NEW: Petrol Retailers Association tells @skynews the situation is stabilising
** "Extreme demand levels witnessed over the weekend has eased"
** Still demand above normal, many sites dry and many groups have forecourts closed
** Move towards equilibrium later in week
@SkyNews ** PRA blames the leak of a private submission of BP to "one of the broadcasters" and that's when they knew panic buying would happen.
@SkyNews ** PRA says that high urban density areas are more likely to have a problem.
** There are issues with HGV driver availability
** the PRA says army workers wont have skills to do key task.
** Oct 27 Spending Review will set Whitehall budgets for 3 years. Cash v tight after health & social care spend
** Secretaries of State were told to submit Spending Review bids at start of THIS week.. hours before the reshuffle
** The some were sacked. But their SR bids stand
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** Treasury therefore believes that Michael Gove's new levelling up department - the Ministry of Housing as was - should keep to the Spending Review bid devised by Robert Jenrick
** Whilst there can be some reprioritising and Whitehall negotiation, scope for change limited
Sky News understands
* The treaty text will contain a reference to Paris, but the reference to specific temperature commitments is disappearing.
* Government sources confirmed that the references to temperature are now “implicit” rather than spelt out in the text of the treaty.