Sentences with phrase «at cabinet secretary»

The only change at cabinet secretary level was Michael Moore, and to most observers it seems a harsh one.

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Without thanking Trump or mentioning him by name, the outgoing Cabinet secretary expressed appreciation for «selfless leaders» at the State Department and other agencies, his voice breaking at times.

Kelly was among several Cabinet secretaries and senior White House staff members who attended a working lunch with the president at the Trump National Golf Club.

An Exxon lifer and University of Texas - trained engineer, Tillerson would add to a Cabinet increasingly full of millionaires and billionaires, including Commerce Secretary nominee Wilbur Ross, whose fortune is estimated at about $ 2.9 billion.

His transition team has assured the politically powerful community that he will have at least two Latinos in the Cabinet, but thus far he has named just one: New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, for commerce secretary.

Tim started his career at the Department of Finance, Canada, and then held positions at the Privy Council Office — where he was Secretary to various Cabinet committees — and Agriculture and Agri - food Canada.

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.

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Fergus Ewing, Scottish Government Cabinet Secretary for Rural Economy and Connectivity, comments: «Scottish food and drink exports are at an all - time high — with world - renowned Scottish goods like salmon and whisky being consumed across the globe at record levels.

These are essentially questions of public policy, and if real solutions are going to be found to the problems of disadvantaged children, these questions will need to be addressed, in a creative and committed way, by public officials at all levels — by school superintendents, school - board members, mayors, governors, and cabinet secretaries — as well as by individual citizens, community groups, and philanthropists across the country.

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.

Dewar first became an MP in 1966 at the age of 28, and oversaw devolution as Scottish Secretary in Tony Blair's first Cabinet.

The creative industries need a stronger voice in Government and a strong secretary of state at the Cabinet table — not no voice at all.

The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland retained responsibility for Policing, Security, Prisons, Criminal Justice, International Relations, Taxation, National Insurance, Regulation of Financial Services, Telecommunications and Broadcasting, in addition to representing the interests of the province in the Cabinet at Westminster.

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.

@EJoshuaS some web searching suggests that the youngest cabinet secretary ever was Alexander Hamilton, at 34, so probably not many in the cabinet.

He suggested at the time that Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude and chief secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander had identified an extra # 5 billion in efficiency savings and cutting administration, which - if realised - will go a long way towards achieving the savings.

Every cabinet Secretary serves at the pleasure of the president.

His speech at the Centre for Social Justice will be his first major policy announcement since he became justice secretary back in September's Cabinet reshuffle.

For many of the rebels, business secretary Vince Cable remains the great hope: a Keynesian social liberal who has never troubled to hide his discomfort at serving in a Conservative - dominated cabinet.

The elegant but razor - sharp Melanie Dawes is deputy cabinet secretary, sitting at the very heart of the most important decisions facing the PM every hour of every day.

Indeed, my source claimed that the Home Secretary wasn't even at the Cabinet meeting in question, since she was abroad.

Sees no objection to looking at other models of accountability around the world citing his visit to New Zealand when he was Cabinet secretary.

Culture Secretary Maria Miller ignored questions from journalists this morning, as she arrived for a Cabinet meeting at Downing Street.

«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.

4 pm Soft Power and the UK's Influence Subject: Soft Power and the UK's Influence Witness (es): (at 4.20 pm) evidence will be heard from Nicholas Beadle CMG, Senior Associate Fellow of the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), Lt General Simon Mayall CB, Defence Senior Adviser for Middle East, Ministry of Defence and Steve McCarthy — Director of International Security Policy, Ministry of Defence Location: Committee Room 1, Palace of Westminster Tuesday 9th July 9.30 am Public Administration Subject: Work of the Cabinet Office Witness (es): Richard Heaton CB, Permanent Secretary, Cabinet Office Location: Room 15, Palace of Westminster

But he had also put him at the mercy of his highly flappable Cabinet secretaries, who have seemingly lost the ability to speak without contradicting one another.

A recent Cabinet Secretary who serviced Thatcher, Major and Blair and is active in the House of Lords is Robin Butler and his biography Robin Butler At the Heart of Power from Heath to Blair (Biteback) is by Michae Jago.

The former work and pensions secretary, whose resignation from the cabinet and criticism of Gordon Brown last June nearly toppled the prime minister, has told his constituency Labour party in Stalybridge and Hyde he will be standing down as their MP but that his decision is personal and, after 20 years in the Westminster political system, no reflection on Labour's chances at the next general election.

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.

Friends of Boris Johnson, including other Cabinet ministers, have called on Theresa May to take action to end the criticism being aimed at the Foreign Secretary.

But the plan ran into serious trouble at a meeting of top ministers this week, with the so - called Brexit «war cabinet» siding 6 - 5 against the proposals after new Home Secretary Sajid Javid made his opposition known.

Kirsty Williams, Welsh Liberal Democrat Cabinet Secretary for Education, has announced that tuition fees in Wales will be frozen at # 9,000.

At a secret meeting in January 1947, Attlee and six cabinet ministers, including Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin, decided to proceed with the development of Britain's nuclear weapons programme, [34] in opposition to the pacifist and anti-nuclear stances of a large element inside the Labour Party.

He said there was a meeting (etween the Permanent Secretary at No 10, the PMs close political team, PM's Private Secretary) to discuss a solution without triggering a wider Cabinet reshuffle.

The emails show that Diamond and Tucker were in regular contact about Libor and that Jeremy Heywood, now cabinet secretary and permanent secretary at No 10 in 2008, also contacted Tucker about Libor.

A prominent campaigner for remain, the former education secretary has used her position at the helm of the Treasury select committee since losing her cabinet position to press the government over its plans for leaving the EU — often acting as a voice for business in parliament in her efforts to prevent a no - deal Brexit.

Des McNulty (born 28 July 1952, Stockport (then Cheshire, England), UK) is a Labour politician, and was a Member of the Scottish Parliament for the Clydebank and Milngavie constituency from 1999 to 2011, serving as Labour's Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning until he was defeated for re-election at the 2011 election.

Senior members of the Cabinet including Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson are among those understood to have expressed concern at any proposals on addressing the past which did not seek to prevent soldiers from being prosecuted.

It ranks at Parliamentary Secretary level and is not a Cabinet office.

In further moves Tom Watson leaves the whips» office to become parliamentary secretary at 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

Manzoni, who is also permanent secretary at the Cabinet Office, registered his opposition to the move by requesting a written ministerial direction.

«The social and cultural impact is not being teased out,» said Tom Watson, former parliamentary secretary at the Cabinet Office.

«That's the argument that I, as culture secretary, intend to make at the Cabinet table, and in our negotiations with Treasury — and I need all your help in that endeavour,» she added.

While the Trade Secretary can't contain himself at the prospect of pushing Britain into a spiral of deregulation in rights and standards and the cabinet seems to have agreed at Chequers to leave the door open to that with their «ambitious managed divergence», whatever that means.

The foreign secretary was one of a slew of Cabinet ministers who held talks with their French counterparts at the pow - wow, and it's his suggestion of a cross-Channel bridge which receives prominent coverage in Friday's papers.

The environment secretary is said to have angered cabinet colleagues by straying beyond his brief to speak at length about slightly obscure Treasury matters.

At the same meeting, Cabinet secretary Ed Miliband confirmed a noticeable shift to the left from within the party, when he argued «markets had become too powerful».

Peter Hain, the Cabinet secretary forced to resign following a donations scandal, has hit back at the Electoral Commission as «incompetent» and unaccountable.