- guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 3 July 2007 16.35 BST
The newly formed departments for children, schools and families and for innovation, universities and science have yet to name all the people in their ministerial teams, but this week it has become clearer how things are shaping up.
Lord Adonis, Jim Knight and Beverley Hughes will stay on in the new Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) under Ed Balls. All three will remain ministers in the department.
Kevin Brennan, MP for Cardiff West since 2001, will join them as under-secretary of state.
The former DfES's higher education minister, Bill Rammell, has moved to the new Department for Innovation, Universities and Science (DIUS). He will continue to cover universities.
Mr Rammell will be joined there by Ian Pearson, former climate change minister in the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, and by David Lammy, former culture minister in the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.
Lord David Triesman, former Foreign Office minister for Africa, will also join the DIUS as a minister and government spokesman.
Ian Whatmore, first head of e-government, moves from the cabinet office to be first permanent secretary at the DIUS.
The portfolios of the ministers in both new departments are expected to be announced tomorrow.
Parmjit Dhanda, who was junior minister for children, schools and families in the former Department for Education and Skills (DfES), has moved to the Department of Communities and Local Government department, under Yvette Cooper.
In the wake of the government's cabinet reshuffle and the changes to departments, the Conservative leader, David Cameron, has announced changes in his shadow cabinet.
Michael Gove, journalist and MP for Surrey Heath, will shadow Ed Balls as spokesman for children, schools and families. Mr Gove is seen as a rising star of the Conservative party. He is not in favour of abolishing grammar schools.
Former shadow schools minister David Willetts's recent anti-grammar school stance means he will move to cover just the higher education brief, shadowing Bill Rammell in the DIUS.
