» Wednesday, January 25, 2006
Wilson Doctrine
Asked if there was a timetable for the report, the PMOS said no. It would be whenever the Interception Commissioner, Sir Swinton Thomas, had actually had a chance to talk to people. It would go at his pace. Asked if the Prime Minister was open minded and waiting to be persuaded, the PMOS said that first and foremost, there had been erroneous reports that the Prime Minister, following 7/7, had initiated this. That was not the case. This was a result of an initiative taken by Sir Swinton Thomas and therefore it was important that we went at the pace set by Sir Swinton.
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Amir of Qatar
Asked of the Prime Minister's meeting with the Amir of Qatar today was about anything specific, the PMOS said that it was primarily to discuss regional issues.
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Education White Paper
Asked whether the Prime Minister expected the Education Bill to reflect David Cameron's comments, the PMOS said that the education bill would reflect what it reflected. The Prime Minister had been setting out a response to specific questions put to him by the Leader of the Opposition and he had replied in the affirmative.
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Iran
Asked if the Prime Minister had seen the comments by the Iranian Foreign Minister blaming Britain for the bombings, the PMOS said that he was not sure the Prime Minister had seen them, but either way he did not think they were worthy of a response.
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Afghanistan
Asked whether the Defence Secretary would be appearing in the House of Commons again tomorrow to say that a decision had now been taken, the PMOS said first and foremost a decision needed to be taken. Then we would see what John Reid had to say.
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Reshuffle
Asked if everyone had given up on a reshuffle, the PMOS said he could not speak for them but he remained optimistic. Asked if it was a money saving measure, the PMOS suggested that the Guardian could put whatever positive spin on it that it wanted.
Briefing took place at 17:00 | Read whole briefing | Comments (0)
» Tuesday, January 24, 2006
Rendition
Asked if the Government had any reaction to the recent report on rendition by the Council of Europe, the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman (PMOS) said that he had nothing to say since there were no new facts in the report to respond to. Asked if the UK would be cooperating with the Council of Europe's investigation as Mr Dick Marty MP of Switzerland had asked, the PMOS said that we had already gone further than that.
Briefing took place at 16:00 | Read whole briefing | Comments (0)
Incapacity Benefit
Asked if there was not a lot of fraud in the incapacity benefit system, why had the numbers of people claiming gone up from 700,000 to 2.7 million over the past few decades, the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman (PMOS) replied that what was important to realise was that we were now seeing one third less people joining the list than in 1997. If people looked at the rate of increase in 1997, if that had continued, then by this stage, there would have been approximately 4 million people claiming benefit, whereas there were now 2.7 million. Therefore, some of the measures that had been taken to help people were important. The basic root of our approach to incapacity benefit was that if people were on incapacity benefit for two years, it was highly unlikely that they would ever come off it as things stood at the moment.
Briefing took place at 16:00 | Read whole briefing | Comments (3)
Inter-Faith Meeting
Asked what the Prime Minister might be saying in his speech this evening, the PMOS said that he could not give too much detail as the launch was being primarily driven by Lambeth Palace and had been set up as a result of work initiated by Lambeth Palace. The Prime Minister was going along to support it. The Prime Minister would however take the opportunity to express his sadness at the death of Dr. Badawi and pay tribute to him. Dr. Badawi had been a scholar with an international reputation and a pioneer in the area of inter-faith relations.
Briefing took place at 16:00 | Read whole briefing | Comments (0)
Rendition
Asked if the Prime Minister had any view on the Council for Europe's report about rendition, the PMOS said that the Prime Minister had no view of it. The PMOS said that there seemed to be no new facts, therefore, we had no new view.
Briefing took place at 16:00 | Read whole briefing | Comments (0)
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