Example sentences of "a minister of state [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The answer given by Tristan Garel-Jones , a Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office , was instructive . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Gow was for many years a close associate of Margaret Thatcher , the Prime Minister , having been her parliamentary private secretary during the first four years of her premiership in 1979-83 , and a member of her government as Minister of Housing in 1983-85 and a Minister of State at the Treasury from September to November 1985 . |
| 8 | In evidence to the UK House of Commons select committee on foreign affairs on July 11 , 1990 , Francis Maude , then a Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office with special responsibilities for Hong Kong , stated that with regard to the influx of Vietnamese " boat people " into the colony , he did not exclude mandatory repatriation in future and said that the voluntary scheme was working well . |
| 9 | Douglas Hogg , a Minister of State at the United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Office , visited Lebanon on June 9-12 . |
| 10 | Other European visitors to Vietnam in January included Ursula Seiler-Albring , German Minister of State for Foreign Affairs ; the Earl of Caithness , a Minister of State at the United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Office ; and a French National Assembly delegation . |
| 11 | There were a number of foreign visitors to Cambodia during January including Nguyen Manh Cam , Foreign Minister of Vietnam , Gen. Phoune Sipaseuth , Foreign Minister of Laos , Ali Alatas , Foreign Minister of Indonesia , Gianni De Michelis , Foreign Minister of Italy , the Earl of Caithness , a Minister of State at the United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Office , Sadako Ogata , the UN High Commissioner for Refugees , Stephen Solarz , chair of the subcommittee for Asian and Pacific Affairs of the US House of Representatives , and French and Japanese parliamentary delegations . |
| 12 | They did agree to continue lower-level meetings between party representatives and Brian Mawhinney , a Minister of State at the Northern Ireland Office . |
| 13 | Other visitors included : Gen. Benny Murdani , the Indonesian Defence Minister ; Pierre Joxe , the French Defence Minister ; and Alastair Goodlad , a Minister of State at the United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Office . |
| 14 | David Trippier , a Minister of State at the Department of the Environment , said that the government was " concerned about suggestions that land values might be blighted because of perception of the registers " and that this might hamper its inner-city regeneration programme . |
| 15 | According to a minister of state in the Foreign Affairs Ministry at the end of January 110 companies were being investigated for alleged illegal deliveries to Iraq , of which 11 were being prosecuted , although none involved exports to Iraq after the August 1990 embargo came into force . |