Sentences with phrase «junior ministers do»
«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.»
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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.
Leaving aside the fact that civil society minister Nick Hurd is already supposed to be doing parts of this, the track record of centrally - driven change suggests it is unrealistic to expect a junior minister with no budget or levers to have any real impact on departmental secretaries of state?
Unlike when Peter Thorneycroft (Chancellor of the Exchequer) resigned in 1958 or Lord Carrington (Foreign Secretary) in 1982, Heseltine's junior ministers Norman Lamont and John Lee did not resign with him.
Tim Raison, a junior Home Office minister, went ostensibly to check on race matters but actually to ensure that Heseltine did not interfere in police matters.
«I remember one Budget day, I entertained a junior minister who leaned across the table and said: «Does power turn you on?
«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.
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.
Theresa Villiers, Caroline Spelman, Chris Grayling, Andrew Lansley need some time as junior ministers of state so that they have enough experience to be good cabinet members as do Michael Gove & Jeremy Hunt.
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.
The Central Regional Minister, Kwamena Duncan, has registered his disappointment in how highly rated Senior High Schools in the Central Region do not admit public Junior High School leavers who are from the Region.
Chris Mullin, who served as a junior Minister between 1999 and 2005, gives a ruthlessly honest account of his time in a department where, as he puts it, «life was a vast cascade of all the things my many superiors didn't want to do».
I asked Robert Key, the junior minister at the Department of National Heritage, what more was being done to set these matters in train.
Kerry McCallum, Associate Professor of Communication and Media Studies at the University of Canberra, and Lisa Waller, a former print journalist now doing a PhD at the University of Canberra, say that media logic — defined as «involving a range of skills and tools to monitor, pre-empt and react to news media representation of their policy field» — has permeated the practices of Indigenous affairs policy professionals at every level, from minister to junior bureaucrat.