Sentences with phrase «junior minister for»

Jean - Noël Jeanneney, President of the Bibliothèque Nationale has a long record as a servant of the French state — chief executive of Radio - France, head of the Commission for the Bicentennial of the Revolution, and junior minister for foreign trade — but he also holds intellectual culture in high esteem, especially if it is French.

The disclosure comes on the same morning it was announced Lord Nash (pictured left) will become the new junior minister for the school system.

Only Sam Gyimah, the junior minister for childcare, is supporting May.

Neil Hamilton, the junior minister for corporate affairs at the DTI, replied saying that his department's role under the Insurance Companies Act 1982 was primarily concerned with the solvency of insurance companies and with the fitness of their directors, senior managers and major shareholders.

He was elected to Parliament in 1992 and served as a junior minister for education and schools before moving to his next position, chief secretary to the Treasury.

At the moment the science and technology area is overseen by a junior Minister for Science, Ross Free, and a senior Minister for Industry, Technology and Commerce, John Button.

Crean has a good grasp of science in Australia, having briefly been an upwardly - mobile junior Minister for Science and Technology in 1990.

Marlène Schiappa, whose successful blog Maman Works saw her dubbed the «spokeswoman for working mums», becomes junior minister for equality between women and men.

As Truss made the point, her government colleague Sam Giymah, junior minister for prisons, struggled to keep a straight face.

Not exact matches

«The standard circulation for cabinet memoranda includes the Queen, the Prince of Wales, all members of the cabinet, any other ministers in charge of departments, the attorney general and the chief whip... Ministers of state and junior ministers do not normally receive memoranda.»

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.

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By his own account he was an ineffective junior minister, not equipped for the cut and thrust of Whitehall life.

Under Blair in the Lords he served as a junior MAFF minister for two years and his Westminster Diary Volumes 1 and 2 show not only his old Labour sympathies but his love of the arts and the turf.

So, just like George Osborne sent his junior minister David Gauke into the Commons to answer tricky questions on Google and tax last week, the hapless David Lidington, Minister for Europe, was despatched to fave the wrath of Euro - scepminister David Gauke into the Commons to answer tricky questions on Google and tax last week, the hapless David Lidington, Minister for Europe, was despatched to fave the wrath of Euro - scepMinister for Europe, was despatched to fave the wrath of Euro - sceptic MPs.

He served as a junior minister in the Northern Ireland Office, the Department for Productivity, Energy and Industry, the Department of Trade and Industry and finally in the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

During the tenure of different governments the title of Minister of / for Transport has been used to refer to the Secretary of State for Transport, one or more of the junior Ministers or even both the Secretary of State and the junior Ministers at the same time.

That was what prompted yesterday's unedifying performance at prime minister's questions in parliament yesterday: Liam Fox and the PM, both gung - ho for nuclear weapons, reducing what should be a serious discussion about Britain's security needs to a bout of junior common room point - scoring.

One or two Conservative junior ministers, who are pushing for immediate promotion to the cabinet, might learn something from this.

Now, the junior minister has no one but himself to blame for the embarrassingly difficult situation in which he has found himself.

After the session, the prime minister's spokesperson insisted it was standard procedure for the chancellor to announce a policy in the Commons and then send junior ministers to defend it in TV interviews.

For the first time there is clear evidence that the prime minister, as opposed to a junior cabinet minister or special adviser, directly manipulated the quasi-judicial process considering News Corporation's bid for BSkyB, in favour of the MurdocFor the first time there is clear evidence that the prime minister, as opposed to a junior cabinet minister or special adviser, directly manipulated the quasi-judicial process considering News Corporation's bid for BSkyB, in favour of the Murdocfor BSkyB, in favour of the Murdochs.

Rejected an appointment as a government whip in 2001, but joined the government as a junior transport minister between 2005 - 2007 (more information at They work for you)

De Piero, who was shadow minister for women and equalities in Ed Miliband's shadow cabinet but quit as a shadow junior minister before the leadership challenge to Corbyn last summer, has a new role as shadow justice minister.

Gloucester MP for eight years; former junior minister.

After all, dozens of junior ministers can not provide a focal point for public attention equivalent to that of the prime minister and would soon generate mixed messages.

Ajimobi said,» We are indeed very grateful to Mr. President for giving us (Oyo State) the portfolio of a substantial minister after several years that we had been having junior ministers.

