Team2015 was setup by this politician who was former Minister of State at the Department for what?
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Team2015 Team2015 is a political campaign initiative by the Conservative Party UK aiming to recruit volunteers for the 2015 general election. It was set up by Grant Shapps, Conservative Party Chairman, as a vehicle for organizing volunteers to campaign in the target 40/40 seats. The core leads of the team are Stella Kyriazis, Charles Spungin and the Party Chairman's Office. As of December 2014 there were approximately 40,000 volunteers who joined the initiative.
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Grant Shapps Grant Shapps (born 14 September 1968) is a British Conservative Party politician, former Minister of State at the Department for International Development. A former co-chairman of the Conservative Party, he is the current member of parliament for Welwyn Hatfield in England. He was returned to parliament in the general election of 8 June 2017 with 26,374 votes (51%).
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Melissa Parke Melissa Parke (born 11 August 1966) is a former Australian politician. Parke was an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives, representing the Division of Fremantle, Western Australia, from the 2007 federal election until her retirement in May 2016. Parke was the Minister for International Development in the second Rudd ministry, from July 2013.
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Ahmed Mahloof Ahmed Mahloof (born 26 March 1980) is a Maldivian former footballer who is the manager of the Maldives national football team. He is now a politician who is the current MP for Galolhu-South constituency in the People's Majlis.
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Shadow Secretary of State for Transport The Shadow Secretary of State for Transport is a post that has been consistently held by a member of the Official Opposition Shadow Cabinet since May 1979. The Shadow Secretary helps hold the Transport Secretary and junior ministers to account and is the lead spokesperson on transport matters for his or her party. Should the relevant party take office, the Shadow Secretary would be a likely candidate to become Transport Secretary.
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Welsh Office The Welsh Office (Welsh: "Swyddfa Gymreig" ) was a department in the Government of the United Kingdom with responsibilities for Wales. It was established in April 1965 to execute government policy in Wales, and was headed by the Secretary of State for Wales, a post which had been created in October 1964. It was disbanded on 1 July 1999 when most of its powers were transferred to the National Assembly for Wales, with some powers transferred to the Office of the Secretary of State for Wales (Welsh: "Swyddfa Ysgrifennydd Gwladol Cymru" ).
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Damian McBride Damian McBride is a British political advisor. He is a former Whitehall civil servant and former special adviser to British Prime Minister Gordon Brown. McBride began his civil service career at HM Customs and Excise. He worked with Customs and Excise and later became Head of Communications at the UK Treasury, before becoming a special adviser.
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R. K. Singh Raj Kumar Singh is a former Indian bureaucrat and the current Minister of State in the Government of India. He is Member of the Indian Parliament since May 2014. Singh is a 1975 batch Bihar cadre Indian Administrative Service officer and former Home Secretary of India. On 30 October 1990, when district magistrate of Samastipur, he arrested L. K. Advani, a senior figure in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), while Advani's Ram Rath Yatra was en route to Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh from Somnath in Gujarat. The arrest was made by order of the Lalu Prasad Yadav government.
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Department of Education (Australia) The Australian Department of Education was a department of the Government of Australia charged with the responsibility for national policies and programs to help Australians access quality and affordable childcare; early childhood education, school education, post-school, higher education, international education and academic research. The head of the department was the Secretary of the Department of Education, Lisa Paul {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} , who reported to the Minister for Education, the Hon. Christopher Pyne {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} , the Assistant Minister for Education, the Hon. Sussan Ley {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} , and the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Education, Senator the Hon. Scott Ryan.
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Steven Blaney Steven Blaney PC, MP (born April 8, 1965) is a Canadian businessman and Conservative politician. He served as the minister of Public Safety Canada (July 15, 2013 – November 4, 2015) and previously as the minister of Veterans Affairs and minister of State for La Francophonie in the cabinet of Prime Minister Stephen Harper (May 18, 2011 – July 14, 2013). He has represented the Québec riding of Lévis—Bellechasse in the Canadian House of Commons since the 2006 federal election. Despite his Anglophone-sounding name, Blaney is a Francophone. He was reelected in the 2015 election.
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Martin Bowles Martin Gerard Bowles {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} is a senior Australian public servant. He is currently Secretary of the Department of Health, a position to which he was appointed in 2014.
