Andrew Mitchell
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Gender | Male |
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Age | 68 |
Web site | www.andrew-mitchell-mp.co.uk |
Date of birth | March 23,1956 |
Zodiac sign | Aries |
Born | London |
United Kingdom | |
Spouse | Sharon Bennett |
Party | Conservative Party |
Children | Hannah Mitchell |
Rosie Mitchell | |
Parents | David Mitchell |
Pamela Haward | |
Official site | parliament.uk |
Position | Member of Parliament of the United Kingdom |
Member of Parliament of the United Kingdom since 2001 | |
Education | Rugby School |
University of Cambridge | |
Jesus College, University of Cambridge | |
Previous position | Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury of the United Kingdom (2012–2012) |
Date of Reg. | |
Date of Upd. | |
ID | 416110 |
Andrew Mitchell Life story
Andrew John Bower Mitchell is a British politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Sutton Coldfield since 2001. A member of the Conservative Party, Mitchell was previously the MP for Gedling from 1987 to 1997.
UK government plans radical shake-up of foreign aid for climate change disasters
... The government s development and Africa minister, Andrew Mitchell, said Monday s White Paper should be seen as a restatement of the value of aid and a glimmer of hope in dark times...
David Cameron: How will MPs hold the foreign secretary to account?
... Instead, those questions will be fielded by the ministers below him at the Foreign Office, including Andrew Mitchell and Anne-Marie Trevelyan...
Sudan conflict: Ethnic cleansing committed in Darfur, UK says
... The UK Minister for Africa, Andrew Mitchell, told the BBC this bore " all the hallmarks of ethnic cleansing"...
Mother's plea for daughter Mia's release after Hamas hostage video
... Citizens from a number of countries are being held, including up to 10 from the UK, and Foreign Office Minister Andrew Mitchell has said the government is doing all it can to get them back as soon as possible...
UK foreign aid cuts: Thousands will die as a result, says report
... Andrew Mitchell, the development minister, gave it to the International Development Committee as part of his efforts to make UK aid spending more transparent - as it used to be before the Department for International Development was merged with the more secretive Foreign Office...
Niger: UK tells nationals to stay inside amid unrest
... Andrew Mitchell, the minister for development and Africa, called for the deposed President Mohamed Bazoum to be " immediately reinstated to restore constitutional order"...
New British Humanitarian Medal to honour UK disaster rescuers
... International Development Minister Andrew Mitchell said the humanitarian medal would recognise those who " show such courage and serve as inspiration in a range of desperate situations"...
Barbados PM fights for shake-up of global climate finance
... The UK is sending its minister for development, Andrew Mitchell...
David Cameron: How will MPs hold the foreign secretary to account?
By Paul SeddonPolitics reporter
David Cameron has made a return to government, with Rishi Sunak appointing him the UK's new Foreign Secretary .
But the former Prime Minister - who quit as an MP in 2016 - won't be returning to The House of Commons.
Instead, he has been made a peer and will re-enter Parliament via The House of Lords, as Lord Cameron.
It has raised questions about how elected MPs will be able to hold him to account, including from Labour and Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle .
Has this happened before?All government departments tend to have ministers in The House of Lords, but normally not cabinet ministers. Until 2007, The Lord chancellor was always in The Lords and a member of The Cabinet too.
But more recently, there is normally only one peer who sits in The Cabinet : the Leader of The House of Lords, currently Lord True.
However, it is not unheard of for other cabinet ministers to come from the upper house.
Nicky Morgan stayed on as Boris Johnson 's culture secretary for several months after standing down as an MP at the 2019 election, taking the ermine and becoming Baroness Morgan in The Process .
The now-Lord Cameron also had a peer in his own cabinet: Baroness Warsi, who served as Tory Party chairwoman via a peerage.
Gordon Brown gave Peter Mandelson a peerage so he could make his sensational 2008 as business secretary (he had quit as an MP to become the UK's European commissioner).
Mr Brown also made Lord Adonis his transport secretary in 2009 - with Lord Falconer and Baroness Amos serving in The Cabinet of Sir Tony Blair .
What about foreign secretaries though?The Last UK Foreign Secretary to sit in The House of Lords was Lord Carrington, who took up The Role under Margaret Thatcher in 1979.
He'd already been in The Cabinet as a peer - he was defence secretary under Edward Heath .
He resigned in as Foreign Secretary in 1982 after the Falkland Islands were invaded by Argentine forces, Taking Responsibility for the failure to predict The Invasion .
Will Lord Cameron answer questions from MPs?Lord Cameron has confirmed he will appear before MPs on Commons select committees " as appropriate".
But he won't be in The Commons chamber to take questions during the regular departmental scrutiny sessions that take place every five weeks.
Instead, those questions will be fielded by The Ministers below him at The Foreign Office, including Andrew Mitchell and Anne-Marie Trevelyan.
He also won't answer urgent questions from MPs during emergencies.
It is likely, however, he will have to respond to the equivalent version in The House of Lords - a procedure put in place for Lords Mandelson and Adonis.
In it not uncommon though for these questions to also be answered by deputies anyway, if the Foreign Secretary is on diplomatic visits around The World .
As a Minister in The Lords , he will have to respond to written questions from peers, as well as letters from committees.
What are the concerns?The Labour politician that Lord Cameron would normally face in The Commons , shadow Foreign Secretary David Lammy , has said MPs.
Similar reservations have also been expressed by Sir Lindsay Hoyle , The Commons Speaker, Who Said he would " do everything" he could to ensure Lord Cameron faces scrutiny.
This Was especially important, he added, given the current series of crises around The World .
He Said he'd looked forward to hearing from the government how he would be held " properly accountable" - and had asked his parliamentary officials to draw up some ideas.
Related TopicsSource of news: bbc.com