Sentences with phrase «shadow local government secretary»

Tory shadow local government secretary Eric Pickles said: «Bin taxes are so expensive to introduce that taxes on families will have to rise as result.

After two months of internalised head - scratching, and public moaning, shadow justice secretary Sadiq Khan and shadow local government secretary Hilary Benn finally put forward their proposal early this morning.

Not exact matches

«Families who have had to leave their homes and will need to have them repaired because of flood damage should not be asked to pay council tax,» shadow communities and local government secretary Hilary Benn said.

The MP for Don Valley has been Labour's shadow energy and climate change secretary since 2011, after a stint heading up the Department for Communities and Local Government.

Hilary Benn, shadow communities and local government secretary, told the Ipsos MORI event at the Labour party conference last year that the coalition has made it difficult for Labour to be heard as the media focussed on coalition differences rather than what Labour's view is.

Caroline Flint MP, shadow communities and local government secretary, said in response to the letter

The announcement comes a week before shadow communities and local government secretary Caroline Spelman faces a verdict from the same committee over a complaint made against her.

Stephen Benn's younger brother Hilary is the shadow secretary of state for communities and local government.

A Labour government will make it a criminal offence to use low - skilled European workers to undercut local workers and businesses, and change the rules so that more foreign national criminals are considered for deportation, the shadow home secretary, Yvette Cooper, has said.

She served as shadow secretary of state for international development and more latterly as shadow secretary for local and devolved government, a role that David Cameron recast as shadowing the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister.

But his comments were quickly slapped down by shadow education secretary Angela Rayner who tweeted: «It's as if they've [the Conservatives] have forgotten they've cut all the services in local government that helped.»