Sentences with phrase «holding cabinet office»

Tony Benn was famously proud that Stephen became the third generation of the family to hold a Cabinet office.

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Tim started his career at the Department of Finance, Canada, and then held positions at the Privy Council Office — where he was Secretary to various Cabinet committees — and Agriculture and Agri - food Canada.

By the sheer number of these cartoons, Robinson demonstrates that Burke was far more in the public eye than anyone of his day with the exception of the prime ministers and royalty - quite a feat for someone who never held Cabinet - level office and was never regarded as an insider.

@Stuart White: Of course there's a difference between (a) a minority government which a smaller party permits to remain in office by not using its votes to defeat its programme and legislation, either ad hoc or in accordance with some semi-formal pact, and (b) a coalition in which both parties hold seats in the Cabinet.

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.

One member of staff was caught on CCTV jumping naked from a filing cabinet, while there are also reports of staff having sex in office toilets, holding break - dancing competitions during working hours and fighting in the reception area.

«Governments hold office by virtue of their ability to command the confidence of the House and hold office until they resign,» the Cabinet Officeoffice by virtue of their ability to command the confidence of the House and hold office until they resign,» the Cabinet Officeoffice until they resign,» the Cabinet OfficeOffice says.

On February 3rd a seminar was held with Francis Maude, the Shadow Minister for the Cabinet Office and Nick Hurd, the Shadow Minster for Charities, Social Enterprise and Volunteering and the CCHQ Implementation Team.

«I repeat, at all times my ownership of the flat and the fact that it was being let out was fully disclosed to Cabinet Office officials and HM Revenue and Customs, and was appropriately reported on the register of ministers» interests held by the Government.»

May must now decide whether to replace her longstanding ally with an individual who holds down the same two roles as Green, who was first secretary of state and Cabinet Office minister.

The Cabinet Office review of all government contracts held by G4S and Serco is unlikely to go far enough.

In terms of diversity and representation in the Shadow Cabinet, for the first time two of the «Great Offices of State» will be held by women, with Emily Thornberry remaining as Foreign Secretary, and Diane Abbott becoming Home Secretary.

He resumed the post in 1929 (once again as a member of the cabinet) when Labour returned to office under MacDonald, [7] and held it until 1930, when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Noel - Buxton, of Aylsham in the County of Norfolk.

He shares the same cabinet position Joseph held for the lion's share of his time in office, and holds Margaret Thatcher, Joseph's CPS co-founder, in the same high regard.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo today will hold a rare cabinet meeting in the governor's ceremonial second - floor office at the Capitol, known as the Red Room.

With her opponent Damian Green still undergoing a Cabinet Office probe into alleged inappropriate behaviour, Thornberry appeared to go for the jugular when she asked: «Is he happy to be held to the same standards in government that he required of others while he was in opposition?»

Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesman Vince Cable raised Lord Ashcroft's donations by calling on the government to release papers relating to his case held by the Cabinet Office.

After it came to light, discussions were held with the Cabinet Office, whose creature it was, and the proposal withdrawn.

Ed Balls is confirmed as Shadow Chancellor; his wife Yvette Cooper takes his job as shadow home secretary; Douglas Alexander takes her former portfolio of shadow foreign secretary; Lima Byrne becomes shadow work and pensions secretary; Tessa Jowell to take on responsibilities shadowing the Cabinet Office, formerly held by Byrne.

Over his 12 years in office, he held, at most, three cabinet meetings.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo held a closed - door cabinet meeting Wednesday to crow about the long list of accomplishments during his rookie year in office, an administration source reports.

Officials said the meeting was merely being held in Cabinet Office Meeting Room A, the location which gives Cobra its name.

Most people I have spoken to at HQ seemed to be just enthusiastic amateurs and when it comes to being interviewed and public appearances many of the Shadow Cabinet just do not cut it like the many previous Conservative Cabinets that held office.

Inside, Silver was seated behind a mostly bare desk in his bare - walled office with five phones, a small refrigerator and a cabinet holding two boxes of Raisin Bran.

Tessa Jowell moves across to be Shadow Minister for the Olympics — a role she previously held in the Labour Cabinet, while Liam Byrne takes over her current role as Shadow Minister for the Cabinet Office.

[63][64] It was reported on 10 May that a meeting to discuss this scenario was held between Robertson, the SNP Chief Whip Stewart Hosie and Cabinet Office officials the previous evening.

«He has given decades of service to the party and the country, holding ministerial office under both Thatcher and Major, serving in Cabinet as Employment Secretary, Environment Secretary and finally Home Secretary.

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.

The chief executive of a kitchen - cabinet business who had never held elected office, Wolf campaigned last year on promises to tax the gas industry to raise money for education.

«Patients entrust doctors with their most intimate healthcare details, and doctors have a legal responsibility to keep that information private and secure, whether it is held in an office file cabinet or stored on a computer server,» said Gurbir Grewal, NJ state attorney general in a statement about the settlement with VMG.

In the case of the Commonwealth Government, however, though meetings were held with officers of the Department of Health and Family Services (and with a member of the office of the Minister for Health and Family Services) and with officers of ATSIC, there were no meetings held with officers from the Office of Indigenous Affairs in the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet or the Office of the Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Afoffice of the Minister for Health and Family Services) and with officers of ATSIC, there were no meetings held with officers from the Office of Indigenous Affairs in the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet or the Office of the Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander AfOffice of Indigenous Affairs in the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet or the Office of the Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander AfOffice of the Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs.