» Monday, July 20, 2009

Alan Sugar

Asked if Alan Sugar s dealings with the BBC were sorted in light of the fact he had now become a member of the House of Lords, the PMS said that issues in relation to Sir Alan Sugar and the BBC were a matter for them; these were not issues for the Government. Sir Alan […]

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Swine Flu

Asked about the advice the Government gave out about swine flu at the weekend, the PMS said that Andy Burnham had been on the radio this morning setting out the Government s position and would make a Statement to the House of Commons this afternoon. Asked about the National Childbirth Trust s advice to pregnant […]

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» Friday, July 17, 2009

Afghanistan

Asked if the Prime Minister would pay for everything on General Dannatt s shopping list , the Prime Minister s Spokesman (PMS) told the assembled press that it was right for the Head of the Army (CGS) to travel to Afghanistan to look in detail at the operation and assess its performance and its requirements […]

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» Thursday, July 16, 2009

WMS’S

Asked why there was a delay to the publication of the WMS s, the Prime Minister s Spokesman (PMS) said that there was a large amount of information to collate and it took time. original source.

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Liaison Commitee

Asked what the Prime Minister said at the Liaison Committee this morning about an increase in student places, the PMS said that the Prime Minister did not give a figure this morning and that there would be an announcement in due course. Asked what the thinking was behind the decision to increase student places, the […]

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Afghanistan

Put that David Miliband had just told the House of Commons that all helicopters from NATO countries were available to anyone and if that meant that British troops had already been flying around in German helicopters, the PMS said that there was nothing new in what David Miliband had said today about helicopters in Afghanistan; […]

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Jacqui Smith

Put that Jacqui Smith had said in an interview that she had had no experience of running a major organisation before becoming Home Secretary, the PMS said that he was not going to start providing a commentary on interviews with former Ministers. The Prime Minister s views on Jacqui Smith and her performance as Home […]

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Lloyds

Asked for the Prime Minister s thoughts on the fact that the Lloyds Banking Group, a state-owned bank, had made more redundancies today, the PMS said that these were management decisions for the Lloyds Group and we were not going to comment in detail on a decision taken by them. As we had said in […]

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Cabinet Secretary

Put that the Cabinet Secretary seemed to suggest in a recent interview that there would be some spending cuts in some departments of more than twenty per cent, the PMS said that the Prime Minister was asked today about a similar sort of figure that appeared in a newspaper over the weekend. The Prime Minister […]

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Misc

Asked if the Prime Minister agreed with the First Secretary that there would be constraints on spending in the next ten years, the PMS said that the Prime Minister had set out his views on spending at the Liaison Committee this morning and there was nothing more to add to what he had already said. […]

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