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    www.factbites.com/topics/President-of-the-Board-of-Trad - [Cached Version]
    Published on: 12/2/2008    Last Visited: 12/2/2008  

    On March 6, 1997, Board of Trade Minister, Ian Lang, called for the Information Technology Agreement to liberalise the trade in IT products being negotiated within the WTO to be completed by the end of the month.

    On December 2, 1996, the President of the Board of Trade, Ian Lang, called for substantial work on trade liberalisation in the area of standards, trade facilitation, tariffs, government procurement, rules of origin and investment.

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    www.mad-cow.org/~tom/sheep_delay.html - [Cached Version]
    Published on: 5/26/2008    Last Visited: 5/26/2008  

    * Ian Lang, President of the Board of Trade, confirmed yesterday that the Government had asked National Power and PowerGen to experiment with using cattle remains as a fuel in electricity generating stations.

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    www.michael-baker.com/goodnews.html - [Cached Version]
    Last Visited: 7/27/2008  

    "The Information Society offers great opportunities to business at all levels," said Board of Trade president Ian Lang.

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    www.scottishunionist.com/2008/08/gers-case-study-in-dou - [Cached Version]
    Last Visited: 8/17/2008  

    It may pain you to recall this but originally, GERS was conceived by then Secretary of State Ian Lang to be something which [the Conservative government] could use to 'to score over all our opponents' in the devolution debate [as Lang wrote in a letter to John Major, who opposed the plan initially].
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    In the event, the civil servants produced much a more nuanced set of reports than those envisaged by Lang, but that still didn't stop hysterical shrieks about structural deficits from politically interested parties whenever the reports were published.

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    royaldutchshellplc.com/2008/06/19/alfred-donovan-letter - [Cached Version]
    Published on: 4/14/2004    Last Visited: 12/6/2008  

    The following prominent people are also connected with Hakluyt: Former Foreign Secretary, Sir Malcolm Rifkind; Ian Lang, former Secretary of State at the Department of Trade and Industry; Earl Jellicoe, President of the SAS Association; Sir Peter Cazalet, former Deputy Chairman of BP; and Baroness Smith of Gilmorehill.

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    www.tomfry.co.uk/?itemid=7 - [Cached Version]
    Published on: 11/7/2007    Last Visited: 11/7/2007  

    We had a special launch outing for the 200th Scottish trade mission headed up by Ian Lang, Minister of State, Scotland.This included Pipers from the Hong Kong Pipe Band, piping the ‘locally caught' haggis on board . The haggis was given the short address by Ian Lang!Barbara easily found employment with the British Government and thoroughly enjoyed her stay in Hong Kong.This was such a relief after the difficult year for her in Indonesia.

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    www.socialist.net/britain-labour-historic-victory020597 - [Cached Version]
    Published on: 5/2/1997    Last Visited: 6/20/2008  

    Ian Lang, president of the board of trade - sacked!

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    www.g8.utoronto.ca/evaluations/1997denver/compliance/uk - [Cached Version]
    Published on: 1/1/1997    Last Visited: 9/5/2009  

    On March 6, 1997, Board of Trade Minister, Ian Lang, called for the Information Technology Agreement to liberalise the trade in IT products being negotiated within the WTO to be completed by the end of the month. The US and the EU have already agreed to a phasing-out of their respective tariffs on semi-conductors in three stages, the first of which begins on 1 July 1997.

    The UK Government White Paper of November 11, 1997, called for free trade and the lessening of trade barriers. The goal is fully open markets by the year 2020. The paper was later supported in comments made by the foreign minister, Malcolm Rifkind, the Board of Trade Minister, Ian Lang, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Kenneth Clarke.
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    On December 2, 1996, the President of the Board of Trade, Ian Lang, called for substantial work on trade liberalisation in the area of standards, trade facilitation, tariffs, government procurement, rules of origin and investment. Hopes for the completion of the IT Agreement and the talks on telecoms liberalisation.

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    www.cnduk.org/pages/cnews/030925.html - [Cached Version]
    Published on: 9/25/2003    Last Visited: 12/20/2006  

    When CAAT and two other pressure groups hired solicitors Bindman and Partners to seek a judicial review against the granting of export licences for arms companies, BAE was alerted to the contents of a letter sent by the firm to the then trade minister, Ian Lang.

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    www.johnmajor.co.uk/resnlang.html - [Cached Version]
    Last Visited: 10/26/2009  

    John Major : Resources :1990-1997 Cabinet Ministers : Ian Lang
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    Ian Lang Ian Lang was born in 1940 and was educated at Cambridge University. Whilst at Cambridge University he was a leading member of Cambridge Footlights and wrote for presenters such as David Frost. He wrote a script for the Footlights alongside John Cleese, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Graham Chapman in 1961. Ian Lang became the Conservative MP for Galloway in 1979, renamed to Galloway and Upper Nithsdale from 1983. Appointed a Government whip in 1981, Under-Secretary of State for Employment in 1986 and then he became Minister of State for Scotland in 1987. Following John Major's victory in the 1990 Conservative leadership contest, Lang was promoted to Secretary of State for Scotland, a position he held until 1995 when he became the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry. He lost his seat at the 1997 General Election. He was elevated to the Peerage in 1997 as Baron Lang of Monkton. Ian Lang published his memoirs in 2002 in "Blue Remembered Years", published by Methuen, ISBN 1842750097.

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