Sentences with phrase «as cabinet office minister»

As Cabinet Office Minister, Maude is responsible for: public service efficiency and reform groups, Civil Service issues, industrial relations strategy in the public sector, transparency, civil contingencies, civil society and cyber-security.

Secondly, sources close to Francis Maude say that Maude knew a Cabinet - level role was on the cards but made it clear he wanted to stay as Cabinet Office Minister to drive forward the cross-Whitehall efficiency and civil service reform agendas to which there is still significant system resistance.

Graham Stringer, who served as a Cabinet Office minister in the early years of Tony Blair's government, told the BBC: «Ed doesn't have an immediate appeal to the electorate — then the Labour party has to work harder on getting his policies across.»

It comes as Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude launched yet another public attack on the civil service, pushing Whitehall deeper into a bitter internal war now threatening to consume the government.

Such people as the Cabinet Office Minister Oliver Letwin and the Treasury Special Advisor Neil O'Brien are understood to be already on the case.

Not exact matches

Previously, as a ministry official, he had visited the Cabinet Office to discuss the MOF's intervention strategy and the importance of containing the yen with officials such as a junior minister named Shinzo Abe.

The government has built four trade and investment offices throughout China, has doubled their staff, and set up former cabinet minister Ben Stewart as a new, permanent special representative who is based in Beijing.

He should have taken a lesson from London, Ont., mayor, Joe Fontana, who did declare a conflict of interest when his council voted to ask him to leave office in light of fraud charges stemming from his time as a federal cabinet minister.

Retired as Economic Advisor to the Prime Minister of India, he has rich experience in implementation of economic policies and monitoring of the special economic agenda of the Cabinet on behalf of the Prime Minister «s Office.

When asked about the expected $ 1,000,000 severance he could collect for having served as an MLA and cabinet minister since 1979, Speaker Kowalski told the media not to worry, because «I'll never collect it,» «I'll die in office.»

He has a long career in government and has served as deputy secretary to the cabinet at the Privy Council Office, associate deputy minister and then acting deputy minister at Public Safety Canada, associate assistant deputy minister of energy policy and assistant deputy minister of international trade and finance.

By the sheer number of these cartoons, Robinson demonstrates that Burke was far more in the public eye than anyone of his day with the exception of the prime ministers and royalty - quite a feat for someone who never held Cabinet - level office and was never regarded as an insider.

As the meeting broke up, minister for the Cabinet Office Francis Maude and chief secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander, said: «While the talks are ongoing it is obviously disappointing that some unions have decided on industrial action.

Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude struggled when under forensic examination on the Today programme this morning, when he was seemingly unable to answer why public sector pension reform was needed when its cost as a share of GDP was set to fall.

After a period on the back benchers Laws returned to government in 2012 as Minister of State for Schools in the Department of Education and Minster of State in the Cabinet Office.

He served as the chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office before being promoted to become chief secretary of the Treasury in Gordon Brown's government.

This is viewed as a brilliant idea by those in the Cabinet Office who are paid to come up with clever new ideas to help the deputy prime minister.

Cabinet Office minister Chloe Smith suggested an exodus of civil servants away from Whitehall could be necessary as the coalition presses on with its deficit reduction agenda.

@Stuart White: The Cabinet Office rule - book (draft of chapter 6, approved by the House of Commons Select Committee on Justice and drawn up in consultation, I understand, with the party leaders and with constitutional experts) lays it down that after an election the incumbent prime minister has a duty, as well as a right, to remain in office until there's clear and incontrovertible evidence that someone else is definitely in a position to command majority support in the house of coOffice rule - book (draft of chapter 6, approved by the House of Commons Select Committee on Justice and drawn up in consultation, I understand, with the party leaders and with constitutional experts) lays it down that after an election the incumbent prime minister has a duty, as well as a right, to remain in office until there's clear and incontrovertible evidence that someone else is definitely in a position to command majority support in the house of cooffice until there's clear and incontrovertible evidence that someone else is definitely in a position to command majority support in the house of commons.

As part of National Apprenticeship Week, the Minister for the Cabinet Office, Francis Maude, has announced new initiatives to help young people kick start a career in cyber security.

In May 2002, Alexander was transferred to the Cabinet Office as Minister of State.

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.

Nine - tenths of the M.P.'s who first won seats in the House of Commons in 1918 or thereafter, and who held some ministerial office in the years from 1918 to 1955, began their progress towards posts in a ministry or a Cabinet by serving as parliamentary secretaries or as junior ministers... Recruitment to the front bench clearly begins with these two offices.

