Sentences with phrase «with environment secretary»

Instead of appointing Clarke to the Foreign Office, he replaced the incumbent, Jack Straw, with the environment secretary, Margaret Beckett, who expressed her own surprise at the move by reportedly saying: «Fuck, I'm stunned.»

Even senior Conservatives appeared prepared to rebel yesterday, with environment secretary Owen Paterson voting against the bill and defence secretary Philip Hammond and attorney general Dominic Grieve abstaining.

Not exact matches

The initiative is being led by the Brazilian Vegetarian Society, in partnership with organisations that include São Paulo's Municipal Secretary of Green and Environment, Vegetarian Magazine, Greenpeace and others — a real breakthrough from a city in one of the world's biggest meat - exporting countries.

«This collaborative research project will be coordinated regionally by the Wodonga and Mildura based Murray - Darling Freshwater Research Centre's, which will be undertaken with other research organisations and government agencies working in the Basin,» Parliamentary Secretary for the Environment Senator Simon Birmingham said today.

Environment secretary tells parliament that responsibility for dealing with problem lies with retailers and food producers

The Global Compact was introduced by then UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to encourage corporations to align «their operations and strategies with ten universally accepted principles in the areas of human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption.»

But shadow environment secretary Peter Ainsworth hit back saying it was «disappointing» that Mr Huhne had «chosen to play party politics with the serious issue of climate change».

The environment secretary has failed to win over farmers with claims that her department has undergone an «amazing transformation» and is ready to meet the challenges of Brexit.

Virtually everyone is eating meat from animals that would have been fed with genetically modified food, according to the environment secretary Owen Paterson.

He will try to overturn a Labour a majority of 4,686 in Workington, with the seat currently held by shadow environment secretary Sue Hayman.

Former Tory environment secretary, Lord Deben — who also backed the amendment - hit back, saying: «We are running entirely with public opinion on this, the public wants proper protection.»

Mr Johnson is regarded as the best - performing cabinet minister with 6.18 out of 10, followed by the Environment Secretary Hilary Benn, Mr Straw and Mr Miliband.

Cuomo's office confirmed the outreach but said it offered in October to set up a meeting with Sabrina Ty, head of the state Environmental Facilities Corp., and Peter Walke, at the time the governor's assistant secretary for the environment, about securing funding for a filtration system for the municipal water system.

As was the case with previous environment secretaries such as Phil Woolas, Caroline Spelman and Jim Paice, Owen Paterson faces a huge uphill struggle to persuade the British public of GMs real and lasting benefits before Defra can draw up any kind of legislation.

Meanwhile Michael Gove has been named Secretary of State for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, with pressure to reduce poor air quality in many towns and cities among his immediate priorities.

The environment secretary also warns that his party must «renew» its style as well as its policies and find new ways of connecting with voters if it is to achieve a fourth victory.

But the tide has been turning in Westminster, with Johnson now referring to the environment secretary as «Gover» and Sky News presenter Adam Boulton among the pundits talking up Gove's chances.

Department For Environment, Food And Rural Affairs Minister of state - Jane Kennedy Minister of state - Lord Hunt of Kings Heath (jointly with Department of Energy and Climate Change); and deputy leader of the House of Lords Parliamentary under secretary of state - Huw Irranca - Davies

Environment secretary Hilary Benn announced today major retailers and energy suppliers have launched a voluntary initiative to phase out high energy light bulbs and replace them with low - energy alternatives.

The environment secretary showed little patience with climate change sceptics, pointing to recent examples of extreme weather as proof climate change is already happening.

Department of Energy and Climate Change Minister of state - Mike O'Brien Minister of state - Lord Hunt of Kings Heath (jointly with Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs); and Deputy leader of the House of Lords Parliamentary under secretary of state - Joan Ruddock

Mary Creagh, the shadow environment secretary, taunted Spelman in the Commons over the U-turn, saying: «Today the air is filled with the sound of chickens coming home to roost.

Claim: The Telegraph said the shadow environment secretary claimed for stamp duty on a home he jointly owned with his partner.

Ms Butler said the buck stopped with Mrs May rather than her successor as Home Secretary Amber Rudd, because the Prime Minister had presided over the «hostile environment» approach to immigration, including sanctioning controversial «Go Home» vans in 2014.

The new environment secretary will need every bit of his famed intellect to come up with a post-Brexit replacement for the Common Agricultural Policy

BASC political affairs manager Sophie Hutchinson said: «We have enjoyed excellent working relationships with previous environment secretaries and we hope that continues with Mr Gove, who has previously expressed support for shooting.

Environment secretary Hilary Benn has been tasked with a review of flood defences.

Meanwhile, pressure was being reported from Tory MPs for a Cabinet reshuffle to replace Caroline Spelman, the environment secretary who was forced to conduct the U-turn on forestry policy, along with a host of other ministers who are thought to be struggling.

