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News Chamber News Money talks – Treasury Minister announced as summit speaker | Money talks – Treasury Minister announced as summit speaker |
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| Monday, 16 June 2008 | |
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The Chief Secretary to the Treasury Yvette Cooper is the latest speaker to be announced for the RE:Inventing the City event.  A member of the Labour Party since a teenager, Mrs Cooper has been MP for Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley since 1997 and is the first woman to be promoted to the role of Chief Secretary to the Treasury. Yvette was previously made Minister for Housing in June 2007, as part of Gordon Brown's first Cabinet. She was Minister of State for Housing and Planning in the Department for Communities and Local Government - previously the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) - from 2005. Prior to that, she was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the ODPM.Her special political interests include unemployment and energy. She is married to the Secretary of State, Department for Children, Schools and Families, Ed Balls. Sheffield Chamber head of business development Paul Reeves said: “Last year’s summit event was addressed by Margaret Hodge MP, the then Minister of State for Industry and the Regions who congratulated Sheffield on having an economy ‘geared up’ for the 21st century and stressed the need for business to work with education. We are very pleased to be welcoming Yvette Cooper to the 2008 summit – we’re sure delegates will want to hear her thoughts on Sheffield from the Government’s – and, more specifically, the Treasury’s - perspective.”
RE:Inventing the City will be coordinated by Greg Clark, a leading international facilitator on making cities and regions work, while guests will also hear from Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg and GMTV Chairman Clive Jones CBE. |
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