» Wednesday, May 17, 2006
Cabinet Committees
Put that the Deputy Prime Minister (DPM)was chairman of five Cabinet Committees, deputy chairman of seven, and chairman of five sub-committees, and which ones were the new jobs, and had the job of chairman to the animal rights activists sub-committee just been given in place of giving up Constitutional Affairs, the PMOS said that Mr. Prescott was chairman of nine committees, whereas he was deputy chairman of seven. The PMOS said that he was chairman of Domestic Affairs, Public Health, Housing and Planning, Inspection, Post Office Network, Aging Policy, Local and Regional Government, Local Government and Strategy and Performance and Animal Rights Activists. Jack Straw had taken over the chairmanship of Constitutional Affairs and the Electoral Committee in line with his responsibility, but the DPM had taken over Housing and Planning, Inspection, Post Office Network, Aging Policy, Local and Regional Government, Local Government and Strategy and Performance and Animal Rights Activists.
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Unemployment
Put that unemployment was the highest for three years, the PMOS said that employment was the highest, and if people looked at the number of people out of work, and if the inactivity figures were taken into account, they were going down.
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Vauxhall Job losses
Asked if the Government was worried about the job losses at the Vauxhall car plant, the PMOS said that we were working with the company to try and give them as good a chance as possible of getting the new Astra project. We were obviously deeply disappointed about the job losses, but welcomed the fact that they were voluntary, and not compulsory.
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» Tuesday, May 16, 2006
Prime Minister’s speech to CBI dinner
The Prime Minister's Official Spokesman (PMOS) told journalists the Prime Minister's argument tonight was about the key long term decisions that faced us as a country. The Prime Minister would say that:
Briefing took place at 6:00 | Read whole briefing | Comments (0)
Sir Philip Hayden’s Review
Asked how Sir Hayden Phillips would be launching his review, the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman (PMOS) said he would check. Asked if the Prime Minister would comment on the launch, the PMOS said he would not.
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Nuclear Power
Asked if it would be fair to say that it was the first time that the Prime Minister had explicitly backed the nuclear option as one of three specifics, the PMOS said: no. The Prime Minister had always talked about having to make decisions on nuclear power stations, and what he was doing at this stage, was setting out the questions which the Energy Review would have to address. However, one of those question was: did we as a country want to become so dependant on gas and on 80-90% dependant on foreign imports?
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Police Inquiry
Asked if the police, following their statement about their inquiry, had interviewed anyone from Downing Street, the PMOS in response asked whether it was normal for the government to comment on an ongoing police investigation. Asked whether it was normal for the police to investigate the government, the PMOS suggested that there were all sort of assumptions in that question which he would not be responding to. We were not giving any sort of running commentary on this or any other police ongoing investigation. Put that Downing Street had done so in the past therefore should they infer that the Prime Minister had been questioned, the PMOS answered no.
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Vernon Coker
Asked if the new Minister for drugs, Vernon Coker, had told the Prime Minister that he had had experience of drugs in the past, and what was the Prime Minister's view, the PMOS replied that as it was the first he had heard of the allegation, he would have to find out.
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Home Office
Asked to elaborate on the role of the Chancellor in relation to the Home Office and the spending review, the PMOS said that he had dealt with this yesterday. The Treasury had always had a role in allocating money to the security services and for security in general. Asked what the Prime Minister had announced yesterday, the PMOS said it was a party speech so he could not comment, but his understanding was that the Prime Minister had been referring to the Treasury's normal role. Put that the Prime Minister had spoken about the Chancellor having a role in policy development, the PMOS said that in terms of the Treasury's role in overseeing spending in departments it obviously linked into the overall strategy. Asked how the relationship between the John Reid and Gordon Brown would work, the PMOS said the relationship between the Home Secretary and the Chancellor was absolutely the normal one. Asked to characterise that, the PMOS said it was between one of a Minister in charge of a department and the Treasury, which funded that department.
Briefing took place at 6:00 | Read whole briefing | Comments (0)
Utilities
Asked how Alistair Darling would be launching the gas review, the PMOS said that it was a review of the strain on gas over winter where we had recognised that supplies were tight but that the scare stories had turned out not to be true despite one of the coldest winters for some time. Asked if the Prime Minister was worried about water supply, the PMOS said that the reality was that we had had nineteen consecutive months of below average rainfall. The Prime Minister could do much but that was something that he could not influence and he would not even attempt to claim that he could. What we had done was encourage the water industry to tackle issues such as leakage. Overall leakage rates for water companies were down 20% since 1997. The government expected companies to continue to do everything they could to reduce leakage. Where necessary the Environment Agency was encouraging people to take the appropriate steps.
Briefing took place at 6:00 | Read whole briefing | Comments (0)
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