Sentences with phrase «home affairs committee chaired»

Home affairs committee chair Keith Vaz offered his support to the campaign, saying a referendum would «determine the modern, settled view of the British people».

Home affairs committee chair Keith Vaz told Mr Starmer that his letter contradicts what the committee was told by Mr Yates last week.

Home affairs committee chair Keith Vaz said he would write to police demanding information about the arrest.

«You stated that the [Sun] had paid police officers for information,» home affairs committee chair Keith Vaz wrote.

Addressing Twitter, Home Affairs Committee chair Yvette Cooper said her staff had reported a series of violent, threatening and racist tweets via the platform's standard reporting systems in August — many of which still had not been removed, months on.

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The Green Party Member of European Parliament, a German citizen who looks even younger than his tender 35 years, shepherded the legislation through as vice chair for the parliament's Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs.

Yvette Cooper is rebuilding her political career in the serious role of chairing the Home Affairs select committee while constantly being asked about her husband Ed Balls» embarrassing dad dancing on Strictly Come Dancing!

Her husband may have sparkled on the dance floor, but now Yvette Cooper is waltzing into the political spotlight as the new chair of the Home Affairs Committee.

as a national catchphrase that was emblazoned on T shirts, cost Vaz his job chairing the Home Affairs select committee.

This week, Tim Farron suggested that the battle between Caroline Flint, Yvette Cooper and Chuka Umunna to chair the home affairs select committee was one of premier league politicians «jostling for position in a side show».

To be frank, I suspect that the chair of the home affairs select committee will be more able to get a public platform and more able to influence policy than a shadow cabinet minister or even the most junior ministers in government.

Three of the Labour party's leading moderates are in the running to replace Keith Vaz as chair of home affairs select committee.

Nokes last week told Yvette Cooper, the chair of the home affairs select committee, that she hadn't had time to investigate revelations in the Guardian that at least 1,000 highly skilled migrants seeking indefinite leave to remain in the UK were wrongly facing deportation.

«On the issue of anonymity, I sat on the Home Affairs Committee that examined this issue; it was of course a Committee in a previous Parliament, dominated by Labour Members, and very ably chaired by Chris Mullin.

Signatories include Menzies Campbell, Keith Vaz (who chairs the Home Affairs Select Committee) former Shadow Home Secretary David Davis and Clare Short.

The former chair of the home affairs select committee has been at the centre of a long - running inquiry by the parliamentary commissioner for standards.

The motion was also supported by the Chairs of the Defence, International Development, Treasury, Home Affairs, Culture, Media and Sport and Environmental Audit Select Committees:

But after Damian Green was arrested the two were forced to spend more time in each other's company than they would have liked; Boris, as chairman of the Met, and Vaz as the chair of the home affairs committee looking into the case.

But Mr Starmer brought considerable doubt on that argument in a letter to the home affairs committee, prompting chair Keith Vaz to write a searching letter to the acting deputy commissioner.

Cooper has said she is not opposed to the idea of serving Corbyn although she is running to become chair of the home affairs select committee at the moment.

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.

Keith Vaz, the Labour chair of the home affairs committee, says he will be voting for Dominic Raab's amendment.

Parliament should allow MPs to set an example of good practice, says Yvette Cooper MP, chair of the home affairs select committee

Keith Vaz has stood down as chair of the home affairs select committee following three days of allegations involving sex workers and drugs.

Keith Vaz, the chair of the home affairs select committee, quipped that he never thought he would see the day when Harman was attacked «from the left» by Field.

Keith Vaz, chair of the home affairs committee, takes over.

The comments from the deputy prime minister will be music to the ears of Keith Vaz, chair of the home affairs committee, who has long campaigned for a stronger political response to video game violence.

The chair of the home affairs committee will include the Guardian's decision to publish alongside a broader counter-terrorism investigation, following a request from former defence secretary Liam Fox.

Keith Vaz, chair of the home affairs select committee, commented on the government's policy on student visas:

His comments are revealed in an email to Keith Vaz, chair of the home affairs select committee which has been hearing evidence on the case for extending detention without charge.

A letter from the Border and Immigration Agency (BIA) to Keith Vaz, chair of the home affairs select committee, reveals officials have assessed 52,000 cases.

But Ms Cooper — who is now the chair of the Commons Home Affairs Committee — hit back, telling the Prime Minister: «Do not try to hide behind me or the Labour Party when she was warned repeatedly of the damage her obsession with her net migration target was doing.

Meanwhile the Home Secretary is set to face fresh questions from MPs over the affair next week, with the Home Affairs Committee - chaired by Labour's Yvette Cooper - expected to quiz Amber Rudd on Wednesday.

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Warsi has written to Labour MP Yvette Cooper, the chair of the parliamentary home affairs committee, to ask her to investigate hate speech.

Having taken over from John Denham MP as chair of the Home Affairs Committee in July 2007, Keith Vaz MP escapes the term limit on committee chairs (the two previous parliaments or eight years whichever is the greater period) so looks likely to stand again for HomeCommittee in July 2007, Keith Vaz MP escapes the term limit on committee chairs (the two previous parliaments or eight years whichever is the greater period) so looks likely to stand again for Homecommittee chairs (the two previous parliaments or eight years whichever is the greater period) so looks likely to stand again for Home Affairs.

He also chaired the Home Affairs Select Committee and was a member of the Parliamentary Committee, giving him direct access to the court of Tony Blair.

In a further development, lawyers Harbottle and Lewis have responded to a letter from the chair of the home affairs committee, Keith Vaz MP, setting out their inability to disclose information and naming the lawyer who originally advised News International.

Labour MPs Chuka Umunna, Caroline Flint and Yvette Cooper are going head - to - head for chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee, which was vacated by Keith Vaz after he was accused of using male prostitutes.

The Commons Home Affairs Select Committee chair Keith Vaz said: «The evidence of Assistant Commissioner John Yates today raised a number questions of importance about the law on phone - hacking, the way the police deal with such breaches of the law and the manner in which victims are informed of those breaches,» he said.

At the start of 2016, the Chairs of the Education, Health, Home Affairs, and Business, Innovations & Skills Select Committees wrote to the Secretary of State for Education calling for SRE to have statutory status.

Prior to the government's decision on sex and relationship education, four different chairs of House of Commons Committees — education, health, home affairs and business — wrote to education secretary Nicky Morgan, saying personal, social, health and economic education, which includes sex education, was a «crucial part of preparing young people for life».

Education select committee chair Neil Carmichael was joined by health chair Dr Sarah Wollaston, home affairs chair Keith Vaz, and bussiness, innovation and skills chair Iain Wright, in writing a letter to education secretary Nicky Morgan.

Manhunt was erroneously implicated in a 2004 murder case by the tabloids, with MP and chair of home affairs committee Keith Vaz telling the House of Commons: «The parents of the victim believe that the perpetrator of this savage attack was influenced by the videogame Manhunt.»

Replying to a letter from Keith Vaz MP, chair of the home affairs committee, this week, Harbottle outlined its ability to disclose information.