» Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Scottish referendum
Put that the Secretary of State for Scotland said that there should be two referendums for independence and did the Prime Minister agree, the Prime Minister’s Spokesman told the assembled press that he had nothing further to add to what he had said this morning. It was up to the Scottish government to produce detailed […]
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NHS reform
When asked why the Prime Minister had chosen today to speak on health when the report was not out for a week, the PMS said that e were waiting for the Future Forum report, but it was normal for the Prime Minister to make a speech on health, particularly when this debate was going on. […]
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Misc
Put that Alex Salmond had asked about an economic Plan B’, for Scotland, the PMS said that we had had a long debate on economic policy yesterday and he had nothing further to add. Asked about Scottish Power increasing its prices, the PMS said that this reflected what was happening to world commodity and wholesale […]
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NHS reform
Put that the phrase real terms increase’ was not in the briefing given out on the Prime Minister’s speech and did it still apply, the PMS said that this pledge was in the Coalition Agreement and was still there. On whether waiting times would be measured and what did the Prime Minister mean when he […]
Briefing took place at 10:00 | Read whole briefing | Comments (0)
Yemen
Put that there had been reports of Royal Marines on standby to help evacuate British civilians, the PMS replied that this was a routine military deployment to the region and we would not want to comment on their operations. On Yemen in particular, we were deeply concerned about what was taking place there. The PMS […]
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Prevent
Asked if the Prime Minster thought that he could control the internet and extremist websites, the PMS said that it was clear that this was a complex issue and one that required a wide range of tools to deal with it. The Home Secretary would be saying more in her statement this afternoon but the […]
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PAC Report on higher education
Asked if the Prime Minister minded if universities failed, the PMS said that there had been a lot of speculation on the conclusions of the report. We had set out some proposals and they would not actually be implemented until next year. The Office for Fair Access (Offa) was still waiting to hear the details […]
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» Monday, June 6, 2011
Strikes
Asked whether the Prime Minister had made up his mind on possible new rules for the right to strike, the Prime Minister’s Spokesman (PMS) told the assembled press that the position remained the same; we didn’t currently have any proposals to amend the strike laws but the Prime Minister had said in the past that […]
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Economy
Asked whether the Chancellor’s comments this morning on being on course for meeting his fiscal mandate a year early were significant, the PMS replied that this was what the Chancellor had said at the time of the Budget. The PMS said that based on the OBR forecasts, the plans that had been set out meant […]
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Bailey Report
Asked what the Prime Minister’s view was on the tightening up of the 9pm watershed, the PMS said that we had given our response to the report this morning; we had not gone into a great amount of detail on the specifics, but we would look carefully at the proposals, consider them in detail and […]
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