» Friday, January 15, 2010HaitiOur specialist teams are on the ground and commenced working. Our ambassador, Steve Fisher, and a consular officer travelled from Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic) yesterday and are now on the ground in Haiti. They are working closely with our resident Honorary Consul. A Foreign Office consular rapid deployment team arrived in Santo Domingo yesterday to […] Briefing took place at 10:00 | Read whole briefing | Comments (0) Bank BonusesPut that JP Morgan were announcing bonuses worth 27billion today while President Obama had urged other countries to curb excesses in banks and what was the Prime Minister’s view on this, the Prime Minister’s Spokesman (PMS) told the assembled press that we had made our position clear with the introduction of the bonus tax. In […] Briefing took place at 10:00 | Read whole briefing | Comments (2) EconomyAsked whether the Prime Minister agreed with the Chancellor that the recession was over, the PMS said that he had not heard the Chancellor characterise it in the present tense. The Government had always said that we would see a recovery by the turn of the year. Put that the Chancellor had said it in […] Briefing took place at 10:00 | Read whole briefing | Comments (0) AV ReferedumAsked if the Government was still committed to legislating this side of the election for an AV referendum after the election, the PMS said yes; we had said that we planned to hold a referendum on AV after the next election. original source. Briefing took place at 10:00 | Read whole briefing | Comments (0) International DevelopmentPut that the Opposition had said that it could use some of the ring-fenced international development money for a military reconstruction force, the PMS said that the idea of a reconstruction force was not new. We had about a 1000 UK professionals who stood ready to help unstable countries get back on their feet. They […] Briefing took place at 10:00 | Read whole briefing | Comments (0) Original PMOS briefings are © Crown Copyright. Crown Copyright material is reproduced with the permission of the Controller of HMSO and the Queen's Printer for Scotland. Click-use licence number C02W0004089. Material is reproduced from the original 10 Downing Street source, but may not be the most up-to-date version of the briefings, which might be revised at the original source. Users should check with the original source in case of revisions. Comments are © Copyright contributors. Everything else is © Copyright Downing Street Says. |
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