{"id":37756,"date":"2014-01-14T10:58:21","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T10:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=c60ad51db28448c2c23d30b12dad9967"},"modified":"2014-01-14T10:58:21","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T10:58:21","slug":"press-release-press-briefing-afternoon-13-january-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=37756","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Press briefing: afternoon 13 January 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<h2 id=\"eu-commissioner\">EU commissioner<\/h2>\n<p>Asked to comment on speculation about the UK\u2019s next nomination for EU commissioner, the <abbr title=\"Prime Minister's Spokesperson\">PMS<\/abbr> said that decisions on that role would be made at a later date. <\/p>\n<p>Asked if the UK was seeking a particular position for its new commissioner, the <abbr title=\"Prime Minister's Spokesperson\">PMS<\/abbr> said that the UK would make sure that its best interests were fully represented.<\/p>\n<p>Asked for a timeline on the decision, the <abbr title=\"Prime Minister's Spokesperson\">PMS<\/abbr> said that a decision would be made in due course, and that the current commissioners finished their role this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Asked whether there were any plans for the UK parliament to scrutinise the appointment, the <abbr title=\"Prime Minister's Spokesperson\">PMS<\/abbr> said there were no plans to change how this process had worked in the past. <\/p>\n<h2 id=\"eu-law\">EU law<\/h2>\n<p>Asked if the Prime Minister (<abbr title=\"Prime Minister\">PM<\/abbr>) agreed with the Chief Secretary to the Treasury\u2019s comments on a UK parliamentary veto on EU law, the <abbr title=\"Prime Minister's Spokesperson\">PMS<\/abbr> said that the <abbr title=\"Prime Minister\">PM<\/abbr> shared the Foreign Secretary\u2019s view and pointed to his comments.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"parliamentary-portraits\">Parliamentary portraits<\/h2>\n<p>Asked if the <abbr title=\"Prime Minister\">PM<\/abbr> had any view on taxpayers\u2019 money being spent on portraits of parliamentarians, the <abbr title=\"Prime Minister's Spokesperson\">PMS<\/abbr> said that was a matter for a committee of the House. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Prime Minister\u2019s Spokesperson (PMS) answered questions on the EU commissioner, EU law and parliamentary portraits.<\/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\/37756"}],"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=37756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}