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Northern Ireland

Asked about the Northern Ireland package that the Chancellor had mentioned in his Budget statement, the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman (PMOS) replied that the Chancellor would be meeting the parties in the round tomorrow at 10:30, and it was right that they should be the ones to hear the detail first. Asked where the meeting would take place, the PMOS replied that the meeting would be taking place in London.

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Chancellor

Asked if senior civil servants led by Sir Gus O'Donnell had been discussing the Chancellor's style of leadership when he becomes Prime Minister, the PMOS replied that all he could say was that anything being done would be entirely proper constitutionally, and at the minute they were focused on serving the present Prime Minister.

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Select Committee Witnesses

Asked if the Prime Minister had a view on the serious suggestion that witnesses in front of Select Committees should take an oath to tell the truth, the PMOS replied that the Prime Minister's view was that everyone in front of a Select Committee should tell the truth.

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Police Inquiry

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Budget Cabinet/Budget

The Prime Minister's Official Spokesman (PMOS) told journalists that the Chancellor had given a presentation to Cabinet today on his 11th Budget this morning. The Chancellor said that this would be a reforming Budget, which would show that with a platform of continued stability and growth, the Government could support families, pensioners and business, encourage work and savings, protect the environment, and increase investment in schools and other front line public services.

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Open Skies

Asked if there was any response to the Independent's report today about the Prime Minister and President Bush's conversation last night about open skies, and that the President had rejected it, the PMOS said that he did not recognise the account in the Independent about the conversation; in other words, it was wrong. In terms of where we were, we were still in discussion with the Commission, the EU Presidency and the US ahead of tomorrow's Transport Council. The question we wanted to address was whether there would be a clear mechanism in place, with real incentives on both sides to reach an open market, which we judged to be in the interests of all travellers, especially British consumers in airlines. This was a matter, therefore, continuing discussion.

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