{"id":57193,"date":"2015-05-22T16:14:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-22T16:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=97bb0f91ea8cbc32cfc881fcb7ee51d7"},"modified":"2015-05-22T16:14:00","modified_gmt":"2015-05-22T16:14:00","slug":"press-release-press-briefing-morning-22-may-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=57193","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Press briefing: morning 22 May 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<h2 id=\"sugar-tax\">Sugar tax<\/h2>\n<p>When asked if the Prime Minister had any plans for a sugar tax, the Prime Minister\u2019s Official Spokesperson (<abbr title=\"Prime Minister's Official Spokesperson\">PMOS<\/abbr>) said the Prime Minister\u2019s position had not changed and there were no plans for a tax. <\/p>\n<h2 id=\"ofcom\">Ofcom<\/h2>\n<p>When asked about any plans to give additional powers to Ofcom to deal with extremist content as part of the Extremism Bill, the <abbr title=\"Prime Minister's Official Spokesperson\">PMOS<\/abbr> said we\u2019ve said we want to have a look at this area in terms of Ofcom\u2019s responsibilities and that\u2019s what we\u2019re going to do. <\/p>\n<h2 id=\"intelligence-and-security-committee\">Intelligence and Security Committee<\/h2>\n<p>When asked about appointments to the Intelligence and Security Committee, the <abbr title=\"Prime Minister's Official Spokesperson\">PMOS<\/abbr> said these would be made according to the provisions in the Justice and Security Act 2013.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Prime Minister&#8217;s Official Spokesperson answered questions about sugar tax, Ofcom and Intelligence and Security Committee appointments.<\/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\/57193"}],"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=57193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}