2000 News Releases

December

• 22/12/00 151/00 Chancellor and Clare Short welcome news that 22 of the poorest heavily indebted countries, have had their debt relief agreed
• 21/12/00 150/00 Progress towards better Financial Regulation
• 21/12/00 149/00 Protecting Long Term Care Insurance buyers
• 21/12/00 148/00 Regulator to ensure a better deal for bank customers
• 11/12/00 147/00 Delivering Individual Pension Accounts
• 07/12/00 146/00 Delivering Financial Services Regulation
• 05/12/00 144/00 Speech by the Chancellor of the Exchequer to the National Council fpr one parent families
• 05/12/00 143/00 UK Official Holdings of International Reserves
• 02/12/00 142/00 Britain to announce debt payments
  

• 30/11/00 141/00 Treasury Appointments
• 30/11/00 140/00 Speech from the Chancellor Gordon Brown at the New Deal conference at 10 Downing Street, to mark the meeting of the New Deal manifesto target
• 28/11/00 139/00 Andrew Smith calls for increased use of electronic systems in pursuit of lower procurement costs
• 27/11/00 138/00 Construction Procurement Guidance will drive forward best practice - Andrew Smith
  
• 23/11/00 137/00 Banking consumer codes review group membership announced
• 22/11/00 136/00 UK Economic performance "Remains Impressive", say IMF
• 22/11/00 135/00 Investing in our future
• 21/11/00 134/00 Manor of Northstead
• 21/11/00 132/00 Charities Campaign gets a £1 million kick-start
• 21/11/00 131/00 Money Laundering: UK modifies Financial Advisory on Antigua and Barbuda
• 16/11/00 130/00 Winter Supplementary Estimates: 200-01
• 15/11/00 129/00 Speech by the Chancellor of the Exchequer to the children and young people's unit conference at the Design Centre, Islington
• 08/11/00 128/00 Deanne Julius to chair banking services consumer codes review
• 08/11/00 Myners report: proposals for reform of pension fund investment
  
• 07/11/00 127/00 Government publishes technical paper on experience of ultra-low sulphur diesel
  
• 06/11/00 126/00 Speech by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown at the CBI annual conference
• 03/11/00 125/00 Publication of Service Delivery Agreements
  
• 03/11/00 124/00 UK Official Holdings of International Reserves
• 01/11/00 123/00 JIWAY ltd recognised as an investment exchange

October

• 27/10/00 122/00 Review of financial regulation in the Caribbean Overseas Territories and Bermuda
• 26/10/00 121/00 Better Financial Regulation
• 26/10/00 120/00 Charities Campaign gets a £1 million kick-start
• 25/10/00 119/00 Gordon Brown offers UK participation in IMF/World Bank financial sector assessment programme
• 24/10/00 118/00 Enterprise and Wealth are the key to continuing prosperity - Gordon Brown
• 23/10/00 117/00 Three Hundreds of Chiltern
• 23/10/00 116/00 Brown Launches National campaign for working families
• 19/10/00 115/00 Gordon Brown sets new Productivity Challenge for Employers and Workers
• 19/10/00 114/00 Speech by Stephen Timms, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, at the Treasury Watermark event
• 19/10/00 113/00 Stephen Timms announces 'Watermark' contract to reduce the public sector's water bills
• 19/10/00 112/2000 Financial Services Authority: Appointment of managing director to the board
• 11/10/00 111/2000 Brown sets out Multi-Million pound programme to Bridge the Digital Divide
• 09/10/00 110/2000 Brown Launches Pre-Budget Report consultation tour, setting new Targets to help lone parents get into work
• 05/10/00 109/2000 Speech by Rt. Hon Andrew Smith, Chief Secretary to the Treasury, in London at the CCTA 'Championing Electronic Government' conference
  
• 04/10/00 108/2000 IWR Means win Affordable Insurance for the Financially excluded
• 04/10/00107/2000 UK Official Holdings of International Reserves
  

September

• 29/09/00 106/2000 Appointments to the Policyholders Protection Board
  
• 27/09/00 105/2000 Appointments to the Board of the FSA
• 20/09/00 104/2000 Brown puts Case for Reform to Strengthen Global Economic Co-operation
• 15/09/00 103/2000 New Team of top private and public sector experts appointed to drive forward improvements in public services
• 14/09/00 Darling launches consultation paper on pension protection
  
