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Sport minister Shona Robison can't win World Cups for Scotland, but with funding and encouragement she'll keep trying to deliver SHONA ROBISON insists she does not have a magic wand to right all Scottish football's wrongs but she is adamant that the government is helping tackle the problems. Sitting in her office at the Scottish Parliament, the Scottish minister for sport admitted that a reputation for glorious failure is not one she or her fellow SNP rulers want the nation to be saddled with. But she added that there was a limit to what they could do.

• Scotland on Sunday
• September 17, 2009

• At a Ministerial Meeting [...]

AT A ministerial meeting in the Foreign Office this month, the matter of Scottish independence came up. Should the FO plan for a British embassy in Ed...

• Daily Mail
• January 21, 2012

• Tenant Representatives Enjoy Positive Ministerial Meeting

Politicians framing new laws affecting agriculture should realise that not all farmers are owner-occupiers - and rules governing tenancy arrangements are often complex and need understanding. That was the message delivered when the Tenant Farmers' Association's national chairman, Greg Bliss, national vice- chairman, Stephen Wyrill and chief executive, George Dunn met Defra Secretary of State Caroline Spelman and Farming Minister, Jim Paice in London. But, unlike negotiations of the past several years, when the TFA was faced with Labour administrators, they felt they made much more headway this time.

• Western Morning News, The
• June 30, 2010

• Why Discards Pledge Is Just the Beginning ; As Eu Fisheries Ministers Sat Down in Brussels to Try to Work Out What to Do About the Discard System, Martin Hesp Talked to the Westcountry Fishing Leaders Mulling Over the Complexities of the Issue

If the waves in sea areas Plymouth, Sole, Fastnet and Lundy were in typical winter confusion on Wednesday, so were the Westcountry folk who make a living fishing them. The controversial issue of fishermen throwing catch overboard in order to keep within EU quotas was being addressed in Brussels at a highlevel ministerial meeting, which began with Fisheries Commissioner Maria Damanaki pledging to end the wasteful practice.

• Western Morning News, The
• March 04, 2011

• 'No Urgency From Mandelson' ; Hull City Council Leader Councillor Carl Minns has Said He Is 'Disappointed and Concerned' by a Ministerial Decision to Delay a Key Meeting About the Caravan Industry for a Second Time.

Hull City Council leader Councillor Carl Minns has said he is "disappointed and concerned" by a ministerial decision to delay a key meeting about the caravan industry for a second time. As first reported on the Mail's website, Business Secretary Lord Mandelson agreed to meet Hull's MPs to discuss the industry's future after Atlas Holiday Homes went into administration in December.

• Hull Daily Mail
• March 13, 2009

• Call for Curbs On Hiring and Firing

Ministers should have no legal power to hire and fire senior college officials in the wake of the spy-pen row, Labour has demanded. The party's call came at the end of a turbulent week for Scotland's college sector after claims Education Secretary Michael Russell had "bullied" Kirk Ramsay out as chairman of Stow College in Glasgow for making a recording of a ministerial meeting.

• The Herald
• November 17, 2012

• Carwyn to Press for Assembly to Get New Powers Over Renewable Energy Projects ; Hain Attacks Uk Government Over Impact of Benefit Reform

FIRST Minister Carwyn Jones will today press the UK Government to give the Assembly new powers over renewable energy projects when he holds talks with Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg and the leaders of the devolved administrations in London. Today's meeting of the Joint Ministerial Council is also expected to focus on the impact rising energy costs are having on businesses - and comes a day after Shadow Welsh Secretary Peter Hain launched an attack on the effect UK Government changes to benefits will have on the vulnerable in Wales.

• Western Mail
• February 20, 2012

• Eu Showdown Looms ; Noonan Plans Alliance to Fight Bullying Over Tax Rate [Eire Region]

FINANCE Minister Michael Noonan is set to band together with a group of European allies to repel bullying tactics from France and Germany in Brussels this week. Mr Noonan will travel today to a Eurozone meeting with his ministerial counterparts, where it is understood he is hoping to prevent larger countries from imposing a unsustainable debt burden on the smaller states.

• Daily Mail
• March 21, 2011

• Soldier's Proud to Have Met the Pm ; Squaddie Phones Home After Surprise Ministerial Meeting

A GRIMSBY soldier shook hands with Gordon Brown when the Prime Minister paid a surprise visit to troops in Afghanistan at the weekend. Lance Corporal Paul Haigh, 26, from the Royal Logistics Corps, met Mr Brown at Camp Bastion in the country's Helmand province. Excited Paul rang his parents soon afterwards and told them to watch the news, where footage of the visit was being shown.

• Grimsby Telegraph
• September 03, 2009

• Minister to Discuss Rail Link Hopes

CAMPAIGNERS calling for the reopening of a rail line in Northumberland have been promised a ministerial meeting. Wansbeck MP Ian Lavery secured a pledge of a meeting to discuss the Ashington, Blyth and Tyne line from Local Transport Minister Norman Baker.

• The Journal
• April 21, 2012