I think that was a ridiculous situation, which is why we have put forward the change to the purdah rules".
A Department of Health spokesman said: "NHS staff are our greatest asset and we want to make the current pay system fairer - which is why we have put forward proposals that would guarantee all staff would get at least a 1% pay rise this year and next, but these have been rejected by the unions.
"At the same time, there are subjects which we think would not meet the principles we have put forward, and which we propose should be discontinued.
George Eustice, the prime minister's former press secretary who is one of the founders of the Fresh Start group, said: "We have put forward a wishlist which we think is a helpful contribution to the debate.
It's a controversial hypothesis, which others have put forward before, and it has sparked plenty of debate within the industry.
Congress financed the innovation grant competition in last year's economic stimulus, along with the larger, better-known, $4.2 billion competition known as Race to the Top, in which states have put forward proposals for shaking up their school systems.
But none of us can write a line which begins "I have put forward legislation that would.... .. Senator Harkin can.
Recent guidelines which have put forward "severity categories" for CDI have not validated these categorizations and their correlation with treatment outcome, disease outcome and CDI recurrence are unknown [ 19, 20].
So you don't accept the view, which Paul Krugman, Larry Summers, and others have put forward, that what has happened represents a rehabilitation of government action — that the government prevented a catastrophe?
Republicans countered that their fiscal plan is better than nothing, which is what Democrats have put forward.
