Sentences with phrase «by cabinet secretary»

Teaming up with the private and corporate sector, the Green Belt Movement was joined by the Cabinet Secretary Ministry of Environment Keriako Tobiko in a tree planting exercise at the Michuki Memorial Park in Nairobi CBD today.

Teaming up with the private and corporate sector, the Green Belt Movement was joined by the Cabinet Secretary Ministry of Environment Keriako Tobiko in a tree planting exercise at the Michuki Memorial Park in Nairobi CBD today.

A new national project to help boost the computing skills of Welsh primary school children has been launched today (Weds 5 Apr) by Cabinet Secretary for Education, Kirsty Williams.

The summit is being held in the country under the official patronage of the Kenyan Ministry of Education, Science & Technology and hosted by Cabinet Secretary Hon Fred Matiang» i.

A very large distance separates a committee hearing from a law on the books, and a deep chasm divides a sympathetic hearing by a Cabinet secretary from effective protection of workers.

He told the Commons he had tried to hold a judicial inquiry into phone hacking shortly before the general election last year but was opposed by Cabinet Secretary Sir Gus O'Donnell, the Home Office and the police.

Former ministers require manuscripts to be cleared by the Cabinet Secretary, under the «Radcliffe rules».

Downing Street faces growing pressure to definitively identify a company named in the report by the cabinet secretary, Gus O'Donnell, into Liam Fox's links with his best man, Adam Werritty.

The potentially explosive mix of big business interests and politicians that triggered Fox's demise is the subject of an investigation by the cabinet secretary, Sir Gus O'Donnell.

Earlier this month Cameron and Nick Clegg signed a specially drawn up memorandum giving up the Cabinet convention of collective responsibility, witnessed and minuted by the Cabinet secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood, for the boundary changes issue.

Mr Fox is already under investigation by Cabinet secretary Sir Gus O'Donnell and Labour is demanding a separate investigation into Mr Letwin's episode.

The Welsh Liberal Democrats have welcomed the announcement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Services that the Nurse Staffing Levels (Wales) Act will be implemented in full from today (6th April 2018).

«And so overall I think this is the right degree of transparency — a strong degree of transparency and a thoroughly good job by the Cabinet secretary.»

A formal policy negotiating process is being established under the arrangements made by the Cabinet secretary.

Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff tweeted, «After all the scandals involving unnecessarily expensive travel by cabinet secretaries, how much taxpayer money was wasted on this stunt?»

Not exact matches

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.

The Bush administration is sending its highest level delegation to China next week led by Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and six cabinet members.

But the dollar has also been buffeted by other headlines, including threats of a trade war with China and a tumultuous reshuffling of Cabinet members, with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson the latest to leave, and others rumored to be fired soon by President Donald Trump.

Our view: Full Senate should approve Mike Pompeo as secretary of state despite his hawkish outlook After more than two centuries, the list of cabinet nominees to be either rejected by the U.S. Senate or withdrawn from nomination is on the order of once...

An April 5 Associated Press story followed by a similar April 7 Washington Post story both asserted that White House Chief of Staff John Kelly was suffering from diminished clout in the White House, as a more confident President Trump feels comfortable taking matters directly to new hires like John Bolton and Larry Kudlow, chatting on the phone with outside advisers, and firing Cabinet secretaries over Kelly's objections.

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.

By nature, the present President of America has that element in him — I should not be saying this but I am being inherently made to convey this as comment of exception for America and for Obama whose whole (Obama and his better half) stand as an extension through the ex Presidential candidate's Charisma Of the Secretary Hillary Clinton that President Obama's Charisma has selflessly absorbed for function in the cabinet gracefully for America and the world.That shows the humbleness of President Obama and maturity of Hillary Clinton of acceptance without a feeling of high and low of ego regarded as exceptional in Divinity.I was not supposed to make this comment and I have done so to urge the Republicans to accept their Light within of consensus through individual projections under control as Obama's gesture of bipartisanship that will come to address.In short, this comment is all about health and health care where economics alone does not come into the picture with a rigorous analysis on it but should also extend as leverage to the person in play (Obama) who is also selflessly poised with corrections on it over the infra structure of it that he has proposed for approval as ego of his working element as the executive public ally chosen as the President that had appealed to the public at large voting even putting behind able dleaers like McCain?George W Bush was the last to steer America into the Light over the past of America and that stands as the subtle truth even today as on date with Bill Clinton the ex President of America giving support through his excellent independent caliber for Obama ultimately to head the show of America that was time bound of its reality that sees no barriers and to which he accepted well in his individual capacity as the free lance ex President of America.

