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46,025 UK Government department press releases spanning the full archive from 2007 to today, plus House of Commons select committee reports, updated daily. Browse a day at a time, or search across every release.
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UK Government departments · 15
- Foreign & Commonwealth Office · 2 Feb 2018
Alistair Burt: UK "deeply concerned" by chlorine attack reports
Minister for the Middle East Alistair Burt has commented on recent reports of chlorine attacks in Eastern Ghouta.
- Highways England · 2 Feb 2018
Intelligent road studs to improve road safety
Intelligent road studs, which light up in response to changing traffic lights, are to be used for the first time at a motorway junction to improve safety.
- High Speed Two (HS2) Limited · 2 Feb 2018
HS2 reveals world-leading design firms for biggest station building programme since Victorian era
HS2 names the architects, designers and engineers that will help transform Euston and deliver new stations in Birmingham, Solihull and Old Oak Common.
- Foreign & Commonwealth Office · 2 Feb 2018
Minister for Africa welcomes new EU sanctions against South Sudan
New European Union sanctions against 3 South Sudanese former and current officials announced today.
- Environment Agency · 2 Feb 2018
Camera footage helps secure fisheries conviction
Body worn cameras used by Environment Agency officers help secure conviction for the first time.
- Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency · 2 Feb 2018
50th Promising Innovative Medicine (PIM) designation granted
As part of the Early Access to Medicines Scheme (EAMS), we have now reached a new PIM designation milestone.
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · 2 Feb 2018
National Citizen Service Trust Chair Campaign
The Prime Minister has chosen to re-run the competition to appoint the Chair of the National Citizen Service Trust.
- Department for International Development · 2 Feb 2018
Penny Mordaunt: The UK is tackling the ‘global learning crisis’ to empower the next generation
Over the next decade a billion more young people will enter the job market across the world – but 387 million children globally are set to leave school without the basic skills needed to get on in life.
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · 2 Feb 2018
Rare early Georgian baby house at risk of leaving the UK
Arts minister steps in to prevent miniature house from export.
- Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency · 2 Feb 2018
UK and China sign Memorandum of Understanding on Medicine and Device Regulation
The agreement pledges new areas of cooperation such as an exchange of learning from the accelerated access review (AAR) and how to effectively regulate the trading of medicines online.
- Environment Agency · 2 Feb 2018
Environment Agency completes £10 million flood storage basin on World Wetlands Day
The new flood defence, which includes urban wetland, will help protect 2,000 properties from flooding.
- Office of the Secretary of State for Wales · 2 Feb 2018
Welsh Secretary backs Wales’ Six Nations campaigns
Welsh rugby contingents kick off 2018 campaign this weekend.
- Competition and Markets Authority · 2 Feb 2018
New overdraft alerts as CMA banking rules come into force
Banks will be required to warn people before they slip into overdraft as a result of new rules coming into force today.
- Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street · 2 Feb 2018
PM announces new UK-China creative and cultural collaboration
The Prime Minister will announce a new package of UK-China creative and cultural collaboration today, including commercial deals for a new Eden Project and LEGOLAND Discovery Centre in China.
- Foreign & Commonwealth Office · 2 Feb 2018
Change of Her Majesty’s Ambassador to Romania in August 2018
Mr Andrew Noble LVO has been appointed Her Majesty’s Ambassador to Romania.
Government press releases last updated 26 August 2026. Source: GOV.UK.