The Authority is composed of a chairman, a deputy chairman, and however many members are appointed by the UK Secretary of State.

On the 14 June 2007 the UK Secretary of State ordered Syed Talha Ahsan's extradition.

The show has been criticised by the UK Secretary of State for Culture, Tessa Jowell.

She was met in Belfast by the UK Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Peter Brooke.

UKCDS was announced in December 2006 by the UK Secretary of State for International Development.

In July 2010 the newly appointed UK Secretary of State for Health deferred to local NHS on funding homeopathy.

The PCN system was first initiated by Lord Young, UK Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, in 1988.

During his career he was the chief environmental adviser to the UK Secretaries of State between 1989 and 1992 - Christopher Patten and Michael Heseltine.

The UK Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Douglas Hurd, made an official visit in February 1990.

The official title of the case is "Al-Haq v. UK Secretary of State for Foreign & Commonwealth Affairs et al."