The special adviser position carries with it ministerial status whereby she gets access to information and is provided with an office and secretaries like a full Cabinet minister.

Shortly thereafter, he was elevated to ministerial status by Mayawati.

The modern position was created on May 3, 1947, shortly after the passage of the Constitution of Japan, and elevated to ministerial status in 1966.

The State Nature Protection Committee was upgraded to the ministerial status in 1991.

He was asked to resign his ministerial status in the church.

The Party Secretariat ceased to have ministerial status, but, in reality, both it and the vast bureaucracy it controlled continued to function exactly as before.

Malaysian Ambassador to the United States with ministerial status (July 2009 - February 2012)

There were in addition 18 ministers of state and two advisers to the Prime Minister with ministerial status.

In addition, five individuals held positions that granted them ministerial status.

Then in 2009, Vietnam was represented at full ministerial status with General Phung Quang Thanh leading its delegation.