Sentences with phrase «new culture secretary»

Matt Hancock has been named the new culture secretary replacing Karen Bradley in the cabinet reshuffle which took place Today, Monday, 8th January, following...

Other guests included the pop star Alison Goldfrapp (looking uncharacteristically dressed - down) and the actor Bill Nighy who spilled outside to drink Pimm's and eat strawberries and cream on the front lawn, where they bumped into the BBC's Alan Yentob and the new culture Secretary, Ben Bradshaw.

New Culture Secretary Matt Hancock is standing by his widely mocked decision to name ginger warbler Ed Sheeran's cod - Irish ditty Galway Girl as his favourite song.

The new culture secretary had a steady rise after entering parliament in 2010, becoming a whip and then taking two jobs in the Home Office under May: minister for modern slavery and organised crime, and minister for preventing abuse and exploitation.

The Conservative manifesto pledges to freeze the BBC licence fee «pending Charter renewal» but the new Culture Secretary John Whittingdale MP has previously said it should be scrapped.

Ben Bradshaw, the new culture secretary is taking her place.

But Labour sources will point to the fact that John Whittingdale, who has been a critic of the BBC licence fee system, is the new culture secretary.

The new culture secretary wowed the crowds at Tory conference last year with a high - octane karaoke performance of Queen's Don't Stop Me Now.

A Downing St spokesman has clarified that the new Financial Secretary, Nicky Morgan, will report directly to David Cameron on women's issues, rather than to the new Culture Secretary, Sajid Javid.

As if deputy PM Nick Clegg hadn't been sidelined enough in the last parliamentary term, his version of PMQs - Deputy Prime Minister's Questions - was labelled «useless» in this morning's first culture questions put to new culture secretary Maria Miller and culture minister Hugh Robertson.

Not exact matches

Former culture secretary Maria Miller has taken up the cause of creating a specific new offence and said she won a sympathetic hearing from justice secretary Chris Grayling.

Responding, shadow culture secretary Hugo Swire called for reassurances that the new casinos would be properly assessed for their social impact.

The home secretary confirmed UK Border Force would split into a new operational command, in a bid to create a «whole new management culture».

... to provide senior leadership on a new advisory board chaired by the Secretary of State for Culture Maria Miller.

Perm sec Sue Owen welcomes our new Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport @sajidjavid at DCMS HQ.

The Department for Culture, Media and Sport has tweeted a picture of the new secretary of state, Sajid Javid, along with the department's Permanent Secretary, secretary of state, Sajid Javid, along with the department's Permanent Secretary, Secretary, Sue Owen.

The vast majority of the public (88 %) think Maria Miller was right to resign as Culture Secretary, according to a new ITV News / ComRes poll.

The Culture Secretary's new announcement would probably lead to millions of websites being blocked by British ISPs, should it come into force.

Immediately afterwards, culture secretary Sajid Javid promised new censorship measures, with a regulator ensuring adult sites have age verification technology to prevent young people accessing porn.

Culture Secretary Maria Miller has announced that the Church of England and the Church in Wales will be excluded from the government's planned new law to allow gay couples to marry.

She spoke as Culture Secretary Maria Miller, who is also the Minister for Equalities, announced that the Church of England and the Church in Wales will be excluded from the government's planned new law to allow gay couples to marry.

The culture secretary, Maria Miller, seeks to reassure Conservative MPs on Tuesday that religious groups will not be obliged to conduct same - sex marriages if new legislation is introduced

In an interview with the Daily Telegraph culture secretary Andy Burnham said the government was considering the move among a number of possible new safeguards for the internet.

Apparently, the former culture secretary will help «achieve a new common purpose that builds resilience into business and society».

Alicia Dunne, Deputy Director General said: «I very much welcome Mr Whittingdale's appointment as the new Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport and Ms Crouch's promotion to Tourism Minister.

Government plans to privatise Channel 4, revealed by a leaked document last year, have receded under the new government following former culture secretary John Whittingdale's departure.

Newspapers will be given a chance to make their reformed regulator work without oversight by the new royal charter, Maria Miller, the culture secretary, has said.

To his credit, the Culture Secretary John Whittingdale was trying to rein in some of this BBC excess with a new White Paper.

Chuka Umunna, the shadow business secretary, insisted Miliband has established a «new generation leading the party» that is entirely different from the culture under Brown.

Rumours that the Labour leader will begin a «revenge reshuffle» of his shadow cabinet in the new year have drowned out the party's attacks on the Conservative government, the shadow culture secretary Michael Dugher has said, in a jibe at Jeremy Corbyn's aides.

And Michael Dugher, the former shadow culture secretary and MP for Barnsley East, is standing down, according to the New Statesman's Stephen Bush.

The former Shadow Culture Secretary, who voted for RAF strikes in Syria, warned Mr Corbyn over Christmas that a «revenge reshuffle» would not be «very new politics».

But in an article for the New Statesman, the Shadow Culture Secretary argued a reshuffle based on revenge «would not be very new politics&raquNew Statesman, the Shadow Culture Secretary argued a reshuffle based on revenge «would not be very new politics&raqunew politics».

After announcing he had been fired yesterday, former shadow culture secretary Mr Dugher said the so - called «new politics» was the victim of the reshuffle.

Many senior figures stay in their roles, but there are moves for Sajid Javid, who is the new Business Secretary and John Whittingdale, who beomes Culture Secretary.

A former U.S. assistant secretary of education, she's now a research professor at New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.

Break Boston Globe, 3/22/16 «While having breaks in both February and April is rare outside New England, it is ingrained in Massachusetts culture and can be difficult to change, said Paul Reville, who served as the state's secretary of education under Governor Deval Patrick and is now a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.»

After Secretary DeVos visits Washington, D.C.'s Jefferson Middle School — led by New Leader Greg Dohmann — The Washington Post examines the positive culture and academic progress at the school.

Culture Secretary John Whittingdale has appointed five new commissioners to Historic England

The consolidating of the existing cultural cooperation between Umeå in Sweden and the Seychelles Ministry of Tourism & Culture remains a priority for Alain St.Ange, the new Minister for Tourism and Culture, and for Ms. Benjamine Rose, his Principle Secretary.

Breaking Travel News talks to Cecília Meireles, Secretary of State for Tourism, Portugal at World Travel Market 2011 about Taste Portugal, which highlights the tasty local cuisine that Portugal has to offer as well as a new focus on culture

On Wednesday, the chancellor of the exchequer, George Osborne, and culture secretary, Jeremy Hunt, are coming to Tate Britain to mark the launch of Legacy10, a new, independent campaign to turn a tax break announced in the last budget into a game - changer for fundraisers.

In 2004, the Secretary of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet had suggested that such a culture of implementation and accountability would be a central feature of the new arrangements.