But later in the day, the Cabinet Office minister Matt Hancock was given a rough ride by Eurosceptic Conservative MPs in the Commons, as he sought to justify the decision; and Heywood was forced to explain his thinking to MPs on the public administration committee.

Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude has said that the shadow chancellor Ed Balls» pledge to axe winter fuel payments for wealthier pensioners shows he is «making it up as he goes along»:

Cabinet Office minister battles for political future as investigation into allegations of sexual impropriety nears completion

Throughout its one hundred year history the Cabinet Office has, at times, had to fight for its survival — as much from the predatory activities of senior departmental civil servants as from ministers.

The departmental structure around them is also shifting, with Remainer Damian Green taking over effectively as deputy prime minister in the Cabinet Office, which was linking the work being done in the Brexit department with Liam Fox's Department for International Trade and the Foreign Office under Boris Johnson.

Laws continued to give advice to Clegg who he was close to, and was then brought back into government wearing two hats, as Minister of State for Schools in the Department for Education and Minister of State for the Cabinet Office.

The best news is that Jon Trickett has been appointed as Shadow Minister at the Cabinet Office, attending shadow cabinet (but not vCabinet Office, attending shadow cabinet (but not vcabinet (but not voting).

The minister for the cabinet office, Francis Maude, even described Michael Spencer as a «personal friend of the prime minister and the prime minister's wife».

Delegates included Cabinet ministers such as Jack Straw, Andy Burnham, Liam Byrne, Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, and Dame Tessa Jowell; a former Home Office minister, Nick Herbert, and Labour's Shadow Business Secretary, Chuka Umunna.

In a statement, Baroness Warsi said: «My shareholdings and, before becoming a minister, directorships have at all material times been disclosed as required on the Register of Lords» Interests and to the Cabinet Office and on the register of ministerial interests.»

Angie Bray, a loyalist who had threatened to resign as ministerial aide to the shadow cabinet office minister Francis Maude, was highly critical of the Lib Dems.

May must now decide whether to replace her longstanding ally with an individual who holds down the same two roles as Green, who was first secretary of state and Cabinet Office minister.

The committee concludes that the independent adviser lacks independence in practice, as he is appointed personally by the prime minister, is supported from within the Cabinet Office, and can not instigate his own investigations.

She signalled a pattern of strong central control from Downing Street by keeping only three out of 24 Cabinet ministers in the same roles as before, promoting Johnson to the Foreign Office, and exiling Gove (for a year) and Osborne (for good).

[23] If this office is not occupied or the Deputy Prime Minister is not available, the next most senior member of the Cabinet will receive questions (such as the First Secretary of State or the Deputy Leader of the government party).

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As Theresa May is in China, questions were answered for the government by Rt Hon David Lidington MP, Minister of State at Cabinet Office.

Alas the Foreign Office now appears to have explained themselves as Patel requested — and it looks like the cabinet minister was being somewhat economical with the truth.

Further, Cameron's personal aversion to reshuffles and belief that ministers were most effective when given time at a department led to him viewing many cabinet members, including the holders of the Great Offices of State, as immovable.

Many senior Labour politicians, most recently the shadow Cabinet Office minister Michael Dugher, spurn all discussion and planning for a coalition post-2015 as defeatist.

Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude will step down as an MP at the general election, the Conservatives have confirmed.

Some critics have said that Warsi's resignation last week as Foreign Office minister and the first Muslim to sit around the Cabinet table was calculated.

The move comes as Francis Maude, the Cabinet Office minister, stands ready to overturn part of the Civil Service Act so that ministers can have more say over Whitehall appointments.

Tessa Jowell moves across to be Shadow Minister for the Olympics — a role she previously held in the Labour Cabinet, while Liam Byrne takes over her current role as Shadow Minister for the Cabinet Office.

[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.

As for what has become of the outgoing co-chairman, Mehdi says that she has been offered a role as «a junior Foreign Office minister with a seat at the Cabinet table, a position she has not yet accepted.&raquAs for what has become of the outgoing co-chairman, Mehdi says that she has been offered a role as «a junior Foreign Office minister with a seat at the Cabinet table, a position she has not yet accepted.&raquas «a junior Foreign Office minister with a seat at the Cabinet table, a position she has not yet accepted.»

But as yet the government is trying to be conciliatory: Cabinet office minister Francis Maude said he wanted a genuine partnership with the unions and was not trying to provoke a «stand off».