» Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Libya

Asked if Britain intended to drop its plans for a no-fly zone or whether a decision on whether to implement one was imminent, the Prime Minister’s Spokesperson (PMS) said today’s communiqu from the G8 welcomed the fact that the UN Security Council was urgently considering a wide range of measures to ensure the protection of […]

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Bahrain

Asked if Britain was preparing plans to pull British people out of Bahrain, the PMS said that the Government was extremely concerned about the situation in Bahrain and called on all parties to exercise restraint. It was vital that governments responded to calls for change with reform and not repression. Given recent events, the Foreign […]

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Health

Asked if the Prime Minister intended to ask the Health Secretary to amend his plans for NHS Reform following opposition from the British Medical Association (BMA), the PMS said that we were clearly disappointed the BMA has decided to oppose elements of the Health and Social Care Bill it had previously supported rather than work […]

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Cabinet: Japan and Libya

The Prime Minister’s Spokesman (PMS) said that Cabinet had met this morning and discussed the situation in Japan, and the ongoing situation in Libya and the Middle East. The Foreign Secretary was not in attendance as he was at the G8 meeting so the Foreign Minister, Jeremy Browne and the Chief Scientific Adviser, Sir John […]

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Civil Service

Asked if the Prime Minister regretted what he had said in a recent speech about civil servants as the enemies of enterprise’, the PMS said that we needed to have a robust strategy for growth, which meant tackling barriers to enterprise wherever we found them. In various areas overzealous regulation could stand in the way […]

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