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Monday 07 October 2013 9:38 am

In brief: Government reshuffle so far

By: Harriet Green

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New appointments:-

  • Sajid Javid: Treasury financial secretary
  • Robert Goodwill: parliamentary under secretary (Department of Transport)
  • Esther McVey: minister of state (employment)
  • Nicky Morgan: Treasury economic secretary
  • Mike Penning: minister of state (Department for Work and Pensions)
  • Don Foster: chief whip
  • Greg Hands: deputy chief whip 
  • Alistair Carmichael: Scottish secretary 
  • Matt Hancock: minister of state (skills and enterprise)
  • Baroness Kramer: junior transport minister 
  • Norman Baker: junior home office minister 
  • Andrew Robathan: junior minister of state (Northern Ireland Office)
  • Hugh Robertson: minister of state (Foreign and Commonwealth Office)
  • Shailesh Vara: junior minister of state (Ministry of Justice)
  • Stephen Williams: parliamentary under secretary (Department for Communities and Local Government)

Axed:-

  • Jeremy Browne: minister of state (Home Office) 
  • Mark Prisk: housing minister
  • Mark Hoban: minister of state (employment)
  • Alistair Burt: foreign and commonwealth minister 
  • Liam Byrne: shadow work and pensions minister 
  • Stephen Twigg: shadow education minister 
  • Greg Knight: whip 
  • Michael Moore: Scottish Secretary 
  • Richard Benyon: Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 

Resigned:-

  • John Randall: deputy chief whip 
  • Chloe Smith: Cabinet Office minister 
  • Simon Burns: transport minister 
  • Rob Flello: shadow justice minister 
  • Anne Maguire: shadow minister for disabled people 

Demoted:-

  • Helen Grant: parliamentary under secretary (sport) (loses Justice role)
  • Greg Clark: minister of state (cities and constitutions) (loses Treasury role)
  • Jim Murphy: International Development (no longer shadow defence secretary)

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