Sentences with phrase «reform minister»

There will be further trouble ahead, too: analysis of our interview with constitutional reform minister Mark Harper showed that Lords reform looks as unlikely as ever.

Tory constitutional reform minister Mark Harper insists there's a good chance the total number of registered voters won't fall at all.

But the NUT's stance was attacked for being relentlessly negative by school reform minister Nick Gibb - who accused the teachers» union of being unwilling to say anything positive about schools.

Today that position is eloquently echoed by the man who is most Tories» favourite Labour pin - up, Frank Field - the former welfare reform minister who was told to «think the unthinkable» by Tony Blair and then prevented from doing just that.

«It is bad enough that around 100 prisoners abscond from Ford prison each year,» said shadow police reform minister Nick Herbert.

This gives shadow constitutional reform minister Wayne David to attack him on the issue, which is currently being legislated on (not quite as glamorous as Lords reform, admittedly).

They waited nearly two years before bringing forward any legislation, and when that legislation came it was in the form of Democratic Reform Minister Pierre Poilievre's bill, the oxymoronically titled Fair Elections Act.

The task was too much for Blair and his Welfare Reform Minister Frank Field.

Field has been an enemy of Brown's ever since Brown in practice ended Field's career as welfare reform minister in the early days of the Blair government by vetoing his plans for benefit reform and Field launched a highly personal attack on Brown last year.

It is included in a new paper, Back on the Beat, published last night by David Ruffley, the shadow police reform minister, and you can download it directly as a pdf here or through the Conservative Party website.

Former Labour welfare reform minister Frank Field said the NAO report «spelled the beginning of the political end for the universal credit dream» and urged the government to «pull the plug on it».

In fact — based on a recommendation from nobody at all, and no evidence beyond Democratic Reform Minister Pierre Poilievre's nasty slander about Elections Canada wearing «team jerseys» — the Fair Elections Act moves the Commissioner out of Elections Canada and into the office of a federal public servant, the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).

Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Minister of state - Pat McFadden Minister of state - Gareth Thomas (jointly with Department for International Development) Parliamentary under secretary of state - Ian Pearson (jointly with HM Treasury) Parliamentary under secretary of state - Stephen Carter (jointly with Department for Culture, Media and Sport) Parliamentary under secretary of state - Baroness Shriti Vadera (jointly with Cabinet Office)

«I'm sorry to say that this huge cost for the economy is the basic negotiating weapon of the other side,» Administrative Reform Minister George Katrougalos said in an interview.

«British democracy needs lively debate, campaigning and lobbying to maintain an open and fair society in which citizens have a voice and the government listens,» constitutional reform minister Chloe Smith said.

16:40 - Constitutional reform minister continues the frontbench offensive over the voting system.

Pension reform minister James Purnell said he would look at the committee's recommendation «seriously», adding that although the government was proud of what it had achieved, more could be done.

«Lords reform Minister Mark Harper says «very Conservative proposals» will strengthen Parliament Main Sayeeda Warsi will call every Association Chairman to urge members to attend more grassroots - friendly party conference»

Welfare reform minister Jim Murphy said the Unicef study was important, although it used some data which was now out of date.

Democratic reform minister says «regular Canadians» in favour of proposed changes to Fair Elections Act, The National Post

School Reform Minister Nick Gibb said: «All pupils should have the opportunity to study foreign languages as part of a core academic curriculum that prepares them for life in modern Britain.

Shadow constitutional reform minister Wayne David said the switch to individual voter registration and boundary changes would hurt Labour at the next general election - and had diminished the opposition's enthusiasm for Lords reform as a result.

School Reform Minister Nick Gibb welcomed the 40 % drop in early exam entries and said the changes were necessary to «correct» a system that had «worked against the best efforts of teachers and the best interests of pupils».

Constitutional reform minister Mark Harper told MPs today that the government would bring forward a separate draft bill establishing individual voter registration and the right to recall MPs.

The Sunday Telegraph revealed in May how Mr Cameron had appointed Mr Field, who was welfare reform minister in the early years of Tony Blair's government, as his «poverty tsar» as he put the fight against deprivation at the heart of his agenda.

The views are set out in a letter to the Welfare Reform Minister, Lord Freud, from the Low Incomes Tax Reform Group (LITRG), supported by a number of tax, business and accountancy bodies and welfare rights organisations.

«At this rate it will take centuries to roll out Universal Credit across the country,» shadow welfare reform minister, Chris Bryant said.

Labour's shadow constitutional reform minister Wayne David demonstrated this in his speech to the Commons yesterday.

Worse, Democratic Reform Minister Poilievre has, with no evidence or facts, gone so far as to insinuate that Mayrand is not the non-partisan head of an effective, professional, internationally respected agency.

Iain Duncan Smith, welfare reform minister, defends plans to cap benefits in a series of media interviews

I've also interviewed Mark Harper, the constitutional reform minister, about the nature of the challenge he faces in persuading his fellow MPs to back this.

21:52 - Wayne David, the shadow constitutional reform minister, is now speaking.

«If an MP has been found to have engaged in serious wrongdoing, they should not be able to retain their seat with impunity until the next general election,» constitutional reform minister Mark Harper said.

And the Today programme also heard from Mark Harper, the constitutional reform minister.

16:30 - deputy prime minister Nick Clegg and constitutional reform minister Mark Harper, before draft House of Lords reform bill committee

10:00: Constitutional reform minister Mark Harper, before political and constitutional reform committee, on: Individual Electoral Registration and Electoral Administration

He was a reforming minister who was behind many of the changes that Michael Meacher made.

His pensions plan may mean he'll become an historic, reforming minister.

Experts and constitutional reform minister Mark Harper have been taking it in turns to give evidence to an unwieldy oversized committee of peers and MPs on Nick Clegg's initial proposals.

I have not become some woolly - minded idealist since I was last a reforming minister.

That prompted complaints from shadow constitutional reform minister Wayne David, who asked Young: «How on earth can we have constructive dialogue if there no mutual respect?»

School Reform Minister, Nick Gibb said: «I am delighted that BT is extending the successful Barefoot project, providing innovative support for primary teachers on the new computing curriculum.

The nation's School Reform Minister, Nick Gibb, has been particularly vocal about his belief that international textbooks are key to improving education standards.

While Nick Gibb and Nick B0les have kept their briefs as school reform minister and skills minister respectively, Edward Timpson, previously a parliamentary undersecretary of state, has been promoted to the role of children and families minister.

School reform minister Nick Gibb has rebuffed claims from an exam chief that new GCSEs changes will put more strain on an education system already showing cracks from a «whirlwind of reform».