Example sentences of "minister responsible [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Mr Michael Latham , Conservative MP for Rutland and Melton , went to see Mr Michael Howard , the minister responsible for water , on behalf of his constituents .
2 In England and Wales the cabinet minister responsible for Education , the Secretary of State , works through his department .
3 Lord James Douglas-Hamilton , the minister responsible for home affairs in Scotland , confirmed that the Government had backed down on a proposal to abolish a contributory band for those applicants seeking advice and assistance .
4 As the Minister responsible for AEA at the Department of Trade and Industry , his perceptions of us are critical to our future .
5 The ‘ commissar ’ , or junior minister responsible for broadcasting reported direct to the Prime Minister 's office ) Présidence du conseil ’ ) : state control of broadcasting intensified .
6 He has had a distinguished career as a businessman and a politician and , on two occasions , has been the Cabinet Minister responsible for UK energy matters .
7 Alberto Ronchey , Italy 's Minister responsible for culture and the heritage , has proposed swingeing new penalties for vandalism with spray paint .
8 John Gummer , Minister of Agriculture , told the conference it would bring together existing strands of work and report directly to David Maclean , the junior minister responsible for food .
9 On July 31 , 1989 , Bernard Valcourt pleaded guilty in Edmundston , New Brunswick , to a charge of impaired driving due to the effects of alcohol , and resigned as Minister of Consumer and Corporate Affairs and as Minister responsible for Canada Post .
10 My hon. Friend the Minister responsible for housing will make an announcement about that figure shortly .
11 If , in 1979 , the then Labour Minister responsible for housing had given the assurance offered this evening by the hon. Member for Hammersmith , the decline in private rented accommodation might have been arrested .
12 A meeting has also been sought with MP , the minister responsible for implementation of the Citizen 's Charter .
13 The governor is to see the Foreign Secretary , Mr Douglas Hurd , and the minister responsible for Hong Kong affairs , Mr Francis Maude .
14 Francis Maude , the Foreign Office minister responsible for Hong Kong , called them ‘ counsellors ’ .
15 There was recognition today from the government minister responsible for prisons .
16 Ian Grist , the junior Welsh minister responsible for health , says he and Peter Walker , the Welsh Secretary , ‘ fully recognise the need for the NHS in Wales to be given a clear steer as to its future direction ’ .
17 Is the right hon. Gentleman aware of the theory that he would be happy to drop the whole unhappy business , but that his Minister responsible for health takes a different view ?
18 He and I have had a series of meetings about the provision of the slip road , and he reminded me of an undertaking that I had given when Minister responsible for health matters a few years ago .
19 But neither the board nor the judiciary can be as close , or as sensitive , to public opinion as a minister responsible to Parliament and to the electorate .
20 The growth of fringe bodies is a retreat from the simple democratic principle evolved in the nineteenth century that those who perform a public duty should be fully responsible to an electorate — by way either of a minister responsible to Parliament or of a locally elected council .
21 A copy of the report goes to the minister responsible in advance of publication where the matter is shortly to come before the Council of Ministers for decision .
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