[Stoat]

The Rt Hon John Hutton

Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform

The Rt Hon John Hutton MP

 

John Hutton was appointed the first Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform when the new Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) was created by Gordon Brown in June 2007. BERR will help create the conditions for business success and promote productivity and enterprise, across Government and within the EU.

Prior to that he was Secretary of State Department of Work and Pensions.

John Hutton entered the Cabinet as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in May 2005. He was Minister of State with responsibility for Social Care at the Department of Health from 1999 and took on responsibility for Health in June 2001.

Before his election to Parliament he was a senior law lecturer at the University of Northumbria. After his election, from 1994 to 1997, he served on the Select Committee for Home Affairs.

He was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Margaret Beckett, both while she was President of the Board of Trade and Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (1997-1998), and in her role as President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (1998). Mr Hutton was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health and Social Care in Oct 1998.

Mr Hutton was born on 6 May 1955 and was educated at Westcliffe High School and Magdalen College Oxford. He has three sons and one daughter.

[IronJack]

"If Britain is going to succeed in the new global economy it has to be open to foreign investment

Translation: "The capitalists will sell us the rope we use to hang them."

"And if you look at the scale of the potential investment, it is simply huge."

Translation: "A big enough whore isn't a whore anymore."

[squidly]

That is certainly news to me that the U.S. resists foreign investment.

[Brilliant]

First time I’ve ever agreed with anyone that one of Brown’s ministers said. He’ll probably get sacked.

[Peter Libra]

Don't fear the East buying up Britain,says Hutton( UK Business Sctry say USA's policy is wrong).

Looking over the history of my native country, I cannot seem to find a precedent, for what seems to be a new revolution. I know that at school, all too many moons ago, we were taught about the "Industrial Revolution". The resultant misery and destruction of a pastoral way of life, that eventually resulted in vast improvements. This for the impoverished working classes.

The gentleman, Rt Hon John Hutton, has to adopt the now familiar saying ie: "Nothing to see, move along please". He just does not know of the eventual ramifications of his countries policy. I concede, he and those who believe in unbridled trade deficits, may well have created a "never, never land". Where there is no reality, just continuing "progress".

God help the United Kingdom, if he is wrong. A simple life's experience has taught me this. "He who pays the piper calls the tune". What about he who cannot pay the piper. The difference between affluent Arabic countries and poverty stricken African countries is often MONEY.