Sentence examples for ministers were responsible from inspiring English sources

According to Chilcot, Blair did not identify which ministers were responsible for postwar planning and strategy.

The common ministers were responsible to the crown only, but they reported annually to the delegations.

Under Nicholas I the committee of ministers continued to operate, but the individual ministers were responsible only to the emperor.

The Gibson inquiry report recommends that further inquiries now be made to establish how far ministers were responsible, according to the Times.

Government ministers gave the go-ahead for MI6 to mount the operations, but the Foreign Office, the Cabinet Office and Downing Street are all declining to say which department's ministers were responsible.

The old model where civil servants were responsible to ministers for how they spent public money, and ministers were responsible to Parliament (through the PAC) no longer appears practical.

What makes it worse, it believes, is the myths fostered by the doctrine of "ministerial responsibility", under which ministers are responsible for everything.

A clause in the constitution stresses that government ministers are responsible to the parliament.

Ministers are responsible for the tax law and resourcing HMRC‎'s enforcement of that law.

Traditionally, the prime minister and cabinet ministers are responsible for internal matters, while the president concerns himself more with foreign affairs.

"Ministers are responsible for piling misery on top of misery for those who have to rely on our railway," he said.