Sentences with phrase «ask cabinet secretary»

«It clearly wouldn't have been appropriate to ask the cabinet secretary to start investigating the veracity of the police logs.

«What the prime minister has done is ask the Cabinet secretary to preside over a joint review by MoD, the Treasury and the Cabinet Office looking at what further efficiency savings can be made within the MoD on top of the very aggressive efficiency plan we've already got in place without affecting frontline military capability,» he added.

But people also supported David Cameron's decision to ask Cabinet secretary Jeremy Heywood to get the Guardian to destroy the files, by 43 % to 40 %.

... I have asked the Cabinet Secretary to lead work to consolidate the existing unwritten, piecemeal conventions that government much of the way central government operates under our existing constitution into a single written document... And if we are to decide to have a written constitution, the time for its completion should be the 800th anniversary of the signing of the Magna Carta in Runnymede in 1215.

«Last Monday, the Prime Minister asked the Cabinet Secretary to produce a report looking into allegations concerning Liam Fox's relationship with Mr Adam Werritty.

But to facilitate this process and consistent with the conventions set out in the draft Cabinet Manual, I have asked the Cabinet Secretary to arrange for the civil service to provide support on request to parties engaged in discussions on the formation of government.

Statement from prime minister Gordon Brown On 2 February, I announced that I had asked the Cabinet Secretary to prepare a Cabinet Manual, bringing together the existing conventions that determine the formation of governments including where no party has an overall majority.

Following Mr Blair's dismissal, the shadow home secretary David Davis has asked the cabinet secretary Sir Gus O'Donnell to launch a formal inquiry.

Following these interim findings the prime minister has asked the Cabinet secretary to work with the permanent secretary to complete the report, addressing all the remaining questions that have been raised by this issue.»

He asked the Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood for information surrounding Number 10's decision to report Mr Rock to police, including when David Cameron was first made aware of the claims.

Not exact matches

Whitehall source says defence secretary will be asked to name his price to break deadlock

Pro-Brexit ministers fear Downing Street will try to pick off the defence secretary, Gavin Williamson, in the coming days — to break the cabinet deadlock and secure a majority for Theresa May's favoured customs...

During the presidency of Lyndon Johnson, the Baptist minister Bill Moyers was asked to be the Presidental Cabinet's press secretary.

I watched her squirm at a Times fringe at the Tory conference, when the new Home Secretary was asked what she now thought of her cabinet colleague.

Six weeks later, after being asked every week to do so by Maria Eagle when she met him at shadow cabinet meetings (I wasn't a member of the shadow cabinet, only the shadow secretaries of state sit in that meeting), Jeremy finally phoned me.

Labour's shadow work and pension secretary Rachel Reeves has asked «when will the PM and IDS [Iain Duncan Smith] get a grip» on Universal Credit, after Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude admitted to ITV News that its implementation had been «pretty lamentable» so far:

But he said the Cabinet secretary has written to all government departments asking them to put in place new procedures for the authorisation of «all these sorts of contacts».

«The plain fact is that what has happened has damaged national security and in many ways the Guardian themselves admitted that when they agreed, when asked politely by my national security adviser and Cabinet secretary to destroy the files they had, they went ahead and destroyed those files,» he said

Minutes after Congress passed the tax bill that will primarily benefit the country's wealthiest, President Trump asked one of his Cabinet members — HUD Secretary Ben Carson — to pray for him and his White House staff, which historians say is the richest in American history.

«At a gathering of Tory Cabinet Ministers on Monday, the Prime Minister's political secretary Stephen Gilbert presented polling evidence to them which showed that when asked what the Coalition was doing, the public thought only of the cuts.»

Meanwhile, Labour MP Wes Streeting has written to the cabinet secretary asking for an investigation into whether the Queen's alleged comments were leaked in breach of strict protocol.

[6] Clarke, who declined Cameron's offer of the Leadership of the House of Commons, [7] explained that when Cameron asked him to become Shadow Business Secretary in 2009, the men agreed that he would serve in the cabinet for two years, and that «At my age, it is time for me to step back from the slog of running a large department, but I am delighted to have been given a more advisory political role».

As the health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, led a cabinet fightback on behalf of Feldman, who denies having described activists as «mad, swivel - eyed loons», a member of the Tory party board said he would be asking Feldman to explain himself.

Was there, he asked Lord Butler, the former Cabinet Secretary, anyone else to whom the Queen might turn?

If you ask me when, I will not be able to say, but I am sure pretty soon the Cabinet Secretary will get a day when the entire Cabinet will retreat in order to look at this bill properly and then when we have a final consensus on it, we can then take it to Parliament,» he added.