Brian leads cross-departmental, tactical management plan teams working on environmental improvement -- in the areas of: engagement, alternate funding, utility conservation, waste reduction and recycling, fleet emissions reduction, green purchasing and sustainable development -- leading the district's indoor air quality program recognized by the United States Environmental Protection Agency as a National Model of Sustained Excellence.

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Mr Teare said an update to that budget plan was necessary after his office received departmental spending bids for the next financial year.

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Mr Cameron said the government faced "difficult decisions" over departmental spending and it was "absolutely right that we have got a plan to get on top of our deficit".

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At his departmental question session on 4 December 2012, Mr Hague described Israel's plan to extend settlement building in the occupied Palestinian territories as the "wrong way to react" to the vote.

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