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	Derek Twigg MP for Halton : News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Derek Twigg MP has personally congratulated one of the community’s longest serving nursery nurses on her retirement after 38 years serving Halton.
		Derek Twigg MP, Mike Hall MP and Gary Collins, Operational Director of Economic Regeneration met John Holmes Head of HR Newey & Eyres and Bill Alexander of Hagemeyer (UK) Ltd. To discuss the announcement that Runcorn Hagemeyer Electrical Wholesale Depot is to close.
		Derek Twigg MP was one of many Rugby League supporters who attended the All Party Parliamentary Rugby League Group annual dinner last week.
	www.derektwigg.org.uk /news/browse5 (185 words)

	House of Commons - Environmental Audit - Minutes of Evidence
		Derek Twigg: I do not want to disagree that it is very important, but, as I say, really I do not want to go into the details of what may or may not be in the White Paper and pre-empt its publication and I do not think you would expect me to do that.
		Derek Twigg: I think the straightforward answer is that I would want to look at a number of options about how we could continue to make the improvements that the Committee has been highlighting and which I would like to see.
		Derek Twigg: Defra made it clear what the criteria were, for organisations bidding for limited resources, and that bids were judged against those criteria, quite properly, with no guarantees of success being given to any organisation.
	www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk /pa/cm200405/cmselect/cmenvaud/84/5011905.htm (3114 words)

	Derek Twigg MP for Halton : News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Derek Twigg MP has welcomed the announcement by the Department for Transport to improve the number 61 bus service.
		Derek Twigg MP has welcomed today’s announcement by the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) to allocate 5.6 million pounds to St Chad’s High School, which will bring about much needed improvements to the School’s facilities.
		Derek Twigg has been in negotiations with the Post Office executives over this matter and insisted on seeing the Chief Executive in a meeting he held in Westminster last year.
	www.derektwigg.org.uk /news/browse0 (287 words)

	House of Commons - Environmental Audit - Minutes of Evidence
		Derek Twigg: Defra are using EAF to fund several projects which are working specifically with either young people or schools to deliver sustainable consumption outcomes, but at the present time we are waiting for an official announcement to be made on this.
		Derek Twigg: We are going to look at the priorities that we have got within education and the funding.
		Derek Twigg: It is a priority, but I have got to look at the whole and decide what the priorities are and how we can find funding for those priorities.
	www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk /pa/cm200405/cmselect/cmenvaud/84/5011906.htm (1143 words)

	Telegraph \| News
		Stephen Twigg, who defeated Michael Portillo in the 1997 general election, was promoted to schools minister yesterday, as Tony Blair completed the reshuffle caused by David Blunkett's resignation.
		Before entering Parliament, Mr Twigg was also general secretary of the Fabian Society and, even though he came from a Communist family, gained a reputation for being "very New Labour" and a leading Blairite.
		Derek Twigg, the MP for Halton, was a civil servant at the Department for Education before entering politics.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/12/17/nshuf517.xml (525 words)

	Derek Twigg MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Derek Twigg MP was appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, responsible for Transport, on 9 May 2005.
		Before that he was appointed to the Chief Whip's Office in June 2002, after previously serving as Parliamentary Private Secretary to two ministers, firstly to Helen Liddell MP as Minister of State for Energy, and then to Stephen Byers MP as Secretary of State for Transport and the Regions.
		Derek Twigg was born and brought up in Widnes and studied at Halton College of Further Education.
	www.dft.gov.uk /stellent/groups/dft_about/documents/page/dft_about_037773.hcsp (154 words)

	Teachernet, News
		Stephen Twigg has been Member of Parliament for Enfield Southgate since May 1997, and previously worked as the Deputy Leader to the House of Commons, where he was appointed in June 2001.
		Derek Twigg has been appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Schools.
		Derek Twigg was appointed to the Chief Whip's Office in June 2002, previously serving as Parliamentary Private Secretary to two ministers, firstly to Helen Liddell MP as Minister of State for Energy, and then to Stephen Byers MP as Secretary of State for Transport and the Regions.
	www.teachernet.gov.uk /news?id=673 (310 words)

	John Twigg - TheBestLinks.com - Derek Twigg, Labour Party (UK), July 9, United Kingdom, ...
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		Derek Twigg, John Twigg, Labour Party (UK), July 9, United Kingdom...
		John Derek Twigg (born 9 July 1959) is a politician in the United Kingdom.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Derek_Twigg.html (108 words)

