Sentences with phrase «at the committee stage of»

The UK justice secretary Kenneth Clarke's democracy taskforce proposed allowing only English MPs to sit at the committee stage of an English - only bill until a final vote, when it would return to the full Commons.

In his speech on Monday to open the two - day Commons debate on Lords reform, the deputy prime minister said he was willing to allow MPs to debate at the committee stage of the bill whether to pause the legislation after the first elections in 2015.

As a major law firm in Scotland, DWF is participating in the Business and Regulatory Impact Assessment for the Bill and is seeking to give evidence at the Committee Stage of the Bill later this year.

Not exact matches

«This technological innovation must be allowed to develop, be rolled out and tested in real environments without material interference or overburdening regulations, especially at the initial stages of its adoption,» Llew Claasen, executive director of the Bitcoin Foundation, a non-profit advocacy group, wrote in a Nov. 30 letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee.

It also is beginning to place full - time paid organizers in 20 of those districts, something the committee says it has never done at this early stage.

At this stage of the process, entrepreneurs will be asked to make a 15 - minute presentation about their opportunity to the Screening Committee.

As the Children's Schools and Families Bill 2009/2010 hurtles towards Royal Assent via the debating of committee stage amendments, there is a great deal at stake for home schoolers in particular and liberty in general.

In it the committee notes that many of the issues raised by the inquiry «require scrutiny over a longer period of time» and, accordingly, concludes that «it is not able to draw final conclusions or make recommendations at this stage».

The chairman of the media committee intervenes to point out that Ofcom can indeed intervene at any stage.

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«The committee took into account the fact that it had recently approved the first stage of a research project looking at the response by prisons to adult male prisoners» reports of sexual offences committed by other prisoners whilst in prison.»

At the end of the committee stage of the Article 50 Bill in the Commons, it felt as if the debates on the hundreds of amendments and new clauses had been going on for 40 years.

Then at committee stage, it raised a whole list of issues it wasn't comfortable with.

At the carefully stage - managed Labour women's training conference in mid-July, defence of the proposals by Baroness Hollis and new Labour MP and ex-NUS president Lorna Fitzsimons as not pleasant but «necessary» contrasted with a well attended and heated Labour Women's Action Committee (LWAC) meeting addressed by Audrey Wise MP, which effectively launched the campaign within the Labour Party to save lone parent benefits.

I am writing to you about the Enterprise and Regulations Reform Bill which is currently at Committee Stage in the House of Lords.

The government on Wednesday set out areas of agreement between it and the joint committee: a mainly elected chamber, elected members voted on a system of single transferable vote, staggered elections with one third coming up for renewal at a time, peers to serve 15 - year terms, current peers to leave in stages, a reduced number of peers, and powers to expel peers.

The quality of the data shared by the department was branded «poor» by the committee at every stage of the process - tender, transition and delivery.

The most common pattern during Lords consideration of bills is for amendments to be discussed at committee stage, for ministers to agree to think about them, and for peers to force votes at report stage or third reading only if dissatisfied by the government's later response.

The activists, including members of the Long Island Progressive Coalition, the Working Families Party and the Hempstead - based group, the Corridor Counts, staged rallies at Nassau Republican Committee headquarters in Westbury and at Sen. Kemp Hannon's Garden City office.

Clegg's concession made little impression on the many Tory MPs critical of his plans and the government still seems to be on course to lose the vote tomorrow night on the timetable motion that would allow MPs 10 days to debate the bill at its committee stage.

While most legislation is looked at by a small group of MPs at the committee stage, as a major constitutional bill, this one will be scrutinised on the floor of the commons.

As someone who spent time scrutinising the Bill at committee and report stage, I can still see a number of areas that need serious improvement which I hope the Lords will be able to achieve.

«At this stage, there is an entire host of outstanding questions and legal concerns surrounding this project that have not been answered to the satisfaction of anyone, including oversight and expert bodies such as: the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Citizens Advisory Committee of the New York - New Jersey Harbor & Estuary Program and the Westchester Municipal Officials Association, not to mention members of the State Legislature and the New York City Council,» Perkins writes.

In a submission to the Department for Exiting the European Union (DExEU) ahead of the Bill's committee stage the CIOT argues that the uncertainty arises where the Bill deviates from its primary purpose: which is to preserve the existing law as at exit day.

When GOP frontrunner Donald Trump takes the stage tomorrow at the annual policy conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the influential lobbying group known as Aipac, he will be facing a wary crowd.

