» Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Question:

This gentleman says he is a Los Angeles County fire fighter who responded to the 9/11 disaster in New York, and he would like to know how the events of 9/11 changed you personally? original source.

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Prime Minister:

Well first of all I would like to pay tribute to the fire-fighters from Los Angeles, from New York, from elsewhere who did such a fantastic job, and the public servants everywhere. It did change me personally because some of the things that I have said tonight I can trace back to the speech I […]

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» Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Cabinet

The Prime Minister s Spokesman (PMS) began by giving a brief rundown of what had been discussed at Cabinet. There was a discussion on the economy, the Cabinet had gone through the reforms of MP s allowances that we were announcing and there was an update from David Miliband on the situation in Sri Lanka. […]

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Economy

On the economy, the Prime Minister had outlined the global context for the Budget and had said that all countries were tackling similar issues. We were taking action in Britain that we were seeing having an effect. For example, just this morning we had seen the impact of the VAT cut on the retail sector. […]

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MP’s Allowances

The PMS said that we were setting out a set of interim proposals that the Government would put to a vote in the House of Commons within the next few weeks, with a view to these coming into effect by the 1st July. It was the view of the Prime Minister and the Cabinet that […]

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Operational Efficiency Programe

Asked whether the programme would mean redundancies, the PMS said it would outline the action we were proposing to take in relation to efficiency to ensure that we got the best value for money for every pound of taxpayer money spent. original source.

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WMS on Israel

Asked for more detail on the WMS, the PMS said that it was a statement that had been issued at the request of parliament to undertake a complete assessment of UK arms and components exported to Israel that might have been used by the Israeli defence forces during the recent conflict in Gaza. The PMS […]

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» Tuesday, April 14, 2009

No 10 Emails

Asked if the Prime Minister had spoken to Tom Watson over the weekend and been given reassurance that Mr Watson knew nothing about the Red Rag website, the Prime Minister s Spokesman (PMS) said that the Prime Minister spoke to his ministers regularly; we wouldn t normally get into the specifics of who he spoke […]

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Misc

Asked for the Prime Minister s view on car scrappage, the PMS said that we continued to look at the possibilities of such a scheme, but no decision had been taken. Asked if the Prime Minister had been keeping up to date on events in Thailand and North Korea, the PMS said that the Prime […]

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» Monday, April 6, 2009

Meeting of the Tripartite Authority

Asked about today’s meeting between the Prime Minister, the Chancellor, the Governor of the Bank of England and the Chairman of the Financial Services Authority, the Prime Minister’s Spokesman (PMS) said that he did not anticipate any words from the Prime Minister to be released after the meeting. Asked about the content of today’s meeting, […]

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