Sentences with phrase «conservative chair of the committee»

Bernard Jenkin, the Conservative chair of the committee, said public confidence relied on the adviser on ministers» interests demonstrating independence from the government.

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Although Hensarling, who chairs the House Financial Services Committee did not respond to a request for comment, he has said the battle over the bank is one of philosophy, which for conservatives dictates that the government should stay out of free enterprise.

He is also a former chair of the conservative Republican Study Committee.

The Chair of parliamentary committee investigating «fake news», the conservative MP Damian Collins, accused both Cambridge Analytica and Facebook of misleading his committee's investigation in a statement early Sunday morning indicating that both companies would be called in for more questioning.

He had barely started when the chair of the committee, Conservative MP Leon Benoit, demanded that Laxer halt his «irrelevant» testimony.

The leadership committee comprises eight members of the national council, including Walsh, plus 15 others, including former MPs John Williamson, Loyola Hearn and Lois Brown, current MP Diane Finley and Irving Gerstein, senator and chair of the Conservative Fund.

That's certainly the view of Graham Stuart, the Conservative chair of the Commons» education committee.

Tom Tugendhat, the chair of the Foreign Affairs committee, himself branded with the dreaded Westminster tag of «one to watch», cites Badenoch (along with fellow 2017 Tory MPs Bim Afolami and Ben Bradley — more on him later) as «seriously impressive, capable and [colleagues] who have got some very radical Conservative ideas.»

Bernard Jenkin, the Conservative chair of the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee (Pacac), told Civil Service World that he believed the change had echoes of Tony Blair's decision to allow a small number of Spads — including director of communications Alastair Campbell — to give instructions to officials.

WHITE PLAINS, NY and YONKERS, NY — August 26, 2014 — Hugh Fox, Jr., New York State Conservative Party Vice-Chair, Westchester County Conservative Committee (Party) Chair, and Assistant to Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino, was yesterday arrested on charges of Driving While Intoxicated (DWI).

James Arbuthnot, Conservative backbencher and chair of the defence committee, accuses the government of sacrificing the UK's global influence in favour of spending cuts.

Bernard Jenkin is Conservative MP for Harwich and North Essex and Chair of the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Select Committee

Tory MP and chair of the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee, Bernard Jenkin, was among the senior parliamentarians to attend the event, along with his Conservative colleague Crispin Blunt.

Trump's transition effort added an array of new vice chairs, staff and executive committee members, including a number of prominent conservative women and upstate Rep. Tom Reed.

Bernard Jenkin is Conservative MP for Harwich and North Essex and chair of the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee.

Keith Vaz, the former chair of the home affairs select committee, has been appointed to the justice committee despite a rare parliamentary manoeuvre to stop him by a Conservative MP.

BY ANDY HUMM Out gay City Councilmember Daniel Dromm, who chairs the Education Committee, is calling for Michael Long, who heads the state's Conservative Party, to step down as board chair of Holy Angels Catholic Academy in Brooklyn after a 13 - year - old student there, Daniel Fitzpatrick, hanged himself on August 11.

On the Labour side, for example, prominent non-Corbynites and former Shadow Cabinet members such as Yvette Cooper, Hilary Benn, Mary Creagh and Rachel Reeves will chair committees, while the list of Conservative party chairs and candidates is significantly more liberal and less Eurosceptic than the party leadership, with Tom Tugendhat, Robert Halfon and Nicky Morgan joining fellow Remainers Damian Collins, Sarah Wollaston, Bob Neill and Neil Parish.

While it is true that only 23 % of candidates were female, this is largely a function of the fact that the much less gender - balanced Conservative party (80 % male) holds the chairs of most of the committees.

Brady is the most powerful politician on the list, as his role as chair of the 1922 Committee makes him the keeper of any letters of no confidence in the prime minister from Conservative MPs.

Andrew Tyrie, the committee's chair, said the estimates had an «arbitrary air of precision», and the Eurosceptic Conservative backbencher Jacob Rees - Mogg asked whether, rather than allow the independent Office for Budget Responsibility to make the forecasts, Osborne had «taken back control so that you can fiddle the figures».

About twelve of them said yes, and the European Research Group was founded under the chairmanship of Michael Spicer, who would go on to chair the 1922 Committee of backbench Conservative MPs, before stepping down as an MP in 2010 after being caught in the 2009 expenses scandal paying for maintenance of his helipad with public money.

Senate Finance Committee Chair John DeFrancisco, a Republican from Syracuse, says there's no question that the interests of moderate to conservative upstaters will not be well represented if Cuomo follows through on his pledge to retake the Senate for Democrats.

Speaking on the Andrew Marr programme, John Whittingdale, Conservative chair of the culture media and sport committee, said he had to find the right balance between scrutiny and witch - hunt.

Edward Leigh, the Conservative chair of the public accounts committee, said the way HMRC handled data prioritised costs over security.

The Conservative chair of the Treasury committee, Andrew Tyrie, echoed Labour leader Ed Miliband this Saturday when he said there was no «coherent and credible plan for the long - term economic growth rate of the UK economy».

But for many, the most poignant moment of the debate was a speech by Conservative MP Charles Walker, chair of Parliament's Procedure Committee and a key player in the drama.

