Sentences with phrase «junior health minister»

It was considered by parliament that surrogacy is a fundamentally different arrangement to adoption or IVF treatment as the woman is making the agreement to hand over the child to someone else prior to conception, the junior health minister of the time stated that this arrangement was of such «magnitude» that it required a couple.

However, Quebec junior health minister Veronique Hivon said Tuesday the panel determined that provinces have the legal jurisdiction to legislate in matters of health and that the future Quebec legislation would clarify how acts to end a life wouldn't be considered suicide.

Baroness Cumberlege, the junior health minister, tells me that her department recognises that passive smoking is a health risk and has attempted to encourage employers, on a voluntary basis, to develop and implement policies to control smoking so that those who wish to can work in a smoke - free environment.

It transpired that the oestrogenicity of APEs and alkylphenols, their breakdown products, is one of the responsibilities of Baroness Cumberlege, the junior health minister.

Tom Sackville, junior health minister, welcomed the committee's move.

Junior health minister Tom Sackville replied, saying that there is no suitable test for hepatitis A that would identify infectious donors.

Junior health minister Ivan Lewis has called for the prime minister and his government to apologise for «letting people down» in the past year.

Andy Burnham replied that as a junior Health minister he had taken previous legislation on this area through parliament, but he said that Labour did not go far enough in linking social care up with pain management or enshrining in the NHS constitution that patients can choose where they want to die.

The events themselves may have occurred in the 80s, but the scandal came when the former junior health minister revealed her affair with the prime minister in 2002.

One is Liz Kendall, Harriet Harman's former special adviser, and now a junior health minister.

Take for example Quebec Premier Bernard Landry, who appointed David Levine as a junior health minister in 2002 only to see him lose a by - election shortly afterward.

The letter was sent to Patricia Hewitt, then health secretary, David Lammy, then culture secretary and junior health ministers Rosie Winterton and Ivan Lewis.

Not exact matches

While some departments have handed Lib Dem junior ministers a dedicated assistant private secretary, the IfG argues special advisers are needed, especially in departments where the secretary of state is a Tory - health, education, justice, defence, work and pensions and the Foreign Office.

His successor the former Conservative Chief Whip and junior minister, David Maclean sat as MP from 1983 to 2010 when he stood down due to the state of his health; he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1996.

Edwina Currie (Health) and John Major (Social Security) both served under him as junior ministers.

Hunt has had some brushes with science, as junior energy minister in the mid-1980s and as Welsh Secretary between 1990 and 1993, when he was responsible for forming policy on industry, transport, health and education.