{"id":37688,"date":"2014-01-09T15:45:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-09T15:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=20dad566798a33e8eacb2fb70b689120"},"modified":"2014-01-09T15:45:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-09T15:45:00","slug":"press-release-press-briefing-afternoon-9-january-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=37688","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Press briefing: afternoon 9 January 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<h2 id=\"free-school\">Free school<\/h2>\n<p>Asked if the Prime Minister (<abbr title=\"Prime Minister\">PM<\/abbr>) had any comment on the arrest of a headteacher at a Yorkshire free school which the Department for Education (DFE) had reported to the police, the <abbr title=\"Prime Minister's Spokesperson\">PMS<\/abbr> said that this was a matter for the police, but DFE may be able to provide background following their earlier involvement.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"minimum-wage\">Minimum wage<\/h2>\n<p>Asked whether the <abbr title=\"Prime Minister\">PM<\/abbr> was concerned about the comments made by Cabinet colleagues on the national minimum wage, the <abbr title=\"Prime Minister's Spokesperson\">PMS<\/abbr> said the government had been consistently clear that it was for the independent Low Pay Commission to make recommendations on the level for the minimum wage. <\/p>\n<h2 id=\"climate-change\">Climate change<\/h2>\n<p>Asked whether the <abbr title=\"Prime Minister\">PM<\/abbr> was surprised about the Environment Secretary\u2019s comments about a link between flooding and climate change, the <abbr title=\"Prime Minister's Spokesperson\">PMS<\/abbr> said that he had not discussed <abbr title=\"Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs\">Defra<\/abbr> questions with the <abbr title=\"Prime Minister\">PM<\/abbr>.<\/p>\n<p>Asked who spoke for the government on this issue, the <abbr title=\"Prime Minister's Spokesperson\">PMS<\/abbr> said that the Secretary of State had been pointing to the comments made by the <abbr title=\"Prime Minister\">PM<\/abbr> about investment in flood defences. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Prime Minister\u2019s Spokesperson (PMS) answered questions on a free school, minimum wage and climate change.<\/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\/37688"}],"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=37688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}