Sentences with phrase «from culture secretary»

The Leveson Inquiry returns tomorrow at 10 am to hear evidence from Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt.

He moves from culture secretary and is unlikely to be missed by the arts world, where he was largely seen as a man whose cultural interests stopped at Star Trek.

Not exact matches

Not at that moment, but, a few days after his return to Rome, Tarcisio Cardinal Bertone, the Vatican's secretary of state, issued a statement, explicitly approved by the pope, reaffirming a directive of 2005 that nobody is to be admitted to priestly formation who suffers from deep - seated homosexual tendencies, engages in homosexual acts, or supports the «gay culture.»

Culture secretary Maria Miller made clear that a «quadruple lock» had been incorporated within the Bill to protect all religious institutions from having to conduct marriages against their beliefs.

Former culture secretary Maria Miller has taken up the cause of creating a specific new offence and said she won a sympathetic hearing from justice secretary Chris Grayling.

Lib Dem MPs abstained in the vote over whether or not the culture secretary should face scrutiny from the independent adviser on ministerial behaviour.

Culture, media and sport secretary Jeremy Hunt had been a 50/1 outsider, but it is now even money on him after yesterday's evidence from James Murdoch at Leveson.

Mrs Miller resigned from her position as Culture Secretary yesterday after sustained pressure over the disclosure she had wrongly claimed thousands of pounds in mortgage interest payments.

Hugh Robertson, minister for sport and tourism, this morning snatched away the spotlight from his Tory colleague Maria Miller, who was taking the stage for the first time as culture secretary in the commons.

The culture, media and sport secretary took more damage than expected due largely to ungenerous treatment from the prime minister.

The Culture Secretary issued another apology last night, admitting she «let people down» in the way she approached the probe into her accommodation expenses, amid signs that support from her colleagues is ebbing away.

Culture Secretary Maria Miller ignored questions from journalists this morning, as she arrived for a Cabinet meeting at Downing Street.

Here are three highlights from Shadow Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt's opening of the debate:

The Twitter feed from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) was hacked this evening and Culture Secretary Maria Miller was described in a tweet as being «like a modern day Robin Hood».

He was the Secretary for Trade and Tourism in the Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC) administration in 1982, and later Secretary for Education and Culture from 1986 to 1990.

Immediately following the release of your report, the Culture Secretary Sajid Javid announced that the Tories would be introducing strong censorship of the Internet if they win the next election, in order to «protect children» from pornography.

A «quadruple lock» will safeguard religious organisations from legal challenges after the legalisation of gay marriage, the culture secretary has pledged.

The culture secretary's resignation letter - and the reply from the prime minister - in full and unedited

Culture Secretary Maria Miller has announced that the Church of England and the Church in Wales will be excluded from the government's planned new law to allow gay couples to marry.

She spoke as Culture Secretary Maria Miller, who is also the Minister for Equalities, announced that the Church of England and the Church in Wales will be excluded from the government's planned new law to allow gay couples to marry.

The churches said on Thursday they had no idea they were to be legally barred from marrying same - sex couples until the culture secretary and equalities minister, Maria Miller, outlined the proposals to the Commons on Tuesday.

Get an e-mail from Shadow Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt agreeing to receive a petition that I am running with local pubs to help save their businesses.

Mr Javid has been promoted from his previous brief as Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport.

The Lib Dems» abstention, outlined by leader Nick Clegg to MPs at a meeting in Westminster earlier this week, has frustrated Conservative MPs keen to shield their embattled culture secretary from further criticism.

But culture secretary Jeremy Hunt is unlikely to go back on his decision to allow the takeover to go ahead, despite concerted lobbying from the owners of the Mirror, Telegraph, Daily Mail and the Guardian.

Cue justified horror from Dale, much mocking from many bloggers and the moonbats sent a rambling letter collective response to Baroness Buscombe, self - importantly copied to Ben Bradshaw MP, the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport and John Whittingdale MP, Chairman Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee.

