Sentences with phrase «chairman of the parliamentary committee»

John Whittingdale, chairman of a parliamentary committee, has scheduled a hearing next Tuesday on the scandal, and summoned Mr. Murdoch; his son James, chairman of his British subsidiary, News International; and Rebekah Brooks, the subsidiary's chief executive, to be the principal witnesses.

Meanwhile, in the U.K., Zuckerberg has been summoned by the chairman of a parliamentary committee in order to explain the «catastrophic failure» to lawmakers.

We have a public meeting tomorrow night in our local market town where Tim Yeo — my MP — who is Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee responsible for climate and energy matters, is going to speak about the necessity to continue with aggressive pursuit of green policies.

In the UK, the chairman of a parliamentary committee, Damian Collins, has summoned Mr Zuckerberg to explain the «catastrophic failure» to MPs.

Not exact matches

The chairman of a U.K. parliamentary committee announced Tuesday he was requesting that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who has remained silent for days, appear before the panel to supplement prior testimony by the company's executives.

He is currently a member of the European Parliament, where he sits on the Foreign Affairs Committee, and a Chairman of the Conservatives and Reformists parliamentary group.

All this has attracted the attention of one Barry Sheerman, chairman of the parliamentary cross-party committee on children, schools and families, who now wants to haul offending bishops (the good news is that there are at least two) in front of his committee for an inquisitorial going - over (which by the time you read this may have taken place).

It is absurd that the Chairman of a Parliamentary Select Committee such as Mullin should yearn to become a Minister of State.

He indicated that Bagbin should bear in mind that he was made the chairman of the parliamentary select Committee on Constitutional and Legislative Affairs based on parliamentary procedures and not because he was better than Nana Akufo - Addo.»

So if Bagbin became the chairman of the Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee it was because of the fact that his party was in power and it does not mean that he was knowledgeable than Nana Addo.

Even those anoraks who apparently sit glued to the Parliamentary Channel will find scarce coverage of the work of select committees and, in a dozen years as a chairman of legislative committees, I can think of no single occasion upon which a television camera has been present.

Alban Bagbin has become the face of Ghanaian politics not for his 25 years so far in parliament and still counting, but for the extraordinary role he played as two terms Minority Leader, twice Majority Leader and Chairman of some strategic committees of Parliament such as Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Committee, which he chaired twice, Public Accounts and Appointments Committee.

Sir Ian Kennedy, chairman of the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, told The Sunday Times (#) that Parliament should end the system under which a cross-party committee of MPs is able to overrule the findings of an investigation by the standards commissioner.

Chairman of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Road and Transport, Theophilus Tetteh - Chaie, says some people must be punished for the accident that claimed 63 passengers and injured 25 passengers on Kintampo - Tamale road.

Current Conservative officeholders who are members of the group include the Work and Pensions Secretary, Iain Duncan Smith; David Cameron's PPS, Desmond Swayne; Nick Clegg's Parliamentary Under - Secretary, Mark Harper; the Minister of State for Transport, Theresa Villiers; a Parliamentary Under - Secretary of State at the Ministry of Justice, Jonathan Djanogly; three government whips, Angela Watkinson, Mark Francois and Greg Hands; the Chairman of the Procedure Committee, Greg Knight; and the Chairman of the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee, John Whittingdale, who was Mrs Thatcher's Political Secretary in the late 1980s.

Mullin was at one time chairman of the home affairs select committee and a member of Labour's parliamentary committee, which usually met with Blair once a week.

He dithers over whether he really wants to be a junior minister rather than chairman of a select committee, and eventually is disappointed when he's only ever appointed to the most junior jobs as a parliamentary under - secretary.

During testimony before the parliamentary committee in September 2009, Les Hinton, the former executive chairman of News International who now heads Dow Jones, said, «There was never any evidence delivered to me suggesting that the conduct of Clive Goodman spread beyond him.»

After learning of the Telegraph investigation, David Curry resigned as chairman of the Parliamentary Standards and Privileges Committee and now faces a formal inquiry into his claims.

Many opposition MPs, such as Labour's Mike Gapes, a former chairman of the Commons foreign affairs select committee, tried to «talk it out» by giving long and irrelevant speeches in a bid to make it run out of parliamentary time, but it eventually passed without a vote.