ELIZABETHTOWN Projected enrollment numbers took center stage at the first meeting of Elizabethtown - Central and Westport Central's joint merger committee.

Critics have historically argued that the committees have no real purpose beyond being a kind of «mini-me» image of the Commons as whole, always dominated by a government majority and chair, and with over 99 % of ministerial amendments moved at the Committee or report stages, and a success rate for non-government amendments of below 1 %.

During the legislative process, most bills are sent to a Committee stage when a group of at least 11 MPs consider the proposed Act clause by clause in detail.

These committee stages are usually hectic, with very large groups of amendments being debated at the same time.

All successful candidates at this stage will be considered by the Joint Committee, which will determine the final list of the preferred candidates.

The House yesterday debated the proposal, originally put forward by Parliament First (the All - Party Parliamentary Group on reform of parliamentary procedure which I chair), that all amendments tabled at the committee and report stages of bills should have to be accompanied by an explanation of their purpose in no more than 50 words.

The House yesterday debated the proposal, originally put forward by Parliament First (the All - Party Parliamentary Group on reform of parliamentary procedure which I chair), that all amendments tabled at the committee and report stages of -LSB-...]

But Ms Abbott revealed today that Labour could refuse to back triggering the two - year Brexit process in the third reading of the bill if the amendments are not added at committee stage.

Stephen Metcalfe won the new South Basildon and East Thurrock seat at the general election and made his maiden speech last Thursday during the committee stage of the Academies Bill:

Karl McCartney won Lincoln at the general election at his second attempt and he made his maiden speech during Monday's committee stage of the Finance Bill.

Chair Elect: Jay B. Labov, National Academy of Sciences / National Research Council Member - at - Large of the Section Committee: Tamara Shapiro Ledley, TERC Electorate Nominating Committee: Margaret R. Caldwell, Center for Ocean Solutions / Stanford Law School; Kristin P. Jenkins, Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison / BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium Council Delegate: Elizabeth K. Stage, UC Berkeley Lawrence Hall of Science

The procedure is flawed, the authors argue, because at the second stage, when IWC's science committee meets, it gives equal weight to the opinions of the proposers and the expert panel of referees, and the reviews are nonbinding.

The New Investigator Committee has a broad remit spanning basic and translational cancer research, responsible for a number of funding schemes to support the cancer research leaders of tomorrow at all stages of their careers.

For those species, the human cells could be added at a later stage of embryonic development and would require an extra layer of scrutiny by a special NIH committee.

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Sally Collier, the chief regulator of Ofqual, told MPs on the parliamentary education committee this morning that the 52 - per - cent increase in the number of grade changes this year resulted from problems at the review stage, rather than the original marks.

The processes and protocols used for empowering the committee to define the Educators Rising Standards were borrowed from the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS), who served as a partner and advisor at every stage of the project.

Headteachers stressed to the public accounts committee «how vital it is for teachers to undertake good - quality CPD at all stages of their career», and highlighted time and cost as the main barriers to teachers undertaking CPD.

The committee used processes and protocols borrowed from the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS), which served as a partner and adviser at every stage of the project.

Mr Brennan said at the committee stage: «If accountability measures are influential for schools, why are they not influential for you in relation to coasting schools and your accountability measures relating to the academisation of schools?

The resolution, proposed by Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, Oman, Qatar and Sudan, and adopted recently at the committee stage, used only Muslim names for the holy sites of Jerusalem's Old City referring to it only as al - Aqsa Mosque / al - Haram al - Sharif (Noble Sanctuary in Arabic).

He was a member of the Animal Care Committee at the University of Connecticut Health Center for 7 years and was on the Annual Milford Oysterfest Committee in charge of Harbor Activities and booking the local bands for the Harbor Stage.

In the early 1970s, at age sixty, Randi moved from a career as a magician (his stage name was the Amazing Randi) to a life focused on separating myth and illusion from reality as a co-founder of the Committee for Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal.

With abrupt climate change — the new paradigm to replace AGW — the stage is set for radical change within as little as a decade possible at any time from natural causes — let alone with the interesting experiment of anthropogenic emissions in the mix (NAS Committee on Abrupt Climate Change 2002, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute Abrupt Climate Change Page, Royal Society 2010).

At this stage, it is important to note that the EU runs two different sanctions regimes: autonomous EU sanctions (e.g. against the Iranian banks and PMOI) and sanctions implementing UN lists of terrorist suspects issued by the UN Sanctions Committee (e.g. against Al - Quaeda affiliates and other terrorist outfits).