1.   The project is the first of its kind outside London, and was opened by the housing minister, as Julie Dolphin reports.

2.   Wirral housing committee has called for an urgent meeting with housing minister Sir George Young.

3.   Lord James Douglas-Hamilton, the Scottish housing minister, said the preliminary findings contained no major surprises.

4.   As his housing minister, Perez Balladares chose a doctor who has been accused by human rights and medical groups of aiding soldiers who tortured political prisoners.

5.   As housing minister in previous Likud governments, Sharon spearheaded large Israeli settlements in the West Bank.

6.   After enough horse-trading, Segev became energy minister and Goldfarb deputy housing minister.

7.   But he stayed in the government, however, and in subsequent governments, served as trade minister, housing minister, infrastructure minister and finally foreign minister.

8.   But Natan Sharansky, the housing minister, said the United States would not benefit from any meeting held before Arafat abandoned violence.