Sentences with phrase «local government minister under»

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.

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.

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Bob Neill, shadow local government minister, said: «Council tax has gone through the roof under Gordon Brown, thanks to a combination of unfunded burdens imposed from Whitehall and fiddling of the local finance settlement.

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».

After serving as a whip he was promoted to a local government minister for housing and then made Transport Minister under Gordominister for housing and then made Transport Minister under GordoMinister under Gordon Brown.

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.

Local government minister John Healey found his planning bill coming under attack from all sides of the Commons yesterday.

Department for Communities and Local Government Minister of state - Margaret Beckett Minister of state - John Healey Parliamentary under secretary of state - lain Wright Parliamentary under secretary of state - Baroness Andrews Parliamentary under secretary of state - Sadiq Khan

«Modern slavery is on the increase but under Theresa May's watch, the police and Border Force have been cut and her government cut local authorities by over 40 %,» Sarah Champion, the shadow minister for preventing abuse, said.

In the area of security, the minister said that when Buhari came on board, 14 of the 20 Local Government Areas of Borno, four in Adamawa and three in Yobe were under the sovereign authority of Boko Haram.

«The Minister of Interior, through his Counsel, Bola Odugbesan, argued that under item 61 of the Exclusive List, matters connected with marriage under the Marriage Act, issuing of marriage certificate and its registration are outside the purview of state and / or local governments.

Key recommendations for government in the report that won API support were: for play to be embedded within a Whole Child Strategy under the aegis of a Cabinet Minister for Children responsible for cross ‑ departmental roll out and co-ordination; for government to require local authorities to prepare children and young people's plans including strategies to address overweight and obesity with its physical, mental and emotional consequences; for funding for play to be ring - fenced within local authority budgets; to address barriers to outdoor play for children of all ages and abilities; to extend the Sport England Primary Spaces and Sport Premium programmes to all schools with a broader scope to incorporate a wide variety of physical literacy activities including play; to communicate through public information campaigns to parents and families the value of active outdoor play, including risk or benefit assessment; and to improve public sector procurement practice for public play provision.

Blunkett was one of the ministers responsible for drawing up initial plans for academies under the Labour government in the 2000s but, writing for The Observer, he said that it is «mystifying» that the government wants to convert already high performing local authority run schools.