Widdecombe joined John Major's government as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Social Security in 1990.

In 2005 he was promoted to Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Wales Office, a position he held until 2007.

Howard gained quick promotion, becoming Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department of Trade and Industry in 1985 with responsibility for regulating the financial dealings of the City of London.

He was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Civil Aviation in November 1952, Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation in November 1953, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies in January 1957, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Foreign Office in November 1958, and Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in January 1959.

Redwood was made a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in July 1989 for Corporate Affairs at the Department of Trade and Industry.

The eldest son Edward Henry, was a prominent politician and served under his father as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Foreign Secretary.

On 16 December 2010, Bob Ainsworth, the former minister and Home Office Parliamentary Under-Secretary with responsibility for Drugs and Organised Crime explained why he thinks certain illicit substances should be legalised.

He served as a Parliamentary Under-Secretary at the Department of Health and Social Security from 1969 until 1970.

On Labour's return to government in March 1974, he became Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Health before being promoted to Minister of State for Health in July 1974.

He is the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for the Reigate constituency in Surrey, and from May 2010 to September 2012 he was the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Prisons and Youth Justice within the Ministry of Justice.

The Secretary of State headed the War Office and was assisted by a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for War, a Parliamentary Private Secretary who was also a Member of Parliament, and a Military Secretary, who was a general.

He served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Commonwealth Relations from 1960 to 1962, Minister of State at the Commonwealth Relations Office from 1962 to 1963, and for Colonial Affairs from 1963 to 1964.

Bryant is the former Minister for Europe and Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

This was followed by another move in the June 2009 reshuffle, when he moved to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office as the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.

Baroness Amos was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Foreign & Commonwealth Affairs on 11 June 2001, with responsibility for Africa ; Commonwealth ; Caribbean ; Overseas Territories ; Consular Issues and FCO Personnel.

* United Kingdom: A Minister of State is a member of Her Majesty's Government, junior only to a Secretary of State but senior to a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State and Parliamentary Private Secretaries ( PPSs ).

Aalto also entered several architectural competitions for prestigious state public buildings, both in Finland and abroad, including the two competitions for the Finnish Parliamentary building in 1923 and 1924, the extension to the University of Helsinki in 1931, and the building to house the League of Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1926-27.

* On 29 May 2010 Chief Secretary to the Treasury David Laws resigned from the Cabinet and was referred to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards after the Daily Telegraph newspaper published details of Laws claiming around £ 40, 000 in expenses on a second home owned by a secret gay partner between 2004 and 2009 whilst House of Commons rules have prevented MPs from claiming second home expenses on properties owned by a partner since 2006.

However the Bill of Rights of 1689 requires Parliamentary consent for the Crown to maintain a standing army in peacetime.

Fermanagh is part of the Fermanagh and South Tyrone Parliamentary Constituency, renowned for high levels of voting and for electing Provisional IRA hunger-striker Bobby Sands as a Member of Parliament in the Fermanagh and South Tyrone by-election, April 1981, shortly before his death.

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe has been lobbying for Council of Europe observer states who practice the death penalty, the U. S. and Japan, to abolish it or lose their observer status.

* Anne Brasseur ( DP, Luxembourg ): President of Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe ( ALDE-PACE )

** David Freud, Baron Freud, Walter's son, journalist, businessman, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

Although the posts of leader and party president of Fianna Fáil are separate, with the former elected by the Parliamentary Party and the latter elected by the Ardfheis ( thus allowing for the posts to be held by different people, in theory ), in practice they have always been held by the one person.

From this point until the end of the century, the Whigs and ( after 1859 ) their successors the Liberal Party, managed to gain a majority of the Westminster Parliamentary seats for Scotland, although these were often outnumbered by the much larger number of English and Welsh Conservatives.

Adenauer's leading role in the CDU of the British zone won him a position at the Parliamentary Council of 1948, called into existence by the Western Allies to draft a constitution for the three western zones of Germany.

Kenilworth was used by Charles on his advance to Edgehill in October 1642 as a base for raids on Parliamentary strongholds in the Midlands.

Parliamentary elections are held at least once every five years, usually concurrent with state elections for state assemblies except for Sabah ( until 2004 ) and Sarawak.

In his essay, Overcoming Practical Difficulties in Creating a World Parliamentary Assembly, Joseph E. Schwartzberg proposes the use of proportional representation in the United Nations Parliamentary Assembly in order to prevent, for instance, lower castes of Indians from being excluded.

Using his Whig victory as a mandate for reform, Grey was unrelenting in the pursuit of this goal, using every Parliamentary device to achieve it.

The text of the Constitution assigns to the Premier certain powers, such as the power to assign roles ( s. 25 ) to Parliamentary Secretaries, and to appoint Ministers as acting Ministers ( s. 45 ) for a period of 14 days.

His father was imprisoned during the 1926 General Strike for his involvement in a riot and later became Member of Parliament for Pontypool, Parliamentary Private Secretary to Clement Attlee, and briefly a minister in the 1945 Labour government.

