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Cabinet and changes
Gurgenidze implemented only two changes in the Cabinet of Georgia so far, replacing Alexandre Lomaia, the former Minister for Education and Science and new Secretary of National Security Council with Maia Miminoshvili, former Head of the National Assessment and Examination Centre ( NAEC ).
However, Collingridge — citing Harold Macmillan's political demise after sacking half his Cabinet — effects no changes at all.
Cabinet changes are common.
In a radical reshuffle dubbed " The Night of the Long Knives ", Macmillan sacked a third of his Cabinet and instituted many other changes.
In 2004, the Joint Committee ( of both the House of Commons and House of Lords ) tasked with overseeing the drafting of the proposed Civil Contingencies Bill, published its first report, in which, amongst other things, it suggested amending the bill's clauses that grant Cabinet Ministers the power " to disapply or modify any Act of Parliament " as overly wide, and that the bill should be modified to preclude changes to the following Acts, which, it suggested, formed " the fundamental parts of constitutional law " of the United Kingdom ( names are shown as they appear in Hansard: ):
Lemass also initiated several changes in the Cabinet.
Cameron appointed Duncan Smith to the Cabinet as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with responsibility for seeing through changes to the welfare state.
Although there have been many changes since the Cabinet committee system was first developed in the early twentieth century, the committees for foreign and military policy, domestic policy, economic policy, and the government's legislative agenda have been more or less permanent fixtures.
Cranborne's resignation speech was met with loud cheers and Carnarvon observed that it was " moderate and in good taste – a sufficient justification for us who seceded and yet no disclosure of the frequent changes in policy in the Cabinet ".
On 18 October 2011, following an investigation by the Cabinet Secretary into alleged conflicts of interest arising from proposed changes to the law, which Djanogly was championing, Djanogly requested that the Claims Management Regulation Unit be overseen by a different Justice Minister, to avoid any possible distraction from this important issue after it was suggested that he and his family could personally profit .< ref > Djanogly stated that neither he nor his Labour predecessor had ever had to make a decision in relation to the claims management unit, because decisions were delegated to officials, but it seemed prudent to head off any future allegation.
Liking McLane personally and unwilling to make more controversial Cabinet changes so quickly, Jackson removed the bank issue from McLane ’ s purview.
He was subsequently appointed to Cabinet as the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations and was responsible for introducing the Howard Government's major changes to industrial relations law in 2005, commonly known as WorkChoices.
The War Cabinet would undergo a number of changes in composition over the next five years.
The Labour government agreed to make changes in taxation and expenditure in order to balance the budget and restore confidence, but the Cabinet could not agree on the two options available: either introduce tariffs, or make 20 % cuts in unemployment benefit.
The slaying of two wholly innocent men in Limerick within months of each other: Shane Geoghegan and Roy Collins increased pressure on O ' Dea locally, as a member of the Cabinet, to secure changes to the law and greater resources to tackle Limerick city's gangland crime.
It brings together previous legislation, such as the Drug Trafficking Act 1994 and Part VI of the Criminal Justice Act 1988, with the changes recommended in a comprehensive report of a study conducted by the Performance and Innovation Unit of the Cabinet Office in 2000.
National made no great changes to its policy platform, and Holyoake largely retained the Cabinet he had inherited from his predecessor.
In the 2005 Danish parliamentary election, Anders Fogh Rasmussen retained his parliamentary support, and was able to reform his cabinet as the Cabinet of Anders Fogh Rasmussen II, with a few changes from the Cabinet of Anders Fogh Rasmussen I.
In January 1985, Collins renewed her push for additional education funding and changes by appointing herself secretary of the state Education and Humanities Cabinet.
" Pierre Elliott Trudeau, John Turner, Jean Chrétien and Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson following Cabinet changes ",
* Meli Bogileka, General secretary of the People's National Party and a former Cabinet Minister in the Chaudhry government, who was held hostage by the followers of George Speight during the rebellion, called for changes to the bill.
Despite the dramatic changes in the Cabinet, the Conservatives were rocked by a series of scandals in 1963, causing Macmillan to eventually resign as Prime Minister, before the Party's defeat in the 1964 general election.
