Chief Secretary to the Treasury Yvette Cooper of United Kingdom

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Yvette Cooper was promoted to Housing Minister on 28 June 2007 when Gordon Brown became Prime Minister; Cooper had previously been identified as a supporter of Brown.

8 Billion investment and reforms announced to tackle housing shortages", Communities and Local Government official website, 23 July 2007.

Yvette Cooper has been made Housing Minister and is allowed into cabinet "when necessary", along with another occasional allowee, Tessa Jowell.

Cooper is clearly a rising star, and married to a risen star, which is going to make life somewhat difficult for the Balls family.

The Treasury Minister Yvette Cooper is in Leeds.

Now Yvette Cooper has been listening to that interview.

Last November Ms Yvette Cooper is a graduate of Oxford University where she studied PPE.

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Cooper had previously been identified as a supporter of Brown.

Councils and landlords should ensure social housing services focus on people, not just the homes they live in, Housing Minister Yvette Cooper said in a speech to the Housing Corporation and Chartered Institute of housing today.

Between 1999 and 2005, Miss Cooper had declared another property in Castleford, West Yorkshire, as their second home.

LONDON (Thomson Financial) - Housing Minister Yvette Cooper has been moved to the Treasury as Chief Secretary in a reshuffle sparked by the high profile departure of Work & Pensions Secretary Peter Hain today, Downing Street said.

Yvette Cooper is chief secretary to the Treasury coopery@parliament.

Yvette Cooper is a 'golden girl', both as Labour's youngest minister and for her connections.

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Following the webchat Yvette Cooper said I was delighted with the number of people who took time out of their day to come and ask me a question.

Ms Cooper said the proportion of new social housing built in London with three or more bedrooms would be increased from 27 per cent to 34 per cent “as a first step” in addressing London’s severe overcrowding problem.

Pointing to successes in bringing down rough sleeping and ending the use of bed and breakfast accommodation, Ms Cooper said moving families out of temporary accommodation into settled homes and helping families to move out of overcrowded homes were the next big challenges.

Yvette Cooper MP biographyYvette Cooper is the MP for Pontefract and Castleford and was appointed Minister for Housing and Planning at the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) on 9 May 2005.

From May 2002 to June 2003, Ms Cooper was Parliamentary Secretary at the Lord Chancellor's department and, from October 1999, she was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Public Health.

Before being appointed as Health Minister, Ms Cooper was a member of the Education and Employment Select Committee and the Intelligence and Security Committee.

Yvette Cooper is the Minister for Housing and Planning, and has been the MP for Pontefract and Castleford since 1997.

Cooper is a member of the TGWU and GMB unions.

The article went on to say: "Planning Minister Yvette Cooper is at the centre of a 'cronyism' row after it was revealed that her father is a champion of the nuclear industry.

Miss Cooper is set to announce controversial plans to help energy firms brush aside objections to new nuclear power stations.

Until recently, Miss Cooper's father Tony Cooper was chairman of the Nuclear Industry Association, which lobbies Ministers on the benefits of atomic power.

Energy Performance Certificates should be linked to incentives such as green mortgages, Housing Minister Yvette Cooper said today.

As Labour continues to debate its future, Yvette Cooper is the latest MP to be talked up by party members as the answer to their problems.

Ten second biography The wife of children's secretary Ed Balls, Cooper was one of the 101 'Blair babes' to enter the Commons in 1997.

What is her background? Cooper was educated at comprehensive school, before going on to Oxford and following a classic new Labour trajectory: a year at Harvard as a Kennedy scholar, then economic researcher for John Smith when he was shadow chancellor.

Where does she sit politically? Back in 1998 Cooper was described in The Sunday Times as the 'dazzling star of the Blairite nomenklatura.

Ms Cooper said she was keen that banks and building societies did not automatically start to repossess these struggling customers.

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