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Dateline: 24th January, 2008
Purnell Leaves DCMS: Burnham Takes Over James Purnell, up to today the Secretary of State at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, has moved to the Department of Work and Pensions following the resignation of Peter Hain whose late declaration of £103,000 funding for his bid to be Labour's deputy leader was today referred to the Metropolitan Police by the Electoral Commission. Purnell, who had been pensions minister before taking over the culture spot from Tess Jowell in July last year, has been replaced as culture secretary by Chief Secretary to the Treasury Andy Burnham. Andy Burnham was appointed to the Treasury job in June 2007, as part of Gordon Brown's first Cabinet. He was previously Minister of State for Quality and Patient Safety at the Department of Health. Before this, Mr Burnham was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Home Office for Immigration, Citizenship and Nationality from 2005 to 2006. He has also been Parliamentary Private Secretary to the former Home Secretary, David Blunkett (2003-2004) and was a member of the Health Select Committee from 2001 to 2003. Before becoming MP for Leigh (Greater Manchester) in 2001, Burnham was special adviser to the former culture secretary Chris Smith and thenworked as a researcher for Tessa Jowell after becoming an MP. He is 38.
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