» Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Iraq Inquiry
Put that David Miliband had said that the inquiry was free to blame whoever it wanted after the Prime Minister had originally said that the inquiry was not set up for that purpose, the Prime Minister s Spokesman (PMS) told the assembled press that Sir John Chilcot was independent and he could say whatever he […]
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MPs Pensions
Put that MPs would be voting tomorrow on a Government proposal to increase the amount the taxpayer put into MPs pension pots and was this something the Prime Minister supported, the PMS said that he did not think there was anything new in this. This was something that been reported months ago. The purpose was […]
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Iran
Asked if there was any more information on UK citizens that may have been arrested, the PMS replied that he was not in a position to confirm that and there was no further information. original source.
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Mervyn King
Asked for the Government s reaction to Mervyn King s comments that more needed to be done to address the deficit, the PMS said that Mervyn King was still giving his evidence to the Select Committee and he did not intend to respond to the evidence while it was still going on. The PMS added […]
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OECD Predictions
Asked to comment on the predictions, the PMS replied that there were a range of forecasts at the moment. This was clearly a very uncertain period. What the OECD forecast showed, as many other forecasters showed was that for 2009, Britain was being affected by the downturn, but other countries such as Germany, Italy, Japan […]
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Capital Spending
In response to the question of whether the Government was now admitting that capital spending would fall, the PMS said he could go through this in great detail if people wanted. There had been a change in the profile of public spending for the years in the run-up to the Olympics. From 2008/09 to 2011/12, […]
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Ministerial Statements
Put that the Speaker had said that he wanted Ministerial Statements to be made first to the House and would there be any change in procedure in No10, the PMS said that the question implied that we were inappropriately giving information to media organisations before we did so to the House of Commons. It would […]
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Iraq Inquiry
Asked if the Prime Minister would be prepared to make a statement to Parliament on the terms of reference for the Iraq Inquiry, the Prime Minister s Spokesman (PMS) told the assembled press that there was a debate in Parliament about this today. The Prime Minister had already made a statement to Parliament on the […]
Briefing took place at 11:00 | Read whole briefing | Comments (0)
Iran
Asked if there was any response from the Government on the latest reported comments from the Iranian Foreign Minister, the PMS said that the Prime Minister had talked about this yesterday. We were monitoring the situation and we had noted these reports. We had always made clear that we would seek a constructive bilateral relationship […]
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