Example sentences of "of state for the environment " in BNC.
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| 1 | Michael Heseltine , Secretary of State for the Environment , stated that from April 1992 , 60% rather than the current 50% of Government housing finance will be allocated on a discretionary basis following civil servants ' assessment of councils ' performance . |
| 2 | The Local Government and Housing Act 1989 gave back to the Secretary of State for the Environment the power to make determinations excluding certain elderly persons ' dwellings from the Right to Buy . |
| 3 | These have mounted because in February Nicholas Ridley , then Secretary of State for the Environment , stopped any new deals and Hammersmith 's portfolio was largely weighted to the expectation that interest rates would be low , preventing the council from improving its position in the market . |
| 4 | Companies wishing to enter the waste disposal business at this level must demonstrate to the local Waste Disposal Authority ( usually a county council , but in some cities and in Wales a more local authority ) that they can meet various criteria , although the authority may be over-ruled on appeal to the Secretary of State for the Environment . |
| 5 | But , says a refinement of this view — and Mrs Thatcher and Chris Patten , her Secretary of State for the Environment believe this too — wastes should be disposed of in their country of origin : that is a new drift in British policy . |
| 6 | However , Chris Patten , the Secretary of State for the Environment , said the proposals for passing unforeseen costs on to consumers were well-known and accused Dr Cunningham of whipping up unjustified concern . |
| 7 | CHRIS PATTEN , the Secretary of State for the Environment , yesterday announced that he was overturning his predecessor Nicholas Ridley 's ‘ mindedness ’ to allow an instant , private new town to be built on the Berkshire/Hampshire borders , south-east of Wokingham . |
| 8 | Meetings between the Prime Minister ; Chris Patten , the Secretary of State for the Environment ; and Nigel Lawson , Chancellor of the Exchequer , have been unable to come up with an agreed solution to put to today 's Cabinet . |
| 9 | CHRIS PATTEN , the Secretary of State for the Environment , summed up the house-building dilemma when delivering his ( provisionally negative ) judgement on the proposed building of Foxley Wood , a ‘ new settlement ’ on the borders of Berkshire and Hampshire . |
| 10 | Chris Patten , Secretary of State for the Environment , will lead the Government 's fight-back , by announcing a compromise over the poll tax to allay Conservative grassroots concern about the effects of the ‘ safety net ’ under which Tory areas subsidise Labour-dominated inner cities . |
| 11 | The decision last week by Chris Patten , the Secretary of State for the Environment , to reject the scheme for a small new town among the gravel pits and conifers of north-east Hampshire is pure politics . |
| 12 | Planning Ward v Secretary of State for the Environment ; CA ( Woolf , Nicholls , Staughton LJJ ) ; 25 Sept 1989 A private garden was capable of being an ‘ open space ’ and something that should be taken into account when deciding whether a development proposed to be carried out in a conservation area would preserve or enhance the area within s 277 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1971 , as substituted , and of Circular No 8 of 1987 issued by the Secretary of State . |
| 13 | ' He told the Conservative Party that it would be an unpopular tax when he first opposed the idea — successfully — as Secretary of State for the Environment in the early Eighties . |
| 14 | This , however , was too much for the Government and , using the excuse that public opinion was not yet ready to accept the protection of many unpopular modern buildings , Lord Caithness , the Minister of State for the Environment , arbitrarily whittled down English Heritage 's list to 18 buildings - excluding Bankside — although it represented a more traditional approach in the Fifties to the now-unfashionable Modern Movement . |
| 15 | He cited the decision last week of Chris Patten , Secretary of State for the Environment , last week to turn down the housing development for Foxley Wood in Hampshire , adding : ‘ We have repeatedly said that , wherever possible , decisions of this kind should be left to local people . ’ |
| 16 | One of the ‘ Blue Chips ’ , regarded in her early days as little better than an Edward Heath Youth Movement , the new Secretary of State for the Environment is now her green-eyed boy . |
| 17 | With this advice the Secretary of State for the Environment , Christopher Patten , yesterday rebuked a Thatcherite who had urged the Conservative Party to put its faith in the free market . |
| 18 | CHRIS PATTEN , Secretary of State for the Environment , yesterday steered further away from the philosophy of his predecessor , Nicholas Ridley , and emphasised the need for state regulation to protect the countryside . |
| 19 | Shortly before David Hunt , Minister of State for the Environment , announced drastic changes in the ‘ safety net ’ arrangements to the conference , he was warned once again that poll tax payers in prudent council areas should not have to subsidise the profligate . |
| 20 | Chris Patten , the Secretary of State for the Environment , later countered : ‘ If the Labour Party are accusing us of an electoral bribe , it shows that they find it rather difficult to criticise us on any other grounds . ’ |
| 21 | A REVIEW of all government policy affecting the environment was announced yesterday by Chris Patten , the Secretary of State for the Environment , in a Conservative Party conference speech that flagged a shift in the Government 's ideological stance . |
| 22 | ‘ GREATER LOVE hath no man than that he lays down his jokes for his Prime Minister , ’ a Cabinet minister said in Blackpool on hearing of the sacrifice made by Chris Patten , the Secretary of State for the Environment . |
| 23 | The Museum of London and Hanson are to ask Chris Patten , the Secretary of State for the Environment , to schedule the site as one of national importance . |
| 24 | In a message of support Michael Heseltine , Secretary of State for the Environment said ‘ I am confident that the Trust can play a major role in the regeneration of the area . ’ |
| 25 | The debate was opened by David Trippier , Minister of State for the Environment , who said the House could debate no issue of more immediate importance … and then announced that he would have to leave early to present the Young Environmentalist of the Year award at a lunch . |
| 26 | In addition to the secretary of state for the environment , the director-general of water services , and the EC commissioners , regulators include the Monopolies and Mergers Commission ( which has already stepped in to prevent unwelcome mergers ) ; the local authorities ( responsible for monitoring and controlling the standard of clean water supplies ) ; the Drinking Water Inspectorate ( the auditor of technical standards ) ; the National Rivers Authority ( responsible for monitoring and controlling pollution in rivers , lakes and coastal waters , and for maintaining sea walls ) ; Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of Pollution , HMIP ( which grants consents for the release of toxic substances into the environment ) ; and the Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food ( responsible for granting consents for disposals at sea ) . |
| 27 | Mr Nicholas Ridley , who , as secretary of state for the environment , masterminded the privatisation , likes to think of himself as a scourge of high-minded meddlers and an advocate of consumer choice . |
| 28 | Last December , the Secretary of State for the Environment , Michael Heseltine , revealed that the Government was considering surrendering Somerset House — largely occupied by the Inland Revenue and the Lord Chancellor 's probate registry — for ‘ some imaginative public use that will add further lustre to London ’ . |
| 29 | Tony Baldry , parliamentary under-secretary of state for the environment , recently opened Rhône-Poulenc 's new £4m lime-burning kiln at its Sturge Lifford site in Birmingham . |
| 30 | Tony Baldry , under secretary of state for the environment , opened Leigh Environmental 's new tyre recycling facility and group laboratory at its Four Ashes site near Wolverhampton . |