» Tuesday, November 6, 2007

Flexible Working

The Prime Minister’s Spokesman (PMS) began by reminding Lobby that the Prime Minister had said in the House that it was our intention to extend up the age range of the statutory right to request flexible working. A Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform press notice made clear that we were going to have […]

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Inheritance Tax

Asked when the Prime Minister would be publishing his proposals on Inheritance Tax, the PMS replied that if someone put in an FOI request then that would be looked at. But as the Prime Minister had made clear, the proposals for the reform to Inheritance Tax that was made in the Pre-Budget Report was something […]

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Counter-Terrorism

Put that there was not a great deal in the Queen’s Speech on counter-terrorism, the PMS replied that we had not suggested that this was the opportunity to bring forward new detailed proposals on counter-terrorism. We had said there would be a counter-terrorism Bill, but clearly there would be a process of consultation that would […]

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Immigration

Asked to flesh out what sort of things we were looking at in terms of citizenship, the PMS replied that there was not much he could say at the moment. We had asked Lord Goldsmith in July to look at a number of issues in relation to citizenship. All we were doing today was saying […]

Briefing took place at 16:45 | Read whole briefing | Comments (0)

Party Funding

Put that the Phillips Report suggested going ahead with a formula on more state funding for parties in elections, and asked if it was on the basis of the Phillips Report that the Government was proceeding, the PMS replied that a distinction need to be made between the Labour Party position and the Government position. […]

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