Sentences with phrase «cabinet departments in»

Certain cabinet departments in the US will, from time to time, conduct a field experiment to examine the outcomes of some program they manage, involving true random assignment of «clients» to various treatment or to non-treatment.

My personal favorite platform coming from Pataki's past was when he supported the idea of making the Environmental Protection Agency a Cabinet department in May of 2002.

Not exact matches

«The standard circulation for cabinet memoranda includes the Queen, the Prince of Wales, all members of the cabinet, any other ministers in charge of departments, the attorney general and the chief whip... Ministers of state and junior ministers do not normally receive memoranda.»

Mr Prosser has worked in the public service for more than 20 years in both Commonwealth and State government departments — including a stint as an Aboriginal heritage project officer with the Victorian Department of Premier and Cabinet.

Solis said having Hispanics in the Cabinet is important because they often step out of their department roles to offer different perspectives.

In 2012, President Obama called for folding the SBA into the Department of Commerce — even after he elevated the SBA administrator to a cabinet level position.

«CN Rail has expressed a desire to transport bitumen by rail,» said the memo, sent from Wayne Wouters, the Clerk of the Privy Council Office, the central department in government serving Harper's office and cabinet.

As minister of the tiny Service Alberta department, Mr. Griffiths will have less chance to embarrass the government and an opportunity to redeem himself in cabinet.

Bush extended its legal principles to other programs and created faith - based suboffices in several cabinet departments.

Today The Conversation, in partnership with the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, launches its latest series, Australia in the Asian Century.

Anyway, we've got cabinet side panels to cut and install (and we just had a not - so - good call come in from the zoning department) so I'm going to leave you with some links and skedaddle.

The move means Warsi has a chance at being moved to the head of a government department in the expected Cabinet reshuffle this summer.

Through the efforts of individual Government departments and the support of the Chief Secretary and my RHF the Minister for the Cabinet Office, we have already generated # 12bn of efficiency savings in Whitehall.

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.

In his address, Mr Reid took pains to praise his predecessors at the Home Office, in what will be seen as an attempt to heal the divisions he created in the cabinet by declaring the department «not fit for purpose» when he took oveIn his address, Mr Reid took pains to praise his predecessors at the Home Office, in what will be seen as an attempt to heal the divisions he created in the cabinet by declaring the department «not fit for purpose» when he took ovein what will be seen as an attempt to heal the divisions he created in the cabinet by declaring the department «not fit for purpose» when he took ovein the cabinet by declaring the department «not fit for purpose» when he took over.

Former Cabinet minister Iain Duncan Smith said the Treasury had «consistently got its predictions wrong in the past» and pointed out responsibility for forecasting was removed from the department in 2010.

Although most (if not all) cabinet level departments have a line of succession, in case multiple high - level staff are fired at the same time.

Ryan has also served in the offices of members of the US Cabinet and US Congress, conducted research for several think tanks, and served as a negotiator for a new counter-narcotics framework with Latin American governments while at the US State Department.

However, there is also provision for a «Ministerial veto», whereby the Information Commissioner's notice can be overridden, in respect of requests relating to central Government departments and the Welsh National Assembly, by a certificate signed by a Cabinet Minister, or the Welsh or Northern Irish First Minister.

Labour might also prefer a pact to a coalition, fearing that having to square Clegg, Cable and Huhne (and perhaps others) to get their acquiescence in every Cabinet decision, as well as having to give them major departments of state, might make firm and decisive government, in the middle of a major economic and fiscal crisis, virtually impossible.

In her first session at the despatch box 48 hours after joining the Cabinet, Truss said she had decided to progress with the government's two culling pilots this autumn after speaking with the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs» (Defra) scientific adviser.

There has previously been some speculation that if the Conservatives win the general election and David Cameron becomes Prime Minister, he might combine the Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland Offices into a single «Department for the Nations» or such like, with one minister sitting in the Cabinet.

Senate Democrats, for their part, can still point to their role in derailing Ronny Jackson's nomination to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs, another Cabinet post often seen as above politics in previous administrations.

