Law and Foreign Affairs Minister S. Jayakumar also said the details of the investigations showed "without any shadow of a doubt" that the problem was serious.
The prime minister's official spokesman said David Cameron believed it was a matter for Ipsa, when asked about the prime minister's thoughts of MPs' demands for more pay.
Works Minister S. Samy Vellu, the man in the hot seat, is proposing changes that would completely overhaul Malaysia's water policy -- or, one might say, actually put one in place.
Health Secretary Alan Milburn believes he still has the Prime Minister's backing for the plan - and both sides interpreted the Prime Minister's speech on Tuesday as support for their position.
Earlier reports about the attack said Somalia's interior minister was traveling in the convoy, but the minister's office said he was not there.
Before this week's prime minister's questions Speaker Michael Martin told MPs he had suspended, until further notice, the right for MPs to bring guests into galleries not covered by the security screen.
Mr Monti also said he shared Mr Cameron's opinion that prosperity and growth had to be Europe's priority, even if there were other aspects of the UK's prime minister's speech he agreed with less.
So Mr Wallace, whose party has 17 seats in the Scottish Parliament and is in coalition government with the much bigger Labour Party, which has 55, is in effect Scotland's prime minister, presiding at cabinet meetings and answering first minister's questions in the Parliament.
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But government minister Nicholas Nahas, a member of Mr Mikati's party, said the prime minister's resignation would not do anything to keep Lebanon out of the Syrian conflict.
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Conservative health minister Anna Soubry told BBC One's Question Time there was "some merit" in the deputy prime minister's comments.
They included Jose Maria Aznar, Spain's prime minister, and Mexico's foreign minister.
Trying to dispel criticism, Mr Olmert's people have been arguing that the defence minister's position is not all that important since the prime minister has the final word in matters of national security.
The downfall of the defence minister, Antonio Vitorino, one of Mr Guterres's closest colleagues, was largely a consequence of the prime minister's own zeal in tackling tax evasion and sleaze.
Labour's spokesman accepted the minister's reassurances and withdrew his amendment.
Governments must govern and that's the clear line and that's what the Prime Minister's made clear and at the end of the day we'll be accountable to the electorate.
For all his party's weakness, the prime minister's personal approval rating has so far stayed well ahead of Mr Papandreou's.
Following talks with Shia representatives from Quetta, Pakistan's Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf sacked Balochistan's chief minister and promised them better security.
Plaid Cymru's Simon Thomas welcomed the minister's decision not to consider a merger between Bangor and Aberystwyth and to develop the HE sector in South East Wales.
More pertinently, it also decided to support unopposed the prime minister's anointed successor (and Mr Anwar's replacement as deputy prime minister), Abdullah Badawi, as deputy president of the party.
Hazel Blears, secretary of state for Communities and Local Government, said she rejected Mr Griffin's charge that the prime minister's use of the phrase represents an endorsement of BNP policy.
Mr Obama's victory dominated the weekly prime minister's questions session in the Commons on Wednesday.
Mr Cook told BBC Radio Scotland's Newsdrive programme that the prime minister's actions had given some "breathing space".
Xinhua's microblog says the Chinese foreign minister's "solemn representations" to North Korea over the test yesterday were unprecedented.
But Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and Turkey's Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan have publicly traded insults several times this year as relations have soured.
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On Monday David Cameron told the Today programme that there were "elements of truth" in Yes, Prime Minister's description of the relationship between minister and official.
But a letter from Mrs May's private secretary to the prime minister's private secretary said the current rules were a "key tool in protecting the public against significant harm".
However toughly President Clinton may have talked to Binyamin Netanyahu this week, it escaped no Arab's notice that the Israeli prime minister's visit coincided with the delivery of long-range American fighter-bombers to Israel.
That ought to strengthen the cabinet secretary's ability to drive through the prime minister's priorities.
"It's difficult to take him seriously when he's slouched over his podium at first minister's questions, " she said.
And Michael Dugher, Labour's vice chairman, said the prime minister's message was "a case of more of the same".
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