» Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Northern Ireland
Asked if we were getting to a crunch-point in negotiations, the PMS advised people to wait and see how things progressed. Asked for any more detail on what was said this morning, the PMS said that the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland set out the very good progress that was being made by the […]
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Misc
Asked if the issue of the Saudi oil tanker captured by pirates off the coast of Somalia was raised at Cabinet, the PMS said that it had not come up. Asked if business rates had come up, the PMS said there was no detailed discussion on any tax matters. Asked how long political Cabinet had […]
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» Friday, November 14, 2008
G20 Summit
Asked if he could rule out talks with Senator Obama at the G20 Summit, the Prime Minister s Spokesman (PMS) told the assembled press that Senator Obama had made clear that he would not be attending the G20 Summit and would be sending representatives in his place. As we had said consistently in the last […]
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Redundancies
Put that RBS had announced that they would be making job cuts and did the Prime Minister have a reaction to the news, the PMS replied that as he had said yesterday on the subject of job cuts, we had great sympathy with people who were faced with redundancy and we would do everything we […]
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Baby P
Asked when the Prime Minister was made aware that two separate Government departments had been contacted over the Baby P case, the PMS said he would have to check. The Prime Minister had stayed in very close touch with the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families and had clearly taken a close interest […]
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Banking
Asked how the Prime Minister could square the news that there would be no Government representatives on the boards of part-nationalised banks, which was in contrast to comments made by the Chancellor in the House of Commons, the PMS said he did not think that there was any contradiction. We made clear at the time […]
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Defence
Asked if the Prime Minister agreed with Richard Dannatt s comments that there was no cheap option for Defence, the PMS said that the Government s actions in recent months demonstrated that we would make the proper investment to ensure that our armed services had everything they needed to carry out their jobs effectively. Asked […]
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Organ Donation
Asked whether the Prime Minister still thought we should opt out of rather than opt in to organ donation and what was his reaction to the story in the Times this morning, the PMS said that specifically on the story in the Times, the report on organ donation would be published shortly and we would […]
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Benefits
Put that there were media reports this morning on a crackdown on benefits and was this an appropriate time to be doing this, the PMS said that what we were looking to do at all times was to ensure that where people could work, we helped them to do that. If there were any specific […]
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» Thursday, November 13, 2008
US Visit
Asked whether the Prime Minister would be meeting Jim Leach or Madeleine Albright while he was in Washington, the Prime Minister s Spokesman (PMS) told the assembled press that he was not aware of a separate scheduled meeting, but given that they were all attending the same G20 meeting, he would not rule it out. […]
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