Sentences with phrase «become health secretary»

«Tax breaks for childcare is a bad idea Main Jeremy Hunt should become Health Secretary as soon as possible»

In July 2009, a month after he became Health Secretary, Burnham launched an independent inquiry chaired by the QC Robert Francis into unusually high mortality rates at Stafford Hospital.

Not that Corybn is alone on the issue — Jeremy Hunt, disastrously enough, used to be of the same persuasion before he had a sudden Damascene conversion upon becoming health secretary.

Harman's strongest competitor for the deputy leadership, Alan Johnson, became the Health Secretary while his previous role as Education Secretary was split into a Schools Secretary and a Universities Secretary and respectively given to Ed Balls and John Denham.

Not exact matches

The stream of negative headlines has become a distraction for an administration that has already parted ways with its secretary of Health and Human Services and secretary of Veterans Affairs over questionable spending.

Burnham was again promoted becoming Secretary of State for Health in June 2009.

He was a member of the Health Select Committee from 2001 until 2003, then serving as Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to Home Secretary David Blunkett until 2004, when he became PPS to Education Secretary Ruth Kelly.

In 2009, he was promoted again to become Secretary of State for Health.

Burnham served as Shadow Secretary of State for Health until late 2010, when he was moved by Miliband to become Shadow Secretary of State for Education.

Burnham became Shadow Secretary of State for Health after May 2010 following the defeat of Gordon Brown's government.

Diane Abbott is also promoted to become shadow health secretary, with her old job of international development secretary going to Corbyn's close ally Kate Osamor.

A former chairman of the parliamentary party, Willie Adamson, became Scottish Secretary, while left - wingers Fred Jowett and John Wheatley became, respectively, First Commissioner of Works and Minister of Health.

Diane Abbott has moved from Shadow Health to Shadow Home Secretary, after Andy Burnham resigned during party conference in order to focus on his (very straightforward) bid to become Mayor of Greater Manchester.

Andrew Lansley will become the first health secretary for eight years not to speak at the RCN conference this week, as he seeks to avoid the fate that befell Patricia Hewitt several years ago, when she was booed and heckled by the audience.

A newspaper claimed on Sunday the health secretary's campaign team had accepted a proxy donation worth # 3,334 during his unsuccessful 2007 bid to become the party's deputy leader.

Health Secretary Alan Johnson believed that Field was motivated primarily by a personal dislike of Brown, [114] and Field later apologised, saying that he had regretted allowing his campaign to become personal.

Shadow Health Secretary Andy Burnham has said that Efford's Bill will remove «the most noxious elements of the Health & Social Care Act», though private members bills are usually short - and rarely become law without government support.

Former Shadow Health Secretary Ms Alexander stood down as an MP on Tuesday to become London mayor Sadiq Khan's deputy mayor for Transport.

• Supporters of Liz Kendall tried to arrange for her and then shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper to stand aside to give shadow health secretary Andy Burnham a clear run when it became apparent support for Corbyn was surging

The shadow health secretary told Good Morning Britain: «I've repeatedly warned that if you cut social care, if you take away support from older people in their homes; in the end that falls back on the NHS because people go into hospital and they become trapped there.

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She was health secretary under Tony Blair but left government when Brown became prime minister in 2007 and is due to stand down as an MP at the next election.

11 am Chris Grayling has been confirmed by Downing Street as the new Justice Secretary, and Jeremy Hunt has filled the gap left by Andrew Lansley to become the new Health Secretary - as recommended by Paul Goodman earlier this year.

Perhaps it is sheer coincidence that Anna is Parliamentary Private Secretary to Simon Burns MP, Minister of State for Health, who is a close personal friend of Chief Whip Patrick McLoughlin and was also a long - serving whip prior to becoming a Minister.»

Northern Ireland secretary James Brokenshire left the cabinet in January after standing down on health grounds, and Mrs Rudd became the fifth cabinet member to leave amid claims she misled Parliament over targets for removing illegal migrants.

Johnson became Secretary of State for Health on 28 June 2007, succeeding Patricia Hewitt in Prime Minister Gordon Brown's first Cabinet.

Fox became an MP in 1992 and later worked for both Hague and Duncan Smith as shadow health secretary.

BBC political correspondent Iain Watson said Mr Burnham, the shadow health secretary, and Mr Umunna, the shadow business secretary, were believed to be taking soundings before declaring their bids to become leader.

McCabe has in fact become one of the federal government's top advisers on these matters since the secretary of Health and Human Services tapped him last December to head the department's advisory committee on genetics, health, and soHealth and Human Services tapped him last December to head the department's advisory committee on genetics, health, and sohealth, and society.

Slater will take over from Chris Wormald, who is moving on to become Permanent Secretary at the Department of Health.

Russell Hobby, general secretary of school leaders» union NAHT, also commented: «Just as we are becoming more aware of children's mental health issues the resources are being taken away.

Unlike many political leaders today, Gardner, who later became Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare under President Lyndon Johnson, did not blame schools and those who work in them for this failure.

Klinenberg, for example, quoted Nicole Lurie, who became the assistant secretary of health for preparedness and response in 2009 and still holds the position:

He has been Secretary of the then Departments of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (FaHCSIA) and Education, Science and Training, as well as serving as Managing Director of the Health Insurance Commission, which later became Medicare Australia.