Sentences with phrase «appointing cabinet secretaries»

Recent presidents from both parties have used science as a way to connect DOE's myriad activities, both administratively and by appointing Cabinet secretaries with advanced science and engineering degrees.

It's relatively rare for Presidents to appoint cabinet secretaries from the other party.

In turn, Gov. Tommy G. Thompson, a Republican, would be able to appoint a Cabinet secretary to oversee school - improvement efforts.

He was re-elected as an MSP at the 2011 Scottish Parliament election and appointed Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Sustainable Growth.

The newly appointed cabinet secretary's first legislative act as Education Secretary should be to diminish the role of high - stakes testing in the nation's public schools and to restore the dignity of the teaching profession.

Not exact matches

Premier John Horgan set the tone for gender equality in B.C. by appointing 11 women to his 22 - member cabinet, and on Thursday, Feb. 15, 2018, appointed Esquimalt - Metchosin MLA Mitzi Dean as Parliamentary Secretary for Gender Equity.

The younger brother of David Miliband, who was promoted to environment secretary in the reshuffle, Ed Miliband will report to Hilary Armstrong, the newly appointed cabinet - level minister for social exclusion.

On 27 June 2016 Morris was appointed to the Shadow Cabinet as Shadow Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government and Shadow Minister for the Constitutional Convention.

David Lidington has been appointed Lord Chancellor and Justice Secretary in a reshuffle of the cabinet.

On 8 February 2006, she was appointed as Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to the Cabinet Office, working with the Cabinet Office Minister, Jim Murphy MP.

On 15 May 2012, Miliband appointed Owen Smith to replace Peter Hain — who retired from frontline politics — as Shadow Welsh Secretary, and also promoted Jon Cruddas to the Shadow Cabinet, putting him in charge of overseeing Labour's ongoing policy review with a view to draft Labour's manifesto for the next election.

But after rolling mass resignations from the shadow cabinet, which have continued into Tuesday with Pat Glass resigning as shadow education secretary just two days after being appointed, Milband said it was time for Labour to unite around an alternative candidate.

In Gordon Brown's first cabinet, announced on 28 June 2007, Burnham was appointed Chief Secretary to the Treasury, a position he held until 2008.

He was appointed to the Cabinet by Tony Blair in 2006, serving as both Secretary of State for Scotland and Secretary of State for Transport.

In general one doesn't become a cabinet secretary without having acquired a good deal of experience, and it's particularly unlikely for a young person to be appointed to lead a department that concerns veterans.

She was appointed as Cabinet Secretary for Infrastructure, Investment and Cities in 2012.

He was appointed in September 2004 by then Conservative leader Michael Howard to the Shadow Cabinet, as Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury.

He appointed Sturgeon as Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing.

During the formation of the Coalition Government in 2010, he was appointed to the Cabinet as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, where he remained until being moved to DEFRA in 2012.

After that, he was appointed Vice Chair of the Labour Party (2011 - 2014), Shadow Minister for the Cabinet Office (2013 - 2014) and Shadow Secretary of State for Transport (2014 - 2015).

He began his ministerial career with roles in the Treasury, before becoming the first cabinet minister of Asian descent when he was appointed culture, media and sport secretary in 2014.

The soft - left leadership candidate will also say that he will appoint a gender - balanced cabinet and give at least two of the four top cabinet jobs — prime minister, chancellor, home secretary and foreign secretary — to women.

In September 2012, he was appointed Secretary of State for Wales thereby becoming a member of the Cabinet and the Privy Council, and assuming overall responsibility for the Wales Office.

Appointed Foreign Secretary in 2006, but demoted under Gordon Brown, and left Cabinet this month.

On 27 October 2009 he was appointed Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning by Iain Gray.

The office was reinstated in June 2007, when Angela Eagle was appointed Exchequer Secretary after Tessa Jowell had been appointed Paymaster General and Olympic Minister within the Cabinet Office.