Clegg and the rest of the coalition's junior party were still under - resourced in government, so the end of 2011 saw the appointment of more special advisers for Lib Dem ministers and a drastically reinforced office for Clegg himself.

, addressed this problem by calling for junior ministers to have special advisers appointed to them.

«The juniors, the ministers of state do play a very important role,» says Akash Paun of the Institute for Government, who has written an excellent report on the challenges facing any prime minister about to reshuffle.

David Cameron has called for a junior Home Office minister to be sacked, saying her handling of the foreign convictions row showed she was little more a «giant franking machine signing letters».

Daniel Akuffo, junior brother of Attorney - General and Minister of Justice, Gloria Akuffo, was also being endorsed to join the government as the District Chief Executive (DCE) for Shai - Osudoku District in the Greater Accra Region.

For reasons that nobody has quite figured out, the hightly - regarded Stewart - who is a former deputy governor in Iraq and a diplomat in Montenegro - has been made a junior justice minister.

Claim: It is claimed the junior minister had a # 450 widescreen television delivered to his family home in Wales and then claimed it on his allowance for his second home in London.

Tony Blair was also the first PM to have no government experience since Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and the first Leader of the Opposition to have no government experience since the post was created in 1935 - Neil Kinnock was a PPS at the end of the Callaghan Government and John Smith was a Junior minister from the start on in the Wilson government, a Minister of State for much of the time and Secretary of State for Trade in the final 6 months of the Labour govminister from the start on in the Wilson government, a Minister of State for much of the time and Secretary of State for Trade in the final 6 months of the Labour govMinister of State for much of the time and Secretary of State for Trade in the final 6 months of the Labour government.

10.24 am: Glen Oglaza on Sky says Brown is asking junior ministers to give him a personal pledge of loyalty as a condition for accepting a government job.

Deborah Summers: Junior minister who blamed parliament's family - unfriendly hours for her recent resignation suggests a shorter working week for MPs might be the answer

Graham Stuart Yet another assisant whip - turned junior minister, the Beverley and Holderness MP, the Commons since 2005, is now at the Department for International Trade.

First elected to the House of Commons in 1922 as the MP for Limehouse, Attlee rose quickly to become a junior minister in the first Labour minority government led by Ramsay MacDonald in 1924, and then joined the Cabinet during MacDonald's second ministry of 1929 — 31.

The Shadow Secretary helps hold the Transport Secretary and junior ministers to account and is the lead spokesperson on transport matters for his or her party.

There is one thing, however, for which sections of the left will never forgive Miliband - as a junior minister, he supported the invasion of Iraq in March 2003 and, as foreign secretary, continued to defend the government's subsequent record on Iraq.

The triumphant result is that the drinks colossus Diageo, as an example, could go on meeting junior ministers and special advisers to argue against, say, minimum pricing for alcohol, while Alcohol Concern (annual income, less than # 1m) would have to jump through a chilling series of hoops in order to take part in any kind of campaigning, with the risk of criminal charges if it were found in breach of a law that the Electoral Commission says is so opaque it can not confidently predict how it will police it.

[5] Junior ministers were also said to be frustrated at Cabinet ministers for propping up a Prime Minister with no authority in order to further their careers with some ministers preparing to resign in order to trigger a leadership election.

The post of chairman of the parliamentary party was filled by the former junior minister David Renton, the MP for Huntingdon since 1945, with veteran National Liberal Herbert Butcher (who sat for the seat of Holland with Boston) remaining their chief whip.

He was also attacked by James Callaghan (then a junior minister) for his lack of zeal about further nationalisation.

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

In Parliament, he was a Junior Minister in the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills, and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.

Lib Dem ministers still don't seem too worried about their position in the polls, commonly dismissing it as just what happens to a junior coalition partner until they find their voice, but presumably it will become a cause of concern for some point (not just for the Lib Dems, but presumably also for Conservatives who fear it placing pressure upon the coalition.

Following the June election, when Patel was reappointed to DfID, two of her junior ministers, Rory Stewart and Alistair Burt, took joint positions across DfID and the Foreign Office, in what was perceived by some as a partial victory for Johnson's takeover plans.

She was a former junior Home Office minister with responsibility for equality, then becoming junior minister with responsibility for international development.