Brown reshuffle results in Shrity promotion
January 28, 2008
Work and Pensions secretary of state for Wales quit from his ministerial post as the Metropolitan police launched a probe into his deputy leadership campaign finances. Long-serving Lords Chief Whip Lord Grocott and parliamentary undersecretary of state in department of innovation, universities and skills Lord Triesman also put in their papers.
In the ensuing reshuffle by British Prime Minister, Baroness Shrity Vadera was appointed and promoted as the new under secretary in department for business, enterprise and regulatory reform. She will be in charge of competitiveness, deregulation and the British Business Council. Prior to the new appointment, she had been a low-profile special advisor to Mr. Brown before becoming undersecretary of state in the department for international development last year.
Andy Burnham, 38 year old, got culture, media and spot secretary. James Purnel aged 37 years, who held the post Culture and Media secretary was promoted as work and pensions secretary. Indictment of Ms Yvette Cooper, 38, as chief secretary to the treasure and her husband Ed Balls who is the school secretary, the husband-wife duo were the first married couple to ever to serve together in Britain.
The vacant post of Wales secretary was taken over by former Northern Ireland secretary Paul Murphy, who will also chair a new cross departmental committee on the sensitive issue of IT and information security, as series of losses of personal data by government agencies.
The present immigration minister in home office Liam Byrne will perform additional responsibility as the new junior minister in treasury.
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