In June 2003 Alexander was promoted to Minister for the Cabinet Office and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, and in September 2004 was moved to Minister of State for Trade at both the Department of Trade and Industry and the Foreign and Commonwealth OfficIn June 2003 Alexander was promoted to Minister for the Cabinet Office and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, and in September 2004 was moved to Minister of State for Trade at both the Department of Trade and Industry and the Foreign and Commonwealth Officin September 2004 was moved to Minister of State for Trade at both the Department of Trade and Industry and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

According to the story, Media organizations and individuals requesting information under the FOIA last year were less likely to receive the material than in 2010 at 10 of the 15 Cabinet - level departments, according to a Washington Post -LSB-...]

With that in mind, it is not surprising that the cabinet Secretary would oppose the very existence of the cabinet department they run if the president's objective is to eliminate the department or greatly reduce its size and scope.

In general one doesn't become a cabinet secretary without having acquired a good deal of experience, and it's particularly unlikely for a young person to be appointed to lead a department that concerns veterans.

In response to Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude's admission that the implementation of the Universal Credit system has been «pretty lamentable», the Department for Work and Pensions has told ITV News Iain Duncan Smith has «not shied away from any tough decisions» over the policy:

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 Boridepartment with Liam Fox's Department for International Trade and the Foreign Office under BoriDepartment for International Trade and the Foreign Office under Boris Johnson.

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».

They won't be the representatives of their departments in the Cabinet, they will be the representatives of the Cabinet in their departments.

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.

Michael Fallon, Jeremy Hunt, David Mundell and Alun Cairns are the only secretaries of state to stay in charge of their departments, while Jeremy Wright will continue to attend Cabinet as Attorney General.

The Wirral West MP remains in the Department for Work and Pensions as Minister for Employment, and will now attend cabinet meetings.

New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Joseph Martens, second from let, talks on hydraulic fracturing during a cabinet meeting at the Capitol on Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2014, in Albany, N.Y. Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration will move to prohibit fracking in the state, citing unresolved health issues and dubious economic benefits of the widely used gas - drilling technique.Acting health commissioner Dr. Howard Zucker is seated left.

He has friends in building trade unions and the Service Employees International Union that he's cultivated with recent policy pushes, and a network of contacts that dates to his time leading the Department of Housing and Urban Development in Bill Clinton's Cabinet.

«For proper accountability, especially as we work with the administration on implementing the new law governing elementary and secondary education, it is important to have in charge of the department a member of the president's cabinet confirmed by the United States Senate.»

The governor's office, and his top cabinet officials at the Environmental Conservation and Health departments, have repeatedly insisted the EPA failed in properly outlining the appropriate safety levels for the chemical PFOA in drinking water.

11:50 - UPDATE - It now looks like Laws is going to have a role in the Cabinet Office as well as in the education department.

It appears Cameron has now realised he needs his Cabinet minister in the Department for Transport to have a more open mind on the issue of airport expansion.

Fiala is both a former Broome County executive and commissioner in Gov. Andrew Cuomo's cabinet, leading the Department of Motor Vehicles during his first term.

The scheme is being developed in collaboration with the Association of British Insurers (ABI), Ministers, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) and Cabinet Office (CO), via the Water Bill 2014, which received Royal Assent in May 2014

Yes, of course Dianne Abbott should be in the Shadow Cabinet — however, I would put her in charge of a major department.

You are right about all those ministers, although I would just note that Gavin Strang was at the same level in the first Blair administration as Michael Meacher, they were both Ministers of State who sometimes attended cabinet meetings - John Prescott was the Secretary of State for the Department they were both ministers in.

Pledging to act in a «big - hearted way», Cameron told BBC1's Andrew Marr Show: «What I can tell you is any cabinet minister, if I win the election, who comes to me and says: «Here are my plans» and they involve frontline reductions, they'll be sent straight back to their department to go away and think again.

Francis Maude, the shadow Cabinet Office minister, warned that the «years of plenty» in the public sector were over and said that the Tories would bring in outsiders to oversee the work of government departments and ensure they were delivering on their business plans.

In 2011 the Cabinet Office required departments to adopt «digital by default» approaches, where at least 80 % of services are delivered to people online.

I have certainly sat in Cabinet sub-committee meetings where Ministers read out the briefs prepared for them by their departments with no regard for the broader political objectives of the government.

The ad released on Thursday pushing Donovan is from the 45Committee, a conservative 501 (c)(4) group that conducted a media campaign in support of Trump's cabinet nominations, including Tom Price and Jeff Sessions at Health and Human Services and at the Department of Justice.

[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».