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Bank Reform

Asked whether the Prime Minister thought the Chancellor’s announcement in the Commons today on banking regulation would have any impact on ordinary people, the Prime Minister’s Spokesman (PMS) told the assembled press that he did. When asked to clarify, he responded that there had been a failure in banking regulation in many countries, and as […]

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European Council

Asked if the European Council would look at a Europe-wide budget, the PMS said that discussions would look at the work carried out by Van Rompuy and that he would be providing an update on that work. These would be the first discussions European leaders would have had on these issues. The PMS said there […]

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BP

Asked if there had been any further contact between the Government and BP, the PMS said DECC was in regular contact and had been receiving updates. Suggested that the Prime Minister may be concerned that President Obama might ask BP to make financial commitments that could damage the company, the PMS referred to an interview […]

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LGBT reception

Put that there had been speculation on whether Peter Tatchell had been invited to the reception, the Prime Minster’s Spokesman (PMS) told the assembled press that the purpose of this evening’s reception was to mark the start of the Gay Pride festival. There would be lots of people attending from business, charities and elsewhere and […]

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IPSA

On whether the Prime Minister thought that the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) was doing a good job, the PMS replied that the Prime Minister was very much in favour of the system and having an independent authority to deal with these issues. There had been some discussions about how that had been going and […]

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European Council

Asked for the Prime Minister’s views on letting the EU vet countries Budgets and a proposed transaction tax, the PMS said that the Government had been clear on the vetting of Budgets. There was a process of multi-lateral scrutiny of economic policy of different member states and that would continue, but it would not be […]

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Unemployment

On whether the Prime Minister was concerned about the rise in unemployment, the PMS said that we were concerned with the rise. Given that unemployment was over 2.5million and given that there were record numbers of people of working age who were economically inactive, we needed to take action to get the private sector moving […]

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