Sentences with phrase «minister for women»

The apparent U-turn bore similar hallmarks to one made by education secretary Nicky Morgan when it was revealed upon her appointment as minister for women in April 2014 that she too had voted against the bill.

Following Jeremy Corbyn's election as Leader of the Labour Party, Green was promoted again to the Official Opposition Shadow Cabinet serving as Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities.

The late Joseph Boakye Danquah, once served as a Deputy Minister for Women and Children's Affairs.

Ms Morgan voted against the measure last year, and Benjamin Cohen, publisher of gay current affairs site PinkNews, said of her appointment: «It is unfortunate that the new Minister for Women opposes the rights of some women, lesbians, to have the right to marry.

The role of minister for women and equalities has been split, with Ms Morgan taking on the women's brief and Mr Javid handling equalities.

Baroness Morris has asked to stand down as Shadow Minister for Children, Schools and Families (and is replaced by Baroness Verma) but remains Shadow Minister for Women in the Whips Office.

Gloria Di Piero is the shadow cabinet minister for women and equalities and Emma Reynolds moves to housing.

Patricia Hewitt effectively conceded this when she said during the last Parliament when Minister for Women:

The comments made by Loughton were branded «disgusting» by Jo Swinson, the Liberal Democrat minister for Women and Equalities.

Minister for women Aisha Alhassan has said that the government's goal is to have all the rescued Chibok girls back in school by September.

The new Tory Minister for Women, Maria Miller, has just told us she's keen to lower the abortion limit from 24 to 20 weeks.

She said it was good to see more female whips, but it would have been better to have a woman as chief whip and suggested it felt like an «afterthought» to make Amber Rudd minister for women and equalities.

She claimed she told Paul Burstow, then the Lib - Dem chief whip, and Jo Swinson, the party's spokeswoman for women and equality — now minister for women and equalities — who pledged to investigate.

Committee chairman Keith Vaz told minister for women Harriet Harman:» [Commander Gibson] says it is very difficult to enforce a situation where a man is expected to ask a prostitute whether or not she has been trafficked and even if he gets a negative answer he is still to be prosecuted.

She was Financial Secretary to the Treasury at the same time as she was named Minister for Women and Equalities.

Caroline Spelman also drops out of the top team, but becomes shadow environment secretary and shadow minister for women under Mrs May.

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Morgan's role will also include minister for women and equalities, which on the surface is a good combination to have within the one cabinet office as so much of the global issues in education involve equal access and support for education.

She also maintains her role as Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities.

The Rotherham MP, who resigned from Corbyn's frontbench in the aftermath of the EU referendum but returned within weeks, becomes shadow minister for women and equalities.

Nicky Morgan is the new Education Secretary and continues as Minister for Women and Equalities.

And in the June 2003 reshuffle she became a Department of Trade and Industry minister, and deputy minister for women.

He promised to introduce gender - equality legislation requiring an equal male / female representation in the Scottish Cabinet and on the boards of Scottish - based companies, and planned to appoint a Cabinet Minister for Women.

Nicky Morgan becomes financial secretary to the Treasury and the new minister for women.

She was also given the post of Minister for Women and Equality.

MINISTER for Women's Interests Rhonda Parker has recently announced 21 projects to receive funding through round three of the Centenary of Women's Suffrage grants program.

«It is unacceptable in this day and age to have any all - male boards,» Nicky Morgan, education secretary and minister for women and equalities, said at the launch of the review.

Nicky Morgan, MP, Secretary of State for Education and Minister for Women and Equalities, Department for Education, U.K.

She'll continue in her role as Minister for Women and Equalities.

She had served as work and pensions secretary during the final years of the New Labour government; after that she has been shadow minister for women and equalities, shadow foreign secretary and shadow home secretary.

She was appointed by the Prime Minister to serve as Chair of the Labour Party, Leader of the House of Commons, Secretary of State for Equalities, Minister for Women and Lord Privy Seal.

Cross-government work to increase integration, participation and equality are absolutely essential and, as the Minister for Women and Equalities as well as the Home Secretary, I am passionate about them.

It a shame Harriet Harman, minister for Women & Equalities, has ignored the people writing her about the exclusion of LGBTQI people from the anti-harassment clauses of the Equality Bill.

«It is simply not good enough that forty years after the Equal Pay Act women still don't earn equal pay for equal work, and despite doing better at school and university more women end up in lower skilled and lower paid jobs than men,» Labour's shadow minister for women and equalities, Gloria De Piero said.

Labour's shadow minister for women and equalities said in response to yesterday's labour market statistics:

She will have an office as Minister for Women, supported by DCMS staff.

Shadow Minister for Social Care and Mental Health - Paula Sherriff (formerly Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities).

Nicky Morgan, the MP for Loughborough and currently Economic Secretary to the Treasury has been appointed Financial Secretary to the Treasury and Minister for Women, the Prime Minister has said on Twitter:

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.

Yvette Cooper, the shadow home secretary and minister for women and equality, intervened as the archbishop of Wales complained that the government had put his church in an «enormously difficult position», which threatened to «severely curtail» its freedom to act according to its conscience.

[17] In a March 2016 speech, Corbyn advocated the decriminalisation of the sex industry «without any discussion or consultation with his shadow cabinet, with me as his shadow minister for women and equalities, with women in the PLP or, to the best of my knowledge, with anyone in the wider Labour Party».

Gloria De Piero MP, Labour's shadow minister for women and equalities, responding to the lifting of Lord Rennard's suspension, said: «Nick Clegg has sent a clear message to women voters — he is more interested in trying to salvage the Lib Dems» fading election hopes than do the right thing by the women who made these serious complaints.