Reichstagsgebäude, the specific German word for Parliamentary buildings, often simply shortened to Reichstag.

The Government is responsible for its actions to the Riksdag ( Parliamentary system ).

All deputies were covered by Parliamentary immunity, with each individual serving for a term of office of six years, with half of the deputies being elected every two years.

In keeping with the evolution of the Westminster system of governance, Barbados has evolved into a Parliamentary democracy and Constitutional monarchy, meaning that all real power rests with the Parliament.

Constitutional nationalism enjoyed its greatest success in the 1880s and 1890s when the Irish Parliamentary Party under Charles Stewart Parnell succeeded in having two Home Rule bills introduced by the Liberal government of William Ewart Gladstone, though both failed.

Bryant was the Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs Charlie Falconer.

In 1995, Burjanadze was elected to the Parliament of Georgia for the Union of Citizens of Georgia ( UCG ) then chaired by the President of Georgia Eduard Shevardnadze and supported financially by her father Anzor Burjanadze, a wealthy businessman .. She first chaired the Parliamentary Committee for Constitutional Law from 1998 to 1999, and the Parliamentary Committee for International Relations from 2000 to 2001.

On 8 May 2006, she was appointed as a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the Department for Constitutional Affairs-which was renamed the Ministry of Justice in May 2007, following the reorganisation of the Home Office.

After winning re-election in 2001, he served in various junior minister roles, eventually spending nearly two years as Parliamentary under secretary in the Department for Constitutional Affairs.

She later became a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Department for Constitutional Affairs, continuing in the role in the department's successor, the Ministry of Justice.

In the Commons, Moffatt has served variously as a Parliamentary Private Secretary ( PPS ) to the Lord Chancellor Derry Irvine ( 2001 – 03 ); the Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs Charles Falconer ( 2003 – 05 ); the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions David Blunkett ( 2005 ); the Minister of State at the Department for Education and Skills Jacqui Smith ( 2005 – 06 ), and since 2006 has served as the PPS to Alan Johnson initially as Secretary of State for Education and Skills and since 2007 as Secretary of State for Health.

Members of the Human Rights Commission, the Constituency Boundaries Commission, the Electoral Commission, the Parliamentary Emoluments Commission, the Commission on the Prerogative of Mercy, the Constitutional Offices Commission, and the Disciplined Services Commission are appointed for 2-year terms ; they may be reappointed for one further 2-year term, but are not eligible for further reappointment.

Her political career began in 1999 when she was created a Life Peer ( Baroness Ashton of Upholland ) by the Labour Government under which she took on a ministerial position ( Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State ) in the Department for Education and Skills in 2001, and subsequently in the Department for Constitutional Affairs and Ministry of Justice.

In September 2004, she was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary in the Department for Constitutional Affairs, with responsibilities including the National Archives and the Public Guardianship Office.

Presently, he sits on the Scottish Parliamentary committee which scrutinises the passage of the Scotland Bill through the UK Parliament, and is the Scottish Conservative Chief Whip, Business Manager and Constitutional Affairs Spokesman.

The Institute for Globalisation and International Regulation ( IGIR ), the Montesquieu Institute Maastricht ( Centre for European Parliamentary History and Constitutional Development ), the Institute for Corporate Law, Governance and Innovation Policies ( ICGI ) and the Maastricht European Private Law Institute ( M-EPLI ) were established more recently.

The issues of land claims were raised in the UK Parliament in 2004 and were debated with a reply on the subject from The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs acknowledging ' need for reform of the remnants of feudal and manorial law ' as a case was highlighted in Peterstone Wentloog, Wales where villagers were being charged excessive fees to cross manorial land to access their homes.

The Chairman also nominates members of the Rajya Sabha on other bodies like General Assembly of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations, General Body of the Central Social Welfare Board, General Council of the School of Planning and Architecture, Hindi Shiksha Samiti, Institute of Constitutional and Parliamentary Studies, etc.

* Naxalite Politics in India, by J. C. Johari, Institute of Constitutional and Parliamentary Studies, New Delhi,.

He currently serves on the Committee on Constitutional Affairs and the delegation to the ACP – EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly.

Currently ( 2007-2009 ) she is Vice President of the European Parliament, member of the Committee on Development, co-chair of the election coordination group, member of the Subcommittee on Human Rights, of the Delegation for relations with the Palestinian Legislative Council, of the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly, and substitute member of the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality, of the Committee on Constitutional Affairs and of the Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly.

A former UPN-PP deputy for Navarra, which he represented from 1989-2008, he has chaired the Parliamentary Committee on Constitutional Affairs.

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Carlos Carnero is a member of the Parliament's Constitutional Affairs Committee and is the spokesman for the PES Group of the European Parliament's Delegation to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly ( EMPA ).

He was a substitute for the Committee on Constitutional Affairs, a vice-chair of the Delegation for relations with Mercosur and a substitute for the Delegation to the EU-Bulgaria Joint Parliamentary Committee.