1980 Joins Treasury after studying at Oxford University and the College of Europe in Bruges 1989 Joins the cabinet of Sir Leon Brittan, European commissioner 1993 Returns to Treasury as an assistant secretary to the Defence Team 1995 Sojourn at French Finance Ministry as chargé de mission direction de trésor 1997 After a year back in the Treasury, moves to Cabinet Office as deputy head of European Affairs Secretariat 2003 Becomes deputy director - general, immigration and nationality, at the Home Office 2004 Joins Foreign Office as director - general, globalisation 2010 Appointed permanent secretarycabinet of Sir Leon Brittan, European commissioner 1993 Returns to Treasury as an assistant secretary to the Defence Team 1995 Sojourn at French Finance Ministry as chargé de mission direction de trésor 1997 After a year back in the Treasury, moves to Cabinet Office as deputy head of European Affairs Secretariat 2003 Becomes deputy director - general, immigration and nationality, at the Home Office 2004 Joins Foreign Office as director - general, globalisation 2010 Appointed permanent secretaryCabinet Office as deputy head of European Affairs Secretariat 2003 Becomes deputy director - general, immigration and nationality, at the Home Office 2004 Joins Foreign Office as director - general, globalisation 2010 Appointed permanent secretary at BIS

In Major's final Cabinet, Hague, still in his 30s, was appointed as Welsh secretary.

The shadow education secretary has often said he would offer his rival a senior post in his shadow cabinet if he were appointed leader.

He got his first cabinet job in just his fourth year in parliament when he was appointed culture secretary in 2014, and was appointed business secretary after the 2015 election.

In appointing Javid, May has attempted to maintain the delicate balance in her cabinet between remainers and Brexiters, which is particularly important because the home secretary sits on the Brexit «war cabinet», which meets this week.

The role of head of the home civil service will be handed to Downing Street's top official, Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood, and the new chief executive will report to him once appointed.

The then prime minister, who appointed Miliband to the cabinet as environment secretary in 2006, called his protégé the «Wayne Rooney» of his ministerial team.

They point out that, aged 27, he was appointed secretary of John Smith's Commission on Social Justice, and that he acted as a «conscience» of the Blair premiership on a range of subjects, including foreign policy - where he objected, inside cabinet, to the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 2006.

He suggests that Mr Cameron might appoint a new Cabinet - level Secretary of State for Veteran Affairs (entirely consistent with the Cameron - Fox emphasis on these issues) and also a Secretary of State for Climate Affairs.

During the cabinet reshuffle in 2018, Bradley was appointed Secretary of State for Northern Ireland after the resignation of James Brokenshire due to ill health.

A group backed by the communities secretary, Eric Pickles, is to urge the Conservative party next week to support a six - point pledge card that will include promises to raise the minimum wage, cut fuel duty, build new homes and appoint a consumer affairs secretary at cabinet level.

He also served on the Environmental Audit Select Committee until the cabinet reshuffle of May 2006 when he was appointed as the Parliamentary Private Secretary to the then Minister of State for Schools Jim Knight.

[78] From the Conservatives, George Osborne became Chancellor of the Exchequer, William Hague was named as Foreign Secretary and Oliver Letwin was appointed as Minister of State for the Cabinet Office.

Since I was appointed as Shadow Secretary of State for Wales in December 2005, in addition to giving Wales a strong voice in the Shadow Cabinet, I have concentrated on four main areas.

[12] Following her appointment as Prime Minister, May did not appoint him to the Cabinet on 14 July 2016; however, he returned to the Cabinet following the 2017 General Election as Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

The MP for Braintree Brooks Newmark has been appointed the Parliamentary Secretary in the Cabinet Office.

Mr Cameron has now completed appointing his first cabinet, with Lib Dem Vince Cable becoming Business Secretary, George Osborne Chancellor, William Hague Foreign Secretary and Theresa May Home Secretary.

As Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Conservative Party William Hague appointed Letwin as a member of his Shadow Cabinet as Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury in September 2000.

Appointed in 2003, the ex-Conservative Research Department Director and high - flying Civil Servant (he was Norman Tebbit's Private Secretary) has been responsible for a single brief for longer than any other Cabinet member.

In September 2004, Prime Minister Tony Blair appointed Johnson to the Cabinet as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions after the resignation of Andrew Smith.

Mr Corbyn suffered the indignity of further shadow cabinet resignations, with shadow education secretary Pat Glass quitting just two days after being appointed to the post saying the situation was «untenable».

He was appointed to Margaret Thatcher's first government in 1979, and joined the Cabinet in 1986 as Scottish secretary

He was appointed as Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Finance, Constitution & Economy in November 2014.

Greening was appointed as the Education Secretary as part of May's swift Cabinet reshuffle, following her appointment as Prime Minister.