» Thursday, June 9, 2011
Sentencing
Asked what the Prime Minister had meant when he said that Ken Clarke still had plenty of fuel in the tank’ and did this mean that he would be in the Cabinet for many years to come, the PMS replied that the Prime Minister had said what he said. Asked whether sentence discounts’ had only […]
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David Kelly
Asked if the Attorney General had the authority to rule that no further inquests were needed, the PMS said that he did have that authority. The Attorney General had been considering some evidence and had decided that it should not proceed any further. original source.
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BMA
Asked if there had been contact between the Government and the BMA, the PMS said that there certainly had been lots of conversations with the BMA over the last couple of months. Asked how important it was that organisations like the BMA changed their view on NHS reform, the PMS said that we had been […]
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Banks
Asked about Stephen Hester admitting that some taxpayer’s money could have gone in to paying bankers bonuses, the PMS replied that the Government had put a significant amount of money into RBS and they had paid bonuses. Asked if that was right, the PMS said that banks were operating under much stricter rules and the […]
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» Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Southern Cross
Put that Southern Cross had announced 3000 redundancies, the Prime Minster’s Spokesman (PMS) told the assembled press that the Department of Health had issued a statement and there was nothing he could add to that. original source.
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Syria
Asked how confident the Government was on getting a resolution on Syria, the PMS replied that the discussion that would take place this afternoon was an opening discussion. We would need to see what the view was around the table. The PMS said that the Foreign Secretary had made the point that some countries had […]
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Departmental budgets
Asked about Justine Greening’s comments, the PMS said he thought the comments were broadly in line with what he had said this morning; departments had budgets which were fixed for four years and they were expected to live within them. What Justine Greening had also said was that these were four year plans and there […]
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Energy prices
Asked about the rise in energy prices, the Prime Minister’s Spokesman (PMS) told the assembled press that the rise in energy bills was very disappointing for customers. This was a commercial decision fro the company involved and reflected high global energy prices at the present time. The PMS said that the Government and Ofgem would […]
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Sentencing
Asked what had prompted the u-turn’ on shorter sentences, the PMS replied that we had published a Green Paper setting out some proposals and we had been consulting on those proposals. The consultation had now formally closed and resulted in around 1200 responses to the Ministry of Justice. We would be looking at those responses […]
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Afghanistan
Asked if there would be a troop withdrawal this year, the PMS replied that there was nothing further to say on troop withdrawals at the present time. We were expecting an announcement from the US and it was subject of discussion when President Obama was here recently. original source.
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