Sentences with phrase «minister of state»

He previously held a junior cabinet role, as minister of state for small business and tourism.

Two years later, she became the youngest female cabinet minister in Canadian history, taking on the role of minister of state for Western economic diversification.

The foreign secretary's younger brother is now minister of state for transport.

He also highlights that the change in ministers of state did not contribute to effective political leadership or continuity of policy.

It is said that ministers of state even pay MPs to have bills and other issues such as budgets passed.

Many of the people on the list were already ministers of state.

Others reported to be interested in leading the party after Mr Mahama's reign include former Ministers of Youth and Sports, Edwin Nii Lante Vanderpuije; Gender, Children and Social Protection, Nana Oye Lithur; former Brong Ahafo Minister, Eric Opoku; former Central Regional Minister; Kwaku Rickett Hagan; former Minister of State at the presidency, Rashid Pelpuo; and former majority leader and now 2nd deputy Speaker of Parliament; Alban Kingsford Sumane Bagbin.

As former Minister of State for Health, Lord Owen has long been highly critical of previous governments for their role in and handling of the tainted blood scandal.

«Kachikwu is focused on delivering on the reforms currently being implemented in the petroleum sector under the leadership of President Buhari and Acting President Osinbajo in line with his duties as Minister of State for Petroleum Resources and Chair of the Board of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC.

The former Minister of state in charge...

The Group Managing Director of NNPC, Maikanti Baru has finally responded to the allegations by Minister of State Petroleum Resources, Ibe Kachikwu.

John Hayes becomes Minister of State at Transport, while continuing his role as Cabinet Office Minister.

Lord Callanan appointed Minister of State at the Department for Exiting the European Union.

According to participants that were present during a meeting with Senior Minister of State for Home Affairs and National Development Desmond Lee last week, the various stakeholders involved were informed of the move and it was met with positive feedback.

Replacement found for Lady Warsi who resigned yesterday over #gaza > No10 says Baroness Anelay of St Johns is new Minister of State at FCO

Cameron also faced embarrassment when an attempt to lure Liam Fox, the former defence secretary, back into government fell apart when he regarded the offer of Foreign Office minister of state as inadequate.

In 2003, he became a minister and held several positions including Minister of State for Europe from 2005 — 06.

Ted Menzies, the Federal Minister of State for Finance, stressed in an interview that PRPPs are the best way to go at the moment, particularly given that there isn't enough provincial support to go ahead with CPP reforms.

The deal is to be executed through a company called the Congolese Society for the Exploitation of Timber (SOCEBO) which is part of a complex web of businesses set up by Zanu - PF, which is an empire controlled by Zimbabwe's political and military elite, led by Emmerson Mnangagwa, Speaker of Zimbabwe's Parliament, a former Minister of State Security, and close confidante of President Mugabe.

Baru, who took over the mantle of leadership of NNPC from Honourable Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, July 4 2016, said already NNPC had lowered operating costs of production from $ 27 / barrels to $ 22 / barrels.

I've just noticed that Andrew Adonis (a former education policy adviser who was made a Lord so he could be education minister, and is one of the people most responsible for the Government's obsession with league tables, testing and Academies) has been made Minister of State in the Transport Department, about which he presumably has little or no expertise.

He also served on the Environmental Audit Select Committee until the cabinet reshuffle of May 2006 when he was appointed as the Parliamentary Private Secretary to the then Minister of State for Schools Jim Knight.

The foundation's head is Shalva Breus, a businessman, collector, and former deputy minister of state property.

Is given a life peerage as Baroness Warsi of Dewsbury and becomes shadow minister of state for Community Cohesion and Social Action.

Back in 2009, as chief minister of the state of Gujarat, he successfully pioneered India's first solar incentives.

I'd put Patricia Hewitt in the Home Office, and Jacqui Smith at Minister of State level in Northern Ireland.

You kindly offered a most interesting shadow minister of state role, but having served on the Opposition front bench for nearly ten years, mostly in the Shadow Cabinet, I would prefer to return to the back benches.

The former minister of State under the Kufour administration, died on March 20 in London after a short illness.

Rashid Pelpuo, Minister of State responsible for government's PPP initiatives, said in an interview that the PPP...

«The Ministry of Petroleum Resources would like to categorically state that the Honorable Minister of State, Petroleum Resources all through his presentations at the hearing never mentioned nor insinuated the need or plans by the Federal Government to increase the current pump price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS).

[22][23] The British minister of state for trade Richard Needham criticised Neil and the newspaper for potentially putting thousands of jobs at risk.

The announcement comes within weeks after Minister of State for Finance Arjun Ram Meghwal stated the use of virtual currencies is not authorized as a means of exchange by the RBI, and after Deputy Governor Shri R. Ghandi suggested that confidence will only be placed in a virtual currency issued by an authority.

Okorocha daughter's is married to the son of the current Minister of State for Education, Prof. Anthony Anwuka.

The Greek Minister of State for Coordinating Government Operations, Alekos Flaburaris, on Thursday proposed to request the IMF to postpone the payments owed by Athens for two months, an event analysts deemed unlikely.

Special Minister of State Joe Ludwig has appointed Timothy Pilgrim as Australia's Privacy Commissioner, replacing Karen Curtis whose term ended on July 12.

Nonetheless, it was welcome to see Minister of State for Justice and Civil Liberties, Simon Hughes, «liberate» (his word) # 1.4 m a year from George Osborne's clutches for a new initiative to support, not lawyers, but litigants in person (LIPs).

After Jeremy Corbyn won the 2015 leadership election on 12 September, Thornberry was appointed Shadow Minister of State for Employment.

Recall, that the Senate had on May 3rd confirmed the new ministers, Stephen Ocheni (Kogi) and Suleiman Hassan (Gombe) to replace the late Minister of State for Labour, Mr. James Ocholi (SAN), who died in an accident on March 6, 2016; and Amina Mohammed, who was recently appointed as the Deputy Secretary - General of the United Nations.

The Senate has warned Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, to stop making false claims on the on - going process of passing...

Rt Hon Nick HERBERT Lately Minister of State for Police and Criminal Justice and Chair of the All Party Group on Global TB and global LGBT Rights.

Let's make Angela shadow first minister of state.

Present at the meeting were the Finance Minister, Mrs Kemi Adeosun, Agriculture & Rural Development Minister of State Heineken Lokpobiri.

It also recognizes the importance of addressing climate change, protecting biodiversity and addressing food security,» said Zhang Jianlong, Minister of State Forestry Administration, China, when he closed the Conference.

The NDC therefore marshaled all its big guns; and virtually every NDC Minister of State, Cabinet and non-Cabinet, MPs and non-MPs and Deputy Ministers, were present in the House.

Speaking just for her province, B.C. Minister of State for Tourism Naomi Yamamoto noted that the 3 % increase in visits by Americans last year amounted to an additional 100,000 visitors.

Ma, once a vice minister of state security, is the most senior security official to be investigated since the former domestic security tsar Zhou Yongkang was ensnared in a graft scandal and jailed for life in 2015.