» Friday, November 16, 2007
Pre-charge Detention
Asked if there were any discussions going on at the Home Office today regarding putting proposals forward on pre-charge detention, the PMS said that he was sure there discussions going on at the Home Office about all sorts of issues every day. original source.
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» Thursday, November 15, 2007
David Miliband Speech
Put that the Guardian seemed to suggest this morning that there was the possibility of EU countries doing more collectively on defence and that there would be a review of this, the Prime Minister’s Spokesman (PMS) said it was best to speak to the Foreign Office for an interpretation of David Miliband’s speech. His understanding […]
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Terror Detention
Asked if Lord Carlile had been right in thinking that there would be decisions from the Home Office regarding terror detention in the next 48 hours, the PMS said no. Asked how far away such decisions and announcements were, the PMS said people should wait and see, but as he had said this morning, there […]
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Private Sector and Health
Asked if it was accepted that the Government was scaling back the involvement of the private sector in the health service, the PMS said we would not accept that; the policy on the role of the private sector in the health sector remained the same. We were totally committed to using the independent sector where […]
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Immigration Statistics
Asked if it was a good or bad thing that the immigration statistics showed that more people were coming and more people were leaving, the PMS said that Hazel Blears had said something on behalf of the Government and that was what the position was. Net migration levels had fallen for the second consecutive year. […]
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Pre-charge Detention Period
Asked what evidence there was to extend the detention period to 56 days, the Prime Minister’s Spokesman (PMS) replied that as we set our in our July document, there was evidence to suggest increasing trends in the length of time that it was necessary in order to question people in complex terrorist case, to make […]
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Police Inquiry
Put that Sir Gus O’Donnell had been given evidence to the Public Administration Select Committee and it had been reported that he said that the police should not have started their investigation in to cash for honours without checking whether the law would really allow prosecutions in the first place, and asked if this was […]
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Northern Rock
Put that the Prime Minister was asked yesterday whether he could give an assurance that the loan and the interest on the loan would be repaid by 2010, and asked if we expected the loan and the interest to be paid by the buyer of Northern Rock, the PMS replied that we had nothing to […]
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» Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Security Statement
Asked if the Government was ordering or advising that extra barriers/barricades be put up in certain places to stop car bombs, the Prime Minister’s Spokesman (PMS), replied that it depended on who owned them as to whether or not the responsibility fell to the Government or the private sector. There would be a process of […]
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Security
Asked if the Prime Minister had full confidence in his Security Minister to make his own statements and judgements, the Prime Minister’s Spokesman (PMS) replied that yes he did. Asked what happened then between Lord West going on the Today Programme when he said that he still needed to be fully convinced that we absolutely […]
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