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David Miliband Speech

Put that the Guardian seemed to suggest this morning that there was the possibility of EU countries doing more collectively on defence and that there would be a review of this, the Prime Minister’s Spokesman (PMS) said it was best to speak to the Foreign Office for an interpretation of David Miliband’s speech. His understanding […]

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Terror Detention

Asked if Lord Carlile had been right in thinking that there would be decisions from the Home Office regarding terror detention in the next 48 hours, the PMS said no. Asked how far away such decisions and announcements were, the PMS said people should wait and see, but as he had said this morning, there […]

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Private Sector and Health

Asked if it was accepted that the Government was scaling back the involvement of the private sector in the health service, the PMS said we would not accept that; the policy on the role of the private sector in the health sector remained the same. We were totally committed to using the independent sector where […]

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Immigration Statistics

Asked if it was a good or bad thing that the immigration statistics showed that more people were coming and more people were leaving, the PMS said that Hazel Blears had said something on behalf of the Government and that was what the position was. Net migration levels had fallen for the second consecutive year. […]

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Pre-charge Detention Period

Asked what evidence there was to extend the detention period to 56 days, the Prime Minister’s Spokesman (PMS) replied that as we set our in our July document, there was evidence to suggest increasing trends in the length of time that it was necessary in order to question people in complex terrorist case, to make […]

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Police Inquiry

Put that Sir Gus O’Donnell had been given evidence to the Public Administration Select Committee and it had been reported that he said that the police should not have started their investigation in to cash for honours without checking whether the law would really allow prosecutions in the first place, and asked if this was […]

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Northern Rock

Put that the Prime Minister was asked yesterday whether he could give an assurance that the loan and the interest on the loan would be repaid by 2010, and asked if we expected the loan and the interest to be paid by the buyer of Northern Rock, the PMS replied that we had nothing to […]

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