Asked for a response to Robert Mugabe's comments comparing President Bush and the Prime Minister to Mussolini and Hitler, the PMOS said that nothing Mr Mugabe said surprised us, nor would it deflect us from our ...

Asked what David Blunkett's interview with Piers Morgan would contribute to the debate on welfare reform and pensions, the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman (PMOS) said that was a matter for the DWP. Asked if ...

Press briefing from the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman on: David Blunkett and Robert Mugabe

Contingency Plan for Avian Influenza and Newcastle Disease

The Prime Minister has approved the appointment of Sir David Normington to be Permanent Secretary of the Home Office.

NHS patients in England will not have to go to court when seeking compensation or an apology over treatment which has gone wrong under new plans being introduced by the Government.

Asked why the Education White Paper had been delayed, the PMOS replied that this was the first false premise of the new season! It had not been delayed....

Asked for further views about the Prime Minister's position on his own drug use/non drug use, the PMOS said that as he had said last week, the question really was about other people's contests, and it would be a...

Asked where the Government stood on Trident, the PMOS said the position had not changed. There would be a decision made at some stage in this Parliament. The PMOS said the story in the Independent was wrong in that...

Asked if there might be a ceiling cost of ID cards, the PMOS said people should wait for Charles Clarke's statement tomorrow....

Put to the PMOS that in Alan Johnson's interview to the Observer newspaper yesterday, he discussed raising the retirement age to 65, and did this mean the Prime Minister was "braced for a winter of strikes&#...

Asked what was the current position on Iran, the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman (PMOS) said what the Prime Minister was talking about was continuing the pressure on Iran, on both the nuclear issue and the events...

Press briefing from the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman on: Iran, Retirement Age, ID Cards, Trident, Drugs Use and Education White Paper

Annual event created by the European Commission and the Council of Europe, aims to raise the profile of civil justice issues and systems for citizens across the European Union

In October 2004 the Inquest was held into the tragic death of Mrs Heather Bell, who died in June 2003 when she was thrown from her horse which had been startled by a low flying Chinook helicopter. Following the ...

On 13 October the European Commission announced that an H5 virus of avian influenza has been found in ducks and chickens in a back-yard flock in Romania. The precise strain of virus is not yet known. The Commission...

My letters of 4 October to the Chairmen of the Lords and Commons Scrutiny Committees, placed in the Library of each House, outlined prospects for the Transport Council on 6 October which I chaired and which Stephen...

Tony Blair met with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice over the weekend for private talks, as 60 per cent of Iraqis voted on the country's proposed constitution.