Sentences with phrase «junior minister in»

In February 2016, a leaked email from prominent Brexit supporter, Steve Baker, now a junior minister in the Department for Exiting the European Union, floated the idea of creating «separate legal entities each of which could spend # 700,000».

Ian Taylor, junior minister in charge of science and technology, says «ROPAs by and large appear to be very successful».

She served as a junior minister in the Labour - Liberal Democrat coalition Scottish Executive from 2004 until the coalition's defeat by the Scottish National Party (SNP) in 2007.

He was the junior minister in the Communities and Local Government minister.

Brokenshire is a May loyalist, who spent five years as a junior minister in her Home Office and was among the early backers for her leadership campaign.

Junior minister in the DPM «s department 2005 - 2006 and in the DTI since 2006.

A former district councillor, she became MP for South Northamptonshire in 2010 and - after serving as a junior Treasury minister and as a member of the Treasury select committee - she was made a junior minister in the energy and climate change department in May last year.

Shadow Communities Secretary Jon Trickett confirmed the news, tweeting: «Delighted to have Emma as additional junior minister in our team».

The junior minister in charge of constitutional reform, Mark Harper, acknowledged then that «currently the first three members of the royal family in line to the throne are all male and so we have some time until there may be a pressing issue to address».

Prime minister's questions was largely about the freezing of fuel duty, and about Chloe Smith, the demure 30 - year - old Norwich MP who is the most junior minister in the Treasury.

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

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.

Michael Spicer was a Conservative MP from 1974 to 2010 and a junior minister in the 1980s.

To avoid the Baker scenario, the Liberal Democrats should deploy more than one junior minister in key departments that are led by the senior party of the coalition.

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.

To be frank, I suspect that the chair of the home affairs select committee will be more able to get a public platform and more able to influence policy than a shadow cabinet minister or even the most junior ministers in government.

He rose through the ranks of junior ministers in the Treasury before his promotion to culture secretary.

A number of key policy areas have been given to Nash, despite him being one of the more junior ministers in the department.

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.»

After earlier stints as a junior finance minister and deputy governor, he took over as Governor of the Bank of Canada seven months before the global recession really began to bite in September 2008, and is credited with keeping his homeland free from the worst ravages of the crisis.

The famously maverick - ish junior minister from the Beauce, in Quebec, seems to think the country should decide the fate of its reddest chamber.

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.

And the PDAC is doing its best to ensure juniors don't get overlooked in the fray of politics on the Hill — which almost saw Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservative government toppled by an opposition coalition in December.

Amber Rudd and Sajid Javid the two get Cabinet roles after operating with the Chancellor at the Treasury & # 13 & # 13 & # 13 & #thirteen & # 13 Picture: Reuters & #thirteen & # 13 George Osborne has strengthened his part in govt even more with the appointment of two of his previous junior ministers to Cupboard...

When junior minister Simon Burns was heard to call him - in the Commons chamber, no less - a «stupid, sanctimonious dwarf» there was unsurprisingly uproar.

Particularly among junior ministers, the level of churn has been so great in recent years that very often, by the time the minister has got close to understanding their subject, they are moved on.

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.

After appointing Mullin to junior office again in 2003 the Prime Minister discovered that as a backbencher he had voted against the Iraq War.

He found that one junior minister, Tim Eggar, was a rather macho figure who «later developed a strong interest in diplomatic car parking and non-payment of parking fines.»

Chris Mullin, in his excellent diaries, records the view of Janet Andersen, a former Labour whip and minister, on Tony Blair's attitude to junior ministerial posts: «He regards them as sweeties to be handed out to keep the children happy», she said.

In the new year, 100 people will be recruited and will later attend a summit along with civil servants and junior ministers.

Speaking on BBC Breakfast this morning Ellwood, now a junior defence minister, was visibly moved as he recalled returning home after the incident to find his young son in tears.

With rare exceptions, Liberal Democrat junior ministers either «went native» in their departments, like Jeremy Browne or felt, like Norman Baker, they were the «the cuckoo in the nest».

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.

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.

But Davis has trouble in his own department, with a junior minister accused of undermining his negotiating position.

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

In a warning from Downing Street to Tory MPs and junior ministerial aides who are threatening a major rebellion, the prime minister's official spokesman said: «It is a government bill.

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.

Permanent secretaries deal with strategic management — while junior ministers hardly count, as we've seen in the diaries of both the late Alan Clark MP and Chris Mullin.

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.

Despite defending herself heroically in the face of the Paxman onslaught on Newsnight recently, I was distracted by the way junior Treasury minister Chloe Smith repeatedly drank her water and put her glass down soooo precisely.

Heath made him a government whip and then under Thatcher he was a shadow minister and then a junior transport minister in government.

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 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)

After a spell as a trade union officer, Watson became an MP in 2001 and rose fast, becoming a junior whip in 2004 and junior defence minister two years later, when his nightly ministerial papers included details of British soldiers killed in Iraq, a conflict he voted in favour of.

The Welsh Government briefed that the Secretary of State, Cheryl Gillan, and her junior minister, David Jones, were trying to overturn the will of the Welsh people, as expressed in last year's referendum on the Assembly's powers.

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.

In terms of junior ministers who've performed well in their briefs and are knocking at the door of the Cabinet any list must include Greg Clark, Nick Herbert, Maria Miller and Grant ShappIn terms of junior ministers who've performed well in their briefs and are knocking at the door of the Cabinet any list must include Greg Clark, Nick Herbert, Maria Miller and Grant Shappin their briefs and are knocking at the door of the Cabinet any list must include Greg Clark, Nick Herbert, Maria Miller and Grant Shapps.

More sweeping changes in junior ministerial ranks on Tuesday are planned by the prime minister, it was claimed.