» Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Cabinet

The Prime Minister s Spokesman (PMS) began by giving a brief rundown of what had been discussed at Cabinet. There was a discussion on the economy, the Cabinet had gone through the reforms of MP s allowances that we were announcing and there was an update from David Miliband on the situation in Sri Lanka. […]

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Economy

On the economy, the Prime Minister had outlined the global context for the Budget and had said that all countries were tackling similar issues. We were taking action in Britain that we were seeing having an effect. For example, just this morning we had seen the impact of the VAT cut on the retail sector. […]

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MP’s Allowances

The PMS said that we were setting out a set of interim proposals that the Government would put to a vote in the House of Commons within the next few weeks, with a view to these coming into effect by the 1st July. It was the view of the Prime Minister and the Cabinet that […]

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Operational Efficiency Programe

Asked whether the programme would mean redundancies, the PMS said it would outline the action we were proposing to take in relation to efficiency to ensure that we got the best value for money for every pound of taxpayer money spent. original source.

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WMS on Israel

Asked for more detail on the WMS, the PMS said that it was a statement that had been issued at the request of parliament to undertake a complete assessment of UK arms and components exported to Israel that might have been used by the Israeli defence forces during the recent conflict in Gaza. The PMS […]

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