The Cabinet was also relatively elderly, and with younger political leaders on the scene, like American President John F. Kennedy, at a time of dramatic social changes, Macmillan resolved to bring some younger men into important posts.

Cabinet and were
Weeks ago he saw a business upturn in the second quarter of this year while his colleagues in the Cabinet were shaking their heads in disagreement.
Many of the men involved with Johnson's acquittal committee were friends of Secretary William Seward, Johnson's strongest ally on his Presidential Cabinet.
Another group under Sir John Simon then emerged, who were prepared to continue their support for the government and take the Liberal places in the Cabinet if there were resignations.
However, it was a sign of the party's lack of importance that they were not included in the War Cabinet.
Among them were the minutes of a Cabinet Eastern Committee meeting, chaired by Lord Curzon, which was held on 5 December 1918.
Some notable collectors were Pope Boniface VIII, Emperor Maximilian of the Holy Roman Empire, Louis XIV of France, Ferdinand I, Henry IV of France and Elector Joachim II of Brandenburg, who started the Berlin Coin Cabinet ( German: Münzkabinett Berlin ).
The master plan and its implementation strategy for 2025 were endorsed by the Afghan Cabinet in early 2009.
In some instances he " seized " control of responsibilities from other Cabinet departments when he deemed that they were not carrying out their responsibilities well.
In May 1940, without resigning his seat, Holt joined the Second Australian Imperial Force as a gunner, but a few months later three Cabinet ministers and several of Australia's top military staff were killed in an air crash in Canberra.
Although the conditions were ripe for industrial unrest — Communist influence in the union movement was then at its peak, and the right-wing faction in Cabinet was openly agitating for a showdown with the unions — the combination of strong economic growth and Holt's enlightened approach to industrial relations saw the number of working hours lost to strikes fall dramatically, from over two million in 1949 to just 439, 000 in 1958.
Despite successes such as the revival of economic growth and the beginnings of the Northern Ireland Peace Process, by the mid-1990s the Conservatives were embroiled in ongoing " sleaze " scandals involving various MPs and even Cabinet Ministers.
" Major later said that he had picked the number three from the air and that he was referring to " former ministers who had left the government and begun to create havoc with their anti-European activities ", but many journalists suggested that the three were Peter Lilley, Michael Portillo and Michael Howard, three of the more prominent " Eurosceptics " within his Cabinet.
However, 179 other Conservative MPs were defeated, including present and former Cabinet ministers such as Norman Lamont, Sir Malcolm Rifkind and Michael Portillo.
Almost all of the initially favourable reports Ribbentrop provided to Berlin about the alliance's prospects were based on friendly remarks about the " New Germany " from various British aristocrats like Lord Londonderry and Lord Lothian ; the rather cool reception that Ribbentrop received from British Cabinet ministers and senior bureaucrats did not make much of an impression on him at first.
The master plan and its implementation strategy for 2025 were endorsed by the Afghan Cabinet in early 2009.
The origins of the collection were the 8, 600 works in the Royal Collection ( Cabinet du Roi ), which were increased via state appropriation, purchases such as the 1, 200 works from Fillipo Baldinucci's collection in 1806, and donations.
On April 12, 1980, Doe led a bloody coup d ' état against president Tolbert, in which Tolbert and twenty-six of his supporters were murdered ; ten days later thirteen of Tolbert ’ s Cabinet members were publicly executed.
However, an earlier tour by the South African Ski Boat Angling Team was allowed to pass through Australia on the way to New Zealand in 1977, and the transit records were suppressed by Cabinet order.
Page's terms were stiff — five seats in a Cabinet of 11, including the Treasurer portfolio and the second rank in the ministry for himself.
Paul von Hindenburg, Gustav Stresemann, and other members of the Cabinet were regular guests.
They were given a reserved place, called the Treasury Bench, to the Speaker's right where the Prime Minister and senior Cabinet members sit today
The growth of the Cabinet met with widespread complaint and opposition because its meetings were often held in secret and it excluded the ancient Privy Council from the Sovereign's circle of advisers, reducing it to an honorary body.

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