Shadow defence spokesman Bernard Jenkin criticised Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon for not making the statement himself.
Geoff Hoon is promoted to Minister of State but stays in the Lord Chancellor's Department.
"It is inconceivable that Geoff Hoon would not have discussed it with Alastair Campbell, " she added.
However, The Transport Secretary, Geoff Hoon, denies long term targets will be set aside for short term benefits.
The second forty-something manager to win promotion, and the most surprising appointee, is Geoff Hoon, the new defence secretary.
Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon said that 600 soldiers from the Scottish infantry regiment were being sent back to Iraq.
The affair has lengthened still further the odds that Geoff Hoon, the defence minister, will manage to cling to his job.
Geoff Hoon is one of Tony Blair's most trusted ministers and has enjoyed a rapid rise since he entered the Commons in 1992.
But Transport Secretary Geoff Hoon said storing snow ploughs and extra gritting salt would be expensive, when the snowy weather is so unusual.
British Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon said Monday that British troops are in Basra to stay and will remain there as long as necessary.
The ambassador, after lengthy negotiations and hundreds of meetings, will be there with the UK government team of Tony Blair, Jack Straw and Geoff Hoon.
The defence secretary, Geoff Hoon, whom many had cast in the role as sacrificial victim, made an unimpressive appearance before the inquiry on August 27th.
Geoff Hoon has come back from holiday and said that frankly, it's inconceivable that he's going to be still there by next May, or should go earlier.
Speculation is rife that some of Mr Blair's top lieutenants may be forced to step down, including Alastair Campbell, the prime minister's communications chief, and Geoff Hoon, the defence secretary.
Besides keeping his own job, Mr Blair may no longer be forced to sack his defence secretary, Geoff Hoon, who had been seen as a likely casualty of the Hutton report.
It was UK Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon's fondness for travelling by the luxury jet at the taxpayers expense that earned him the sobriquet "Junket Geoff" when he was a junior minister.
LONDON, England -- The UK Defence Ministry has confirmed its minister Geoff Hoon had spoken to scientist David Kelly but would not give any further details ahead of Lord Hutton's public inquiry.
In the Commons, Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon dismissed speculation that British troops might participate in a ceremony involving the token destruction of arms by all sides of the Northern Ireland peace process.
And it was pretty plain from the contributions to Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon's difficult Commons statement on the issue on Monday that they are ready to defy the prime minister over this "step too far".
But then the airwaves went eerily quiet and for an hour nothing was heard from the Chancellor Alistair Darling - an old friend of Geoff Hoon - or Home Secretary Alan Johnson - many MPs' preferred replacement.
"I actually think people out in the country are far more aware of the impact of the events of September 11 than some of the people who write in the newspaper are, " says UK Defence Minister Geoff Hoon.
Stephen Byers, Patricia Hewitt and Geoff Hoon, who were secretly filmed as part of an investigation by the Sunday Times and Channel 4's Dispatches programme, have been suspended from the Parliamentary Labour Party pending an investigation into the claims.
Downing Street made the statement a day after two British officials -- including Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon -- said the British government would extradite bin Laden for trial in the United States only if assurances were given that he would not face the death penalty.
On this week's programme, the Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon said Britain and the United States would make a "very determined effort" to secure United Nations support for any military action against Iraq - but he warned that time was running out for Saddam Hussein to demonstrate his full co-operation with the UN weapons inspectors.
Martin Schulz, the no less abrasive German who leads Euro-socialists in the European Parliament, has proudly told journalists in Strasbourg this week of his role in opposing Lord Mandelson, when his name was put to socialist bosses by Gordon Brown on November 19th as one of three British candidates for High Rep (the other two were Geoff Hoon, a former defence secretary, and Lady Ashton).
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