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Asked if the Prime Minister would be meeting the First Minister today to discuss Grangemouth, the PMS replied that there had been very good co-operation between the UK Government and the Scottish Executive in recent days on the issue of Grangemouth. John Hutton and Alex Salmond had been speaking frequently over recent days. The Prime Minister was not in London for most of today, although was expected to be back later, and we understood that Alex Salmond would also be in London later but we were looking at diaries to see what was possible. But as he had said, there had been a lot of contact between John Hutton and the First Minister directly and co-operation between the UK Government and the Scottish Executive had so far been good on this matter.

Asked if the meeting were to take place would it be the first time they would have met, the PMS replied that they had spoken on a number of occasions, and they were also together at the same event in Northern Ireland in the autumn of last year.

Put that this was not quite the same thing, and asked if this was the first arranged meeting between the two, the PMS replied that as he had said, there had been very good meetings so far between John Hutton and the First Minister. The Prime Minister had spoken on a number of occasions since Mr Salmond became the First Minister of Scotland.

Asked if they were to meet tonight, would this be the second time they had met, the PMS replied that they had spoken to each other on numerous occasions, and we had had very regular contact between John Hutton and the First Minister on this Grangemouth issue in recent days.

Asked if they were to meet, would Grangemouth be the only item on the agenda, the PMS replied that it would principally be about Grangemouth, but as he had said, the meeting had not yet been fixed because of diary issues. John Hutton had been in almost daily contact with Alex Salmond in recent days.

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