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Minister of State for Transport The Minister of State for Transport was a junior ministerial position in the Department for Transport of the Government of the United Kingdom. Since the 2015 General Election, the post has not lapsed and responsibilities are divided between four Parliamentary Under Secretaries of State for Transport.
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Leo Varadkar Leo Eric Varadkar ( ; Irish: "Leo de Varad" ;born 18 January 1979) is an Irish Fine Gael politician who has served as Taoiseach, Minister for Defence and Leader of Fine Gael since June 2017. He has been a Teachta Dála (TD) since 2007, currently for the Dublin West constituency. He previously served as Minister for Social Protection from 2016 to 2017, Minister for Health from 2014 to 2016 and Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport from 2011 to 2014.
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Nick Minchin Nicholas Hugh "Nick" Minchin (born 15 April 1953) is a former Australian politician and currently serves as the Australian Consul-General in New York, USA. He previously served as a Liberal member of the Australian Senate representing South Australia from July 1993 to June 2011, and a former cabinet minister in the Howard Government.
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Department for Transport The Department for Transport (DfT) is the government department responsible for the English transport network and a limited number of transport matters in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland that have not been devolved. The department is run by the Secretary of State for Transport, currently (since 14 July 2016) Chris Grayling.
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Joan Ruddock Dame Joan Mary Ruddock, DBE (née Anthony; born 28 December 1943) is a British Labour Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Lewisham Deptford from 1987 to 2015. Ruddock was Minister of State for Energy at the Department of Energy and Climate Change until 11 May 2010. She stood down at the 2015 General Election.
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Desmond Swayne Sir Desmond Angus Swayne, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born 20 August 1956) is a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. He is the Member of Parliament for the constituency of New Forest West in Hampshire. He was formerly also Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Prime Minister, David Cameron, having been his PPS during his time as Leader of the Opposition, 2005–10, prior to his appointment in September 2012 to the office of Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury. In June 2016, it was announced Swayne would receive a knighthood in the Queen's Birthday Honours for political service.
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Khalid Omar Ali Khalid Omar Ali (Somali: "Khalid Cumar Cali" , Arabic: خالد عمر علي‎ ‎ ) is a Somali politician. He served as the Minister of Youth and Sports of Somalia under Prime Minister Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed. Khalid Omar Ali succeeded Maryam Qaasim when her post as Minister for Human Development and Public Services ended on 17 January 2014. The Ministry was split to allow the creation of 6 cabinet positions one of which was the Ministry of Youth and Sports. The other 5 cabinet positions are Ministry of Health, Ministry of Culture and Higher Education, Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, Ministry of Women and Human Rights, Ministry of Education. On 12 January 2015, Khalid Omar Ali was succeeded by Duale Adan Mohamed and instead was appointed the new State Minister for Interior of Somalia by Prime Minister Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke.
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British government departments The Government of the United Kingdom exercises its executive authority through a number of government departments or departments of state. A department is composed of employed officials, known as civil servants, and is politically accountable through a minister. Most major departments are headed by a secretary of state, who sits in the cabinet, and typically supported by a team of junior ministers.
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David Johnston (politician) David Albert Lloyd Johnston (born 14 February 1956) is an Australian politician who was a Liberal Party member of the Australian Senate from 2002 to 2016, representing the state of Western Australia. Johnston was the Minister for Defence from 18 September 2013 to 23 December 2014, when he was replaced by Kevin Andrews.
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Minister of State at the Department of Defence The Minister of State at the Department of Defence (Irish: "Aire Stáit ag an Roinn Cosanta" ) is a junior ministerial post in the Department of Defence of the Government of Ireland. The post supports the senior Minister for Defence. The position is usually, but not currently, held jointly with that of the post of Minister of State at the Department of the Taoiseach, who is the government Chief Whip. The Minister of State does not hold cabinet rank (and does not have a vote) but does attend cabinet meetings as a "super junior" minister. The position was created on 1 January 1978, replacing the position of Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Defence.
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Cabinet Secretary (United Kingdom) The Cabinet Secretary is the most senior civil servant in the United Kingdom. He or she acts as the senior policy adviser to the Prime Minister and Cabinet and as the Secretary to the Cabinet, responsible to all Ministers for the running of Cabinet Government. The role is currently occupied by Jeremy Heywood, appointed in January 2012; in succession to Gus O'Donnell, 2005–2011.