» Thursday, June 25, 2009

Pensions

Asked if the Prime Minister was relieved that MPs would not vote on their pension contributions, the PMS said that people were often left with the impression that the Government was forcing through issues such as this due to the fact that it was only the Government that could table motions in Parliament. The role […]

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Iraq Inquiry

Put that there was an article in The Spectator that alleged that Lord Mandelson made a deal with the Prime Minister to ensure that the Iraq hearings would be held in private, the PMS said that that had been categorically denied by Lord Mandelson s office. There was a flaw in the article s thesis, […]

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Misc

Asked about the man who had been held in Iran, the PMS said that the individual in question was a British-Greek national who travelled into Iran on his Greek passport. Our Ambassador had been in close contact with his Greek counterpart offering any assistance and had also raised the case with the Iranian Ministry of […]

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» Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Iraq Inquiry

Put that David Miliband had said that the inquiry was free to blame whoever it wanted after the Prime Minister had originally said that the inquiry was not set up for that purpose, the Prime Minister s Spokesman (PMS) told the assembled press that Sir John Chilcot was independent and he could say whatever he […]

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MPs Pensions

Put that MPs would be voting tomorrow on a Government proposal to increase the amount the taxpayer put into MPs pension pots and was this something the Prime Minister supported, the PMS said that he did not think there was anything new in this. This was something that been reported months ago. The purpose was […]

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Iran

Asked if there was any more information on UK citizens that may have been arrested, the PMS replied that he was not in a position to confirm that and there was no further information. original source.

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Mervyn King

Asked for the Government s reaction to Mervyn King s comments that more needed to be done to address the deficit, the PMS said that Mervyn King was still giving his evidence to the Select Committee and he did not intend to respond to the evidence while it was still going on. The PMS added […]

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OECD Predictions

Asked to comment on the predictions, the PMS replied that there were a range of forecasts at the moment. This was clearly a very uncertain period. What the OECD forecast showed, as many other forecasters showed was that for 2009, Britain was being affected by the downturn, but other countries such as Germany, Italy, Japan […]

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Capital Spending

In response to the question of whether the Government was now admitting that capital spending would fall, the PMS said he could go through this in great detail if people wanted. There had been a change in the profile of public spending for the years in the run-up to the Olympics. From 2008/09 to 2011/12, […]

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Ministerial Statements

Put that the Speaker had said that he wanted Ministerial Statements to be made first to the House and would there be any change in procedure in No10, the PMS said that the question implied that we were inappropriately giving information to media organisations before we did so to the House of Commons. It would […]

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