Sentences with phrase «special adviser»

She will be questioned about the row by the home affairs committee, which may also call her former special adviser to give evidence.

A host of special advisers and lobbyists have been selected to fight key Conservative seats in the upcoming general election.

The overall predicted pay bill for special advisers in 2015 - 2016 now stands at # 8.4 m, according to new records published by the government.

«One of the few special advisers who knows about communications is either on holiday or has left,» said the insider.

In a letter to ministers, he made it clear they would be stripped of civil service support, blocked from using special advisers and banned from government resources.

Now the number of «super special advisers» stands at 10.

And just two special advisers feature on the list.

No 10 officials will now work with departmental special advisers.

The PM says there's a «proper system for declaring the interests of special advisers and ministers».

«When Van Jones was tapped to serve as special adviser on green jobs at the White House Council on Environmental Quality earlier this year, the appointment was heralded as a significant development for the green movement.

Uba, who had a second outing as a lawmaker was former special adviser on domestic affairs to ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo.

She also seemed to confirm a bid after her wife, Marinoni, resigned from her position as special adviser for community partnerships in the city's Department of Education (DOE).

Coincidentally, Portland has also employed Gove's former special adviser at the Department for Education, Henry De Zoete.

Called to the Bar in 1972, he practised between 1972 and 1974 before becoming special adviser to Labour stalwart, Barbara Castle.

Speaking to the many former Labour special advisers who attended Conservative Conference this week and have now found their skills being heavily utilised by UK plc's brightest and best organisations, they all spoke to me about that wasted first Blair term.

Hanbury Strategy has been established by Gill and former Tory special adviser Paul Stephenson.

Today Former special adviser Adam Smith and DCMS permanent secretary Jonathan Stephens appear before the Leveson Inquiry

David Cameron caused controversy last month when he went against civil service advice to award his former special advisers with inflated exit pay to the tune of # 282,000.

This was contained in statement issued by special adviser to Governor Akinwunmi Ambode on Education, Mr. Obafela Bank - Olemoh on Wednesday.

She vowed to implement recommendations spelled out by Jack Bierwirth, the district's state - appointed special adviser, in a report released Monday.

The new code of conduct says special advisers can now «convey to officials ministers» views, instructions and priorities, including on issues of presentation».

Brake and Tyler made clear the Tories were to blame for the omission of special advisers from future regulation.

Although authors include notable retread Stephen Twigg plus newbies like Rachel Reeves, Tristram Hunt and Jenny Chapman, many of the authors are from outside Parliament, such as former special adviser Paul Richards, the eminence grise of the Blairite Continuation Tendency.

The deputy prime minister's opposition means that the draft legislation for the referendum will have to be drawn up by Conservative special advisers outside the formal government and parliamentary routes.

Meanwhile Johnson's new special adviser Lee Cain is described as a key intermediary, having previously worked for Gove and as head of broadcast on the Vote Leave campaign.

In the new post Starkie will team up with Gove's current special adviser Henry Cook, who has also worked at Portland.

Now it has emerged that some of Cameron's closest special advisers were rewarded with huge bumper pay rises last year.

Downing Street chose the first day of the Christmas recess to publish the salaries of government special advisers.

Katie Perrior, who was appointed to the role as Mrs May took power last July, leaves a team that includes May's influential former special advisers Fiona Hill and Nick Timothy.

The Labour conference has been increasingly dominated by questions over Damian McBride, the former Gordon Brown special adviser whose book revealing a poisonous culture of hostile briefings in Downing Street is being serialised in the press.

In a statement responding to the figures, a Cabinet Office spokesperson said: «Decisions about special adviser salaries take into account various factors including the level of responsibility associated with a particular role and the background and experience of the individual concerned.»

Chapman left his role as Davis» chief of staff before the general election, having previously been George Osborne's top special adviser in the Treasury.

But the Out campaign does have some cause for cheer, having made a heavyweight signing in the form of Theresa May's special adviser Stephen Parkinson.

Conservatives for Britain have also been talking to controversial former Tory special adviser Dominic Cummings about helping to get the No campaign off the ground.

Defence secretary Michael Fallon's special adviser James Wild has been selected to fight North Norfolk, which is held by Liberal Democrat MP Norman Lamb with a majority of 4,043.

The prime minister has cut the total number of special advisers across Whitehall from 95 to 83 and the pay bill has also fallen by # 500,000 from # 8.4 million to # 7.9 million a year, according to the government figures.

Former education secretary Lord Patten has claimed special advisers see it as their job to stir up...

Ruwan Kodikara was a Lib Dem special adviser in Number 10 towards the end of Clegg's time as deputy prime minister.

Ms Dorries was one of a number of Conservative MPs named in emails from Gordon Brown's special adviser Damian McBride to other Labour activists about fictitious smear stories to be spread on the internet.

10.00 Fred Michel, News International lobbyist, Adam Smith, formerly special adviser to Jeremy Hunt, and Lord Brooke, former Conservative Party chairman, give evidence to the Leveson Inquiry

He adss that from his experience not all of them have a «media» background necessarily and it's a very small part of what special advisers do.

Francis Maude has today revealed how special advisers to government ministers have been abusing their position by commissioning civil servants to produce work explicitly for the purpose of attacking the Conservative Party.

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.

With two respected senior special advisers from the Cameron years at the helm, Hanbury Strategy looks set to be hot new Tory lobbying shop town.

Even more scrapping with special advisers took place over my exclusive on Tory councils attacking communities secretary Eric Pickles.

After the story came out, former Liberal Democrat special advisers emerged on social media with more tales of bad behaviour in cabinet from Gove.

Perrior was one of a clutch of special adviser appointments confirmed by Number 10 on Thursday evening.

Former education secretary Lord Patten has claimed special advisers see it as their job to stir up trouble between government departments and called for a cull.

May was also asked if special advisers have access to the Home Office website content management system, but she refused to answer the question.