Sentences with phrase «dem constitutional affairs»

«Whether Canada ends up as one national government or two national governments or several national governments, or some other kind of arrangement is, quite frankly, secondary in my opinion,» said Harper, who was at the time constitutional affairs critic for Reform.

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The plans have been presented to the Department for Constitutional Affairs on the eve of Parents» Week (October 20 - 26) and before a week of threatened demonstrations in London by fathers» rights groups.

«Thank goodness the lord chancellor has now realised that the government's wobbling on the human rights convention did nobody any good,» said Liberal Democrat constitutional affairs spokesman Simon Hughes.

Shadow constitutional affairs secretary Oliver Heald added that some of the lord chancellor's comments do not apply to the Human Rights Act.

«Early indicators suggest that hundreds of thousands of people have gone missing from the electoral register,» shadow constitutional affairs minister Stephen Twigg said.

In the House of Commons, Keeley served as a member of the Constitutional Affairs Select Committee and from February 2006, the Finance and Services Committee.

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.

In 2001, she was appointed Solicitor General for England and Wales, serving until 2005 when she became Minister of State for Constitutional Affairs.

In fact, I'd imagine that, unless you took an active interest in British constitutional affairs, the report would have passed you by.

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

Mark Harper, the constitutional affairs minister, defended the proposed timetable in a last - ditch attempt to avert a large - scale Tory rebellion.

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.

In July 2004, the Public Administration Select Committee (PASC) of the House of Commons and, concurrently, Sir Hayden Phillips, Permanent Secretary at the Department of Constitutional Affairs, both concluded reviews of the system.

She was recently employed as a specialist adviser to the Lord Speaker's Committee on the Size of the House of Lords and is currently a specialist adviser to the House of Commons Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee.

«Mr. Heald: To ask the Prime Minister whether the Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs will receive the pension entitlement of the Lord Chancellor (a) during the planned transition period before the proposed abolition of the office and (b) subsequently, if the office is abolished; and if he will make a statement.

In the last parliament, members of the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee were astonished to learn that the transcript of our oral evidence session with the Chair and Chief Executive of The Kids Company charity was to be turned into a musical.

However, the public administration committee and the Electoral Commission have delayed their investigations on the advice of the police, and last night the Scottish National party (SNP) said the constitutional affairs committee should have followed suit.

In a measure aimed to avoid any conflict of interest, Dromey's wife Harriet Harman — a minister in the Department for Constitutional Affairs — relinquished her responsibilities for overseeing electoral reform and House of Lords reform.

In the last parliament, members of the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee...

Constitutional affairs minister Harriet Harman told ITV's Sunday Edition: «I think you can be confident that what the attorney general will do is recognise there has to be public confidence in the fact that the decision will be taken independently and in an open way.

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

The whole affair has raised major concerns about the way political parties are funded, and the constitutional affairs committee is one of a number of bodies looking at the issue.

«I think it would be possible to look at Mr Gove's relationship with Mr Murdoch,» he told the Commons public administration and constitutional affairs committee.

«The issues are, indeed, complex,» constitutional affairs minister Mark Harper told MPs, as government whips manoeuvred to defeat the bill.

The meeting of the constitutional affairs committee went ahead despite warnings by Scotland Yard that it could prejudice investigations into the loans - for - peerages row.

Welsh Liberal Democrat leader Jane Dodds appeared yesterday before Parliament's Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee's inquiry into Brexit and devolution.

The Minority Spokesperson on Legal and Constitutional Affairs in Parliament, Joseph Osei Owusu, has chastised the Attorney General's Department, saying it is not doing enough to retrieve judgment debts wrongfully paid to businessman Alfred Agbesi Woyome.

The Deputy Ranking Member on Constitutional Affairs, Dr. Dominic Ayine, is seeking a declaration that Mr. Amidu, who is 66 - years - old, can not hold public office because he has exceeded the mandated age limit per the 1992 constitution.

Lake is currently the Plaid Cymru spokesperson at Westminster for the Environment, Food, Rural Affairs, Education, Skills, Health, Communities, Local Government, Culture, Media, Sport and Constitutional Affairs.

Oliver Heald, Shadow Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs, made the point that this would further increase the unlikelihood of Brown calling a snap election:

And despite disappointments, its defenders can justly claim that cooperation has achieved real results, even if (apart from PR for Europe and London), it is more through long - term cooperation on the ground rather than top - down deals between Paddy and Tony for a joint cabinet committee to look at constitutional affairs.

It was commissioned by the European parliament's constitutional affairs committee.

11.00 The House of Lords continues to debate the constitutional affairs elements of the Queen's Speech

Last year, the Department for Constitutional Affairs revealed requests for information were costing the government # 24.4 million a year and public authorities a further # 11.1 million.

The chair of the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee finds the Donmar's new musical Committee a fair and compelling portrayal of the hearing on the collapse of Kids...

His ministers have been speaking out in recent months - in August, constitutional affairs secretary Lord Falconer said the US was guilty of a «shocking affront to the principles of democracy» in using the camp to hold terror suspects.

Simon Hughes, Liberal Democrat constitutional affairs spokesman and MP for Southwark and Bermondsey, said: «The extra protection which the Met is putting into south London is very welcome.

Constitutional affairs minister Harriet Harman has said she feels the attorney general and the cabinet must be kept separate to promote public trust.

The Committee on Constitutional Affairs calls on the Committee on International Trade, as the committee responsible, to incorporate the following suggestions into its motion for a resolution:

91 Per David Lammy MP (Parliamentary Under - Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs): «The protection has been given to the Church in Wales, at its request, but the Church of England has said clearly that it does not want it.»

Out of the shadow cabinet fall Liam Byrne, shifted to shadow higher education, and Stephen Twigg, now shadowing constitutional affairs.

Liberal Democrat constitutional affairs spokesman Simon Hughes welcomed the plans, saying they were a «serious effort» to complete Lords reform that actually began in 1911, although he said his party would be voting for a wholly or substantially elected chamber.

Liberal Democrats constitutional affairs spokesman Simon Hughes also praised the proposals, saying: «Often lessons learnt from one tragedy can prevent another... These plans are a way of doing more to make sure loss and suffering are not in vain.»

Cathy Ashton, a minister at the Department for Constitutional Affairs, said the government will not tolerate forced marriage.

However, the plans still do not address concerns raised by the constitutional affairs select committee last summer that any fundamental reform of the coroners system must include a change in the way deaths are certified.

In the latest intervention, Harriet Harman, the constitutional affairs minister and deputy Labour leadership candidate, told the New Statesman: «You can either be against discrimination or you can allow for it.

Declared candidates so far include Northern Ireland secretary Peter Hain, education secretary Alan Johnson, constitutional affairs minister Harriet Harman, and Hilary Benn, the international development secretary.

Constitutional affairs minister Harriet Harman said: «The findings of an inquest are important not just to explain how someone died but also to learn lessons for the future which will prevent deaths in similar circumstances.