Sentences with phrase «senior special advisers»

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The Solicitor is the chief attorney for the United States Department of the Interior, principal legal adviser to the Secretary of the Interior, and is assisted by a Deputy Solicitor, Special Assistant, Ethics Director, Senior Counsel for Collaborative Action and Dispute Resolution, six Associate Solicitors, eight Regional Solicitors, and a staff of more than three hundred attorneys and four hundred total employees.

For now, though, the embarrassment persists, so much so that one ministerial special adviser interviewed for this feature declined to be named on the basis that his geekiness would embarrass his senior Conservative employer.

The statements gave no reason for the sacking of the commissioners, special advisers as well as senior special assistants and the secretary to the state government.

There are fresh reports that senior Conservative MPs are conspiring in the machinations against Dominic Cummings, the former special adviser to Michael Gove who heads up Vote Leave.

The party will call for all papers, correspondence and advice between senior officials and special advisers on decisions relating to the Windrush generation to be handed to the Home Affairs Select committee.

The document was prepared by Hugh Ind, the director general of the Home Office's immigration enforcement agency, in June last year and copied to Rudd and Lewis, the then immigration minister, as well as several senior civil servants and special advisers.

The lack of women among special advisers should embarrass Theresa May, writes Anne McElvoy, senior editor at the Economist

Changes to the code of conduct for special advisers are a «step back towards the days of Alastair Campbell», a senior MP has warned.

UPDATE: The governor's press office emailed the following statement from Jeremy Creelan, special counsel to the governor and senior adviser on ethics:

Among the dozen highest - paid special assistants, two — senior adviser Andrea Hagelgans and press secretary Eric Phillips, who made $ 217,084 and $ 193,135, respectively — are responsible for helping to burnish the mayor's image.

Spitzer later used a perch at Constantine's successful anti-trust litigation firm to run for governor, and brought Constantine into his administration as a senior adviser with a special responsibility for a cherished project, higher education.

In such applications, hypersonic technology could be important for the war on terror: According to Richard Hallion, who once served as the Air Force's historian and is a former senior adviser for «counterintelligence and special programs oversight,» hypersonics could result in a missile capable of reaching its quarry before it has a chance to escape.

But a senior flu scientist recruited by NSABB as a special adviser says the panel did the right thing.

Alison Ryan, senior policy adviser at the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL), comments on the provision for children and young people with special educational needs and disability.

She also previously worked at CAP as the associate director for domestic policy, and served as chief counsel and senior policy adviser to former Sen. Jeff Bingaman and special counsel to former Sen. Tom Daschle.

Scott Jensen, senior adviser for the American Federation for Children, said choice schools would like to provide more special education services but don't have enough money.

The advantage typically cited in favour of using special advisers is that they enhance the independence of the senior civil servants by making a clear demarcation between the two types of advisers.

The fear is that (in theory at least) a government in the future could simply create a raft of special advisers who could overwhelm the senior civil servants.

A close friend of Michael Gove, he had worked as his special adviser when Gove was minister of education, alongside another senior Vote Leave director, its head of digital, Henry de Zoete.

Deployed with a special mission unit (SMU) as a senior counter-terrorism intelligence adviser in Afghanistan for 6 months.