» Thursday, July 17, 2008

Miscellaneous

Asked why the Prime Minister was going to appear on the BBC programme "The One Show" and if it was live, the PMS said that it was live, that the Prime Minister had been invited on and that it had been in the diary for a while. The main discussion would be on knife crime. […]

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Crime

Asked what the knife crime elements of the Home Secretary’s statement would be, the Prime Minister’s Spokesman (PMS) replied that we had been speaking quite a lot about knife crime in the recent days, and the purpose of the policing Green Paper today focused much more on for example reducing police bureaucracy and getting more […]

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Information Commissioner

Put that the Justice Secretary had put down an order for the pay of the Information Commissioner to go up to £140k from £100k, and asked why he was worthy of a 40% pay-rise, the PMS replied that his understanding of the situation was that there was some specific issues relating to the role of […]

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» Wednesday, July 16, 2008

MP’s Pay

Asked if the Government was proposing to cap the amount of mortgage interest MPs could claim, the Prime Minister’s Spokesman (PMS) said that that would be something that would be looked at by the Advisory Panel on Members Allowances, which had been strengthened by the appointment of two independent members. The main issue was that […]

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Misc

Asked if the Prime Minister would be voting on the fuel vote later, the PMS said that the fuel vote was more of a routine opposition day debate; the Prime Minister had a number of important meetings later today. Asked what the Prime Minister thought of Nick Clegg’s suggestion that if an MP was caught […]

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MP’s Expenses

The Prime Minister’s Spokesman (PMS) told the assembled press that the Leader of the House was in the process of tabling a Written Ministerial Statement setting out the Government’s position on the matter. Since the vote on the 3rd July, the Leader of the House had had a number of discussions, not only with Members […]

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Fuel Duty

Asked why the Chancellor had chosen today to postpone the 2p rise in fuel duty and did it have anything to do with the fact that there was a by election coming up, the PMS said that that was not the case. There were a lot of precedents for the postponement of autumn increases in […]

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» Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Food Inflation

Put that the Prime Minister had said at his press conference yesterday that you might see some changes in food prices over the next few months and was there a particular reason why he thought food prices would come down, the Prime Minister’s Spokesman (PMS) told the assembled press that he didn’t think there was […]

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Inflation/Public and Private Sector Pay

Asked how concerned the Prime Minister was about a fairly sharp rise in inflation, seeing as this might fuel more inflationary wage demands, the PMS said people would have seen the remarks by the Chancellor on this earlier today. It was important that we maintained discipline in relation to wage demands in both the public […]

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Insolvency Arrangements

Asked if the Government was happy with the insolvency arrangements in this country, the PMS said that people would have seen the party political quote that John Hutton had put out. It was not for him to comment on proposals from the opposition but in general terms, the Government had already made changes to the […]

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