All told there were four short prayers, delivered by a senator, an admiral, a Cabinet secretary and an Olympic gold medalist, Gabrielle «the Flying Squirrel» Douglas.

The latest tally of fire safety checks was presented to Cabinet by Communities and Local Government Secretary Sajid Javid, who has issued an urgent call for all councils to send in samples of cladding from tall buildings.

The former Home Secretary, who became the UK's first blind cabinet minister, has highlighted the challenges faced by disabled people in developing countries.

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.

The Sir Edward Heath Charitable Foundation was registered in January 2006, and is run by a body of trustees chaired by Lord Armstrong of Ilminster, who, as Sir Robert Armstrong, was Heath's principal private secretary during his premiership (and was later Margaret Thatcher's Cabinet secretary for many years).

Former ethics counsels to Presidents Obama and George W. Bush, write: «Seldom have we seen a worse cabinet - level ethics mess than that presented by Betsy DeVos, President Trump's choice for education secretary.»

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 %.

The new PM is not leaving responsibility for home affairs to the new team: so often frustrated as Home Secretary by Nick Clegg's chairmanship of the powerful Cabinet sub-committee on home affairs in coalition, she's now chairing it herself.

This is for reasons first set out by Adam Smith in Wealth of Nations (WN) Book V. I am pleased that the Cabinet Secretary for Finance referred to this in his speech introducing Land and Buildings Transactions Tax (LBTT).

Fuel was added to the fire by Sir Vince Cable, the former business secretary, who revealed over the weekend that Theresa May had a «general prejudice» against the Chinese which she raised in cabinet meetings, citing «national security concerns».

According to a statement signed by the Secretary to the State Government, Mr Tunji Bello, the three affected cabinet members are Mrs Adebimpe Akinsola, Mr Femi Odubiyi and Mr Anifowoshe Abiola.

Outside of the 15 federal judges impeached by the House, two Presidents (Andrew Johnson in 1868 and William Jefferson (Bill) Clinton in 1998), a cabinet secretary (William Belknap in 1876), and a U.S. Senator (William Blount of North Carolina in 1797) have also been impeached.

In the words in the forward by Jeremy Heywood, the current Cabinet Secretary, Seldon «has created in this volume, a manual, a set text, on being the Cabinet Secretary».

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 cabinet agreed on Monday that MPs would be given a free vote, despite Corbyn's public opposition to strikes, to avert a threatened rebellion by pro-bombing members such as shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn.

[16] The newspaper was subsequently contacted by the British government's Cabinet Secretary, Sir Jeremy Heywood, under instruction from Prime Minister David Cameron and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, who ordered that the hard drives containing the information be destroyed.

«The justice secretary said the move by former cabinet ministers Geoff Hoon and Patricia Hewitt had been «ill judged and very ill advised».»

In Monday's shadow cabinet meeting, MPs agreed that Corbyn would open Labour's argument in Wednesday's Commons debate by opposing airstrikes while shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn will close the debate with an argument in favour of the government's motion.

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.

But his argument — ahead of a raft of speeches by the trade secretary, Liam Fox, the Brexit secretary, David Davis, the Cabinet Office minister, David Lidington, and the prime minister, Theresa May — could raise fears about plans for deregulation after Brexit.

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.

He will also grant audience to a number of Japanese officials including the President of JICA and a Group led by the Chief Cabinet Secretary of Japan.

The education secretary offered an almost Shakespearian assessment of his fellow Cabinet minister as the Liberal Democrats continued to consolidate their position in the Eastleigh by - election.

A cronyism row which saw an SNP cabinet secretary rubber - stamp a # 150,000 grant to the organisers of the T in the Park music festival after a meeting brokered by a former party adviser may have caused First Minister Nicola Sturgeon the inconvenience of having to answer some awkward questions in the Scottish Parliament but it has done her party no discernible harm.

Williams believes the party made similar errors in dealing with the unpopular NHS reforms spearheaded by the Tory health secretary Andrew Lansley — a set of proposals the scale of which appeared to have crept up on the cabinet unawares.

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

Home Secretary Theresa May chaired a meeting of the Cabinet Office Briefing Room committee (COBRA)[77] attended by Defence Secretary Philip Hammond, the Mayor of London Boris Johnson, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan - Howe, the Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Cressida Dick and other unnamed members of the intelligence agencies.

«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.