{"id":55320,"date":"2015-03-17T16:51:01","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T16:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=024513bb7db50cfc9fb324a5cd0f97ad"},"modified":"2015-03-17T16:51:01","modified_gmt":"2015-03-17T16:51:01","slug":"press-release-press-briefing-morning-17-march-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=55320","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Press briefing: morning 17 March 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<h2 id=\"economy\">Economy<\/h2>\n<p>When asked about the government\u2019s fiscal decisions over the course of the Parliament, the Prime Minister\u2019s Official Spokesperson (<abbr title=\"Prime Minister's Official Spokesperson\">PMOS<\/abbr>) said that in dealing with the deficit the government had made difficult decisions, but in a way which clearly demonstrated its priorities, like the protection of the NHS budget for example.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"national-minimum-wage\">National Minimum Wage<\/h2>\n<p>When asked about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/pm-and-dpm-announce-increase-in-the-national-minimum-wage\">the rise in the National Minimum Wage,<\/a> the <abbr title=\"Prime Minister's Official Spokesperson\">PMOS<\/abbr> said the Apprenticeship Minimum Wage was seeing a double digit rise in percentage terms, significantly above the Low Pay Commission\u2019s recommendation.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"immigration\">Immigration<\/h2>\n<p>When asked about immigration the <abbr title=\"Prime Minister's Official Spokesperson\">PMOS<\/abbr> said the Prime Minister\u2019s position was widely known, in that net migration to the UK was too high; adding that the Prime Minister wanted to see net migration come down.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"hsbc\">HSBC<\/h2>\n<p>When asked about HSBC\u2019s reported decision to close the Jersey bank accounts of its UK residents, the <abbr title=\"Prime Minister's Official Spokesperson\">PMOS<\/abbr> said the decision was entirely one for the bank to make, adding that the government\u2019s role was to put in place the appropriate rules and legislation with regard to tax.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Prime Minister&#8217;s Official Spokesperson answered questions about the economy, the National Minimum Wage, immigration and HSBC.<\/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\/55320"}],"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=55320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}