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Cabinet reshuffle 2019
Today’s ins and outs include -
No change -
- Work and Pensions Secretary: Amber Rudd
- Secretary of State for Health and Social Care: Matt Hancock
Out -
- Justice Secretary: David Gauke
- Housing Secretary: James Brokenshire
- Work & Pensions Minister: Alok Sharma
In -
- Secretary of State for Justice: Robert Buckland
- Secretary of State for Housing, Communities & Local Government: Robert Jenrick
- Minister at the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government: Esther McVey
- Minister at the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government: Jake Berry
- Minister for Women and Equalities: AmberRudd
What’s that phrase?
A cabinet of all the talents?
This presumably then is a cabinet of the one talent?
The weight talent was one of several ancient weight units for commercial transactions. An Attic weight talent was approximately 26.0 kg (approximately the mass of water required to fill an average amphora).
I was expecting empty vessels.
Mims Davies is new Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the DWP
MoJ Under Secretary Paul Maynard, who became responsible for legal aid in May 2019 - replacing Lucy Frazer on her becoming Solicitor General - has now moved to the Dept of Transport ...
https://twitter.com/transportgovuk/status/1155059163501907968
While Lucy Frazer is now back at the MoJ, looks like she has the prisons brief: https://www.gov.uk/government/ministers/minister-of-state—61
(NB: the gov.uk biographies of the 2 x MoJ Parliamentary Under Secretaries of State - Edward Argar and Wendy Morton - say that their responsibilities ‘will be updated in due course’.
[ Edited: 29 Jul 2019 at 12:07 pm by shawn mach ]More changes:
- Baroness Stedman-Scott is new DWP minister in the Lords, replacing Baroness Buscombe
https://www.parliament.uk/biographies/lords/baroness-stedman-scott/4174
- Michael Ellis has been sworn in as new Solicitor General for E&W
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-solicitor-general-appointed—2
MoJ Under Secretary Paul Maynard, who became responsible for legal aid in May 2019 - replacing Lucy Frazer on her becoming Solicitor General - has now moved to the Dept of Transport ...
... the gov.uk biographies of the 2 x MoJ Parliamentary Under Secretaries of State - Edward Argar and Wendy Morton - say that their responsibilities ‘will be updated in due course’.
Looks like:
- Edward Argar has responsibility for court and tribunal services and reform; and administrative justice
- Wendy Morton has responsibility for legal aid; legal support; and court and tribunal fees
https://www.gov.uk/government/people/edward-argar
https://www.gov.uk/government/people/wendy-morton
Amber Rudd has tweeted to say that portfolios have been assigned to each of the DWP’s Ministers
.. you can read the list of each person’s responsibilities here:
- Justin Tomlinson: https://www.gov.uk/government/ministers/minister-of-state—48
- Will Quince: https://www.gov.uk/government/ministers/parliamentary-under-secretary-of-state-for-welfare-delivery
- Mims Davies: https://www.gov.uk/government/ministers/parliamentary-under-secretary-of-state—107
- Guy Opperman: https://www.gov.uk/government/ministers/parliamentary-under-secretary-of-state—80
- Baroness Deborah Stedman-Scott: https://www.gov.uk/government/ministers/parliamentary-under-secretary-of-state—77