The Environment Secretary is then expected to make a decision next year.

A decision by the Environment Secretary is not expected for several months after the close of the inquiry.

The then environment secretary told Thatcher that he had been "horrified" by the attitude of the police.

Bin fines had been used to 'punish people for innocent mistakes', the environment secretary said.

Griffin served as Environment Secretary from 1997 to 2003.

There is a nettle for a somebody - it might as well be the new Environment Secretary - to grasp.

Well-regarded as international development and environment secretary under Gordon Brown despite having a generally low profile.

In the end she took her case to the Environment Secretary and obtained consent for a change of use after 'knocking on numerous doors'.

A change in the law is being planned which will give the Environment Secretary the power to transfer ownership out of Government hands.

As a former environment secretary, how excited are you by North Korea's recent claim to have cracked nuclear fusion?