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14:15 No 10 statement: No 10: Taskforce on tackling extremism and radicalisation Press Release
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10 Downing St press release The Prime Minister's task force on tackling extremism and radicalisation met for an initial meeting today. Ministers attending were: David Cameron, Prime Minister (chair) Nick Clegg, Deputy Prime Minister Georg... Continue to article
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17:03 In Brief Events
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Prime minister David Cameron and French president Francois Hollande are expected to hold a joint press conference in Brussels (20.00) Labour party leader Ed Miliband speaks at the Google Big Tent event in Rickmansworth (09.00) Deputy ... Continue to article
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14:35 John Whittingdale: Leaders must take press plan seriously On air
On Air | John Whittingdale MP | Chair, Culture Select Committe... | Sky News
John Whittingdale backed newspapers' alternative plan for press regulation, said the Prime Minister should take the new proposals "very seriously". "I would, yes. It is in fact based on the original proposal that my colleague Olive... Continue to article
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13:04 Select committee sketch: a mixed bag of metaphors The House Magazine
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WORDS: Jess Bowie If it achieved nothing else, the Culture Committee’s evidence session on a royal charter system of press regulation at least gave rise to some interesting turns of phrase. As MPs questioned Culture Secretary Maria Mi... Continue to article
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11:34 No contingency for media boycott of new regulator, minister says PoliticsHome News
No contingency for media boycott of new regulator, minister says
The Government has not considered contingency plans for a large number of newspapers refusing to sign up to the new press regulator, the minister who came up with the idea of a Royal Charter has admitted. Oliver Letwin said he was c... Continue to article
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16:05 House of Commons Business Commons Business
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COMMONS CHAMBER 11.30am: Health questions (topicals at 12.15pm) Ten minute rule motion: Abortion Statistics Bill (Fiona Bruce, Con, Congleton) Main business Draft Small Charitable Donations Regulations 2013: Motion to approve ... Continue to article
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11:30 Press Regulation: Robert Buckland The House Magazine
11:30 | The House Magazine | PoliticsHome
Cross-party agreement on any contentious policy is a rare thing indeed. To achieve it in the complex and heated area of press regulation is in my view, little short of a miracle. Without the agreement of the other parties, the Government’s ... Continue to article
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20:44 Sketch: Farmer Leveson and the Rubicon-crossing puzzle The House Magazine
20:44 | The House Magazine | PoliticsHome
WORDS: SAM MACRORY Pity any poor would-be lawyers of the future. A question of head-scratchingly difficult proportions is heading their way. It goes like this: when is statutory underpinning not, in fact, statutory underpinning? Confu... Continue to article
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14:59 John Whittingdale: Press regulation is not interference On air
On Air | John Whittingdale MP | Chair, Culture Select Committe... | Sky News
John Whittingdale defended the cross-party proposals for press regulation in the wake of the Leveson report. “[I have] just come from a briefing with the Prime Minister. Essentially what we do have now is the Royal Charter idea which was... Continue to article
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09:25 Mark Ferguson blog: Cameron has folded on Leveson – but there’s still an elephant inthe room (it’s called the internet) News
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On Leveson, the deal is done. At 2.30am in Miliband’s Parliamentary office, Oliver Letwin appears to have folded in the Prime Minister’s cards on his behalf, and accepted the joint Labour/Lib Dem prop... Continue to article
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11:48 Hugh Grant: Nothing scandalous about lobbying politicians On air
On Air | Hugh Grant | Actor and phone hacking victim | Murnaghan, Sky NewsHugh Grant said there was nothing wrong with campaigners such as himself lobbying politicians. "I don’t see why that’s scandalous, that’s what campaign groups do, they appeal to politicians of all hues, they try to persuade them of the a... Continue to article
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16:54 Story (1 links): PM not content with poverty measure
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The Prime Minister is not content with the official definition of child poverty, Number 10 admitted this morning.
The Prime Minister's spokesman was responding a report in The Times that a group of senior Conservatives had drawn up a plan to end the monitoring of child poverty. Asked whether David Cameron was content with the current definition of child poverty, the spokesman said: "I don't think he is."
