{"id":15631,"date":"2013-06-11T09:15:07","date_gmt":"2013-06-11T09:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=36ce448d106c2ed6f76a4c745bdec1b7"},"modified":"2013-06-11T09:15:07","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T09:15:07","slug":"press-release-press-briefing-afternoon-10-june-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=15631","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Press briefing: afternoon 10 June 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<h2 id=\"syria\">Syria<\/h2>\n<p>Asked whether the UK government was holding meetings about providing arms to the rebels in Syria, the <abbr title=\"Prime Minister's Spokesperson\">PMS<\/abbr> said that the Prime Minister\u2019s position remained unchanged and that no decision had been made about providing lethal assistance.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"thames-water\">Thames Water<\/h2>\n<p>Asked whether the Prime Minister had a view on Thames Water not paying tax, the <abbr title=\"Prime Minister's Spokesperson\">PMS<\/abbr> said he would not comment on specific cases but the Prime Minister was clear that all companies must pay the taxes that are due.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"government-communications-headquarters-gchq\">Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ)<\/h2>\n<p>Asked whether the Prime Minister was content that no Ministerial emails had been compromised, the <abbr title=\"Prime Minister's Spokesperson\">PMS<\/abbr> said that the Prime Minister was confident that the Security Services worked within a very strong legal framework, with strong ministerial oversight and parliamentary oversight from the Intelligence and Security Committee.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"economy\">Economy<\/h2>\n<p>Asked whether the Prime Minister thought the <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ey.com\/UK\/en\/Issues\/Business-environment\/Financial-markets-and-economy\/Ernst---Young-ITEM-Club-special-report-on-consumer-spending\">spending boom predicted by the Item Club<\/a> was good for the economy, the <abbr title=\"Prime Minister's Spokesperson\">PMS<\/abbr> said that the Prime Minister believed the economy was healing.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"europe\">Europe<\/h2>\n<p>Asked how the Prime Minister can argue for independence when he has made it clear he wants to stay in Europe, the <abbr title=\"Prime Minister's Spokesperson\">PMS<\/abbr> said that the Prime Minister had made his position clear on Europe during his <a href=\"\/government\/news\/david-camerons-eu-speech--2\">speech in January.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Prime Minister&#8217;s Spokesperson (PMS) answered questions on Syria, Thames Water, GCHQ, the economy and Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15631"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}