{"id":38551,"date":"2014-02-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=e324deed718bfb67d37541641791177e"},"modified":"2014-02-03T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-03T00:00:00","slug":"press-release-press-briefing-afternoon-3-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=38551","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Press briefing: afternoon 3 February"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<h2 id=\"pub-opening-hours\">Pub opening hours<\/h2>\n<p>Asked for clarification regarding the proposals for pub opening hours during the football world cup, the <abbr title=\"Prime Minister's spokesperson\">PMS<\/abbr> said that, following a request from the Prime Minister, the government was consulting on nationally extending opening hours with the expectation that the hours would be extended.<\/p>\n<p>Asked why this was being considered, the <abbr title=\"Prime Minister's spokesperson\">PMS<\/abbr> said that this was a major national sporting event and there was a lot of interest in this issue. Fans would want to enjoy watching the game in their local pub. <\/p>\n<h2 id=\"foodbanks\">Foodbanks<\/h2>\n<p>Asked about money which may be available to the UK to pay for foodbanks, the <abbr title=\"Prime Minister's spokesperson\">PMS<\/abbr> said that he had not seen the figures but, if this was about EU structural funds then the UK is best placed to decide how the funds are used. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Prime Minister\u2019s spokesperson (PMS) answered questions on pub opening hours and foodbanks.<\/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\/38551"}],"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=38551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}