» Thursday, February 3, 2011

Big Society

Asked about Liverpool City Council officially withdrawing from the Big Society project, the Prime Minister’s Spokesman (PMS) told the assembled press that it was something we were looking into. We were looking into what the particular issues were and whether there were barriers and problems in that particular project. The PMS added that we were […]

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Pope’s Visit

Asked if the PM thought it was appropriate for 1.8million of The Department for International Development’s money to be spent on the Pope’s visit, the PMS said, as he understood it, this was not part of DfID’s budget which contributed towards its aid target of 0.7 per cent of GDP, it was another part of […]

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Egypt

Asked what the international community, including the UK, meant when they talked about the change process, the PMS said that we would like to see conversations happening with a broad range of people, including opposition politicians. original source.

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IPSA

Asked whether IPSA disputing the 6million figure changed the Government’s response, the PMS said he thought they had made a statement about what they expected the figure to be in the future. The PMS added that the costs this year were expected to be 6million. IPSA had said they intended to reduce that in future […]

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Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority

Asked if the Prime Minister agreed with Sir George Young’s comments about the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA), the Prime Minister’s Spokesman (PMS) said that Sir George Young was acting in a particular capacity. As he said in his evidence, he was a responding as a statutory consultee under Section 5 of the Parliamentary Standards […]

Briefing took place at 10:00 | Read whole briefing | Comments (0)

Egypt

Asked if, following on from this morning’s EU5 statement on Egypt, there had been a change in our position, the PMS said that it was in line with what we had been saying yesterday. Asked why the message hadn’t changed when the situation in Egypt had changed, the PMS said that the statement from the […]

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