Sentences with phrase «dem junior minister»

«The standard circulation for cabinet memoranda includes the Queen, the Prince of Wales, all members of the cabinet, any other ministers in charge of departments, the attorney general and the chief whip... Ministers of state and junior ministers do not normally receive memoranda.»

Previously, as a ministry official, he had visited the Cabinet Office to discuss the MOF's intervention strategy and the importance of containing the yen with officials such as a junior minister named Shinzo Abe.

The junior Minister of Finance also says the same thing; the contingency reserve is at play and the government will have a surplus no matter what.

The famously maverick - ish junior minister from the Beauce, in Quebec, seems to think the country should decide the fate of its reddest chamber.

Amber Rudd and Sajid Javid the two get Cabinet roles after operating with the Chancellor at the Treasury & # 13 & # 13 & # 13 & #thirteen & # 13 Picture: Reuters & #thirteen & # 13 George Osborne has strengthened his part in govt even more with the appointment of two of his previous junior ministers to Cupboard...

When junior minister Simon Burns was heard to call him - in the Commons chamber, no less - a «stupid, sanctimonious dwarf» there was unsurprisingly uproar.

Particularly among junior ministers, the level of churn has been so great in recent years that very often, by the time the minister has got close to understanding their subject, they are moved on.

By his own account he was an ineffective junior minister, not equipped for the cut and thrust of Whitehall life.

He found that one junior minister, Tim Eggar, was a rather macho figure who «later developed a strong interest in diplomatic car parking and non-payment of parking fines.»

In the new year, 100 people will be recruited and will later attend a summit along with civil servants and junior ministers.

Junior ministers were moved on a virtually annual basis.

They've met with Brandon Lewis, immigration minister, Robin Walker, parliamentary under secretary at the Brexit department, and David Jones, junior minister.

And the lure of shadow cabinet elections - which Corbyn has promised to re-introduce - could well prove irresistible to a number of junior ministers and wannabe ministers.

The View from the Foothills by Chris Mullin is just so accurate about life as a junior minister that it was painful to read at times.

The first minister nominates MSPs to be Scottish ministers and junior ministers.

The two Junior ministers are Jonathan Bell MLA and Jennifer McCann MLA.

To be frank, I suspect that the chair of the home affairs select committee will be more able to get a public platform and more able to influence policy than a shadow cabinet minister or even the most junior ministers in government.

So, just like George Osborne sent his junior minister David Gauke into the Commons to answer tricky questions on Google and tax last week, the hapless David Lidington, Minister for Europe, was despatched to fave the wrath of Euro - sceptic MPs.

He served as a junior minister in the Northern Ireland Office, the Department for Productivity, Energy and Industry, the Department of Trade and Industry and finally in the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

To avoid the Baker scenario, the Liberal Democrats should deploy more than one junior minister in key departments that are led by the senior party of the coalition.

Jimmy - the only party to have had govt civil servants on their payroll is Labour and one of the leakers to Brown is now a junior minister.

With rare exceptions, Liberal Democrat junior ministers either «went native» in their departments, like Jeremy Browne or felt, like Norman Baker, they were the «the cuckoo in the nest».

Nine - tenths of the M.P.'s who first won seats in the House of Commons in 1918 or thereafter, and who held some ministerial office in the years from 1918 to 1955, began their progress towards posts in a ministry or a Cabinet by serving as parliamentary secretaries or as junior ministers... Recruitment to the front bench clearly begins with these two offices.

Leaving aside the fact that civil society minister Nick Hurd is already supposed to be doing parts of this, the track record of centrally - driven change suggests it is unrealistic to expect a junior minister with no budget or levers to have any real impact on departmental secretaries of state?

However, it's not good democratic practice that their departments are accountable to the Commons through junior ministers.

It was revealed last night that Home Office minister Tony McNulty and junior minister Joan Ryan knew that files of 27,000 offenders had not been properly entered onto UK police databases - and therefore were unknown to British authorities - last October.

But Davis has trouble in his own department, with a junior minister accused of undermining his negotiating position.

One or two Conservative junior ministers, who are pushing for immediate promotion to the cabinet, might learn something from this.

Now, the junior minister has no one but himself to blame for the embarrassingly difficult situation in which he has found himself.

The junior minister's leaked memo to Buhari complained bitterly about pretty much the same thing.

kaylouise @kaybaysally RT @MartinShovel: I like junior ministers, but I couldn't eat a whole one!

Michael Spicer was a Conservative MP from 1974 to 2010 and a junior minister in the 1980s.

Permanent secretaries deal with strategic management — while junior ministers hardly count, as we've seen in the diaries of both the late Alan Clark MP and Chris Mullin.

As Truss made the point, her government colleague Sam Giymah, junior minister for prisons, struggled to keep a straight face.

«The established process of approval means that most decisions are taken by junior ministers,» a spokesperson said.

After the session, the prime minister's spokesperson insisted it was standard procedure for the chancellor to announce a policy in the Commons and then send junior ministers to defend it in TV interviews.

I find it amusing to hear today colleagues who were junior ministers under Thatcher extolling a tough line on public services but who at the time flinched when faced with opposition.

To discover what happened after 1997 Bower interviewed dozens of civil servants ranging from juniors to Permanent Secretaries, many junior ministers and Cabinet ministers, and the principal senior military officers.

Former junior minister Chris Mullin has already delighted us with his edited diaries A View From the Foothills and now has produced a further selection Decline and Fall: Diaries 2005 - 2010 (Profile Books # 20).

He dithers over whether he really wants to be a junior minister rather than chairman of a select committee, and eventually is disappointed when he's only ever appointed to the most junior jobs as a parliamentary under - secretary.

Worse still, imagine being a Lib Dem junior minister.

As Mullin observed, while a member of that committee, he had more face time with Blair than when he was a junior minister.

Some of the best political memoirs and diaries have been kept by junior ministers who, nevertheless, had access to the inner workings of government and the Prime Minister — think Alan Clark and Chris Mullin.

Downing Street has confirmed that Vale of Glamorgan MP Alun Cairns is the new junior minister at the Wales Office.

Marlène Schiappa, whose successful blog Maman Works saw her dubbed the «spokeswoman for working mums», becomes junior minister for equality between women and men.

He said Welsh ministers had found the new Secretary of State «pragmatic and reasonable» to deal with during his time as a junior minister at the Wales Office.

He's had a rapid rise to the Shadow Cabinet since becoming an MP just two years ago and will be surrounded by former cabinet and junior ministers on the Labour benches as well as long - serving backbenchers.

Preseli Pembs MP Stephen Crabb is the junior minister at the Wales Office.

The Welsh Government briefed that the Secretary of State, Cheryl Gillan, and her junior minister, David Jones, were trying to overturn the will of the Welsh people, as expressed in last year's referendum on the Assembly's powers.

De Piero, who was shadow minister for women and equalities in Ed Miliband's shadow cabinet but quit as a shadow junior minister before the leadership challenge to Corbyn last summer, has a new role as shadow justice minister.