Tony Blair has announced details of the changes to the government's junior ranks.

After four days dominated by questions over his leadership, the prime minister is seeking to re-assert his authority over the government.

Cabinet-level changes were announced on Friday.

• Blairite Number 10 adviser Andrew Adonis becomes a life peer and junior minister at the Department of Education and Skills. Jacqui Smith takes the minister of state [for schools] position, with Adonis joining Phil Hope and Maria Eagle at a junior level.
  
  
• Margaret Hodge moves from the position of children's minister to the Department of Work and Pensions. Hodge's position is taken by Beverley Hughes, who previously resigned over the Eastern Europe work visa row.
  
  
• Solicitor general Harriet Harman moves to become a minister at the Department of Constitutional Affairs. Mike O'Brien becomes solicitor general.
  
  
• Yvette Cooper is promoted to minister of state rank at the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister - becoming minister for housing and planning.
   
• Malcolm Wicks shifts from his pensions brief to become the minister of state for energy. Alun Michael moves from his post as rural affairs minister at DEFRA to become minister of state at the Department for Productivity, Energy and Industry. Barry Gardiner becomes a parliamentary secretary at the department.
  
  
• Phil Woolas becomes minister for local government at the ODPM. Jim Fitzpatrick and Baroness Andrews become parliamentary under secretaries of state at the department.
  
  
• Stephen Timms moves from the Treasury to become pensions minister, at minister of state level, where he will take the lead on the Adair review. James Plaskitt becomes a junior minister, alongside Liz Blackman, at the department.
  
• Stephen Ladyman is appointed as minister of state at the Department for Transport. Derek Twigg and Karen Buck take junior positions within Alistair Darling's department.
   
• Jane Kennedy becomes a minister of state at Patricia Hewitt's department of health. She joins Lord Warner - with Caroline Flint and Liam Byrne taking junior portfolios.
   
  
• Lord Hunt, who resigned over the Iraq war, becomes a junior minister at the Department of Work and Pensions.
  
  
• Lord Drayson, the millionaire Labour donor, becomes a junior minister at the Ministry of Defence.
  
  
• Kim Howells becomes a minister of state at the Foreign Office, where he will deal with the Middle East.
  
  
• Ian Pearson becomes minister for trade, sitting also inside the Department for Productivity, Energy and Industry.
  
  
• Lord Triesman, a former Labour general secretary, joins the FCO as parliamentary secretary.
  
  
• Brownite John Healey becomes financial secretary to the Treasury. His previous position as economic secretary goes to Ivan Lewis.
  
  
• Nigel Griffiths moves from the DTI to become deputy leader of the House of Commons.
  
  
• David Hanson, who was PPS to Tony Blair, becomes minister of state at the Northern Ireland Office.
  
  
• Government whip Jim Murphy becomes a junior minister at the Cabinet Office.
  
  
• Blairite James Purnell is promoted from the whips office, where he joins David Lammy as a new minister at the Department of Culture, Media and Sport.
  
  
• Keith Hill becomes parliamentary private secretary to the prime minister.
  
  
• Tory defector Shaun Woodward becomes a junior Northern Ireland minister. Lord Rooker also heads to Northern Ireland
  
  
• Jim Knight, who retained his marginal Dorset seat, becomes a junior minister at DEFRA. Lord Bach moves to the department from the Ministry of Defence.
  
  
• The whips office is reshuffled, with John Heppell, Vernon Coaker and Tom Watson taking the more senior positions. Frank Roy, Ian Cawsey, Alan Campbell, Dave Watts, Clare Ward, Parmjit Dhanda, Tony Cunningham, Kevin Brennan and Joan Ryan become assistant whips.
  
  
• Bridget Prentice joins the Department of Constitutional Affairs as a junior minister.
  
  
• The Wales Office sees Nick Ainger join as a junior minister.