(in the UK) a minister ranking below a Secretary of State.
（英国）（职务比政府主要部门大臣低的）国务大臣
the Minister of State for Education
教育国务大臣。
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Two new health centres in Hounslow were opened by the Minister of State for NHS Delivery last week.
He was then promoted to Minister of State at the same department just over a year later in July 1998.
The Minister of State at the Department of Trade and Industry is responsible for e-commerce within the government.
I welcome the comment last night by the Minister of State, Deputy Browne, that he will address and examine this issue.
It was led by Ireland's Minister of State for the Marine, Mr John Browne, T.D. who was accompanied by Mr. Hugh Byrne, Chairman of Bord Iascaigh Mhara.
Under the Rainbow Coalition, he served as a Minister of State at the Department of Health from 1994-1997.
Conor was appointed as Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs last week.
The Minister of State said that Bord Gais and his Department have no plans for the development.
‘We're working on it as best we can,’ said Minister of State for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, Noel Ahern.
THE Minister of State for Agriculture and Food, Liam Aylward, has launched a new series of Teagasc leaflets on hedgerow management for farmers.
The launch, which took place in Dublin's St Stephen's Green, was attended by Minister of State at the Department of Health and Children Brian Lenihan.
The store was presented with the Excellence Ireland National Hygiene Mark by Minister of State for the Department of Agriculture and Food Noel Treacy.
The result, 11,000 signatures on a petition that was handed over to the Minister of State at the Department of Health in November 2002.
The Minister of State is responsible to the Prince, not to the National Council elected by a general suffrage.
He has since served as a Minister of State and a Shadow Secretary of State.
The event, in Alcuin College at the University of York, will feature the Minister of State for Pensions, Malcolm Wicks.
She looks great, is intelligent, articulate etc but I was on Q&A with her and I asked her afterwards why she didn't challenge Noel Ahern, Minister of State on one topic.
Evaluation of the CDSPs will be launched by Frank Fahey, T.D., Minister of State at Forum, Letterfrack on Tuesday, 10th December.
As a politician he became Minister of State and was one of the best known political figures of his time.
Sir Nicholas Bonsor was a Minister of State in the Foreign Office in the last Conservative Government.