Advocate General for Scotland – Lord (Jim) Wallace
Department for Business, Innovation and Skills – Ed Davey
Department for Communities and Local Government – Andrew Stunell
Department for Education – Sarah Teather
Department for Transport – Norman Baker
Department for Work & Pensions – Steve Webb
Department of Health – Paul Burstow
Deputy Chief Whip (Commons) – Alistair Carmichael
Deputy Chief Whip (Lords) – Lord (David) Shutt
Deputy Leader of the House of Commons – David Heath
Foreign & Commonwealth Office – Jeremy Browne
Home Office – Lynne Featherstone
Ministry of Defence – Nick Harvey
Ministry of Justice – Lord (Tom) McNally (who, having worked in 10 Downing Street until 1979, must win some sort of longest gap between appearances in government prize)
Hat-tip for some of these: Liberal England
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oh dear God, Transport is in for the Baker treatment!
And what about Norman Lamb? He is hugely capable.
Does this mean that our MPs will be ‘electing’ Alistair Carmichael as there Chief Whip?
shame no post for Jenny W as yet – would’ve been nice to see her in there somewhere
Norman Baker’s appointment will be a kiss of death for any prospects of the dangerous A27 being made into a dual carriageway across the whole of his Lewes Constituency. Years ahead of queues and fatal accidents.
Has Norman Lamb had the honour and decency to refuse to have anything to do with this venture? Full marks, if so. Shame on the rest of them.
Phfellow2004,
Ministers for Transport are not allowed to deal with matters that affect their own constituencies. It is for this reason that Sir George Young passed the decision on the A40 widening to his deputy.
Will there still be Lib Dem spokepersons for each government department, or will the Lib Dem in that department be the party spokesman? From what I can see, there are at least a couple of departments with no Lib Dem representation – Wales, Culture, Environment. Also, have any Lib Dem MPs turned down posts? Some of the shadow cabinet have not received posts, with people like Simon Hughes, Don Foster, and Michael Moore being big names in the parliamentary party.