The following has been supplied by the TUC:
Mark Harper MP is the new minister for health and safety, following the Prime Minister’s reshuffle.
The previous incumbent, Mike Penning MP, is now policing and criminal justice minister. Mark Harper’s return to the Government see him appointed the Department for Work and Pensions’ minister of state for disabled people, a post that again comes with the workplace health and safety brief tacked on.
Commenting on the return of the former chartered accountant to government, the BBC noted: “The MP quit his role as immigration minister earlier this year after admitting to having employed an illegal immigrant as a cleaner.”
