Example sentences of "state for trade " in BNC.
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| 1 | The OFT will advise the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry on whether he should refer the bid to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Nicholas Ridley , Secretary of State for Trade and Industry , will open the attack on Neil Kinnock , the Labour leader today with a warning that the party could revert to its left-wing image , if it were elected . |
| 4 | The commission 's final report , which contrasts with tentative suggestions 12 months ago , was welcomed by Nicholas Ridley , Secretary of State for Trade and Industry . |
| 5 | Westland became the centre of a political storm between Michael Heseltine , then Defence Minister , and Leon Brittan , Secretary of State for Trade and Industry , over the form the rescue package should take . |
| 6 | MICHAEL Heseltine , the new Secretary of State for Trade & Industry may be interested to know that his powerful exhortations last week to vote Tory were unsuccessful with his daughter Annabel . |
| 7 | He apparently wishes the official title of Secretary of State for Trade and Industry to be dropped in favour of the archaic President of the Board of Trade . |
| 8 | The first two , on 4 and 5 December , were ad hoc groups consisting of the Prime Minister , Heseltine , Leon Brittan , Secretary of State for Trade and Industry , John MacGregor , Chief Secretary to the Treasury , Sir Geoffrey Howe , Foreign Secretary and Sir Patrick Mayhew , Solicitor-General . |
| 9 | The same day the secretaries of the state for trade and industry ( Peter Lilley ) and for education and science ( Kenneth Clarke ) announced a pilot scheme to build up partnerships between HE and industrial research organisation |
| 10 | Who was secretary of state for trade in Mrs Thatcher 's first Cabinet ? |
| 11 | The AAPA 's membership covers 1,100 individuals who are authorised as auditors by the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry under the Companies Act 1967 , most of whom work as sole practitioners . |
| 12 | 1.1 WHEREAS the Government of the United Kingdom has promulgated a programme of pre-competitive research in the field of advanced information technology and has invited , through the agency of the Department of Trade and Industry 's Information Engineering Advanced Technology Programme ( ‘ IEATP ’ ) acting on behalf of the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry , and the Science and Engineering Research Council ( ‘ SERC ’ ) , applications for financial support from consortia of academic and non-academic organisations ; and |
| 13 | The MMC is not able to initiate investigations itself ; either the DGFT or the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry has to refer a case to it . |
| 14 | In 1984 Norman Tebbit , the then Secretary of State for Trade and Industry , said : ‘ I regard merger policy as an important part of the government 's general policy of promoting competition within the economy in the interest of the consumer and efficiency and hence of growth and jobs . ’ |
| 15 | The then Secretary of State for Trade and Industry , Lord Young , decided that there were no grounds for referring the bid to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission ; nor were there any grounds for referring the Suchard holding in Rowntree , which had , by that time , been increased to 29.9 per cent . |
| 16 | When Lord Young , the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry ( 1987–9 ) , decided not to refer the Nestlé bid for Rowntree to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission ( MMC ) , he did so because the effect of the merger on competition would have been negligible . |
| 17 | Although the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry decided not to refer the bid for Pilkington to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission , BTR abandoned its attempt to takeover the company , claiming that this had been motivated , not by adverse public reaction and the political storm created , but by Pilkington 's better than expected profits forecast , which indicated that the likely price required to capture the company would be greater than BTR was willing to pay . |
| 18 | The shadow secretary of state for trade and industry , Robin Cook , said : ‘ This report shows that Michael Heseltine has got it wrong again . ’ |
| 19 | Following the article ‘ Iron Trade ’ in the August/September Amnesty by Brian Wood concerning the overseas promotion of leg cuffs , and the many letters written by Amnesty readers to MPs expressing their concern , the Minister of State for Trade and Industry , Tim Sainsbury , launched an official inquiry . |
| 20 | Cynics might doubt his commitment to social security , as he introduced himself as the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry ( his previous job ) , but in his usual good-humoured style , Frank Field simply thanked him and said they would recommend him to Downing Street for a new job because of his social security knowledge . |
| 21 | He introduced himself to the committee as Secretary of State for Trade and Industry . |
| 22 | In pursuit of this , wide powers are given to the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry , some of which may , and indeed have been , transferred to a ‘ designated agency ’ , known as the Securities and Investments Board ( SIB ) . |
| 23 | Lord Young , then Secretary of State for Trade and Industry , addressed the Group in May 1989 , Norman Tebbit followed in January 1990 , Nicholas Ridley and Peter Shore ( a veteran Labour critic of the EC ) spoke in the summer of 1990 . |
| 24 | Sir Nicolas Browne-Wilkinson V.-C. held , however , that the statutory right of the Board , acting as delegate of the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry , to seek an order against persons carrying on investment business in the United Kingdom without authority to make good losses suffered by others was a sufficient basis for a Mareva injunction . |
| 25 | LEGA emphasised the need for an objective appraisal of a prospective co-operative 's commercial prospects : and was critical of the attempt made on Mr Anthony Wedgwood Benn 's insistence when he was Secretary of State for Trade and Industry , to rescue the Scottish Daily News , Kirkby Manufacturing and Engineering Ltd ( KME ) , and Meriden ; and to make the co-operative form the instrument of rescue . |
| 26 | Official receivers , appointed by the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry , are attached to courts . |
| 27 | This would be preferable to the ad hoc provisions available under Section 11 of the Competition Act 1980 , whereby the Secretary of State for Trade can direct the Monopolies and Mergers Commission to investigate efficiency , costs , the level of quality of the service provided and possible misuse of monopoly power within nationalized industries . |
| 28 | A.G. v. Secretary of State for Trade and Industry [ 1975 ] A.C. 295 , H.L. ( E. ) applied . |
| 29 | A.G. v. Secretary of State for Trade and Industry [ 1975 ] A.C. 295 ; [ 1974 ] 3 W.L.R. 104 ; [ 1974 ] 2 All E.R. |
| 30 | A.G. v. Secretary of State for Trade and Industry [ 1975 ] A.C. 295 , he held that , since the council was engaged in law enforcement duties , he had a discretion whether or not to require the council to give an undertaking in damages as a prerequisite of the grant of an interlocutory injunction , and he decided to exercise that discretion against requiring such an undertaking . |