Sentences with phrase «environment secretary roseanna»

Environment secretary Michael Gove is set to announce the plans today as part of a wider set of policies to tackle air pollution.

She visited the school on Thursday, February 1 to answer sixth formers» questions about her education and career path, which has seen her hold the roles of schools minister, environment secretary, and justice secretary, as well as becoming the first ever female Lord Chancellor in 2016.

«The abhorrent ivory trade should become a thing of the past,» Britain's environment secretary said Tuesday.

Environment secretary Michael Howard announced then that it would be phased in over a number of years, though that worsened the risk of blight by leaving everybody uncertain about what might turn up on the registers.

In April, Britain's then environment secretary, Michael Howard, argued in a letter to Labour MP Tam Dalyell that the areas proposed for removal from the formula were those «where the critical load would be likely to be exceeded by acid depositions of natural origin even if man - made emissions were completely eliminated».

Late last month, John Houghton, chairman of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, wrote to environment secretary John Gummer suggesting that he had misunderstood the rationale behind the early warning system, called Genhaz.

When he was environment secretary, Heseltine was keen to back this stance while other government departments, including energy and trade and industry, backed away.

To help him spend the # 6 million made available for the new Darwin Initiative on global biodiversity over the next three years, Britain's environment secretary Michael Howard this week announced the formation of an advisory committee.

Last week, Michael Howard, the environment secretary, had an opportunity to set the record straight.

Among the papers that awaited Michael Howard when he took over as environment secretary was a report from Rhind looking at various ways of financing the OS.

We welcome the debate over Environment Secretary Owen Paterson's call for the UK to embrace genetically modified crops (newscientist.com/article/dn23730).

Greenpeace says it will ask for a judicial review on the grounds that the environment secretary has failed to justify the radioactive releases as required by law.

Argument over Thorp, the reprocessing plant at Sellafield in Cumbria, is expected to move from Whitehall to the courts now that John Gummer, Britain's environment secretary, has given his blessing for the plant to open.

She has agreed to stop claiming the second home allowance Nick Herbert The shadow environment secretary claimed back # 10,000 of the # 14,700 stamp duty when he bought a home with his partner in his constituency.

Environment Secretary Owen Paterson has complained to Downing Street about Communities Secretary Eric Pickles» criticism of the Environment Agency, the Press Association reports.

May delayed a final decision on the preferred customs option after a tense meeting of the Brexit subcommittee last week during which the home and defence secretaries, Sajid Javid and Gavin Williamson, also expressed concerns about the plan, along with Johnson, the environment secretary, Michael Gove, and the international trade secretary, Liam Fox.

He joins Culture Secretary John Whittingdale, Environment Secretary Liz Truss, Farming Minister George Eustice and Justice Minister Dominic Raab.

Caroline Spelman also drops out of the top team, but becomes shadow environment secretary and shadow minister for women under Mrs May.

But in a boost to the former Mayor of London, The Sun can reveal Environment Secretary Liz Truss is backing Boris.

«I am delighted to be appointed as Environment Secretary.

Graduating in 1971 with an MA (Hons) in Political Economy and Political Science, his first job was as political adviser to the environment secretary in Edward Heath's Conservative Government.

The shadow environment secretary, Sue Hayman, called the announcement weak and said Labour's plan went further by proposing a ban on transporting live animals for slaughter or fattening.

Mr Pickles has taken charge of the government's response to flooding after the Environment Secretary Owen Paterson required emergency eye surgery.

Education minister and South West Norfolk MP Liz Truss is tipped for high office and possibly a place around the Cabinet table as the new Environment Secretary.

Lord Heseltine, who was then the environment secretary, looks back at the bill and gives his thoughts on its lasting impact to Giles Dilnot.

A source told the Guardian that Hilary Benn, the environment secretary, had achieved concessions on air and noise pollution levels towards the end of last week, but Miliband's concerns were unresolved until overnight on Tuesday.

Environment Secretary Liz Truss and John Whittingdale pledged support for the Brexit mastermind

At a meeting chaired by Nick Clegg, the Environment Secretary — the Right - winger Owen Paterson — explained how he planned to reduce immigration pressures by abolishing the Agricultural Workers Scheme, which allowed Eastern European workers to come to the UK to do unpopular hard jobs such as picking crops in the fields.

