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Dame Rosie Winterton
Dame Rosalie Winterton, (born 10 August 1958) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Doncaster Central since 1997. In June 2017, Winterton became one of three Deputy Speakers in the House of Commons. She served under Prime Minister Tony Blair as a minister in the Department for Health, then under Gordon Brown as the Minister of State for Transport from 2007 to 2008, Minister for Work and Pensions from 2008 to 2009, and the Minister for Local Government from 2009 to 2010, making her the only one of the current Speaker and Deputy Speakers to have served as a minister in government. She later entered the Shadow Cabinet in May 2010 as the Shadow Leader of the House of Commons. In September 2010, Winterton was nominated and elected unopposed as Labour Chief Whip and served in the post until October 2016. She was elected as one of three deputy speakers of the House of Commons on 28 June 2017 and re-elected unopposed on 7 Janu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Right Honourable
''The Right Honourable'' ( abbreviation: ''Rt Hon.'' or variations) is an honorific style traditionally applied to certain persons and collective bodies in the United Kingdom, the former British Empire and the Commonwealth of Nations. The term is predominantly used today as a style associated with the holding of certain senior public offices in the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand, and to a lesser extent, Australia. ''Right'' in this context is an adverb meaning 'very' or 'fully'. Grammatically, ''The Right Honourable'' is an adjectival phrase which gives information about a person. As such, it is not considered correct to apply it in direct address, nor to use it on its own as a title in place of a name; but rather it is used in the third person along with a name or noun to be modified. ''Right'' may be abbreviated to ''Rt'', and ''Honourable'' to ''Hon.'', or both. ''The'' is sometimes dropped in written abbreviated form, but is always pronounced. Countries with common or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minister For Local Government (United Kingdom)
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Local Government and Building Safety is a mid-level position in the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities in the British government. The incumbent minister is Lee Rowley. The position was last held by Paul Scully, who was appointed after the resignation of Kemi Badenoch Olukemi Olufunto Badenoch ( ; née Adegoke, 2 January 1980) is a British politician serving as Secretary of State for International Trade, President of the Board of Trade and Minister for Women and Equalities since 2022. She previously served in ... MP during the July 2022 government crisis. Responsibilities Minister's Responsibilities include: *Local government policy and finance, including Office for Local Government (Oflog) *Building Safety - remediation and regulation regimes *Climate change, net zero and energy efficiency (building regulations) *Grenfell recovery and rehousing *Grenfell public inquiry *Minister for London Ministers Notes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minister Of State For Health (UK)
The Minister of State for Health and Secondary Care is a mid-level position in the Department of Health and Social Care in the British government. The position is currently held by Will Quince MP since 8 September 2022. The minister often deputises for the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care alongside the Minister of State for Social Care. The office has been in place at least since 1969, with David Ennals as Secretary of State for Health and Social Security. Historically, the role was known as Minister of State for Health and Social Security as part of the Department of Health and Social Security. Responsibilities The minister is responsible for the following: * COVID-19: ** NHS resilience (acute capacity) ** supply (ventilators) * NHS operational performance * Long Term Plan Bill * finance, efficiency and commercial * NHS capital, land and estates * transformation * NHS England mandate * devolved administrations, Crown Dependencies and Overseas Territories * s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis
Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis, (born Andreas Adonis; 22 February 1963) is a British Labour Party politician and journalist who served in HM Government for five years in the Blair ministry and the Brown ministry. He served as Secretary of State for Transport from 2009 to 2010, and as Chairman of the National Infrastructure Commission from 2015 to 2017. He is also Chairman of the European Movement, having previously served as Vice-Chairman from 2019 to 2021. He is currently a columnist for ''The New European''. Adonis began his career as an academic at Oxford University, before becoming a journalist at the ''Financial Times'' and later ''The Observer''. Adonis was appointed by Prime Minister Tony Blair to be an advisor at the Number 10 Policy Unit, specialising in constitutional and educational policy, in 1998. He was later promoted to become the Head of the Policy Unit from 2001 until being created a life peer in 2005, when he was appointed Minister of State for Education in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Ladyman
Stephen John Ladyman (born 6 November 1952) is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for South Thanet from 1997 until 2010. Early life He attended the Birkenhead Institute Grammar School for Boys (became the comprehensive Birkenhead Institute High School then closed in August 1993) on ''Tollemache Road'' in Claughton, before studying at Liverpool Polytechnic where he received a BSc in Applied Biology. He did work placements at Rothamsted Experimental Station in Harpenden and at Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food in Liverpool, before studying for a PhD awarded by the University of Strathclyde for researching natural isotopic abundances of elements to enable prediction of soil development when at the Natural Environment Research Council's radiocarbon laboratory, in the Scottish Universities Research and Reactor Centre, East Kilbride. He worked as a research scientist for the Medical Research Council (MRC) Radiobiology Unit at Harw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minister Of State For Transport
