Example sentences of "secretary of [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secretaries of State for Trade and Industry may come and go but Sir Jeffrey Sterling , chairman of the P&O group , has long been part of the furniture at 1 Victoria Street . |
| 2 | In devising policies to ensure national security with minimal loss of independence in the post-imperial era , successive Secretaries of State for Defence and their principal military advisers , the Chiefs of Staff , have had to grapple with three dominant factors : a growing Soviet military threat ; a decline in Britain 's ability to create wealth until the very recent Thatcher revolution ; and an accelerating rate of technological change . |
| 3 | In April 1988 the Secretaries of State for Education and Science and for Wales appointed a Working Group to advise them on appropriate attainment targets and programmes of study for English . |
| 4 | 1.1 The National Curriculum English Working Group was set up on 29 April 1988 by the Secretaries of State for Education and Science and for Wales to advise on attainment targets , programmes of study , and associated assessment arrangements for English in the National Curriculum for the period of compulsory schooling . |
| 5 | Our first Report , submitted to the Secretaries of State for Education and Science and for Wales on 30 September 1988 , made recommendations for attainment targets and programmes of study for English for the primary stages , and also contained a number of chapters relevant to the whole of the compulsory school age range . |
| 6 | Once Heseltine departed , succeeding Secretaries of State for the Environment such as King , Jenkins and Baker , were unwilling or unable to sustain this vision . |
| 7 | The National Curriculum English Working Group was formally set up on 29 April 1988 by the Secretaries of State for Education and Science and for Wales to advise on attainment targets , programmes of study and associated assessment arrangements for English in the National Curriculum for the period of compulsory schooling . |
| 8 | Recent Secretaries of State for Education have been known to favour educational vouchers as a way of increasing parental choice and allowing the quality of schools to be judged by market forces though they have been unable to find a workable system . |
| 9 | The document then outlined what the Secretaries of State for Education thought should be the curriculum in primary and secondary schools . |
| 10 | We were helpfully provided by Mr. Lester with a schedule listing eight examples of government departments with corporate status : they include the Secretaries of State for Defence , Education and Science , Energy , Environment and Social Services . |
| 11 | Alongside were the inevitable Secretaries of State for Scotland and Wales , but the meeting could not start because , alas , ‘ Hamlet ’ was missing . |
| 12 | This concentrated in the hands of one individual the control of foreign policy which had hitherto been entrusted , together with a vast range of other business , to the Secretaries of State for the Northern and Southern Departments . |
| 13 | In a consultation document issued before the publication of the Education Reform Bill that subsequently became the 1988 Act , the Secretaries of State for Education and Science and for Wales gave one example of how the national curriculum might be divided in practice . |
| 14 | In particular , will he reflect on assurances given by the Secretaries of State for Scotland and for Transport that the amalgamations of the King 's Own Scottish Borderers , the Royal Scots , the Gordon Highlanders and the Queen 's Own Highlanders will be further reviewed ? |
| 15 | My right hon. Friends the Secretaries of State for Scotland and for Defence have spoken in complete unison on this . |
| 16 | The Secretaries of State for the Environment and for Trade and Industry appointed the Advisory Committee on Business and the Environment in May . |
| 17 | Let us consider democracy in local government and the three Secretaries of State for the Environment who have had a go at local government taxation . |
| 18 | It reflects the proposals which my right hon. Friends the Secretaries of State for the Environment , for Scotland and for Wales issued for consultation on 5 November . |
| 19 | On the hon. Gentleman 's request for a revenue support grant statement from my right hon. Friends the Secretaries of State for the Environment and for Wales , the hon. Gentleman is correct in intimating that statements on those matters are necessary , and I hope that they will be made very soon — I hope next week . |
