Example sentences of "minister of [noun] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have had commitments from Home Secretaries and Ministers of State at the Dispatch Box , in Committee and in the Select Committee on Home Affairs , when they have promised to do various things , but they still have not done them . |
| 2 | Francis Maude , hitherto a Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office , took over Lilley 's former post as Financial Secretary to the Treasury ; Tristan Garel-Jones and the Earl of Caithness became Ministers of State at the Foreign Office , and Alastair Goodlad took over from Garel-Jones as Treasurer of Her Majesty 's Household ( Deputy Chief Whip ) . |
| 3 | Timothy Sainsbury and Lord Hesketh became Ministers of State at the Department of Trade and Industry , and Lord Brabazon of Tara became a Minister of State at the Department of Transport . |
| 4 | H.M.S. Edinburgh a type 42 destroyer was commissioned on 17th December by the Right Honourable Michael Heseltine Minister of Defence at the Cruise Liner Berth in the Western Harbour . |
| 5 | At the same time , William Waldegrave , the Minister of State at the Foreign Office , met a delegation from the Southern Africa Coalition , an umbrella organisation linking all anti-apartheid groups . |
| 6 | Although he was unable to accept , John Patten , Minister of State at the Home Office , was invited to open the seminar . |
| 7 | And about 50,000 young people in further education or who are still at school would also be exempt from the community charge , David Hunt , Minister of State at the Department of the Environment , said . |
| 8 | WILLIAM WALDEGRAVE , Minister of State at the Foreign Office , called yesterday for the improvement in human rights in the Soviet Union to be codified into law . |
| 9 | The Charter 87 campaign group for refugee rights wrote yesterday to Timothy Renton , Minister of State at the Home Office , pleading for a reprieve . |
| 10 | Yesterday Amnesty International sent an urgent letter to Timothy Renton , Minister of State at the Home Office , urging him to reconsider Mr Osberk 's case . |
| 11 | Timothy Renton , Minister of State at the Home Office , told the conference the Government would not push to legislate while neither shops nor shoppers could agree on a solution , pressure groups could not agree , and Parliament could find no consensus . |
| 12 | Havers strenuously denied that there had been a cover-up , and Mr Douglas Hurd , then a Minister of State at the Foreign Office , maintained that a full inquiry into the affair had revealed nothing to suggest that national security had been prejudiced . |
| 13 | The MP for Norfolk South West , which she won in 1987 , she was a key member of Mr Major 's leadership team , working under the Chancellor Norman Lamont , and was rewarded for her efforts by being promoted from parliamentary under secretary for Social Security to Minister of State at the Treasury responsible for VAT , Customs and Excise , and harmonisation of EC taxes . |
| 14 | Last year Timothy Raison , then a minister of state at the Home Office , said : ‘ There are no present plans to link Heathrow airport with the immigration and nationality department computer , which is now at Bootle . ’ |
| 15 | In Hansard ( 17 December 1991 , vol 201 , No 25 , col 119 ) Gillian Shephard ( then Minister of State at the Treasury ) stated that Customs ' long-standing policy is that ‘ rent-free periods are outside the scope of VAT unless services are performed by the tenant for the landlord ’ . |
| 16 | Because Kingman was deemed unsatisfactory , my Working Group was chosen carefully by Mr Baker , with the assistance of Mrs Angela Rumbold , Minister of State at the DES , to reflect a more conservative stance to the teaching of English . |
| 17 | As Minister of State at the Home Office ( 1989-90 ) he handled the deregulation of broadcasting legislation . |
| 18 | The Minister of State at the Home Office , Alice Bacon , who sat on the Labour Party 's National Executive , had been a member , while two others , Mrs Serota and Dr T.C.N. Gibbens , were included amongst the membership of the Royal Commission . |
| 19 | When the idea of a Royal Commission was in circulation , lawyers within the ranks of the Government , notably Sam Silkin , the Attorney General and one of the few front-benchers on either side to have taken a close interest in penal reform , and Alex Lyon , a Minister of State at the Home Office , pressed for the opportunity to be grasped to make an authoritative assessment of the arguments for a public prosecution service independent of the police . |
| 20 | On the surface , the Conservative victory of 1979 seemed to blunt the case for change and in a 1981 Commons debate on the British constitution the minister of state at the Home Office boldly put the case for no change , arguing that " this is a time when we should stand up for our great tradition of parliamentary democracy … |
| 21 | In 1947 he became private secretary to Hector McNeil [ q.v. ] , minister of state at the Foreign Office , and despite his drunkenness and unreliable behaviour he not only survived but was promoted . |
| 22 | As a result , a working group was set up in 1977 under the Chairmanship of Mr Gordon Oakes , the then Minister of State at the DES , to consider the management and financing of advanced further education . |
| 23 | As we have seen , growing dissatisfaction in the 1970s with the arrangements under which public sector higher education was managed and financed led to the establishment , in March 1977 , of the Oakes Committee , under the chairmanship of Gordon Oakes , the then Minister of State at the DES . |
| 24 | The Committee 's chairman is John Stradling Thomas , Minister of State at the Welsh Office , and the Chairman of the Board is Professor Robert Steel , Principal of University College , Swansea . |
| 25 | The summary way in which teacher education was disposed of at Barry also contrasts strongly with what happened in North East Wales : here , there was much lobbying to prevent teacher training based on Cartrefle College of Education , now merged into the North East Wales Institute of Higher Education , from contracting further ; it is indeed ironical that on the same day , 26 July 1977 , that Gordon Oakes , Minister of State at the DES , declared that Cartrefle should be spared the axe , predominantly on the basis of its geographical location , he should pronounce a death sentence at Barry . |
| 26 | Thus , for example , the Minister of State at the Home Office , in defence of the decision , asserted : |
| 27 | ( Sceptical from the start of official announcements about the disaster , Private Eye added this footnote to a later story [ 8 May 1992 ] about the suitcase of drugs found among the wreckage at Lockerbie : ‘ PS : Lord Fraser of Carmyllie has been promoted in John Major 's new administration to be minister of state at the Scottish office . ’ ) |
| 28 | The answer given by Tristan Garel-Jones , a Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office , was instructive . |
| 29 | As early as 4 April 1990 there was the following exchange between him and Francis Maude , then Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office : |
| 30 | Three Members of Parliament , Sir George Young , Minister of State at the DoE , Clive Soley and Simon Hughes , contributed to a conference in January , Shaping our Towns and Cities — strategies for partnership and participation . |