Friday, May 05, 2006

Reshuffle: Junior Appointments Announced

Here are some of the junior appointments announced this evening...

Parliamentary secretary for social exclusion Pat McFadden
Economic Secretary to the Treasury Ed Balls
Parliamentary secretary at Cabinet Office Ed Miliband (pic)
Minister of State at Home Office Liam Byrne (replaces Hazel Blears)
Work minister Jim Murphy
Pensions minister James Purnell
Health minister Andy Burnham
Trade and industry minister Margaret Hodge

And sacked from the Government are...

Jane Kennedy, Alun Michael, Elliot Morley, Lord Bach, Fiona MacTaggart, Don Touhig

7 comments:

priest_field said...

Why oh Why has Margeret Hodge not been sacked? Giving a helping hand to the BNP must mean a sacking, shurely there must be shume mishake?

Anonymous said...

Joan Ryan promoted to Home Office.

David Chappell said...

Does anyone else find it bizarre that a government should have a parliamentary secretary for social exclusion?

Jane said...

I am very glad to see Lord Bach go. What an incompetant he was. And complacent to boot!

Pulsar said...

Did Rosie Winterton get a big jump up the slippery pole or was she ignored?
PS-Does anyone know what happened to "Hapless Hoon" in the end?

Anonymous said...

Interesting that Andy Burnham has moved to Health. Who will be handed the poisoned chalice of ID card propoganda secretary now?

Sutton Eye said...

"Joined up" government?.....I have ceased to wonder, especially as UK's Creative Economy Programme is in gestation. Conceived by DCMS and DTI to eneble to compete in new global markets and industries, Purnell's and Alun Michael's baby is now left to the tender mercies of .... Shaun Woodward?......the new "Minister for Digital Switchover" ? Who does he now work for - DTI or DCMS - or are there still "Machinery of Government" changes to come? What about the Broadband Strategy, Digital Inclusion, New Media etc. etc. Perhaps "joined up" = keeping it in the Sainsbury family. At time of going to press Lord S was still looking after innovation and technology at the DTI.......