Sentences with phrase «chairing cabinet committees»

David Cameron has promised to appoint Iain Duncan Smith to chair a Cabinet committee if he becomes Prime Minister.

Tony Blair has arrived back in the UK from his holiday in Egypt to chair the Cabinet committee on the Asian tsunami.

The local government associations from England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales have written to William Hague, who chairs the cabinet committee looking at devolved powers.

He announced that he will be chairing a Cabinet Committee on Social Justice, stating that Social Justice would define his role and that he wants his Department to be «at the forefront of strategy to improve the quality of life for the worst off».

Not exact matches

To ensure that the Government delivers on its commitments, a new results and delivery approach will be implemented that includes the establishment of the Cabinet Committee on Agenda, Results and Communications, chaired by the Prime Minister, and a Results and Delivery Unit, housed in the Privy Council Office.

She worked as Minister across nine Canadian government departments, and her service included the role of Vice Chair of the Treasury Board and chair of the cabinet committee for public safety, justice and aboriginal isChair of the Treasury Board and chair of the cabinet committee for public safety, justice and aboriginal ischair of the cabinet committee for public safety, justice and aboriginal issues.

John Prescott will chair nine cabinet committees and deputise for Tony Blair on seven others, Downing Street has announced.

To be frank, I suspect that the chair of the home affairs select committee will be more able to get a public platform and more able to influence policy than a shadow cabinet minister or even the most junior ministers in government.

The prime minister said he would be setting up a new Cabinet committee to oversee flood recovery and would be personally chairing its first meeting on Thursday.

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.

THERESA May will pile fresh misery on George Osborne as she chairs the first Cabinet committee focusing on pushing Britain's industrial strategy later.

11 of the 47 elected Chairs were previously, or subsequently, members of the Cabinet or shadow Cabinet which suggests they may not be quite the maverick outsiders that some analyses of the select committee system have suggested.

On the Labour side, for example, prominent non-Corbynites and former Shadow Cabinet members such as Yvette Cooper, Hilary Benn, Mary Creagh and Rachel Reeves will chair committees, while the list of Conservative party chairs and candidates is significantly more liberal and less Eurosceptic than the party leadership, with Tom Tugendhat, Robert Halfon and Nicky Morgan joining fellow Remainers Damian Collins, Sarah Wollaston, Bob Neill and Neil Parish.

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, who chairs the local growth cabinet committee, also hailed the announcement as marking the end of a culture of «Whitehall knows best» and helping to end an over-reliance on the banks and the City of London.

Of course the cabinet minister's push for a slimmed - down session earned him a rebuke from Committee chair Hillary Benn, who said it was part of the Brexit secretary's job description to face scrutiny from MPs.

Under the proposals of an unelected committee chaired by Margaret Beckett, the PLP looks set to abandon a requirement that an incoming Labour PM include elected shadow cabinet members in the new cabinet.

Each cabinet committee had a chair from one party and a deputy chair from the other; there was also a cabinet committee specifically overseeing the operation of the coalition.

So does the number of women elected or appointed to positions of responsibility within Parliament, whether as Cabinet members, shadow ministers or select committee chairs.

In a Daily Politics film, Eleanor Garnier reports on how Tory MP and chair of the public administration select committee, Bernard Jenkin, has written to Cabinet Secretary Jeremy Heywood and Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude, warning them that he may call them in front of his committee for answers.

May now faces the prospect of replacing Green, who had chaired a series of sensitive Brexit cabinet committees.

You have to fill Cabinet positions, junior ministerial positions, select committee chairs — things like that — while also having places for MPs sulking or who don't want to sit in government.»

Robert Walker, the Pennsylvania Republican who chairs the House of Representatives Science Committee, wants to create a Department of Science, merging NASA, the National Science Foundation, the Environmental Protection Agency, the US Geological Survey, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and parts of the Department of Energy into a mega cabinet agency.

While Conservative grassroots, along with a number of cabinet ministers, support the move, chair of the Education Select Committee and Conservative MP Neil Carmichael has also voice opposition to lifting the ban.

«We must recommit ourselves to the vision that all students have the right to equitable opportunities to learn at high levels,» said Helen Mountjoy of Daviess County, a former education cabinet secretary and chair of the State Board of Education as well as a current Prichard Committee member.

Lori has also served as a past chair of her building's SDMT Committee, a representative to the district's Character Council, the District Curriculum Cabinet, and the District Staff Development Panel.

«I have received strong support from school districts, homebuilders and other concerned parties in the Inland Empire and Central Valley, where aging schools need upgrades and growing areas will need new, modern school construction,» Liu, D - La Canada Flintridge and chair of the Senate Education Committee, said in an email to Cabinet Report.

«It helps if the person in charge has been a lawyer or has been a senior member of the cabinet,» commented Bob Neill, the Tory chair of the House of Commons» Justice Committee, early on in Truss's tenure.

He is a member of the CGI Canada Cabinet Executive Committee and the Chairs Contract Practises Committee.

There's a joint effort by the Work and Pensions and Business committees with Carillion's top brass, and, intriguingly, the Liaison Committee, the super committee of all the select committee chairs, has an evidence session with David Lidington the Cabinet Office minister coordinating the government's response to CCommittee, the super committee of all the select committee chairs, has an evidence session with David Lidington the Cabinet Office minister coordinating the government's response to Ccommittee of all the select committee chairs, has an evidence session with David Lidington the Cabinet Office minister coordinating the government's response to Ccommittee chairs, has an evidence session with David Lidington the Cabinet Office minister coordinating the government's response to Carillion.

Both Ministers will report to the Aboriginal Affairs Cabinet Sub Committee, chaired by Mr Collier.