And the move to national living wage was also criticised today from within the cabinet, with culture secretary John Whittingdale warning the move would lead to increased immigration unless the UK left the EU.

Water cannon could instead be yet another step down the road away from the very culture which the home secretary says she wants to foster.

Maria Miller discusses her decision to resign as culture secretary, saying the controversy over her expenses has distracted from the «vital work» of the government

The former Labour cabinet minister has been widely expected to take over from Boaden and his political background has led Tories including John Whittingdale, the former culture secretary, and Damian Collins, a member of the culture select committee, to argue that his appointment could jeopardise the BBC's impartiality.

Culture Secretary Maria Miller has apologised to MPs for her attitude towards an inquiry into her expenses - BBC News hears the reaction from some of her constituents in Basingstoke.

The Justice Secretary is in the news for other reasons - his Department plans to halve rapists» sentences under some circumstances - but it's worth reading in full what he said yesterday about superinjunctions, in reply to a question from John Whittingdale, the Chairman of the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee.

Eagle is shifted to shadow culture secretary, taking over from the ousted Michael Dugher.

There was furious backlash in the Labour party after Jeremy Corbyn sacked Michael Dugher from his job as shadow culture secretary.

The officials at the Labour Party Conference, pursuing again as usual the hard - right bias instilled by the culture still remaining from the tenure of a previous General Secretary, Margaret McDonagh, stitched up the economic debate today.

Maria Miller may still have to answer more questions from Parliament's standards committee, the report into the Culture Secretary's expenses claims says.

But Jeremy Hunt, the shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport has kept his cards close to his chest so far on broadcasting — apart from some conventional pieties about the importance of public service broadcasting and the need to keep Channel 4 going through some funding fudge.

Ivan Lewis will take over as Shadow Culture Secretary from Ben Bradshaw, who failed to get enough votes in the Shadow Cabinet election to take up a place.

Chuka Umunna, the shadow business secretary, insisted Miliband has established a «new generation leading the party» that is entirely different from the culture under Brown.

He moved Maria Eagle, who supports Trident, from her role as shadow defence secretary to shadow culture secretary in his January reshuffle, installing Thornberry instead.

Culture secretary Maria Miller came under increasing pressure over her expenses from within the Conservatives after a government minister suggested she could have done a better job of saying sorry and a parliamentary aide signalled she should be concerned for her position.

Tom Watson, the Labour deputy leader and shadow culture secretary, wrote to Hancock asking him to recuse himself from any policy discussions about the Evening Standard or its commercial interests given his history of working as Osborne's chief of staff.

The former Tory leader could even be sacked from the Cabinet altogether, as could Eurosceptic Culture Secretary John Whittingdale.

Sajid Javid, the Conservative culture secretary, has told the BBC that all three main parties must learn lessons from the results.

With a series of allegations faced by some Labour MPs, as well as a number of Conservatives, Corbyn has been under pressure to explain why he made Hopkins shadow culture secretary in 2016 after complaints from a party activist.

During Hunt's tenure, competition and policy issues relating to media and telecommunications became the responsibility of the Culture Secretary; they were removed from the purview of the Business Secretary, Vince Cable, after Cable was recorded stating that he had «declared war» on Rupert Murdoch.

In a lengthy resignation letter he said he could best serve Corbyn's «wide debate» from the backbenches after critics including Shadow Culture Secretary Michael Dugher were purged.

Mr Corbyn's decision to sack Shadow Culture Secretary Michael Dugher and Shadow Europe Minister Pat McFadden sparked a furious backlash from many on the party's moderate wing.

Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt sought «private advice» from News Corporation over phone hacking, an email given to the Leveson Inquiry has suggested.

Below is the LMI Culture Assessment with attachments, the Department's Action Plan for moving forward, and letters from Secretary Foxx to Admiral Helis and the USMMA Community.