{"id":49547,"date":"2014-10-30T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=1c96e8671cdd4755d48f834b6dc61b59"},"modified":"2014-10-30T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-30T13:00:00","slug":"press-release-press-briefing-morning-30-october-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=49547","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Press briefing: morning 30 October 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<h2 id=\"drugs-study\">Drugs study<\/h2>\n<p>When asked about a international drugs comparators study published by the Home Office, the Prime Minister\u2019s Official Spokesperson (<abbr title=\"Prime Minister\u2019s Official Spokesperson\">PMOS<\/abbr>) said it considered reflections on the approaches to tackling drug abuse taken by 13 countries. The <abbr title=\"Prime Minister\u2019s Official Spokesperson\">PMOS<\/abbr> added the government continued to pursue a balanced evidence-based approach to tackling drug abuse and this was working &#8211; demonstrated by a continued decline in drug use.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"employment-support-allowance\">Employment Support Allowance<\/h2>\n<p>When asked about reports that the government planned to cut Employment Support Allowance (ESA), the <abbr title=\"Prime Minister\u2019s Official Spokesperson\">PMOS<\/abbr> confirmed there were no plans to do this.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"jerusalem-holy-site\">Jerusalem holy site<\/h2>\n<p>When asked about the closure of a holy site in Jerusalem, the <abbr title=\"Prime Minister\u2019s Official Spokesperson\">PMOS<\/abbr> said that the UK\u2019s objective was to work closely with the international community to reach a 2-state solution and to call on a de-escalatory approach on both sides. The <abbr title=\"Prime Minister\u2019s Official Spokesperson\">PMOS<\/abbr> added that that Israel had obligations under international law to protect holy sites in East Jerusalem, so as to enable freedom of worship.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Prime Minister&#8217;s Official Spokesperson answered questions on a drugs study, Employment Support Allowance and a Jerusalem holy site.<\/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\/49547"}],"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=49547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}