Having clarified the situation with Mr Newton Dunn, a meeting was then held with Malcolm Harbour, Conservative MEP for the West Midlands and Chair of IMCO (Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection) and a representative for Catherine Stihler Labour MEP for Scotland and a member of the IMCO committee and of the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and DCommittee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection) and a representative for Catherine Stihler Labour MEP for Scotland and a member of the IMCO committee and of the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Dcommittee and of the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats.

In the end, however, just one Conservative MP, the chair of the health select committee Sarah Wollaston, voted with Labour.

Five MPs led by the Conservative Dr Sarah Wollaston, the chair of the Commons health select committee, have written to the chancellor demanding the government abandon its «incorrect» claims of putting # 10bn into the NHS annual budget by the end of this parliament and admit the severity of its financial shortage.

UKIP Leader Nigel Farage and Richard Ottaway, Conservative chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee, discuss Ireland's problem and the wider financial and political implications for Britain.

New York State Republican Chairman Ed Cox, Conservative Party chair Michael Long and John Rogers, a regional political director of the National Republican Congressional Committee, were requesting that Murray run Turner's campaign.

Andrew Tyrie, Conservative Chair of the Treasury Committee is now speaking.

«Richard Harrington, Mark Spencer and David Morris are the first of the 2010 Conservative intake to make their maiden speeches Main Tories will chair Treasury, Foreign Affairs and ten other select committees»

Chair of the committee, Conservative MP Sarah Wollaston, has now written to the chief executive of NHS Digital asking for them to withdraw from the memorandum of understanding and to stop sharing data with the Home Office while a full review is carried out.

The briefing covers information on: The meaning of delegated acts Anti-tampering (article 18) On board diagnostics (article 19) Functional safety (article 20) Environment (article 21) Carbon dioxide (article 22) Aftermarket parts (article 52) Repair and maintenance information (article 60) The BMF have also had discussions with the chair of the EU's Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee (IMCO) dealing with the proposed legislation, Conservative MEP Malcolm Harbour, who said: «Most of the concerns riders have expressed with the original Commission draft and some of the amendments adopted by the IMCO Committee, are being addressed in the current negotiations between representatives of EU governments, MEPs and the Commission.

The Conservative backbencher, who was recently elected to chair the Commons» defence committee, told Politics.co.uk he wanted to see elements of an American federal system established in Britain to give much more power to parish and town councils.

Welsh Liberal Democrat campaigner Jane Dodds has hit out at Montgomeryshire's Conservative MP for nominating a pro-homeopathy and pro-astrology colleague as Chair of the Commons Health Select Committee.

Others who screened Monday include Bill Faulk, who served as an aide to Mr. Romaine during his time in the Legislature; former Conservative Committee chair James Saladino; Catherine Stark, the daughter of former town supervisor and councilman Jim Stark who now serves as chief of staff to County Legislator Jay Schniederman; Frank Seabrook; a ZBA member and conservative blogger; and Ed Densieski, a town Planning Board member and former RiverheadConservative Committee chair James Saladino; Catherine Stark, the daughter of former town supervisor and councilman Jim Stark who now serves as chief of staff to County Legislator Jay Schniederman; Frank Seabrook; a ZBA member and conservative blogger; and Ed Densieski, a town Planning Board member and former Riverheadconservative blogger; and Ed Densieski, a town Planning Board member and former Riverhead councilman.

In a sign of increasing tensions between Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition partners, Bernard Jenkin, the chair of the Commons public administration committee, said: «If the politics of envy made a country rich, we'd be very rich... Most rich people are contributing far more in tax than other people.»

Donald Trump's transition effort added an array of new vice chairs, staff and executive committee members, including a number of prominent conservative women.

Lamb leads a cross-party group of Lib Dem, Labour and Conservative MPs, including the chair of the health select committee, Sarah Wollaston, who recently met the prime minister and pressed her to put the funding of the NHS and social care on a more sustainable footing.

Conservative Robert Halfon, the new chair of the education select committee, was quick to spot that, even after cutting # 200m from the free schools budget, there was still # 1.1 bn of savings unaccounted for.

Crispin Blunt, the Conservative chair of the foreign affairs committee, said the delays had been because of «bureaucratic complexity».

The only other committee to change hands is Science and Technology — which will now be chaired by a Conservative instead of a Labour backbencher.

Last week's debate on this controversy, sponsored by former Commons Speaker Baroness Boothroyd, noted a letter from David Cameron to the Chair of the Association of Conservative Peers Lord MacGregor of Pulham Market (also quoted on page 5 of the Constitution Committee report).

Bob Neill, the Conservative chair of the justice committee, says the attacks on the judiciary have been «disgraceful».

In a sign of increasing tensions between Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition partners, Bernard Jenkin, chair of the Commons public administration committee, said: «If the politics of envy made a country rich, we'd be very rich... Most rich people are contributing far more in tax than other people.»

Here is Andrew Tyrie, the Conservative chair of the Commons Treasury committee (and a remain voter in June), on the court ruling.

The Committee is made up of the chair, five independent members appointed by the Prime Minister following open competition, and three political members appointed by the Prime Minister on the recommendation of the leaders of the Labour Party, the Conservative Party and the Liberal Democrat Party.