» Thursday, January 17, 2008

China/India Visit

Put that some Conservative MEP’s had criticised the Prime Minister for going to the Olympic Stadium and had argued for a boycott of the Beijing Olympic Games, the PMS said that he had not seen the statement, so he would not comment on either a statement he had not seen or a statement made by […]

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Respect Agenda

Put that the wife of Gary Newlove had spoken this morning about the Respect Agenda failing, the PMS replied that the Respect Agenda was being taken forward and the Prime Minister was very keen on taking action to deal with the causes of crime, particularly among young people. The Government had created a new department, […]

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Health and Wellbeing Committee

Asked what the Health and Wellbeing Committee would do that wasn’t already done by other health committees and wasn’t the term "wellbeing" a David Cameron copyright, the PMS said that he would not want to respond to the second part of the question. The preventative health agenda was something the Prime Minister took very seriously […]

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» Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Senior Salaries Review Body

The Prime Minister’s Spokesman (PMS) began by informing Lobby that the Written Ministerial Statement had just been laid giving the Government response to the Review Body on Senior Salaries Report on Parliamentary Pay, Pensions & Allowances. We had also published copies of the report. The key points were: The recommendation for 2007/08 was for an […]

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Misc

Asked about the Prime Minister saying he would look again at the rules around bail, and what he had in mind, the PMS replied that the Prime Minister was just saying that what had happened was a tragic situation in relation to the case mentioned. And if there were any issues that arose in relation […]

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» Tuesday, January 15, 2008

MP’s Pay

Asked if the Prime Minister had any views on the future, regarding MPs continuing to have the right to vote on their own pay, the Prime Minister’s Spokesman (PMS) said that the Leader of the House had made a statement on this towards the end of last week; she had set out that she was […]

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Northern Rock

Asked if the Prime Minister was going to be spending any more time on the Northern Rock issue in the next 48 hours, the PMS said that, as had been said at the lobby briefing this morning, this was something which was discussed as part of a wider discussion on economic stability at this morning’s […]

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Public Sector Pay

Asked if, after the 3 year settlement on teachers’ pay, the Government was likely to review their decision on police pay, the PMS said that people should not get drawn into comparing the two; the police award was for 2007 and the teachers’ award was a Government 3 year forward looking public sector pay award, […]

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Peter Hain

Asked if the Prime Minister had a meeting with Peter Hain after Cabinet this morning, the PMS replied that she would not get into discussing the Prime Minister’s individual meetings with Cabinet members. original source.

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Cabinet

The Prime Minister’s Spokesman (PMS) started by telling the journalists that there were two main items discussed at Cabinet. Firstly, there was a general discussion on the economy led by the Chancellor; this included a brief update on the situation regarding Northern Rock. There was then a more general, more thematic discussion around the issue […]

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