Sentences with phrase «served as member of parliament»

Mr. Chebet Maikut served as a Member of Parliament and a Member of the Constituent Assembly that established Uganda's post-independence Constitution, a Member of DuPont's Biotechnology Advisory Panel and a Senior Fellow of Synergos.

He has served as Member of Parliament for West Dorset since 1997.

He served as Member of Parliament for Tema East from 1996 to 2008, and between that period, he was, first, appointed as Minister of State for Fisheries from 2001 to 2003 by former President John Agyekum Kufuor.

Sir Owen Thomas (18 December 1858 — 6 March 1923) was a Welsh politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Anglesey.

She served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Watford from 1997 to 2010, and was a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Ministry of Justice from 2009 to 2010.

Freddie Blay who is seeking to become the substantive chairman of the governing party, served as a member of parliament on the ticket of the Convention People's Party (CPP) from 1997 to 2008.

He served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1974 to 1979, and again from 1983 to 1994.

He also served as Member of Parliament for Bimbilla on NDC's ticket, on two occasions, from 1993 to 1997 and 2001 to 2002 when he resigned to for the ECOWAS position.

Sir, I have resolved to write you this letter based on a strong inner conviction and my personal observations and views about your very action in the near future, that I believe, would make a strong case or otherwise for the National Democratic Congress, NDC, a party on whose ticket you served as a Member of Parliament, rose to the position of a Deputy Minister and later Minister.

«I am grateful to the Almighty God and the people of Ghana for the opportunity to have served in the highest office of President; I have enjoyed the fulfilling career and since I emerged on the political scene in Ghana in 1996, I served as Member of Parliament for three terms, I served as deputy minister, as a minister, a Vice President and ultimately the President of my country,» he narrated.

Harriet Ruth Harman QC (born 30 July 1950) is a British solicitor and Labour Party politician who has served as the Member of Parliament since 1982, first for Peckham, and then for its successor constituency of Camberwell and Peckham since 1997.

Mr. Abum - Sarkodie was appointed acting EPA boss in July 2017 having previously served as Member of Parliament for the Mampong Constituency from 2005 to 2009, and a member of the Parliamentary Select Committee for Science and Environment.

Mr. Mills served as a Member of Parliament in Canada's federal parliament from 1988 to 2004.

Born into a political family, his father Hugh Horner was Lougheed - era minister, his grandfather Ralph Horner was a Senator, and three of his uncles served as Members of Parliament.

Only members of the Church of England were eligible to serve as members of Parliament, judges, lawyers, sheriffs, and many other positions.

Alexander, who grew up in Renfrewshire, was chosen to contest the by - election and he was duly elected to serve as the Member of Parliament for Paisley South on 6 November 1997.

Hon Eric Opoku was the regional minister during the erstwhile John Dramani Mahama administration and is serving as Member of Parliament for the third time.

Sponsor changing the Constitution to abolish the provision that allows Ministers of State to also serve as Members of Parliament.

However, 27 years is a long time to serve as a Member of Parliament, and I believe now is the right time to make way for a younger candidate to carry the Conservative flag in Horsham.

Not exact matches

The author, who served as a member of the British Parliament and once ran for mayor of London, was convicted in 2001 of committing perjury during a 1987 libel trial.

Sir Tony announced on 1st September that he will not be seeking re-election as a member of parliament, having served as an MP since 1983 in a number of ministerial roles.

«Following the 2015 election, the chair of the all - party group, Stephen Lloyd, was not re-elected as an MP, and so, as vice-chair of the Group, I called an AGM for the group on 1stJuly, and informed all officers of the group who served in the last parliament, as well as all other MPs and members of the House of Lords, in accordance with the strict parliamentary requirements for publishing proper notice of such meetings.

Before becoming a Member of Parliament Jessica worked for two local MP's (Llew Smith in Blaenau Gwent and Huw Edwards in Monmouth) and served as General Secretary for the Welsh Labour Party.

Before becoming a Member of Parliament, Morgan was a social worker with Barry Social Services, and served as an assistant director of Barnardo's.

«Speaking in the chamber is only one of the ways members hold the government to account and this research ignores members» contributions including amending legislation, asking the government written questions and serving on select committees — more than 320 members served on committees in the last session of parliament — as well as parliamentary work away from the chamber.

David Michael Davis MP (born 23 December 1948) is a British politician of the Conservative Party serving as Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union since 2016 and Member of Parliament (MP) for Haltemprice and Howden since the general election of 1997.