The chairmen of five parliamentary committees have teamed up to demand David Cameron remove international students from the net migration statistics.

The Chairman of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Education and Member of Parliament for Jaman North in the Brong Ahafo Region, Siaka Stevens, has commended the Government for fulfilling its major campaign promise by implementing the Free Senior High School education programme.

In opposition he became Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee, and a member of the British parliamentary delegation to the Council of Europe from 1955, where he was elected in 1957 as vice-president and in April 1959 as President of the Consultative Assembly.

«Dianne Hayter, chairman of Labour's National Executive Committee, said: «We do not believe a parliamentary by - election should be held at taxpayers» expense to resolve tensions at the top of the Conservative Party... She claimed that Mr Davis had done a deal with Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg, who said last week that his party would not contest the by - election, and never intended to put his seat at risk.»

He is Chairman of the Parliamentary Office of Science & Technology (POST), Chairman of the Parliamentary Space Committee, President of the Conservative Technology Forum and Founder of Conservative Friends of Science.

Seth Acheampong and the Vice Chairman of the committee on Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Alexander Kodwo Kom Abban, who signed the report, made it known that the agreement establishes a joint committee to oversee the implementation of the provisions in the agreement

The Akuapem South MP, who doubles as the Chairman of the Subsidiary Legislation Committee of Parliament, urged the electorate to vote for Nana Akufo - Addo and the NPP parliamentary candidates in the December 7, 2016 elections.

But the rumour to which he was alluding is that the whole Conservative Parliamentary Party - including its Ministers - will, in a unique arrangement, vote soon to nominate one of the Conservative committee members as its Chairman.

The programme, which aired on 23 February, and Telegraph articles led Straw to suspend himself from the parliamentary Labour party and Rifkind to step down as the chairman of parliament's intelligence and security committee and as an MP.

In the wake of the Straw and Rifkind case, Sir Alistair Graham, former chairman of the committee on standards in public life, has also called for the entire parliamentary standards regime to be changed to ensure it «genuinely represents the broader public interest».

Chairman of the Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee, Ben Abdallah Banda said, «When we met, the committee came to the agreement that given the interest that the public has in the bill, we can not take it under the certificate of urgency, and therefore the committee recommended to take it through the normal legislative procesCommittee, Ben Abdallah Banda said, «When we met, the committee came to the agreement that given the interest that the public has in the bill, we can not take it under the certificate of urgency, and therefore the committee recommended to take it through the normal legislative procescommittee came to the agreement that given the interest that the public has in the bill, we can not take it under the certificate of urgency, and therefore the committee recommended to take it through the normal legislative procescommittee recommended to take it through the normal legislative process.»

One of the Tory MPs they lobbied was James Arbuthnot, who was then chairman of both the Commons defence select committee and the CFI parliamentary group.

Mr Baey Yam Keng, deputy chairman of Singapore's Parliamentary Committee for Communications and Information, said there might be limits to what the Government could do to prevent it.

Might also make useful submission to the Parliamentary Select Committee, to demonstrate how the two UEA investigations weren't what Parliament was told they would be: Oxborough's review of the science being based on papers selected by the people being investigated, and Muir Russell being factually incorrect (as shown above) and also being an absentee Chairman.

Dr. Benny Peiser of Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) reports (January 10, 2011) that Liverpool MP Louise Ellman, chairman of the Transport Select committee, is angling to be appointed to head such an official parliamentary probe.

A parliamentary committee chairman, Damian Collins, has blasted Facebook for previously providing «misleading» evidence and having «consistently understated the risk» of user data falling into the hands of people or services users did not consciously authorize.

According to an Associated Press report, the chairman of the UK parliamentary media committee, Damian Collins, said Facebook officials «have been misleading to the committee.»

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is being asked to testify by the chairman of the UK parliamentary media committee, Damian Collins.

Earlier Tuesday, the chairman of the U.K. parliamentary media committee, Damian Collins, said his group has repeatedly asked Facebook how it uses data.

Earlier Tuesday, the chairman of the UK parliamentary media committee, Damian Collins, said his group has repeatedly asked Facebook how it uses data.