» Thursday, February 3, 2011Big SocietyAsked 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 […] Briefing took place at 15:45 | Read whole briefing | Comment (1) Pope’s VisitAsked 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 […] Briefing took place at 15:45 | Read whole briefing | Comments (0) EgyptAsked 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. Briefing took place at 15:45 | Read whole briefing | Comments (0) IPSAAsked 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 […] Briefing took place at 15:45 | Read whole briefing | Comments (0) Independent Parliamentary Standards AuthorityAsked 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) EgyptAsked 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 […] 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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