» Monday, October 18, 2010

Defence Review

Asked for some broad themes the Prime Minister would touch on in his statement tomorrow, the Prime Minister’s Spokesman (PMS) told the assembled press that we had published a National Security Strategy (NSS) today and the Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR) would be published tomorrow. Asked why the Prime Minister was giving the statement […]

Briefing took place at 15:45 | Read whole briefing | Comments (0)

Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR)

When asked if the CSR was complete, including the Welfare changes, the PMS replied that as the Chancellor had said yesterday, it was complete. Asked what complete’ meant, the PMS said that it meant that we had made the decisions required to set out budgets for all Government departments. Through that process and the discussions […]

Briefing took place at 15:45 | Read whole briefing | Comments (0)

Banking Code of Conduct

Asked whether the Government was disappointed that Lloyds was not signed up to the Banking Code of Conduct given that it was partly Government owned, the PMS said that he had not seen any statements from banks setting out their intentions. The PMS said he understood that there was some time before this would be […]

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Spending Review

Asked why the Spending Review was no longer called the Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR), the Prime Minister’s Spokesman (PMS) said that pre-1997 they were not called Spending Reviews, they were called Public Expenditure Rounds and they happened annually. In 1997, the first Spending Review under the previous government, and possibly the second, were referred to […]

Briefing took place at 10:00 | Read whole briefing | Comments (0)

Strategic Defence and Security Review

Asked when the next Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR) would be, the PMS said that there was currently no timing for the next SDSR. We had been clear that the National Security Council (NSC) would continually look at the issue of national security and the Government would report annually to Parliament on the strategy. […]

Briefing took place at 10:00 | Read whole briefing | Comments (0)

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