Business Minister Mark Prisk said:

The Government announced today that they will meet the 2010 Landfill Directive target and also published responses to two separate consultations on meeting EU Landfill Diversion Targets and on restrictions on the landfilling of certain wastes.

The Leasehold Advisory Service (LEASE) will from 21 September 2010 provide a morning duty scheme at the London Office of the Leasehold Valuation Tribunal (LVT) at 10 Alfred Place London WC1E 7LR on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.

UK Regional Trade in Goods estimates are released today, for the second quarter 2010.

The Department for Transport has today published the following Transport Statistics:

The Maritime & Coastguard Agency (MCA) announced today that 7 foreign flagged ships were under detention in UK ports during August 2010 after failing Port State Control (PSC) inspection.

The Government of Iceland sent a formal letter (demarche) to the UK outlining its position.

Councils across England brought nearly 2,500 prosecutions for fly-tipping in 2009-10, an increase of more than twenty per cent on the previous 12 months.

Business Secretary Vince Cable today visited Darnall post office in Sheffield, which reopened last week thanks to the efforts of the local community.

Walk4Life to hit the streets on 26 September

The Chancellor today announced Robert Chote as his preferred candidate for the Chair of the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR).

A Department of Health review of the National Programme for IT has concluded that a centralised, national approach is no longer required, and that a more locally-led plural system of procurement should operate, whilst continuing with national applications already procured.

The Committee on Standards in Public Life today published a consultation paper setting out the key issues and questions on which it intends to focus during its inquiry into party political finance.

At a hearing today at Lyndhurst Magistrates Court, the Master of the Singapore Registered tanker Nord Fast pleaded guilty to one offence of failing to supply a specimen after having been arrested on suspicion of having the proportion of alcohol in his breath exceed the prescribed limit (35 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres).

Annik Technology Services, a leading market research data collection & technologies company, has today launched “SurveyFlashTools ConnectTM” reinforcing their objective of making interactive Flash questions a possibility on any online survey.