» Tuesday, January 25, 2011EconomyThe PMS was asked what the Prime Minister thought of the GDP figures released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) that morning. He answered that the Prime Minister agreed with the Chancellor that they were disappointing. He added that as the UK came out of recession, experience showed that a choppy period was to […] Briefing took place at 15:45 | Read whole briefing | Comments (0) MiscAsked whether Downing Street would be getting a cat, the PMS said no decision had been taken. Asked if the Prime Minister was due to announce a new director of communications, the PMS said nothing was imminent. original source. Briefing took place at 15:45 | Read whole briefing | Comments (0) GDP FiguresAsked if the Prime Minister was confident there wouldn’t be a double dip recession, the PMS said that it was worth noting what the ONS itself had said about the impact of the cold weather on this quarter. It was also worth noting the negative contribution from construction, which was historically a very volatile part […] Briefing took place at 10:00 | Read whole briefing | Comments (0) SkyAsked if the Prime Minister thought that Ofcom was doing a good job, the PMS said that Ofcom was an independent regulator. Asked if the Prime Minister still wanted to change or abolish it, the PMS advised people to speak to DCMS about the Government’s policy on Ofcom. Asked if the Prime Minister was happy […] Briefing took place at 10:00 | Read whole briefing | Comments (0) MiscAsked if the Prime Minister had any fears over whether his phone had been hacked into, the PMS said no, he did not. Asked about the Russian airport bomb and whether there was any more information, the PMS said that there had only been one British fatality, rather than two, as had been reported in […] Briefing took place at 10:00 | Read whole briefing | Comments (0) » Monday, January 24, 2011Lord StrathclydeAsked if the Prime Minister had spoken to Lord Strathclyde today, the Prime Minister’s Spokesman (PMS) told the assembled press that he had not. On whether the Prime Minister still had full confidence in Lord Strathclyde, the PMS replied that he did. original source. Briefing took place at 15:45 | Read whole briefing | Comments (0) EconomyAsked what the Prime Minister thought about Richard Lambert’s speech, the PMS said that he did not know if the Prime Minister had read the speech. The PMS said Richard Lambert seemed to be making many of the arguments you would expect a business lobby group to be making. Asked whether the Prime Minister would […] Briefing took place at 15:45 | Read whole briefing | Comments (0) SkyAsked whether the Prime Minister would be meeting with Rupert Murdoch or had met with James Murdoch, the PMS said that this was not an area he would be getting into, on the basis that there was an established system for informing people of the Prime Minister’s meetings and he did not want to move […] Briefing took place at 15:45 | Read whole briefing | Comments (0) MiscAsked if the Prime Minister was looking to push through’ the AV Bill, the PMS said that we would continue to give it time for debate. Asked if the Prime Minister had made any calls to the Met police over fears his phone had been hacked, the PMS replied that he was not aware of […] Briefing took place at 15:45 | Read whole briefing | Comments (0) SkyAsked whether the Prime Minister would be meeting Rupert Murdoch this week, the Prime Minister’s Spokesman (PMS) told the assembled press that we wouldn’t normally give a list of the Prime Minister’s meetings at the beginning of a week, but they shouldn’t read anything into that. The process was that we published the meetings that […] Briefing took place at 10:00 | Read whole briefing | Comments (0) Original PMOS briefings are © Crown Copyright. Crown Copyright material is reproduced with the permission of the Controller of HMSO and the Queen's Printer for Scotland. Click-use licence number C02W0004089. Material is reproduced from the original 10 Downing Street source, but may not be the most up-to-date version of the briefings, which might be revised at the original source. Users should check with the original source in case of revisions. Comments are © Copyright contributors. Everything else is © Copyright Downing Street Says. |
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