Mary Creagh MP, Labour's shadow environment secretary, said: «The white paper fails to set out a clear plan for major challenges such as reforestation or biodiversity loss; nor does it deal with concerns about planning policy.

«With climate change gone from Hilary Benn's [environment, food and rural affairs secretary] in - tray, his department must spend more time banging heads together across Whitehall to really make thorough «rural proofing» of government policy a reality,» he said.

The best option availiable is for DC to reshuffle Fox back as Shadow Foreign Secretary, with Hague as Shadow Chancellor, and Osbourne as Environment Secretary.

Conservatives are likely to draw attention to Labour's own commitment in government to creating a hostile environment, a phrase first used by Alan Johnson when he was home secretary in the last year of the Gordon Brown government, but campaigners insist that cracking down on illegal immigration could be done with better border checks rather than internal policing of status alone.

«To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (1) what his estimate is of the number of boats in the UK that would require a licence or other form of authorisation to facilitate recreational fisheries under Article 47 of the Council Regulation establishing a community control system for ensuring compliance with the rules of the Common Fisheries Policy; [249749]

Elizabeth Truss, the Environment Secretary, accused Mr Farage of «attention seeking», while George Osborne, the Chancellor, said the remarks were intended to provoke a reaction from ministers and he would not dignify them with a response.

Just behind IDS, the ousted environment secretary Owen Paterson stood shoulder - to - shoulder with former defence secretary Liam Fox, who refused a junior post in order to be free to «speak his mind».

The research was carried out in the wake of the then home secretary's Immigration Act, which came with a pledge to make Britain a «hostile environment» for illegal immigrants.

Having spent more time with his family, Fowler then returned twice to front line politics, first as Chairman of the Conservative Party (as a backbencher in Parliament) from 1992 - 4, during which time he oversaw the Boundary Changes in the early 1990s; then on the Conservative front bench as Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Transport and the Regions, 1997 - 8 and finally, as Shadow Home Secretary, 1998 - 9.

Corbyn also said he disagreed with the shadow environment secretary, Kerry McCarthy, a vegan, who has said she wants other people to stop eating meat.

Labour MP Jess Phillips, who has been a frequent critic of the way her own party has dealt with its abuse row, also pushed back strongly against the Environment Secretary, accusing him of seeking to shift the blame.

Graduating in 1971 with an MA (Hons) in Political Economy and Political Science, his first job was as political adviser to the environment secretary in Edward Heath's Conservative Government.

May delayed a final decision on the preferred customs option after a tense meeting of the Brexit subcommittee last week during which the home and defence secretaries, Sajid Javid and Gavin Williamson, also expressed concerns about the plan, along with Johnson, the environment secretary, Michael Gove, and the international trade secretary, Liam Fox.

She has agreed to stop claiming the second home allowance Nick Herbert The shadow environment secretary claimed back # 10,000 of the # 14,700 stamp duty when he bought a home with his partner in his constituency.

Scientists with the VaquitaCPR conservation project and Mexico's Secretary of the Environment Rafael Pacchiano announced they succeeded in locating and rescuing a highly endangered vaquita porpoise yesterday, but in an abundance of caution the vaquita, which was a calf, was released.

-- After reviewing the report required by subsection (a), the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, in concurrence with the Secretary of Agriculture, may, by regulation and after public notice and comment, modify the non-Federal lands portion of the definition of «renewable biomass» in section 610 of the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 in order to advance the goals of increasing America's energy independence, protecting the environment, and reducing global warming pollution.

With experience in areas such as environment, health, science and science policy, he has served as special assistant to the U.S. under - secretary of state for global affairs.

Raising standards Lord Nash, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the School System, said: «We are raising standards in our schools, with more than 1.4 million more pupils in good or outstanding schools than in 2010, and it is only right that children are learning in an environment that matches the standard of that education.

By: Heherson T. Alvarez former Senator who served as Environment and Climate Change Secretary World Ocean Day is observed on June 8 with the theme «Our Oceans, Our Future» geared inform, mobilize, unite the world's population for the sustainable management of the world's ocean, considered the lungs of our planet.

[ii] But when provided with an opportunity to take a step towards helping districts create diverse environments, Secretary DeVos failed to support effective diversity efforts.

Chairman Bennett noted with the Secretary that CL4E's role is to convene these state policymakers and create an environment for them to «compare notes, find out what works, and see if the policy is replicable.»

In my interview with Andreas Schleicher, Director for Education and Skills, Special Advisor on Education Policy to the Secretary - General at the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, we discussed the cycle of poor student performance in at - risk communities, the key characteristics of schools that affect the level of performance, how government policy can support students, and the relevance of the PISA test in a changing education environment.