Sentences with phrase «local government minister in»

Mr Cairns has also been appointed Shadow Local Government Minister in the National Assembly by Opposition leader Nick Bourne.

Mr Miliband, who was local government minister in 2005 - 06, said the sector «did not have the prominence it should have had during our time in office [as] neither Tony nor Gordon took strengthening local government seriously enough... We devolved to Scotland and Wales but stopped there.

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DUBAI, April 28 - Iran has developed an experimental local cryptocurrency, a government minister said on Saturday, days after the country's central bank banned trading in digital currencies including bitcoin.

Speaking at the first Prime Minister's Questions since the general election earlier this month, Corbyn said years of Conservative government cuts to local authority budgets had put public safety at jeopardy and had played a part in the fire that destroyed a tower block in Kensington, west London earlier this month, killing at least 79 people.

DUBAI (Reuters)- Iran has developed an experimental local cryptocurrency, a government minister said on Saturday, days after the country's central bank banned trading in digital currencies including bitcoin.

Voters in London are expected to punish Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservative Party at local government elections this week.

Iran has developed an experimental local cryptocurrency, a government minister said on Saturday, days after the country's central bank banned trading in digital currencies including bitcoin.

Welcoming her comments, Stewardship's chair of conferences, Rev David Senior, said: «The Minister has also invited responses from churches and charities and is keen to hear from those who might feel that are facing difficulties in their relationships with national or local Government, or government agencies on the ground of thGovernment, or government agencies on the ground of thgovernment agencies on the ground of their faith.

When one considers the actual conditions that prevailed in the local congregations at the time of the Reformation and is mindful of the fact that the people themselves for many reasons lacked initiative so that, as objects rather than as subjects of action, they were dependent upon the leadership of the princes, magistrates, and church governments, one can understand why the actual calling of the ministers was in fact rarely the result of their decision.

The Former Deputy Local Government Minister and Rural Development in the Kufuor administration had described as ridiculous the call by the Coalition of Concerned Teachers (CCT) on president - elect, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo, to restore teacher trainee allowances within its first 100 days in office.

To succeed, ministers in the Home Office and the Department of Communities and Local Government must work with the voluntary sector and businesses in three areas.

Mr Akufo - Addo said in reference to Sports Minister Nii Lantey Vanderpuye and Local Government Minister Collins Dauda, who, the NPP has accused of instigating their followers to visit violence on NPP members in Odododiodoo and Asutifi South constituencies, respectively, where the two ministers are MPs.

Nana Ato Dadzie, who served as a former Chief of Staff under the Rawlings regime and Kwamena Ahwoi, who served as Minister for Local Government and Rural Development, denied any knowledge about the money given to Rawlings by Abacha They also denied that Professor Ahwoi had commented on the matter in his book, «Local Government and Decentralization in Ghana».

Peace ambassador Irbad Ibrahim says apart from comments made by the local government minister, at the NDC campaign launch in Cape Coast, all other comments were peaceful in nature.

In December 2009, he was made Minister for Social Justice and Local Government in the cabinet of the First Minister of Wales, Carwyn JoneIn December 2009, he was made Minister for Social Justice and Local Government in the cabinet of the First Minister of Wales, Carwyn Jonein the cabinet of the First Minister of Wales, Carwyn Jones.

The Minister for Women and Equality (Ms Harriet Harman): This financial year — in addition to local authority funding and # 1.25 million from the victims fund — the Government have paid out # 900,000 from a # 1.1 million special fund for rape crisis centres.

Will the Minister liaise with the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government to see whether we can change the law so that urban foxes can be treated as vermin in the same way that rats and mice are?

2) I have challenged Government ministers in private on their approach to schools and the diminishing role of local authorities.

Shadow local government minister Bob Beill MP has written today to John Healey MP calling for an end to the leaking of information about councils» exposure in a «piecemeal» and «speculative manner».

«Labour ministers failed to ensure proper transparency and local accountability to keep it in check,» local government minister Grant Shapps said.

The Deputy Minister for Local Government, OB Amoah has charged Metropolitan, Municipal, and District Assemblies (MMDAs) in the Northern part of the country not to pay a supposed levy of GH cents 5,000 each as a contribution towards President Nana Akufo - Addo's visit to those areas.

Local Government and Rural Development Minister, Alhaji Collins Dauda has advised Muslims in the country to vote against the NPP and its presidential candidate if they do not want to suffer discrimination.

Financial Analyst, Sydney Casely - Hayford is suggesting that if the immediate past Local Government Minister, Akwasi Oppong Fosu was dismissed due to the sanitation crisis in the capital, then the Mayor should also be shown the exit.

However, Local Government Minister, Hajia Alima Mahama justified the postponement of the election of MMDCEs in 2018, insisting that government will not relent in ensuring the election taGovernment Minister, Hajia Alima Mahama justified the postponement of the election of MMDCEs in 2018, insisting that government will not relent in ensuring the election tagovernment will not relent in ensuring the election takes place.

