» Thursday, June 25, 2009

National Security Strategy

Asked when the decision had been taken to make an Oral Statement on the National Security Strategy (NSS), the Prime Minister s Spokesman (PMS) said that we were happy to give the House of Commons an update via an Oral Statement in addition to a Written Statement and that was what we would be doing. […]

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Governor of the Bank of England

Asked for the Prime Minister s response to Mervyn King s comments yesterday regarding the UK deficit, the PMS said the Pre Budget Report (PBR) and the Budget set out future plans, which put the public finances on a path to half the deficit over four years. As we were saying yesterday, it was difficult […]

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Pensions

Asked if the Prime Minister was relieved that MPs would not vote on their pension contributions, the PMS said that people were often left with the impression that the Government was forcing through issues such as this due to the fact that it was only the Government that could table motions in Parliament. The role […]

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Iraq Inquiry

Put that there was an article in The Spectator that alleged that Lord Mandelson made a deal with the Prime Minister to ensure that the Iraq hearings would be held in private, the PMS said that that had been categorically denied by Lord Mandelson s office. There was a flaw in the article s thesis, […]

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Misc

Asked about the man who had been held in Iran, the PMS said that the individual in question was a British-Greek national who travelled into Iran on his Greek passport. Our Ambassador had been in close contact with his Greek counterpart offering any assistance and had also raised the case with the Iranian Ministry of […]

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