| 20 | It is perhaps not surprising , therefore that from the early days when the state became involved in the education of the masses one of the principal aims of the curriculum enunciated by successive Presidents of the Board of Education , Ministers of Education and Secretaries of State for Education has been that of the preparation for citizenship . |
| 21 | From the 1620s onwards , however , there was an unbroken line of French secretaries of state for foreign affairs . |
| 22 | The proposals were welcomed by the Secretaries of State for the Environment and Trade and Industry , Michael Heseltine and Peter Lilley . |
| 23 | However , Mr Graham said the secretaries of state for energy and the environment would be fully aware of how many objections had been received concerning the scheme more than 7,000 . |
| 24 | Margaret Thatcher Prime Minister ; First Lord of the Treasury ; Minister for the Civil Service Sir Geoffrey Howe Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons Lord Mackay of Clashfern Lord Chancellor Douglas Hurd Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs John Major Chancellor of the Exchequer David Waddington Home Secretary Tom King Secretary of State for Defence Nicholas Ridley Secretary of State for Trade and Industry Kenneth Baker Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Kenneth Clarke Secretary of State for Health John MacGregor Secretary of State for Education and Science Malcolm Rifkind Secretary of State for Scotland Cecil Parkinson Secretary of State for Transport John Wakeham Secretary of State for Energy Lord Belstead Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Lords Antony Newton Secretary of State for Social Security Christopher Patten Secretary of State for the Environment Peter Brooke Secretary of State for Northern Ireland John Selwyn Gummer Minister of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food Norman Lamont Chief Secretary to the Treasury Michael Howard Secretary of State for Employment David Hunt Secretary of State for Wales |
| 25 | *John Major Prime Minister , First Lord of the Treasury , Minister for the Civil Service Lord Mackay of Clashfern Lord Chancellor Douglas Hurd Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs *Lord Waddington Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Lords **John MacGregor Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons *Norman Lamont Chancellor of the Exchequer *Kenneth Baker Home Secretary Tom King Secretary of State for Defence **Kenneth Clarke Secretary of State for Education and Science *Malcolm Rifkind Secretary of State for Transport John Wakeham Secretary of State for Energy Antony Newton Secretary of State for Social Security *Chris Patten Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster ( and chairman of the Conservative Party ) Peter Brooke Secretary of State for Northern Ireland John Gummer Minister of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food Michael Howard Secretary of State for Employment David Hunt Secretary of State for Wales Peter Lilley Secretary of State for Trade and Industry **William Waldegrave Secretary of State for Health *Michael Heseltine Secretary of State for the Environment *Ian Lang Secretary of State for Scotland *David Mellor Chief Secretary to the Treasury *Appointed on Nov. 29. ** Appointed on Nov. 2 . |
| 26 | Former Test fast bowlers Sir Richard Hadlee and Michael Holding have been made honorary life members of MCC , as have the club 's former secretary Jack Bailey , Laurance Hancock ( secretary of Staffordshire for 53 years until 1987 ) and Glamorgan stalwart Don Shepherd , who took 2174 wickets for the Welsh county but never won a Test cap . |
| 27 | The US Assistant Secretary of Defence for International Security Affairs , James Lilley , held talks on regional security with President Ishaq Khan and senior defence officials during a visit on Sept. 24 . |
| 28 | Patrick Nicholls , MP Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Employment |
| 29 | When anyone dies in hospital , and there are no relatives or friends to arrange and meet the cost of the funeral , the Secretary of State for Social Services has agreed that the Health Authority will do so ( Hospital Memorandum 1972/41 and Health Notice 1985/31 ) . |
| 30 | It contains guidance on arrangements to transfer local authority residential care homes to independent control ; it also gives Directions from the Secretary of State for Health about local authorities ' continuing responsibility for residents in transferred homes whose care was arranged by the local authority under Section 21(1) of the National Assistance Act 1948 ( as amended by paragraph 2(1) , Schedule 23 to the Local Government Act 1972 ) and under paragraph 2 , Schedule 8 to the National Health Service Act 1977 . |