Sentences with phrase «through junior ministers»
However, it's not good democratic practice that their departments are accountable to the Commons through junior ministers.
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Details of junior ministerial changes keep filtering through, including Grant Shapps» replacement as housing minister.
Andy Burnham replied that as a junior Health minister he had taken previous legislation on this area through parliament, but he said that Labour did not go far enough in linking social care up with pain management or enshrining in the NHS constitution that patients can choose where they want to die.
The triumphant result is that the drinks colossus Diageo, as an example, could go on meeting junior ministers and special advisers to argue against, say, minimum pricing for alcohol, while Alcohol Concern (annual income, less than # 1m) would have to jump through a chilling series of hoops in order to take part in any kind of campaigning, with the risk of criminal charges if it were found in breach of a law that the Electoral Commission says is so opaque it can not confidently predict how it will police it.
He rose through the ranks of junior ministers in the Treasury before his promotion to culture secretary.
When she piloted fracking legislation through the Commons as its junior minister, she was accused by the opposition of reneging on pledges not to let the controversial gas extraction process occur in national parks.