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» Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Cabinet

The Prime Minister’s Spokesman (PMS) told the press that Cabinet met this morning for about an hour. There was a discussion led by the Housing Minister on housing policy, which followed up last week’s discussion. There was an update from the Home Secretary on counter terrorism matters, a discussion on welfare reform led by Peter Hain. There was also a discussion on skills and how we would take forward the Leitch Review led by John Denham, as well as an outline from Ed Balls of the content of his statement later today. The Prime Minister, building on the Cabinet discussion last week on the priorities for the legislative programme, outlined the main elements of his statement tomorrow. The PMS said that he could not get into the specifics of it ahead of the announcement to Parliament, but the Prime Minister did make clear that the overarching theme would be how the Government responded to the rising aspirations of people by providing better opportunities for the future. The priorities for the legislative programme, as he had set out to Cabinet this morning would be housing, and the measures that we needed to take to make housing opportunities more widely available, especially for first time buyers. Other priorities would be education opportunities, taking forward the measures that Ed Balls would announce later today, and responding to people’s concerns about opportunities for better healthcare.

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