» Monday, October 24, 2005
Counter-Terrorism
Asked if the Prime Minister agreed with the Delivery Unit that the UK's counter-terrorism strategy was immature, the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman (PMOS) said that first of all we should recognise what action had been taken on counter-terrorism in the period since 9/11. By 2007 we will have doubled expenditure to over £2billion. We have already introduced a range of counter-terrorism legislation and were currently introducing more counter-terrorism legislation.
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Smoking Ban
Asked for an update on smoking, the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman (PMOS) said that he had no reason to believe anything had changed.
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Birmingham Disturbances
Asked for a response to the violence in Birmingham on Saturday in which a man was killed, the PMOS said that the Prime Minister was obviously keenly aware of what went on in Birmingham and was also keenly appreciative of the efforts of the police and those in the community wjo had responded to the situation. He commended the efforts of both the police and those in the community who were working to resolve matters. Obviously he couldn't go into further detail because of the ongoing investigation.
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Baghdad
Asked if the Prime Minister had been informed about the triple bombing in Baghdad, the PMOS said that it had just broken as we had left.
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Syria
Asked if we support sanctions being imposed on Syria in the light of the Mehlis report commissioned by the UN, the PMOS said that Mr Mehlis was making his report to the UN tomorrow. We fully supported the call for a foreign ministers session at the UN and we fully supported those who said this was a very serious matter and Syria needed to live up to its international obligations. What was important was that we let the UN process go forward. That was as much as we could say at this stage. It was clearly a very serious report which required a very serious response.
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Tripartite Informal Summit
Asked if the David Blunkett/ Alan Johnson paper: A Modern Dimension for Europe, Principles for Reform was the Government's position, the PMOS said that it was there for journalists to read.
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Informal European Summit
Asked if the Prime Minister thought that Angela Merkel should attend the summit, the PMOS said that it was a matter for the German government who represented Germany and as a matter of fact Chancellor Schroeder was still Chancellor, the invitation was to Chancellor Schroeder and the anticipation was that he would be there. He would remind journalists that the purpose of the summit was to have a debate on how the EU responded to globalisation and it was President Barroso had set out in The Times this morning, that he did not believe that the status quo was an option. We fully supported that.
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EU Informal Summit
Asked for details on Thursday's Summit, the PMOS said that he would provide a detailed briefing tomorrow morning. The summit would focus on how Europe would face the challenge from globalisation. It would not be on future finance. Asked how we would measure the success of the informal summit, the PMOS said that if a consensus was reached on the EU' response to globalisation.
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PM’s Education Speech
Asked what would be left for the LEA's to do, the PMOS said that White Paper would be published tomorrow. The Prime Minister had been indicating that LEA's should focus on the strategic direction of schools, not the detail freeing schools to be able to do what they are good at.
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