Sentence examples for Budget ministers from inspiring English sources

Outlining its new standards on its £117bn annual grants budget, ministers said universities and charities could not use grants to pay for professional lobbyists, but they could continue to advise and inform government policy.

Alain Lamassoure said it was not due to the "extravagance of eurocrats", but blamed budget ministers for the shortfall.

I understand that next week the government will claim that when the pupil premium is added to the rest of the schools budget ministers will say that they have secured a small real terms increase.

François Baroin, another Chirac protégé, keeps his job as budget minister.

"Go on then!" urged Valérie Pécresse, a former budget minister.

Jérôme Cahuzac, 59 and the head of Parliament's budget committee, became budget minister.

"These figures are indecent," said France's budget minister Jerôme Cahuzac in an interview with Europe1 Radio.

Cristóbal Montoro, the budget minister, had recently estimated that Spain had 5.4 million unemployed.

"This system works quite well," claims Dimitris Mardas, the budget minister.

Jérôme Cahuzac, the budget minister, derided Mr. Depardieu's departure as a "big win for Belgian cinema".

The following month Budget Minister Adolphe Muzito was appointed in his place.