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NHS Future Forum Report

Asked about how the Government would respond to the Future Forum report tomorrow, the Prime Minister’s Spokesperson (PMS) said that there would be a statement in the House by the Health Secretary responding to the report on Tuesday 14 June. Asked to clarify how the Government’s own listening exercise tied into the Future Forum report, […]

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Benefit cap

Asked whether the Government was putting aside money to cushion the blow’ of the benefit cap, the PMS said the Government had set out its policies and they remained unchanged. Asked whether Lord Freud had misspoken at the weekend, the PMS said that Lord Freud had been referring to specific circumstances and the Government was […]

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Benefit payments

Asked if the plans for a benefit cap had been watered down, the Prime Minister’s Spokesman (PMS) told the assembled press that the policy remained unchanged. Asked what Lord Freud had been talking about yesterday when he spoke about exceptional circumstances’, the PMS replied that Iain Duncan Smith had put out a statement this morning […]

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

NHS reform

When asked which side of the Coalition had won’ on NHS reform, the PMS said that he wouldn’t characterise it in those terms. We were still waiting for the NHS Future Forum report which would be published later today and we would have more to say about our response to that tomorrow. Asked if it […]

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Missing children

Put that Kate McCann had been speaking today on what more could be done to find missing children and was the Prime Minister sympathetic to that, the PMS said that it was a priority for the Government and we were working hard to make sure we had the best arrangements in place to support families […]

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Scotland

Asked whether the Scottish government would be given extra borrowing powers and had the UK Government caved in’ on the issue, the PMS said that we had always said that we would listen carefully to any detailed proposals and that’s what we were doing. original source.

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Misc

Asked about employee representatives on remuneration boards, the PMS said that he would not be commenting on soon to be announced opposition policy. Asked about council housing policy and the fact that tenants could get moved up the ladder if they were in work and was the Government minded to use those powers more often, […]

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