{"id":50482,"date":"2014-11-19T19:09:19","date_gmt":"2014-11-19T19:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=812aebd9e0ca3bd46b93abfefa827afd"},"modified":"2014-11-19T19:09:19","modified_gmt":"2014-11-19T19:09:19","slug":"press-release-press-briefing-morning-19-october-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=50482","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Press briefing: morning 19 October 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<h2 id=\"historic-child-abuse\">Historic child abuse<\/h2>\n<p>When asked about the Prime Minister\u2019s view of historic child abuse allegations in the Telegraph today, the Prime Minister\u2019s Official Spokesman (<abbr title=\"Prime Minister's Official Spokesperson\">PMOS<\/abbr>) said if people had evidence of serious wrongdoing they should speak to the police so that it could be thoroughly investigated.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"office-for-national-statistics-ons-survey-of-earnings\">Office for National Statistics (<abbr title=\"Office for National Statistics\">ONS<\/abbr>) survey of earnings<\/h2>\n<p>When asked about <abbr title=\"Office for National Statistics\">ONS<\/abbr> wage figures released today, the <abbr title=\"Prime Minister's Official Spokesperson\">PMOS<\/abbr> referred to the Prime Minister\u2019s comments that the long term economic plan was working for Britain. On the question of wage growth, the <abbr title=\"Prime Minister's Official Spokesperson\">PMOS<\/abbr> said people in work for more than 12 months had received a 4.1% pay rise and these statistics showed the gender pay gap was at its lowest levels since records began.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"food-banks\">Food banks<\/h2>\n<p>When asked about the Prime Minister\u2019s view on the Trussell Trust report into food banks, the <abbr title=\"Prime Minister's Official Spokesperson\">PMOS<\/abbr> said the Prime Minister welcomed and supported the work of the Trust in running food banks. On the question of food bank users and benefit claims, the <abbr title=\"Prime Minister's Official Spokesperson\">PMOS<\/abbr> said over 90% of claims were processed on time &#8211; an increase of 7 percentage points since 2009 to 2010 &#8211; adding that it was very important to continue this progress so people received their benefits on time.<\/p>\n<p>With regard to unemployment benefit, the <abbr title=\"Prime Minister's Official Spokesperson\">PMOS<\/abbr> said it was right that people were required to complete CVs, attend interviews and take on the jobs they were offered as part of the conditions of receiving benefits.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Prime Minister&#8217;s Official Spokesperson answered questions on historic child abuse, the ONS survey of earnings and food banks.<\/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\/50482"}],"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=50482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}