Labour MP Jess Phillips, who has been a frequent critic of the way her own party has dealt with its abuse row, also pushed back strongly against the Environment Secretary, accusing him of seeking to shift the blame.

He and Gove, who had recently been reappointed to the Cabinet as Environment Secretary, appeared on a special edition of The Last Leg on June 16.

Environment secretary signals crackdown on executive pay and offshore financial arrangements

It comes after a row over post-Brexit green laws between Michael Gove, the environment secretary, and the chancellor, Philip Hammond.

Corbyn also said he disagreed with the shadow environment secretary, Kerry McCarthy, a vegan, who has said she wants other people to stop eating meat.

The 60 - year - old first became MP for Aylesbury in 1992, and held a long series of opposition posts, including shadow environment secretary and shadow Northern Ireland secretary, spanning 1999 - 2010.

May's erstwhile rival for the Tory leadership is another Brexiter being given the difficult task of untangling the UK from the European Union, in her case farming subsidies as the new environment secretary.

Truss, the former environment secretary, was another of the women in the cabinet who backed May's bid from the beginning.

If that's not enough, Britain now has an environment secretary who wants to bring back fox hunting.

Michael Gove, the environment secretary, Penny Mordaunt, the newly - promoted defence secretary, David Gauk, the work and pensions secretary, Sajid Javid, the communities and local government secretary, Andrea Leadsom, the Leader of the House of Commons, and Chris Grayling, the transport secretary, have all used official expenses claims to pay for «ERG subscriptions» over the last 12 months.

Just behind IDS, the ousted environment secretary Owen Paterson stood shoulder - to - shoulder with former defence secretary Liam Fox, who refused a junior post in order to be free to «speak his mind».

Instead of appointing Clarke to the Foreign Office, he replaced the incumbent, Jack Straw, with the environment secretary, Margaret Beckett, who expressed her own surprise at the move by reportedly saying: «Fuck, I'm stunned.»

18.30 Environment secretary Caroline Spelman attends a panel discussion organised by the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development on the Rio +20 summit

There are currently two openly gay men on the Conservative front bench - Shadow Environment Secretary Nick Herbert and Shadow Commons Leader Mr Duncan.

Environment Secretary Michael Gove, asked about Tory Remoaner Anna Soubry, said: «I love her, I think she's fantastic.»

* Alistair Darling, Chancellor; Alan Johnson; Home Secretary; David Miliband, Foreign Secretary; Lord Mandelson, Business Secretary; Bob Ainsworth, Defence Secretary; Yvette Cooper, Department of Work and Pensions; Ed Balls, Children's Secretary; John Denham, Communities Secretary; Andy Burnham, Culture Secretary; Peter Hain, Welsh Secretary; Douglas Alexander, International Development Secretary; Hilary Benn, Environment Secretary; Lord Adonis, Transport Secretary; Ben Bradshaw, Culture Secretary; Harriet Harman, Leader of the House of Commons; Jack Straw, Justice Secretary; Ed Miliband, Energy Secretary; Shaun Woodward, Northern Ireland Secretary; Baroness Royall, Leader of the House of Lords; Tessa Jowell, Cabinet Office Minister; Jim Murphy, Scottish Secretary; Liam Byrne, Chief Secretary to the Treasury;

South West Norfolk MP Liz Truss has made her first appearance in the Commons today as Environment Secretary.

The former shadow environment secretary's claims follow allegations of inappropriate behaviour made against Mr Hopkins by a party activist.

Even senior Conservatives appeared prepared to rebel yesterday, with environment secretary Owen Paterson voting against the bill and defence secretary Philip Hammond and attorney general Dominic Grieve abstaining.

Elizabeth Truss, the Environment Secretary, accused Mr Farage of «attention seeking», while George Osborne, the Chancellor, said the remarks were intended to provoke a reaction from ministers and he would not dignify them with a response.

Environment Secretary Michael Gove confirmed ministers would introduce a deposit return scheme for single use drinks containers such as plastic and glass bottles, and aluminium cans in England, subject to consultation.

When asked by Sky's Adam Boulton whether he thought it was his «biggest mistake» to think he had a chance of winning the Tory leadership contest, given there was more support for the now Environment Secretary Andrea Leadsom, he said: «It was a mistake wasn't it.»