• 12/09/00 102/2000 Speech by the Chancellor of the Exchequer at the TUC Congress
  
• 05/09/00 101/2000 UK Official Holdings of International Reserves

August

• 30/08/00 100/2000 Andrew Smith Announces £38 Million Mobile "Quick Win" Strategic Partnership with Vodaphone
• 25/08/00 99/2000 Local Communities Affected by Quarrying set to Benefit from Environmental Improvements
  
• 04/08/00 98/2000 Banking Competition to Deliver Benefits to the Consumers: Government Response to the Cruickshanck Report
  
• 03/08/00 97/2000 UK official Holdings of International Reserves

July

• 26/07/00 96/2000 On "Q" for public sector research & development
• 24/07/00 95/2000 Good news for savers and taxpayers - National Savings review foresees greater competition
  and choice
• 19/07/00 94/2000 Treasury to Appoint New FSA Board Member
  
• 18/07/00 93/2000 Public Expenditure1999-2000: Provisional Outturn
  
• 18/07/00 92/2000 Delivering Financial Regulation
  
• 17/07/00 91/2000 Gordon Brown urges Fast-Track to Dynamic Single European Financial Services Market
  
• 13/07/00 90/2000 Lecture by the Chancellor of the Exchequer to the Royal Economic Society
  
• 11/07/00 89/2000 Action needs to be taken to Reduce Ill Health Retirement
  
• 11/07/00 88/2000 Individual Pension Accounts Helping more people Save for the Future
• 10/07/00 87/2000 New Figures Showing a doubling of UK Homes ON-Line are Welcome: but we need to go further says Timms
  
• 10/07/00 86/2000 Steering group appointed to oversee audit review
• 05/07/00 85/2000 Chancellor Announces £1 billion Science Partnership with Wellcome Trust
  
• 05/07/00 84/2000 UK-US Conference: "Enterprise and Technology for all-seizing the opportunity"
  
• 05/07/00 83/2000 UK Official Holdings of International Reserves
  
• 04/07/00 82/2000 Another Step Towards a Single Regulator for Financial Services
  

June

• 27/06/00 81/2000 Treasury Communications
• 23/06/00 80/2000 Chancellor Gordon Brown calls for enterprise for all - New figures show differences in small business creation around the country
• 23/06/00 79/2000 Tackling Money Laundering - UK welcomes identification of non co-operating jurisdiction
• 22/06/00 78/2000 Summer Supplementary Estimates: 2000-2001
  
• 22/06/00 77/2000 New Confidential Advice Line to help people into legitimate work
  
• 19/06/00 76/2000 £1.7 Billion Boost For Britain's Families
• 16/06/00 75/2000 Speech by the Chancellor of the Exchequer at the Mansion House
• 07/06/00 74/2000 Statistics Commission Members appointed
• 07/06/00 73/2000Framework for National Statistics published
• 05/06/00 72/2000 UK Official Holdings of International Reserves
• 02/06/00 71/2000Three key spending review themes benefit from new £4 million fund
• 02/06/00 70/2000 Quarterly Report on UK Official Holdings of Foreign Currency and Gold: January - March 2000
  

May

• 69/2000 Chancellor confirms Unchanged Monetary Policy Committee Remit
• 68/2000 UK Welcomes Offshore Centres Survey Report
• 67/2000 Coredeal Recognised as Investment Exchange
• 66/2000 Treasury Launches Contract Guidance For Public Construction
• 65/2000 Maeve Sherlock appointed as a member of the Coucil of Economic Advisors
• 64/2000 Bank of England: Court Appointments
• 63/2000 Myners review of institutional investment
• 62/2000 Speech by the Chancellor of the Exchequer to the Child Poverty Action Group's Child Poverty Conference
• 61/2000 Speech by Stephen Timms MP, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, at the ‘Creating the Entrepreneurial Economy' conference
• 60/2000 James Meade Memorial Lecture by the Chancellor of the Exchequer
• 59/2000 Chancellor announces new appointment to the monetary policy committee
  

