» Thursday, March 19, 2009
Royal Mail
Put that the Chief Whip had said that the Government was listening if anyone could come up with an alternative proposal to selling a shareholding, the PMS said that as we had made clear all along, we thought that the Hooper Review into Royal Mail was comprehensive and produced a compelling case for the modernisation […]
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Iraq War
Asked for a response to Carne Ross comments that it was disgraceful for Ministers to argue that the Hutton and Butler inquiries were able to delve deeply into the issues surrounding the build-up to the war in Iraq, the PMS replied that we had always been clear what the terms of reference for the Hutton […]
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» Wednesday, March 18, 2009
European Council Meeting
The Prime Minister s Spokesman (PMS) said that we expected the European Council Meeting to be dominated by the economy, including issues that related to the G20 Summit next month. The Prime Minister would raise a number of issues on financial sector regulation at the meeting. It was his view that the Turner review published […]
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President Sarkozy
Asked if the Prime Minister had anything specific on protectionism that he wanted to talk to President Sarkozy about at their meeting, the PMS said that we would discuss with all our European partners, the importance of sticking to open markets at this difficult time for the global economy. Asked what was on the agenda […]
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Turner Review
Asked if there was anything in the Turner review that the Government took issue with, the PMS said that it was a very detailed report and there were a lot of specific recommendations. We supported the general approach that Turner had taken, but each specific item would have to be looked at in detail by […]
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Misc
Put that Vera Baird had said on Radio 4 that there were green shoots of economic recovery starting to appear, the PMS said that the Prime Minister thought that the Solicitor General was an excellent lawyer with a huge amount of expertise on legal matters and that was why she was appointed to her job […]
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Written Ministerial Statement
The Prime Minister s Spokesman (PMS) told the assembled press that the Government was making clear the procedures under which our security and intelligence agencies, who as the Prime Minister said in the statement, did an excellent job protecting us all, operated. We would also be publishing the guidance that they operated under, in relation […]
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IMF Forecast
Asked whether the Prime Minister agreed with the latest IMF forecasts, the PMS said that there seemed to have been quite a lot of forecasts from the IMF recently and they appeared to have changed their view on Japan for instance and revised them down from 2.6% to 5% in the space of four or […]
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Misc
Asked if there was any response to the unemployment figures, the PMS said that Tony McNulty had been responding for the Government. The PMS added that he was sure this would come up at PMQ s, so people should wait until then. Asked if there would be another G20 Leader s meeting in November, the […]
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» Thursday, March 12, 2009
Ministers’ Interests
Asked what the difference was between the register of members interests and the register of ministers interests, the Prime Minister s Spokesman (PMS) said that the register of ministers interests related to any interests that members or close family members had that was relevant to their ministerial duties or where there was a perceived potential […]
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