	EducationGuardian.co.uk \| News crumb \| Twigg puts down new roots
		Stephen Twigg's eyes nearly popped out of his head on May 1 1997 when he was elected MP for Enfield Southgate, the north London borough where he was born.
		The combination of the two should be popular with teachers: Stephen for the continuity he will bring to a department that has undergone a seismic shift within 24 hours, and Derek because he spent 21 years as a civil servant at the department.
		Mr Twigg has a cerebral side - he was chairman of the Fabian Society - as well as a practical one - he is a governor of Merryhills primary school and Southgate school in Enfield Southgate, honorary president of the British Youth Council and a director of the Foreign Policy Centre.
	education.guardian.co.uk /schools/story/0,,1375256,00.html (655 words)

	London Borough of Newham: News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Schools Minister, Derek Twigg, was so impressed with the progress that Tollgate Primary School is making that he paid the school a visit to find out more about how the improvements have been achieved.
		Mr Twigg was treated to the school choir singing a song they had written as part of their Olympics project.
		Derek Twigg’s visit gave us the opportunity to show him all the good work that is going on at the school.”
	www.newham.gov.uk /content/rw030305tol.jsp (334 words)

	icCheshireOnline - MP promoted in Blair reshuffle
		Mr Twigg's rise in Government hierarchy began when he was appointed to the Chief Whip's Office in June 2002, after previously serving as parliamentary private secretary to two ministers, firstly to Helen Liddell MP as minister of state for energy, and then to Stephen Byers MP as secretary of state for transport and the regions.
		Mr Twigg was summoned to the Tony Blair's Downing Street residence were the PM offered him the job as part as a huge re-vamp of the education department that has seen Ruth Kelly appointed secretary of state for education and skills Stephen Twigg appointed minister for school standards.
		Mr Twigg, who was elected as member of parliament for Halton in 1997, added: 'It is a great honour for the constituency and I am really looking forward to improving the quality of schooling, not just in the borough of Halton but throughout all the schools in the UK.
	iccheshireonline.icnetwork.co.uk /0100news/0100regionalnews/tm_objectid=15003839&method=full&siteid=50020&headline=mp-promoted-in-blair-reshuffle-name_page.html (522 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Politics \| Derek Twigg
		Derek Twigg was first elected to the Commons in 1997, when he succeeded the retiring Gordon Oakes.
		Mr Twigg served as chair of the north-west group of Labour MPs, and fought for the new, multi-million pound synchrotron X-ray machine to be sited in the region.
		In the December 2004 reshuffle prompted by the resignation of David Blunkett as home secretary, Mr Twigg was made junior schools minister.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk_politics/2088551.stm (165 words)

	Derek Twigg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Derek Twigg (born 9 July 1959, Widnes) is a politician in the United Kingdom.
		In the cabinet reshuffle following the United Kingdom general election of 2005, Derek became a junior minister in the Department for Transport.
		Guardian Unlimited Politics - Ask Aristotle: Derek Twigg MP
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Derek_Twigg (131 words)

	New Statesman New Media Awards 2005 Weblog : Parents to be given online access to their child's progress at school.
		In Harnessing Technology: Transforming Learning and Children’s Services, Twigg sets out plans to have all schools equipped with broadband by 2006, to improve online services for special needs learners and to use online resources to grant parents greater access to their children’s progress reports.
		Twigg hopes that these measures will help parents, particularly of secondary school pupils, get around the well-known reluctance of children to discuss their school day, by making the information directly available to them online.
		Many of Twigg’s proposals are still in the planning stages and no date has been set for the scheme to be fully implemented; it doesn’t yet address the needs of parents without home internet access.
	newstatesman.com /nma/nma2005/dispatches/archive/2005/03/16/school-run (387 words)

	Printer Friendly Format - Hillingdon Times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Schools minister Derek Twigg visited a Croydon school to offer the Government's support for its after-school clubs.
		Mr Twigg, parliamentary under secretary of state for schools, was given a glimpse of some of the activities pupils are involved in once classes finish as he toured Park Hill Junior School last Thursday.
		The school in Stanhope Road already holds a number of after-school sports and social clubs, something the Government is keen to see introduced to schools across the country.
	www.hillingdontimes.co.uk /misc/print.php?artid=577055 (259 words)

