The minister for young people certainly got about during the Labour Party's conference in Bournemouth last week.
Margaret Hodge spent most of her time selling the virtues of the children's green paper and her new position. If it mentioned young people, she was there, fringe event after fringe event.
Her mission was to promote the Government's vision of joined-up services for children and young people and, in particular, to make up for the near absence of the youth sector within the green paper.
Speaking at a debate organised by the think-tank The Social Market Foundation, she agreed with The National Youth Agency's chief executive, Tom Wylie, who told of his disappointment with the green paper's lack of proposals specific to teenagers.
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