble and learned Lord may have misheard me. I was talking about the equally contentious issue of assisted dying in order to make the point that that Select Committee, which inevitably did not reach a conclusion, was nonetheless able to inform the debate by producing weighty documents...

My Lords, the topicality of today’s debate was underlined in the headlines in the weekend newspapers, saying that the stem cell revolution has ended the need to use human embryos. I should like to turn back to that question in the substantive part of my remarks, but before doing so...

My Lords, the topicality of today’s debate was underlined in the headlines in the weekend newspapers, saying that the stem cell revolution has ended the need to use human embryos. I should like to turn back to that question in the substantive part of my remarks, but before doing so...