The Minister of State for Transport is a mid-level ministerial position in the Department for Transport of the Government of the United Kingdom who deputises for the Secretary of State for Transport. There is also a list of Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport, which is junior to Minister of State. Ministers of State for Transport Parliamentary Under-Secretaries of State for Transport *2006–2008: Tom Harris *2008–2009: Paul Clark *2007–2009: Jim Fitzpatrick *2009–2010: Chris Mole *2010–2013: Norman Baker *2013–2015: Robert Goodwill *2010–2012: Mike Penning *2012–2014: Stephen Hammond *2014–2016: Claire Perry *2016–2018: Paul Maynard *2015–2017: Andrew Jones *2015–2017: The Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon *2016–2018: Paul Maynard *2017–2017: The Lord Callanan *2017–2018: Jesse Norman *2017–2019: The Baroness Sugg *2018–2019: Andrew Jones *2018–2020: Nus Ghani *2019–2020: Paul Maynard *2020: Kelly Tolhurst *2019–present: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caroline Flint
Caroline Louise Flint (born 20 September 1961) is a British politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Don Valley from 1997 to 2019. A member of the Labour Party, she attended the Cabinet of the United Kingdom as Minister for Housing and Planning in 2008 and Minister for Europe from 2008 to 2009. One of 101 female Labour MPs elected at the 1997 general election, Flint served in the government of Tony Blair as a junior Home Office Minister from 2003 to 2005 and Public Health Minister from 2005 to 2007. She remained in government under Gordon Brown as both Employment Minister and a Regional Minister from 2007 until 2008, when she was promoted to the Cabinet. She resigned in 2009, citing disagreement with the leadership of the Prime Minister. Flint was elected to the shadow cabinet following Labour's 2010 election defeat, and appointed Shadow Communities and Local Government Secretary by opposition leader Ed Miliband. She was Shadow Energy and Climate Change ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Regional Minister
In England, regional ministers were appointed from 2007 on a part-time basis as part of Her Majesty's Government. Each minister had other departmental responsibilities, as well as specific responsibilities for one of the English regions. Their stated role was "to provide a clear sense of strategic direction for the nine English regions and to help strengthen their links with central government." Regional Ministers at Government Offices webpage Accessed 27 February 2010 Following the 2010 general election, the Prime Minister's Spokesman was asked on 17 May 2010 if Regional Ministers had been scrapped. He said that the process of completing appointments to the Government was c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angela Eagle
Dame Angela Eagle DBE (born 17 February 1961) is a British Labour Party politician serving as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Wallasey since 1992. Eagle was born in Yorkshire and studied PPE at the University of Oxford, before working for the CBI and then a trade union. Eagle served as the Minister of State for Pensions and Ageing Society from June 2009 until May 2010. Eagle was elected to the Shadow Cabinet in October 2010 and was appointed by Ed Miliband to be Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury. In October 2011, she was appointed Shadow Leader of the House of Commons when Miliband reshuffled his Shadow Cabinet. She was appointed as both Shadow First Secretary of State and Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills in September 2015 in Jeremy Corbyn's first Shadow Cabinet. She resigned from the Shadow Cabinet in June 2016. Eagle announced a leadership challenge to Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn on 11 July 2016, but eight days later she withd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike O'Brien (British Politician)
Michael O'Brien KC (born 19 June 1954) is a British lawyer and former Labour Party politician who was Member of Parliament (MP) for North Warwickshire from 1992 to 2010, serving in a number of ministerial posts. Early life Mike O'Brien attended state schools, a Roman Catholic primary school, St George's and then later Blessed Edward Oldcorne School in Worcester. He studied for a BA in History and Politics at North Staffordshire Polytechnic, then gained a PGCE. From 1977 to 1980, he was a trainee solicitor, then trained as a teacher from 1980 to 1981. He lectured in business law at Colchester College of Further and Higher Education from 1981 to 1987. From 1987 to 1992, he practised as a solicitor specialising in criminal law including handling cases of murder and City fraud and acted for a major defendant in the Knightsbridge Security Deposit robbery. He became a Queen's Counsel in 2007. He now practices as a barrister at No5 Chambers in Birmingham. Parliamentary career O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parliamentary Under-Secretary Of State For Pensions And Financial Inclusion
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Pensions is a junior position in the Department for Work and Pensions in the British government. Responsibilities The minister's responsibilities include: *Pensioner benefits, including new State Pension, Winter Fuel Payments, Pension Credit and Attendance Allowance *Private and occupational pensions, including regulatory powers and the National Employment Savings Trust (NEST) *Automatic enrolment into a workplace pension *Oversight of arms-length bodies, including the Pensions Regulator, Pension Protection Fund, Financial Assistance Scheme and Pensions Ombudsman *Financial guidance, budgeting, saving and debt, including the Money and Pensions Service and Financial Inclusion Policy Forum *Methods of payment and Post Office Card Accounts *EU Exit preparation relevant to pensions *Cross-DWP spokesperson – shadowing Lords List of ministers Notes References Department for Work and Pensions Ministerial offices in the Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grant Shapps
Grant Shapps (born 14 September 1968) is a British politician who is serving as Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy since October 2022. He previously served as Secretary of State for Transport in the Premiership of Boris Johnson, Johnson government from 2019 to 2022 and Secretary of State for the Home Department, Home Secretary during the final six days of the Premiership of Liz Truss, Truss premiership in October 2022. A member of the Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party, he has been the Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament (MP) for Welwyn Hatfield (UK Parliament constituency), Welwyn Hatfield since 2005. Shapps was first elected to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons in 2005 United Kingdom general election, 2005 general election, and was promoted to the Shadow Cabinet as Shadow Minister for Housing and Planning in 2007. Following David Cameron's appointment as Prime Minister in 2010, Shapps was a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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