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» Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Cabinet

The Prime Minister’s Spokesman (PMS) began by telling the assembled press that it was a slightly shorter Cabinet than usual; there would be another meeting of Cabinet tomorrow to discuss the Budget.

The main items discussed at Cabinet that morning had been the environment, on the back of a presentation by Hilary Benn, a brief look ahead to the European Council from David Miliband and an update on Northern Ireland from Shaun Woodward.

Asked for more details on what was said on the environment at Cabinet, the PMS said that it was an opportunity for the Cabinet to be updated by Hilary Benn on what the main issues were, going forward, so it was quite a wide-ranging discussion. The Government had recently introduced the Climate Change Bill; we now had the Independent Climate Committee up and running, with Lord Turner appointed. One of the issues that the committee would be looking at would be the setting of carbon budgets and this had implications for other departments, so that was the main gist of the discussion.

Asked what was discussed in regards to the European Council, the PMS said that it was really a brief intervention from the Foreign Secretary, just to outline what the issues were, which were principally around the economy and the environment.

Asked how long Cabinet had gone on for, the PMS said that Cabinet had met for about 40 minutes.

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