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Prime Minister’s Speech

Asked where the speech will be tomorrow, the Prime Minister’s Spokesman (PMS) said it would be at the Foreign Press Association. Asked if the Prime Minister would not be making a speech on nuclear disarmament now, the PMS said the Prime Minster would be making some opening remarks in which he would touch on security […]

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UK Statistics Society

Asked if the Statistics Authority today had called for the pre access to information to Ministers to reduce from a day to three hours, the PMS said no, but we do take the issue of pre release to official statistics very seriously. We tightened the rules around 1st December 2008, we are carrying out our […]

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Guidelines on Detainee Handling

Asked the reasons why we didn’t have published today the guidelines on detainees handling, the PMS said the Government would do it when it was ready to do so. We are committed to publishing as soon as possible. original source.

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Borrowing Figures

Asked if the Prime Minister had been cheered up by the latest borrowing figures, the PMS said any economic indicator that reinforces the fact that we are coming out of a recession was good news, but the Chancellor has cautioned, as have others that the recovery had some way to go. Asked if in the […]

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ISC Guidelines

Asked if it was the Prime Minister’s intention to publish the revised guidelines on the interrogation and treatment of suspects before the General Election, the Prime Minister’s Spokesman (PMS) told the assembled press that the Government was committed to publishing the guidelines as soon as possible. It was the Government’s aim to consolidate and publish […]

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DECC Adverts

Asked whether the Prime Minister had a view on the ruling against some wording in adverts produced by the Department for Energy and Climate Change, the PMS said that the department had given a response on this issue. original source.

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Iraq Inquiry

Asked about the Prime Minister’s letter to Sir John Chilcot and the lack of an apology, the PMS said the Prime Minister wanted to set out in more detail than he had provided to the Chilcot Inquiry, the position in relation to Defence budgets. Sir John Chilcot had said the letter provided a detailed explanation […]

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Electric Cars

Put that now electric cars were being made in the UK, would there be a larger number of charge points set up and who would pay for these, the PMS replied that the Government had made an announcement on the provision of more charge points but he would give the detail of that announcement. original […]

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» Thursday, March 18, 2010

Prime Minister’s Speech

UK Statistics Society

Guidelines on Detainee Handling

Borrowing Figures

ISC Guidelines

DECC Adverts

Iraq Inquiry

Electric Cars

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