» Monday, November 15, 2010

Immigration

Asked if the Prime Minister had agreed to relaxing the Immigration cap so that the UK could attract foreign talent’, the PMS said the Government’s position was that we had not made any final decisions on the policy as yet. The Prime Minister had said in PMQs that he thought that it was possible to […]

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DPM In Holland

On whether the Deputy Prime Minister’s trip to the Netherlands was partly down to the fact that he was Dutch, the PMS replied that he didn’t believe that was the reason for the trip. original source.

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Civil Service Posts

On whether the Cabinet Secretary had finished his review into the hiring of staff on short-term contracts, the PMS replied that there was a system in place in Government departments which enabled appointments to be made on fixed-term contracts. The PMS added that this had long been the case and was an established procedure. The […]

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Bank Bonuses

Asked if the Prime Minister had expressed a view on bankers’ bonuses, the PMS replied that the Government’s position on pay was that we believed that pay should reflect and reward long-term value creation and not short-term risk taking. There were FSA rules in place to that effect. Put that the Prime Minister would not […]

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» Friday, November 12, 2010

Regional Building Plans

Asked what the Prime Minister’s reaction was to the court judgment against Eric Pickles’s decision to scrap the regional building plans, the PMS referred to the comments already made by Bob Neill on how this judgment changed very little and how later this month we would be introducing the Localism Bill which would sweep away […]

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Rape anonymity

Asked whether the rape anonymity announcement was a change in policy, the Prime Minister’s Spokesman (PMS) told the assembled press that the WMS would set out the position. original source.

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Armed forces pensions

Put that a Vice Admiral had said that the Prime Minster’s claims that he supported the armed forces rang hollow, given that the Government would be taking away some of the pensions of war widows, the PMS referred people back to what the Defence Minister Andrew Robathan had said about that decision. He had said […]

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EU Budget

On where we stood on the EU Budget and whether the Prime Minister was confident that the stance he took would now prevail, the PMS said that the Prime Minister had had a meeting in Seoul with Prime Minister Berlusconi, President Sarkozy and Chancellor Merkel, where they discussed the EU Budget and they had all […]

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» Thursday, November 11, 2010

Student riots

Put that some of the alleged perpetrators of the violence yesterday have been bailed until next February and asked how this fits in with the Prime Minister’s call for them to face the full force of the law, the Prime Minister’s Spokeswoman (PMS) said that the Prime Minister would not want to comment on what […]

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Student riots

Put that some of the alleged perpetrators of the violence yesterday have been bailed until next February and asked how this fits in with the Prime Minister’s call for them to face the full force of the law, the Prime Minister’s Spokeswoman (PMS) said that the Prime Minister would not want to comment on what […]

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