He accused the former first lady of using one Agyekum, who served as a Deputy Minister Local Government Minister under the Mahama administration, as her surrogate in the financial transaction at an unnamed bank.

However a more positive assessment was offered by Michael Parkinson, Professor of Urban Affairs at John Moores University: although he had been sceptical in the 1980s, by 1997 he had come to feel that ministers assigned to regions, the development of housing associations and cooperatives, and the channelling of government money through business - led agencies rather than through local government.

Darren Millar AM represents Clwyd West in the National Assembly for Wales and is Shadow Minister for Communities and Local Government.

The evening is completed via a sojourn to the Smoking Room, with a few Scotch and sodas shared with Local Government Minister Bob Neill, a font of stories from his time as a criminal barrister in the East End, Nadine and Mark Francois (another Brent veteran and who I am fond of despite him being a very important Whip!)

This morning's Telegraph reports that local government minister John Healey MP is to encourage councils to give local people a say in the naming of public places:

Public dissatisfaction with the Conservative government of Prime Minister Edward Heath led to Labour's best local government results since the 1940s; Labour leftists gained every marginal seat in Lambeth, and the borough returned to Labour control.

Local Government Minister Brandon Lewis MP with his series celebrating excellence in our Town Hall

This morning, Margaret Hodge was made culture media and sport minister and Barbara Follett was made parliamentary under - secretary of state in the Department of Communities and Local Government.

It's also, incidentally, local press release gold: «MP demands action from Government on cormorants in Pagham» or «Furious MP says «Enough is enough» to Minister.»

In 2010, Shapps became Minister of State for Housing and Local Government, and Quentin Letts, of the Daily Mail, even suggested he might be a future Tory leader.

New Labour should have done more to pursue a thoroughgoing empowerment of local government and local communities - what I called in my time as minister for communities and local government «double devolution».

Questions - Cabinet Office Prime minister's questions Ten minute rule motion - health and safety (amendment) Motion - police grants and local government finance reports Adjournment debate - future of stereotactic body radiotherapy treatment in England

Mr. Ampofo, a former Local Government Minister commenting further told Banson that validation is done in countries that exercise compulsory registration and therefore does not see the reason why Ghana should be doing same when its laws does not permit such.

Mr Pickles was similarly indignant, and could also not resist taking a swipe at deputy prime minister John Prescott, who used to be in charge of local government funding until he lost responsibility for his department in May.

He finally stated: «Why can't the prime minister listen to those in local government, to the King's Fund, the NHS Confederation, her own council leaders and recognise this social care crisis forces people to give up work to care for loved ones because there isn't a system to do it; makes people stay in hospital longer than they should; and leads people into a horrible, isolated life when they should be cared for by all of us through a properly funded social care system.

According to the former local government minister under the Rawlings administration, the NPP has never liked people in the Zongos, citing how the party fought against Rawlings» plan to make Eid Adah and Eid Fitr a public holiday.

LOCAL Government Minister Nick Raynsford yesterday ruled out the abolition of district councils in County Durham in the wake of the No vote.

Claim: The former shadow minister for local government claimed more than # 2,000 of furniture for his second home in London but had it delivered to his parents» home in Wiltshire.

She assured that as the Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, she would play her role of delivering on the New Patriotic Party's (NPP) manifesto promise on behalf of the government by guiding the processes and activities leading to the election of MMDCEs on partisan basisGovernment and Rural Development, she would play her role of delivering on the New Patriotic Party's (NPP) manifesto promise on behalf of the government by guiding the processes and activities leading to the election of MMDCEs on partisan basisgovernment by guiding the processes and activities leading to the election of MMDCEs on partisan basis in Ghana.

Councillors elected in this election will serve an extended five - year term, after local government minister Carl Sargeant announced the next elections would be moved from 2016 to 2017 to avoid clashing with the National Assembly for Wales election, 2016 which in turn had been delayed a year to avoid clashing with the United Kingdom general election, 2015.

Shadow communities and local government minister Liz McInnes also resigned from her frontbench role in a further blow to Jeremy Corbyn.

[11][12] He was later one of the local government ministers who abolished the GLC in 1986.

The Deputy Minister for Local Government, O.B Amoah, has charged Metropolitan, Municipal, and District Assemblies (MMDAs) in the Northern part of the country not to pay an amount of GH cents 5,000 each as a contribution towards President Nana Akufo - Addo's visit to those areas.

The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh, says the Federal Government will establish one agricultural extension office in each Local Government Area within the next three years.

David Clark, former cabinet minister in Blair's first government, has written an excellent short history of The Labour Movement in Westmorland (Lensden Publishing, # 14.99), drawing upon local archives and oral history.

Majority leader, Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu on his part said the argument by the minority defeats same action undertaken by former President Mahama's government in respect of the appointment of a Deputy Local Government Minister, government in respect of the appointment of a Deputy Local Government Minister, Government Minister, Oti Bless.