{"id":35381,"date":"2013-11-20T11:20:17","date_gmt":"2013-11-20T11:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=de7fad83a1903d6a7d292c972dc22b86"},"modified":"2013-11-20T11:20:17","modified_gmt":"2013-11-20T11:20:17","slug":"press-release-press-briefing-morning-18-november-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=35381","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Press briefing: morning 18 November 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<h2 id=\"tax\">Tax<\/h2>\n<p>Asked about publishing the tax returns of ministers, the <abbr title=\"Prime Minister's Spokesperson\">PMS<\/abbr> said the government was considering how it might be done for senior ministers.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"online-pornography\">Online pornography<\/h2>\n<p>Asked about online filters for pornography, the <abbr title=\"Prime Minister's Spokesperson\">PMS<\/abbr> said there was on-going work with search engines and internet service providers to protect children. Two of the largest service providers had agreed to using filters \u2018on by default\u2019, and by the end of 2014, 95% of UK internet customers would have filters on their service by default. The entire industry had a responsibility and there was always a need to look at what more could be done.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"union-intimidation\">Union intimidation<\/h2>\n<p>Asked about union intimidation, the <abbr title=\"Prime Minister's Spokesperson\">PMS<\/abbr> said the Prime Minister (<abbr title=\"Prime Minister\">PM<\/abbr>) had indicated the government would look at intimidation at a recent Prime Minister\u2019s Questions. As a result a review had been established, which would be led by Bruce Carr QC. The terms of reference had been set out.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"benefit-fraud\">Benefit fraud<\/h2>\n<p>Asked whether the <abbr title=\"Prime Minister\">PM<\/abbr> would encourage people to inform the authorities if they knew of people cheating the benefits system, the <abbr title=\"Prime Minister's Spokesperson\">PMS<\/abbr> said there was an important point of principle: if people had evidence of wrongdoing, it was right and fair that the information was made available to the appropriate authorities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Prime Minister\u2019s Spokesperson (PMS) answered questions on tax, online pornography, union intimidation and benefit fraud.<\/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\/35381"}],"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=35381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}