» Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Haiti
On Haiti you will have heard what the PM said at PMQs: Because of the devastating earthquake overnight, Haiti has moved to the centre of the world’s thoughts and the world’s compassion. The Government will respond with emergency aid in fire-fighters, emergency equipment and finance. And we’ll give further support to help the people of […]
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Iraq Inquiry
Put that the Prime Minister had said in the Commons that he had nothing to hide and would give evidence whenever Chilcot asked him to and would the Prime Minister reconsider volunteering to give evidence before a general election, the PMS replied that the position on this had been very clear. It was for the […]
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Economy
Put that the Prime Minister had said in PMQs that if the Government had pursued the same economic policies of the 80’s and 90’s, there would be 1.7million fewer jobs in the country and where had that figure come from, the PMS said that it was a figure the Prime Minister had used before, but […]
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Taoiseach Visit
Asked whether the meeting between the Prime Minister and Brian Cowen would focus on completing devolution, the PMS replied that there was a process of the Prime Minister and the Secretary of State being in touch with all the key players in Ireland. The Secretary of State had met the Foreign Minister of Ireland already […]
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Salt
Put that the Prime Minister had said that salt supplies would be arriving in the next few days and did that mean that supplies would be arriving before the 22nd January, the PMS said that the position had not changed. The position was driven by how quickly we could get the salt transported to the […]
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Haiti
The Prime Minister’s Spokesman (PMS) started by giving people the Prime Minister’s words on the terrible news overnight of the earthquake in Haiti. He said, “I am deeply saddened and worried about the reported scale of the earthquake in Haiti. I am sending a message of sympathy and support to President Preval and we are […]
Briefing took place at 10:00 | Read whole briefing | Comments (0)
Weather
The PMS said that Lord Adonis issued a further statement yesterday afternoon which sets out the latest position. We continued to experience exceptional weather conditions – the current cold weather was the most prolonged spell of freezing conditions across the UK since December 1981. It was essential that we all worked together to keep Britain […]
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Iraq Inquiry
Asked if the letters between Tony Blair and President Bush had been passed on to the Chilcott inquiry team, the PMS said that we had made clear from the outset of the inquiry that we would not comment on a day by day basis. The Prime Minister was supportive of the inquiry and would cooperate […]
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Iceland
Asked if the Prime Minister would be having any further talks with Iceland regarding the repayment of loan money, the PMS said that this was a matter of concern and a referendum was due to be called in the next couple of months. We had been clear that we wanted the money to be repaid. […]
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Competition Commission
Asked why it had taken the Government so long to accept the Competition Commission recommendations on the Groceries Supply Code of Practice and if it had anything to do with the Opposition’s proposals on this a couple of weeks ago, the PMS said that we wanted to make sure that we got this right and […]
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