He added: "I do not think anyone is proposing any change to the current targets, just saying that we should look at a wider set of measures."
He explained that using relative income to measure poverty "could drive policy in the wrong direction".
The Times story said that Michael Gove, the Education Secretary, Oliver Letwin, the Cabinet Office minister, and Steve Hilton, the Prime Minister’s policy adviser, called for Britain’s official child poverty measure to be scrapped when it appeared likely to produce a string of bad headlines for the Government. The group apparently criticised the measure for focusing on an "arbitrary" poverty line. - = Key Development Friday 24th February
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27/02/2012 in Children
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PM not content with poverty measure
The Prime Minister is not content with the official definition of child poverty, Number 10 admitted this morning.
The Prime Minister's spokesman was responding a report in The Times that a group of senior Conservatives had drawn up a plan to end the monitoring of child poverty. Asked whether David Cameron was content with the current definition of child poverty, the spokesman said: "I don't think he is."
He added: "I do not think anyone is proposing any change to the current targets, just saying that we should look at a wider set of measures."
He explained that using relative income to measure poverty "could drive policy in the wrong direction".
The Times story said that Michael Gove, the Education Secretary, Oliver Letwin, the Cabinet Office minister, and Steve Hilton, the Prime Minister’s policy adviser, called for Britain’s official child poverty measure to be scrapped when it appeared likely to produce a string of bad headlines for the Government. The group apparently criticised the measure for focusing on an "arbitrary" poverty line.
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15/10/2011 in Parliament
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Letwin apologises for dumping papers
Oliver Letwin has apologised for disposing of parliamentary papers and constituency documents in a park bin near Downing Street. The Cabinet Office announced yesterday that it was investigating Mr Letwin's actions, whilst the Cabinet Office minister has said the documents were not of a "sensitive nature".
Oliver Letwin has called for ‘fear and discipline’ to be instilled in public sector workers, in a drive for efficiency in the sector. Addressing a consultancy firm, the architect of the Coalition’s plans to reform public services said: "You can't have room for innovation and the pressure for excellence without having some real discipline and some fear on the part of the providers that things may go wrong if they don't live up to the aims that society as a whole is demanding of them".
Mr Letwin’s remarks have angered unions. Mark Serwotka, general secretary of the Public and Commercial Services Union, described the comments as "nonsense", saying: "Public sector workers are already working in fear – fear of cuts to their job, pension, living standards and of privatisation. Far from improving productivity, the cuts are creating chaos in vital public services."
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21/10/2011 in Parliament
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Letwin cleared of dumping sensitive documents
Oliver Letwin did not dispose of any classified documents in a park in central London, the Cabinet Secretary has said. Mr Letwin was seen throwing away correspondence, including Parliamentary papers and letters from constituents, in a bin in St. James's Park. The Information Commissioner's Office is investigating whether Mr Letwin breached data protection laws by discarding the documents.
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14/10/2011 in Parliament
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Letwin admits dumping documents
The Cabinet Office are investigating Oliver Letwin's data disposal after he admitted dumping government documents in park bins in St James' Park, Downing Street has announced. The Prime Minister's spokeswoman said: "Our understanding is that there were no classified documents. Most of the business which Mr Letwin does in the park is constituency-based. However, in the light of what's been reported, the Cabinet Office is now looking into it." The Cabinet Office minister denied that the documents were of a "sensitive nature".
A spokesperson for Mr Letwin said today: "Oliver Letwin is an incredibly hard-working constituency MP... Mr Letwin sincerely apologises to any concerned constituents and would like to make assurances that he will no longer dispose of copies of documents and constituency correspondence in this way."
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17/04/2011 in NHS
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Clegg sets out NHS bill demands
Nick Clegg has set out five “non-negotiable” changes to NHS reforms, the Independent on Sunday reports. He and Cabinet colleagues including Oliver Letwin had previously said there will be “substantive” changes to the Bill.
David Cameron has said that he takes "absolute responsibility" for the reforms, and defended Health Secretary Andrew Lansley, saying that he had done an "excellent job".
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