The health secretary would be well advised to assign responsibility for screening programmes more clearly to a single agency.

To remove him from the scene before a verdict could be reached here would make it extremely hard to assign responsibility in a fair and reasonable fashion.

Bibliographers have worked to assign responsibility for specific texts to specific printers.

Senior managers, in turn, assign responsibility for establishment of more specific internal control policies and procedures to personnel responsible for the unit's functions.

However, the national government can assign responsibility for service provision to local municipalities.