» Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Global Banks Meeting

Asked for a readout of the meeting with chief executives of global banks, the Prime Minister s Spokesman (PMS) said that ahead of the G20 Summit and following on from the G20 Finance Ministers meeting there was clear agreement about the importance of supporting the global economy, restoring lending by dealing head on with troubled […]

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Mervyn King

Asked for the Prime Minister s response to Mervyn King s comments today, the PMS said that Yvette Cooper had been giving interviews in the last few minutes on this. The Bank of England (BoE) and the Governor of the BoE supported the action that the Government had taken in the form of fiscal stimulus, […]

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Misc

Asked if the Prime Minister was concerned about the fall in sterling, the PMS said that we never commented on the pound. Asked about the Prime Minister s response to the CBI figures today, the PMS said that the Governor of the BoE had given his assessment in his letter to the Chancellor, to which […]

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Meeting with Bankers

Asked for a readout from the meeting, the Prime Minister s Spokesman told the assembled press that the meeting was just breaking up as he was leaving, so there was no readout just yet. As we had been saying, the meeting with bankers was part of the global discussion that the Prime Minister and the […]

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Cabinet

Asked for a Cabinet readout, the PMS replied that there was a presentation from the Home Secretary on the updated Contest Strategy, which set out the reasons for the update and the main changes to the strategy paper. There was also a short presentation by the Chancellor on the economy. Asked about what he had […]

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Inflation Figures

Asked if there was a sense of relief after the figures had been released and was there any sense that the corner had been turned on inflation, the PMS replied that the Government s view was that these were difficult times for the UK and the global economy and as the Chancellor had set out […]

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Public Sector Pay

Asked if the Prime Minister anticipated any freeze on public sector pay in the next two years, the PMS said that as the Treasury had been making clear, there had been no decisions yet on public sector pay. The Government was considering the recommendations of the pay review bodies and would make an announcement in […]

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Jaguar Land Rover

Put that Tata were asking for 500million worth of loan guarantees for Jaguar Land Rover and were they likely to get them, the PMS said that questions on assistance to car manufacturers were best addressed to the Department for Business, who had been meeting with car manufacturers over the last couple of months, to discuss […]

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G20

Asked why the Prime Minister thought the G20 was relevant to ordinary people in Britain, the PMS replied that the Prime Minister and the Chancellor had both been setting out in recent weeks and months why the G20 agenda was important for the global economy and therefore the UK economy. It was important that G20 […]

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Pakistan

Asked if the Prime Minister was happy with the amount of cooperation there was from Pakistan on counter-terrorism, the PMS said that on the specifics of militants operating in Pakistan, he would not comment on speculation on intelligence operations, but as we had remarked before and as the Prime Minister commented when he visited Pakistan […]

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