Sentences with phrase «affairs committee chairmanship»

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In the Commons, Westminster leader Angus Robertson asked whether Mr Davidson's ongoing chairmanship of the Scottish affairs committee was a «benefit for the union».

Others are setting their sights on the chairmanship of the home affairs select committee.

Step forward, then, Peter Bone - standing for the Chairmanship of the Health Select Committee - John Baron, contesting Foreign Affairs (Baron pursued Ministers energetically about Iraq during the last Parliament) and, in the Defence Select Committee poll, no fewer than three of the candidates: Julian Lewis, Patrick Mercer and, above all, Douglas Carswell (one half of the Carswell - Hannan «Cannon» dynamic duo).

Andrew Tyrie took the Treasury Select Committee; Richard Ottaway, Foreign Affairs (a big, big consolation prize, after his defeat in the 1922 Committee Chairmanship election); James Arbuthnot, Defence; Stephen Dorrell, Health; Tim Yeo, Climate Change.

He stands to win the chairmanship of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee if he's re-elected and the Democrats retake the Senate.

Mr Duncan said he could recall during the inauguration of the facility, a committee was constituted to run the affairs of the library, and added «I remember a committee was constituted, under the chairmanship of Mr Kofi Totobi Quakyi to fund the library.»

Watson said he learnt much about select committees when he first entered parliament and served under the chairmanship of Chris Mullin on the home affairs committee.