	Derek Twigg -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Derek Twigg -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		(John) Derek Twigg (born 9 July 1959) is a politician in the (A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland) United Kingdom.
		He is (Productive work (especially physical work done for wages)) Labour (An elected member of the British Parliament: a member of the House of Commons) member of Parliament for (additional info and facts about Halton) Halton, and was first elected in 1997.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/d/de/derek_twigg.htm (161 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Politics - Minister backs Forth oil transfer plan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		During a House of Commons debate junior minister Derek Twigg, who reports to Transport Secretary Alistair Darling, said the plans would not endanger the environment.
		Mr Darling has so far stayed out of the row, but Mr Twigg's comments are the first indication the Government would back Sunderland-based company Melbourne Marine Services in its plans to move 7.8 million tonnes of Russian crude oil ship-to-ship in the Firth of Forth.
		Mr Twigg said: "Ship-to-ship transfer is an internationally recognised practice, which takes place worldwide.
	news.scotsman.com /politics.cfm?id=2117452005 (555 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Politics \| Aristotle \| Twigg, Derek
		Derek Twigg says: From his maiden speech: "Most teachers do an excellent job.
		Many have their jobs made much more difficult by the immense problems of social deprivation and poor parenting in some areas; but there are also teachers who are not up to the job, and they should not be anywhere near a classroom.
		Although there may be poverty and poor discipline in some homes, that should not be used as an excuse for poor teaching and poor schools."
	politics.guardian.co.uk /person/0,9290,-5278,00.html (88 words)

	IEMA - Twigg and CEE Difference of Opinion on ESD
		Twigg and CEE Difference of Opinion on ESD May 04, 2005
		Green Education Minister, Derek Twigg, and CEE's Head of Policy, Nick Jones, recently gave contrasting views at a House of Commons seminar on Education for a sustainable future.
		He expressed particular disappointment at the low profile of education for sustainable development in the new UK Sustainable Development Strategy and the 14-19 Education and Skills White Paper.
	www.iema.net /news/envnews?aid=5119 (127 words)

	Printer Friendly Format - News Shopper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Schools minister, Derek Twigg opened the rooms at Grey Court and Meadlands schools.
		The classrooms are futuristic looking pods that aim to create the ideal learning environment by combining the latest advances in technology and teaching methods.
		Derek Twigg, schools minister added: "This is an excellent initiative which mixes innovative architecture and technology to bring inspiration and creativity to the classroom.
	www.newsshopper.co.uk /misc/print.php?artid=569334 (306 words)

	Coventry Observer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Transport minister Derek Twigg MP ruled out backing the city's plans to build a station at the Arena in a letter to Bob Ainsworth, MP for Coventry North East.
		Mr Twigg said: "The SRA has been keen to find and develop demand where it's economic to do so, but the reality is the Coventry to Nuneaton line does not generate a great deal of local demand."
		Mr Ainsworth said Mr Twigg's comments had dealt a blow to the city's hopes of securing a station.
	www.coventryobserver.co.uk /news/default1.asp?id=923 (271 words)

	"Dont you Point At Me!"- Runcorn FC Fanzine
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	www.network54.com /Forum/101629?it=36 (2520 words)

	icScotland - Heads jeer schools minister
		Schools minister Derek Twigg received a stormy reception at the National Association of Head Teachers' annual conference in Telford, Shropshire.
		During a debate alongside education spokesmen from the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats, Mr Twigg refused to give ground to heads who oppose the way league tables work.
		While they continued chatting to each other and shaking their heads, Mr Twigg tried to carry on with his answer.
	icscotland.icnetwork.co.uk /news/uk/tm_objectid=15466557&method=full&siteid=50141&headline=heads-jeer-schools-minister-name_page.html (303 words)

	Government publishes e-learning strategy
		Plans to exploit technology to personalise education were published yesterday by the Schools Minister, Derek Twigg.
		Derek Twigg said: "Imaginative use of ICT will open up a new world of possibilities in education.
		Digital technology is already changing how we do business and live our lives, we need to embrace this revolution within the education sector.
	www.trainingreference.co.uk /news/el050317.htm (444 words)

	icCheshireOnline - MP on track for the top
		His promotion was a massive boost for supporters of the £350m Mersey Gateway because Mr Twigg has been a staunch campaigner for a new crossing.
		Mr Twigg said: 'Light rail is going to be one of my responsibilities and just before the election Tony McNulty brought up a £4.2m cheque for predevelopment works on Merseytram.
		Mr Twigg has been at the forefront of the campaign for a second Mersey Crossing between Halton and Runcorn - now rebranded as the Mersey Gateway campaign.
	iccheshireonline.icnetwork.co.uk /0100news/0100regionalnews/tm_objectid=15534465&method=full&siteid=50020&headline=mp-on-track-for-the-top-name_page.html (438 words)

	Leeds Supertram: Leeds concerned by Government's silence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Transport Minister Derek Twigg recently wrote to Leeds MP Greg Mulholland, saying he understood the time constraints connected with the scheme.
		Leeds MP Fabian Hamilton tabled a written question asking when a decision is likely to be made but that is unlikely to receive a reply until Parliament reconvenes in October.
		“Mr Twigg has confirmed that he appreciates the time constraints we face and we welcome the fact that he has stayed on into the summer recess to meet us and consider the scheme,” said Councillor Harris.
	www.leeds-supertram.co.uk /News/050720-1.htm (591 words)

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