Q2. [303209] Mr Ben Wallace (Lancaster and Wyre) (Con) : Recently revealed figures show that, since 2001, 140 inmates have been allowed to die of cancer while serving their sentences in UK jails. In the light of the Business Secretary's recent country sports activity, is there, under this Government, one rule for British inmates and another one for Libyan mass murderers? The Prime Minister :...
As a result of PCS parliamentary campaigning on the civil service compensation scheme the issue was raised today in the House of Commons during Prime Minister's Question Time.
After Obama's official announcement of a troop surge aimed at ending the conflict in Afghanistan Gordon Brown spoke today during Prime MinistersQuestion Time of the urgent need to back up the incease in armed forces by putting pressure on Afghan leader Kahzi Karazi to stamp out corruption in his government. Good for him, I mean none of the paragons in Brown's Labour government would...
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... confirms that a conference on Afghanistan will take place in London. 12.05pm: NHS In response to a question from Doug Naysmith , Brown says patient safety must be the priority in the NHS. He has introduced transparent regulation and set up the Care Quality Commission, he says. The new standards regime will come into force from next January, not next April as planned, he says. 12.05pm: David...
The $64,000 question for Labour MPs ahead of Prime Minister's Questions today was whether Gordon Brown could repeat last week's rare trouncing of David Cameron.
Just a quick blog to let you know that Nick was at College Green in Westminster just after Prime Minister's Question Time this afternoon. Whilst reading a list of all the British war dead in Iraq and Afghanistan he was filmed by several camera crews but to my knowledge it has not been broadcast. That is of course unless you know any different. - Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone
Tomorrow at 12.30pm, after Prime Minister's Questions, Chancellor Alistair Darling will present the Pre -Budget Report to Parliament. Yesterday the Government announced a range of efficiency saving measures which will ensure that there is enough money to spend on improving public services. Tomorrow, the Pre -Budget Report will focus on securing the economic recovery and going for growth;...
... of rebuilding trust in this place, which everyone wants to happen," Cameron told Brown at prime minister's questions. "As of yesterday, the plans were to issue details of expenses but without publishing the total expenses claimed by each MP. Does he agree with me that would not be transparent and it would infuriate the public who put us here?" Brown insisted that he...
Before the excitement of the PBR at 12.30pm we have the jolly japes of Prime Minister's Questions to keep us entertained! So what delights does Sky News have for you today? I'll be live blogging PMQs as it happens from 12pm on the Sky News website, and we'll bring you live coverage from the House on Sky News. At 12.30pm our coverage of the Commons will continue with the Chancellor's...
... report, which Alistair Darling will delivering in the Commons this afternoon straight after prime minister's questions. It has been described as the most political budget (the PBR is, in effect, a mini-budget) that any chancellor will have delivered for years. Commentators always says things like this, but this year there is more probably more truth in the claim than usual. Darling...
Dear Alistair Campbell, I know that officially you are not involved with the Labour Party, but seeing as just about every single broadsheet is discussing your return I have little doubt that you are part of the government’s spin machine yet again. As far as spin goes, the class warfare initiated at Prime Minister’s Questions last [...]
At last week’s Prime MinistersQuestionsGordon Brown fired the first salvo in a new class war, when he suggested the Conservatives tax policy had been “dreamed up on the playing fields of Eton”. Now David Cameron has hit back. In a interview from Afghanistan for BBC 1’s Politics Show, he branded Labour’s strategy of attacking [...]
... rediscovering his "ruthless streak". So it was in the early hours of Wednesday that the prime minister dusted down Labour's class warfare manual as he prepared, inside No 10, to lay into David Cameron at prime minister's questions. Party advisers had been pushing all ministers to play the privilege and wealth cards more aggressively against the Conservatives...
