Example sentences of "[adj] hon. friend the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In view of the current review of tourism has my right Hon. Friend discussed with our right Hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Employment and if he has not , I hope that he will the structure of tourism in Wales ? |
| 2 | My right Hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Employment made his statement on 31 January suspending , as I understand it , further applications for section 4 assistance in England . |
| 3 | The research vessel services from Barry are a matter for my right Hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Education and Science . |
| 4 | I am sure that the Minister has consulted his right Hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Transport about that . |
| 5 | Here is Nicholas Winterton on the same occasion : ‘ Will my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister confirm that the ‘ no ’ vote in Denmark is binding upon the Danish Government ? ’ |
| 6 | That is the item in the shop window which my right hon. Friend the prime Minister displayed as the main indicator of moving further away . |
| 7 | That may be challenged by the nation states in the European Court , but , as my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary conceded this afternoon , that court has usually reflected integrationist tendencies . |
| 8 | For the future , my hon. Friend will have to await the autumn statement by my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer which I understand will be made tomorrow . |
| 9 | As the hon. Gentleman knows , the application for that hospital to have self-governing status has been submitted to my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State . |
| 10 | The reforms introduced by my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary will mean two things : first , convicted sex offenders will , rightly , spend much longer in prison ; and , secondly , they will be supervised when they are released . |
| 11 | With the extension of appeal rights to all asylum seekers , it is not unreasonable to propose — as the Lord Chancellor and my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary propose — that this anomalous double provision should end and that increased resources for advice should be concentrated on UKIAS , especially as the service has a better record of winning cases than solicitors and is more cost effective . |
| 12 | Does the Home Secretary , in common with his right hon. Friend the former Prime Minister , now feel too painfully aware that the franchise round has ended in farce , with some companies losing their licences for offering too much and others failing because they offered too little ? |
| 13 | But it is also the case that suggestions for amalgamation of rural — or , indeed , urban — benches come not from my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary but from the magistrates courts committees in the areas concerned . |
| 14 | This morning my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister had a bilateral with President Bush in Rome . |
| 15 | With regard to a single currency and economic and monetary union , my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister has made it clear that the Government are not prepared to commit Britain now to a single currency . |
| 16 | I am sure that the hon. and learned Gentleman knows the considerable steps that have been taken by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Defence and by the Minister of State for the Armed Forces to deal with the aftermath of that tragic incident . |
| 17 | That is certainly part of the money that is made available as a result of the far-sighted decision of my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister , when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer . |
| 18 | My views are well known , but it is a matter for my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer . |
| 19 | It is precisely to deal with those problems that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State has been having so many discussions over the past year . |
| 20 | Do not these support the contention of my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer that the economy is beginning to turn around ? |
| 21 | Accordingly , when the White Paper was launched in July , my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State announced that he would publish a separate Northern Ireland charter . |
| 22 | The actions of my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister , when he was responsible for such matters , together with our recent announcement , have made arrangements for the coming winter much more generous . |
| 23 | If the hon. Gentleman wishes to pursue his last point , he should do so with my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Energy . |
| 24 | I certainly do not intend to reveal any of the discussions between my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State and the leader of another state , as they would have to be confidential . |
| 25 | If so , that is an instructive and important addition to the Labour party 's nuclear policy and , as my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State reminds me , is a fourth arm in such a policy . |
| 26 | Following the initiative of my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister , the first committee of the United Nations General Assembly has adopted a resolution recommending to the assembly the establishment of a universal and non-discriminatory register of arms transfers . |
| 27 | It might have been slightly more gracious of him to pay tribute to the work of my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister in getting this universal and non-discriminatory register of arms transfers recom-mended to the Assembly . |
| 28 | However , as my right hon. Friend the Minister of State for the Armed Forces said in the recent defence debate , under our restructuring proposals , the proportion of Scottish units in the Army overall will increase rather than decrease . |
| 29 | The Bill introduced by my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary will not deter genuine asylum seekers . |
| 30 | My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister and I have tried , together with all those I have described , to put impetus behind the process . |