In this case, he was his direct blood brother, we are in a country that has seen all of this and I don't recall people going into panic attacks and wondering whether couples serving in government, brother and sister serving in government, Members of Parliament having their brothers now as policy advisors and then you sit and address a press conference and say that President Mahama is running a «government of friends and family».

The Member of Parliament (MP) for Dome / Kwabenya, Sarah Adwoa Safo has stepped down from serving as a Member of the South Africa based Pan African Parliament.

Other leaders to represent the minority side include Mohammed Muntaka, who will maintain his position as the Chief Whip, with the Member of Parliament for Banda Ahmed Ibrahim, and the Member of Parliament for Pusiga, Hon. Laadi Ayii Ayamba serving as deputy chief whips.

The late Regional Minister, who was a Member of Parliament for Ajumako - Enyan - Essiam for three terms, served under former President Kufuor for six years as Regional Minister.

«I have always been passionate about select committees,» he said, «having served as either chair or member for half of my time in parliament.

This meant he served as a Member of both the Scottish and Westminster Parliaments for a time with a dual mandate, although like other MPs elected to Holyrood (such as John Swinney, John Home Robertson and Donald Gorrie) he stood down from Westminster at the 2001 General Election.

«It has been my pleasure and privilege to serve as Beckenham's Member of Parliament for nearly 12 years now but, with the prospect of a Conservative government after the next election, I have for some months now been considering whether it might be time for me to move over for a younger person.

Des McNulty (born 28 July 1952, Stockport (then Cheshire, England), UK) is a Labour politician, and was a Member of the Scottish Parliament for the Clydebank and Milngavie constituency from 1999 to 2011, serving as Labour's Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning until he was defeated for re-election at the 2011 election.

The Member of Parliament for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has served noticed to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo to sack Ghana's High Commissioner to South Africa, Mr George Ayisi - Boateng, for his comment that his priority as a government representative in that country is members of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) before any other Ghanaian.

It has emerged that about 48 Members of Parliament (MPs), who served as ministers under the previous National Democratic Congress (NDC) administration, are said to have received double salaries.

Dr. Ayariga voiced his displeasure at the fact that former Ministers of State took double salaries as members of Parliament whilst serving as ministers of state.

[3] He served as a member of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee from July 2015 - May 2017, although failed to secure re-election to the Committee in the following Parliament.

Whilst a Member of Parliament, he served as Joint Under Secretary of State for Scotland from 1966 - 70 and as Minister of State for Agriculture from 1974 - 79.

She was the Member of Parliament for Stourbridge between 2005 and 2010, and previously served as a member of a number of committees, and as an Assistant Regional MinMember of Parliament for Stourbridge between 2005 and 2010, and previously served as a member of a number of committees, and as an Assistant Regional Minmember of a number of committees, and as an Assistant Regional Minister.

He served as a Member of the European Parliament from 2004 to 2009.

Merlyn Merlyn - Rees, Baron Merlyn - Rees, PC (18 December 1920 — 5 January 2006), born Merlyn Rees, was a Welsh - born Labour party Member of Parliament from 1963 until 1992, who served as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (1974 — 76) and Home Secretary (1976 — 79).

The group's co-chairmen are David Campbell Bannerman, a Conservative member of the European Parliament who had previously served as deputy leader of the UK Independence Party, and Steve Baker, a backbench Conservative member of parliament at WeParliament who had previously served as deputy leader of the UK Independence Party, and Steve Baker, a backbench Conservative member of parliament at Weparliament at Westminster.

He was a member of the Deregulation Select Committee 1996 — 1997, and served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to a succession of ministers in the 1997 — 2001 Parliament.

In the 2001 parliament, Mole served as a member of the Select Committee that scrutinised the work of the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, the Deregulation and Regulatory Affairs Select Committee and the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments.

Francis Anthony Aylmer Maude, Baron Maude of Horsham PC (born 4 July 1953) is a British Conservative politician, who served over 25 years on the front bench in the House of Commons, [1] including posts as Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster - General, as well as Member of Parliament representing Horsham in Sussex, and then as Baron Maude of Horsham as Minister of State for Trade and Investment until April 2016.

He was elected and served as a member of the former USSR Parliament and the Parliament of the Azerbaijan Republick.

Lennox was serving as an intern working for Members of Parliament in Ottawa.

The second, Caroline Badley, matches the name of a former Labour Party councilor in Birmingham, England, who multiple media reports indicate served as campaign manager for former Labour Member of Parliament Gisela Stuart.

He served as Leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario, Opposition Leader, and a Member of Provincial Parliament, representing the people of Niagara for 21 years.