» Thursday, March 3, 2011
Libya
Asked if the Foreign Secretary had admitted to severe intelligence failures during Cabinet and whether the Education Secretary had criticised the Foreign Office for their response to the situation in Libya, the Prime Minister’s Spokesman told the assembled press that he would not be going into a great deal of detail about Cabinet discussions. The […]
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BSkyB
Asked if the Prime Minister was pleased that Rupert Murdoch had been given the go ahead for the takeover, the PMS said the Culture Secretary had set out his decision and the Prime Minister had no role in that process; he was not aware of the Culture Secretary’s decision before it was made and announced. […]
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Banking
Asked about reports in the media this morning about the Government abandoning the City, the PMS said that we wanted to see a successful and strong financial services sector in this country. We needed to respond to what we had seen in the last few years and we were strengthening our regulatory regime, as all […]
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Benefits
Asked about reports on Eastern European nationals being able to claim benefits and whether that undermined the Government’s wider policy on immigration, the PMS replied that this was a story relating to a decision taken eight years ago. The PMS said that the restrictions that had been put in place now had to be lifted […]
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» Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Libya
Asked whether the Government agreed with Lord Ashdown that a no-fly zone would need UN, Arab and Libyan support, the Prime Minister’s Spokesman (PMS) told the assembled press that we were doing some work on this and other contingency plans. People would expect us to do that and it was right for the Government to […]
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Police Pay
Asked if the Prime Minister was determined to press ahead with the cuts agenda, the PMS said that we had a significant deficit which we had to deal with and that meant finding savings in various places. The cost of the police was 11bn and three quarters of that was spent on pay, so pay […]
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» Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Libya
Asked if the Prime Minister was happy with the response from the EU on Libya so far, the Prime Minister’s Spokesperson (PMS) told the assembled press that there had been a big diplomatic effort over several days including the process at the UN and we were pleased with how it had progressed. The Prime Minister […]
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MOD Redundancies
Asked about the MOD announcement today on the squadrons not having been part of the SDSR and whether that meant the original process was not complete, the PMS said the SDSR involved strategic decisions about the future. Clearly there were detailed decisions that flowed from that and we were explicit at the time that a […]
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Libya
The Prime Minister’s Spokesman (PMS) started by saying that Cabinet had discussed Libya this morning. There was a broad discussion on the range of activity across Government; the Foreign Secretary and the Defence Secretary both gave updates. The Chancellor spoke about what was happening in terms of freezing assets, as well as the bank notes […]
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