Sentences with phrase «former health secretary»

Ministers could be forced to release the contents of private diaries — with former health secretary Andrew Lansley first in the queue.

Train travel accounted for # 1.5 million in total, with former health secretary Alan Milburn topping the table with a claim of # 16,782 in a year.

His brother Ed has just 15 and former health secretary Andy Burnham has a handful.

However, Mr Howard's challenge did receive a boost when former health secretary Stephen Dorrell's two chief lieutenants declared they were backing his campaign.

Ministers could be forced to release the contents of private diaries — with former health secretary...

Patricia Hewitt - Blairite former health secretary who helped bring in the smoking ban.

The Blairite former health secretary caused a sensation this January when she and Geoff Hoon attempted to bring down Gordon Brown by urging Labour MPs to vote in a secret leadership ballot.

Labour peer Clive Hollick has also donated # 10,000 to Kendall to help her leadership bid, while former health secretary Patricia Hewitt has handed over # 4,000.

In a wide - ranging interview on Radio 4, Hague plumped for the gag he made in 1999 when former health secretary Frank Dobson was set to be the official Labour candidate for London mayor and the popular Ken Livingstone was expected to cause chaos by running as an independent.

He is flanked by former health secretary Andrew Lansley and Maude.

The frontbencher and former health secretary beat Bury South MP Ivan Lewis and interim mayor Tony Lloyd in the race, meaning he will go forward to stand at the election in May 2017.

I am now the benefactor of hourly phone calls from [former health secretary Alan] Milburn and [former transport minister Stephen] Byers.

The BMA held a vote of no confidence against former health secretary Andrew Lansley after his NHS reforms caused outrage among medical professionals.

The contenders were Iain Gray, MSP for East Lothian, a former Enterprise Minister in the previous Labour Executive, Andy Kerr, MSP for East Kilbride and former Health Secretary in the previous administration, and Cathy Jamieson MSP, the acting party leader who had been deputy leader under Jack McConnell.

Former health secretary declares three more private sector jobs roles on House of Lords register of interests

The government has failed to block the release of sections of former health secretary Andrew Lansley's diaries in the court of appeal.

She is believed to have been a distant descendant of Owen Tudor, which would make the Cambridge - educated former health secretary a relation of Henry VII.

Former health secretary Andy Burnham was «furious» when news leaked of poor standards of care at Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in November 2009, a few months before the general election.

In a report this week, the committee, chaired by former health secretary Stephen Dorrell MP, warned this could «undermine access to justice» and erode compensation for «the most seriously injured or disabled claimants».

Both the Daily Mail and The Daily Telegraph also claimed that Jack Dromey MP (her partner) and former Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt had offered support to apologists for the sexual abuse of children while they were working for NCCL.

Labour leader Ed Miliband highlighted the issue in his response to the Queen's Speech when he pointed out former health secretary Andrew Lansley had said he thought children ought to be «protected from the start» from «glitzy designs on packets».

Former health secretary Andrew Lansley was uncomfortable about the plan but his replacement, Jeremy Hunt, is more comfortable with it.

Meanwhile, former health secretary Stephen Dorrell, chair of the long - established European Movement, which campaigns for an «outcome referendum» and for the UK to stay in the EU, this week urged a united pro-EU voice.

Former health secretary Andrew Lansley previously used it to block full publication of the NHS risk register, which would have revealed risks facing the government's controversial NHS reforms.

Former health secretary, Alan Milburn, was at it on Newsnight the other day, saying that for «one or two candidates being assumed to be the font of all wisdom in this race is just not right.»

The former health secretary also said the government should invest in a better screening tests.

This morning Andy Burnham, Labour leadership contender and former Health Secretary, said what every sensible commentator believes:

He had already blocked Brown's membership of Labour's ruling National Executive and brought in his own man, former health secretary, Alan Milburn, to run the 2005 election campaign, in place of Brown.

The former health secretary appeals to Mr Brown to reject pressure from some allies to respond to the financial crisis by lurching to the left.

While David Miliband melted into the shadows and Diane Abbott failed to capitalise on her increased public profile, the former health secretary nabbed the shadow education brief, in which he excelled against the turbulent Michael Gove.

The former health secretary can run as his day mayor and the honourable member for Brent East can run as his nightmare!»

«Andy Burnham, the former Health Secretary and an outsider for the leadership, said: «Peter loves the spotlight but it's time to leave the stage.»

But the former health secretary said the revelations were «at the heart» of why he wanted to stand.

Another leadership contender, Andy Burnham, the former health secretary, told the conference: «We [Labour] let a perception grow that we were in favour of wealth of any kind and with no limits on it whatsoever, that we were somehow in awe of wealth and of business, and we didn't have the ability to stand up and say what was right and what was wrong,» he said.

A former health secretary, Burnham has made the creation of a National Care Service a central plank of his campaign.

Johnson, the former health secretary who is tipped as the most likely successor to Brown should he resign as prime minister, was rewarded for his show of loyalty in recent days with a key post.

There has been speculation that both Mr Clarke and Mr Milburn, the former health secretary, are attempting to «flush out» a heavyweight rival to the chancellor.

Burnham, a former health secretary under Gordon Brown, got several standing ovations at the Labour conference on Wednesday as he promised that the party would give people the right to be treated in their own home and make the NHS responsible for social care as well as medical problems.

Andy Burnham, current Mayor of Greater Manchester and former Health Secretary and Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport

Meanwhile, the former Health Secretary, Patricia Hewitt, has announced her intention to vacate Leicester West at the general election.

The former health secretary was not responsible.

Alan Milburn, the former Health Secretary, says that only full party members should be allowed a vote in leadership elections and that the unions should no longer have a «structural relationship» with Labour.

Stephen Dorrell, the former Health Secretary, announced that he would also stand.

Former deputy prime minister John Prescott has thrown his support behind Andy Burnham in the race to replace Ed Miliband as Labour leader and compared the former health secretary to former Prime Minister Tony Blair.

The former health secretary Alan Milburn proposes that parents of children in schools where performance is consistently poor should have a right to choose an alternative school armed with an education credit worth 150 % of the cost of educating the child in their current school.

Other possible contenders include Andy Burnham, the former health secretary, and Jon Cruddas, a backbench MP who has strong grassroots support.

Writing in the Daily Mirror, the former health secretary will claim to be the candidate who can reconnect Labour with aspirational blue - collar workers.

«The left - wing MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington joins David and Ed Miliband, former children's secretary Ed Balls, and former health secretary Andy Burnham on the list -LSB-...] But Ms Abbott's presence on the ballot paper was only thanks to a late flurry of support after fellow left - winger John McDonnell quit the race and called on his backers to get behind her.»

The former health secretary will announce his candidacy at the People's History Museum in Manchester this afternoon, bringing the number of candidates to five.»

The former Health Secretary, who was first elected in 1997, said he told the Prime Minister of his decision earlier this year.