New Culture Secretary appointed

September 4 2012

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Picture: Guardian

We're having a government 're-shuffle' here in the UK. Jeremy Hunt has taken over from Andrew Lansley at the Department of Health, which means that Maria Miller has been promoted to Secretary of State for Culture. Maria used to be the Minister for Disabled People, and before that was Shadow Family Minister and a shadow education minister. She has also served on the Trade and Industry Select Committees, and on her website describes her political interests as 'Housing / Education / Media'.

Perhaps the first thing to note here is that at least the Culture department remains - there were rumours of it being axed. We do not yet know if any of the current DCMS team will remain, such as Arts minister Ed Vaizey.

Curious fact - it's the first time I haven't been on first name terms with the Culture Secretary or Shadow Culture Secretary since 2005.


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