Yvette Cooper buyers will find average house prices are ten times their salary. That could lead to real social inequality and injustice. Every part of the country needs more affordable homes – in the North and the South, in urban and rural communities". In 2008, Cooper became the first woman to serve as Chief Secretary to the Treasury. As her husband, Ed Balls, was already a cabinet minister, her promotion meant that the two became the first married couple ever to sit in the cabinet together. In 2009, Cooper was appointed as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and took over
Yvette Chassagne 2001. She married Jean Chassagne; the couple had two children but later divorced. She was named a Commander in the French Legion of Honor, a Grand Officer in the National Order of Merit and a Grand Officer in the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic. Chassagne was named to the national orders of a number of African countries including the Ivory Coast, Senegal, the Central African Republic, Cameroon, Mali and Niger, also becoming a Commander in the Order of the Equatorial Star of Gabon. She died in Narbonne at the age of 85. Yvette Chassagne Yvette Madeleine Chassagne (