April

• 58/2000 UK Official Holdings of International Reserves
• 57/2000 UK foreign currency reserves publication of information
• 56/2000 Top businessman to spearhead creation of new working age agency
• 55/2000 Andrew Smith announces leader of Review of Central Government Audit
• 54/2000 Recognition of the New Zealand Futures and Options Exchange Limited
• 53/2000 2000-01 Main Supply Estimates
• 52/2000 Further benefits for borrowers - CAT standards for mortgages finalised
• 51/2000 Publication of the Finance Bill
• 50/2000 Partners in the modernisation of Britain - Speech by Rt Hon Andrew Smith MP, Chief Secretary to the Treasury, to the IPPR Seminar on PPPS, 5 April 2000
• 49/2000 Speech by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, to the British Chamber of Commerce National Conference
• 48/2000 Speech by Rt Hon Andrew Smith MP, Chief Secretary to the Treasury, to the IPPR New Economy Launch Event, 4 April 2000 - The Future for Public Service Agreements
• 47/2000 Speech by Stephen Timms MP, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, at theEconomist's Electronic Business Conference, 4 April 2000
• 46/2000 UK Official Holdings of Foreign Currency and Gold
• 45/2000 UK urges progress for the World's poorest countries
• 44/2000 Treasury appoints International Economist
• 43/2000 Private sector appointments aid modernising of the Royal Mint
  

March

• 42/2000 Chairman of the Statistics Commission appointed
• 41/2000 Andrew Smith and Ian McCartney launch blueprint for IT Public Private Partnership Contracts
• 40/2000 Maths Year 2000 - Children get money management tips from the Chancellor
• 39/2000 Andrew Smith sets out benefits of Public Private Partnerships - Treasury paper projects extra £20 billion investment in public services
• 38/2000 Second outline National Changeover Plan published
• 37/2000 Stephen Timms opens first Annual Westminster Ethnic Minority Business Exhibition
• 36/2000 Lord Grabiner's report on the informal economy
• 35/2000 Speech by Stephen Timms MP, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, at First Tuesday, 7 March 2000
• 34/2000 Leading in the Small Business Revolution
• 33/2000 Remarks by the Chancellor of theExchequer during his Pre-Budget Tour in Sunderland on Monday 6th March 2000
• 32/2000 IMF applauds UK's "Impressive" Economic Performance
• 31/2000 Revised and late Supplementary Estimates: 1999-2000
• 30/2000 UK gold sales 2000-2001
• 29/2000 Quarterly Report on the United Kingdom Official Holdings of Foreign Currency and Gold
• 28/2000 UK Official Holdings of Foreign Currency and Gold
• 27/2000 Melanie Johnson set charity challenge for British business
  

February

• 26/2000 Speech by Stephen Timms MP, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, at the Joint Association of British Insurers/British Venture Capital Association Conference; 29 February
• 25/2000 Enterprise and employment opportunity for all
• 24/2000 Andrew Smith announces review of Central Government Audit arrangements
• 23/2000 Building a New British Economy
• 22/2000 Suppplementary Vote of Account 2000-01
• 21/2000 Spring Supplementary Estimates: 1999-2000
• 20/2000 Start for National Statistics
• 19/2000 Britain and the Knowledge Economy
  
• 18/2000 Treasury Appoints Former Local Authority Chief Executive to Public Services Directorate
  
• 17/2000 Equipping Britain for the Future
  
• 16/2000 Chancellor announces new appointment to the Monetary Policy Committee
  
• 15/2000 Chief Executive - Office of Government Commerce
• 13/2000 In Britain Gordon Brown sets out new vision for civic patriotism - Chancellor aims for £1 billion more to be given to charity
• 12/2000 Achieving European Capital Market Reform
• 11/2000 UK Official Holdings of Foreign Currency and Gold
• 10/2000 New Partnership with Arochemicals Industry welcomed: TIMMS
  

January

• 09/2000 Open-ended Investment Company Regulations
• 08/2000 First publication of UK Government Reserves Annual Accounts
• 07/2000 Tackling mortgage concerns
• 06/2000 Speech by Stephen Timms MP, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, at the Art Key Loan Fund Launch, 12 January 1999
• 05/2000 Oxfam's Gilbert Murray Memorial Lecture by the Chancellor of the Exchequer -
  Tuesday 11 January 2000
• 03/2000 UK bans export credits for unproductive expenditure to 63 countries
• 01/2000 UK Official Holdings of Foreign Curreny and Gold

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