Sentences with phrase «house backbench»

Questions - environment, food and rural affairs Business statement - leader of the House Backbench business - motions on handheld electronic devices in parliament, improving parliamentary scrutiny, ministerial statements and general debate on High Speed Two Adjournment debate - housing for older people and the role of the Anchor Housing Association

Business Statement — Leader of the House Backbench Business — Mental Health Adjournment — Sentencing for people convicted for road traffic offences - Mr Mark Spencer

Questions - environment, food and rural affairs Business statement - leader of the House Backbench business - CPI / RPI pensions uprating Backbench business - Welsh affairs Adjournment debate - treatment of Hazara people in Quetta, Pakistan

Questions - energy and climate change Business statement - leader of the House Backbench business - BBC cuts, debt advice and debt management services Adjournment debate - access to Kuvan for sufferers of phenylketonuria

Questions - culture, Olympics, media and sport Business statement - leader of the House Backbench business - MPs» expenses, financial education Adjournment debate - whistleblowing in the NHS

Questions - transport Business statement - leader of the House Backbench business - ATOS work capability assessments Backbench business - nuclear deterrent

Questions - Business, Innovation and Skills, including Topical Questions Business statement - Leader of the House Backbench business — Motion relating to the introduction of charging for Big Ben Clock Tower tours, Motion relating to reform of the Common Fisheries Policy Adjournment debate — Effect of reductions to legal aid on legal aid providers

Oral Questions - Culture, Media and Sport, including Topical Questions; Women and Equalities Business Statement - Leader of the House Backbench Business -(i) Protecting future generations from violence against women and girls (ii) Preventing sexual violence in conflict Adjournment - Coventry and Warwickshire city deal - Chris White

Not exact matches

Meanwhile, many backbench House members were unwilling to go along with any deal that only made small cuts in spending.

Oral Questions - Home Office, including Topical Questions Statement — European Council Legislation - European Union (Approvals) Bill [HL]- Committee of the whole House Legislation - European Union (Approvals) Bill [HL]- Report stage Legislation - European Union (Approvals) Bill [HL]- Third reading Backbench Business - Local government finance settlement for rural authorities Adjournment - Policing violence at hunts - Chris Williamson

Nick Clegg and David Cameron had been wrestling each other for months over House of Lords reform, with the Liberal Democrat leader very publicly pulling the plug on his pet project in August 2012 after the prime minister admitted he would not be able to guarantee the support of his backbenches for the far - reaching reform.

«It is a rare privilege and honour for me to open this, the first of the Backbench Business Committee debates on the Floor of the House.

[75] In August 2012, Clegg announced that attempts to reform the House of Lords would be abandoned due to opposition for the proposals by backbench Conservative MPs.

There will be further changes to the way the House does business when the Backbench Business Committee is able to look at both Government legislation and Back - Bench business, and we are told that that will not start until the third year of this Parliament — another recipe for delay.

One change, a few months ago, meant that the BBBC's members were no longer elected by the whole house but the Tory members by Tory backbench MPs only and Labour representatives by Labour backbench MPs etc..

In the Commons, Chi Onwurah (Labour, rather unsubtle bright red top) asks yet another backbench question about social housing headaches and the bedroom tax.

Tory ministers were unable to stave off a rebellion from their backbenches over Lib Dem - supported plans to create an 80 % elected upper House.

In June, Gordon Brown narrowly beat a backbench rebellion to push the increased detention measures through the House of Commons.

He was seen as imperious and intolerant by backbench opponents concerned at the threat to local postal services («he seemed to have lost touch» one commented after a meeting), and the plan was abandoned by the Cabinet as unlikely to pass the House of Commons, as the Major government's majority had dropped to 14 by then.

He said he had sought to engage with ministers to find a compromise over several weeks, but without success: «The blunt reality is, and I'm sorry to have to say this to the house, I've been left in the lurch, as a backbench member trying to improve this legislation.»

Parliament's House of Commons select committee system, which allows groups of backbench MPs to scrutinise the work of government departments and to initiate their own inquiries in areas related to the work of those departments, has existed in its present form since 1979.

As a very new backbench MP in the last Parliament I was delighted to be asked to pull together a proposal for reform of the planning system following our Green Papers on localism and housing.

Backbench MPs said the public only see the House of Commons on TV for the so - called Punch and Judy sessions at PMQs, and some of their constituents are not impressed.

Backbench MPs said the public only see the House of Commons on TV for the so - called Punch and Judy sessions at PMQs, and some of their constituents were not impressed.

The government backbenches erupted yet again, as Ed Balls squirmed uncomfortably under the gaze of the entire House.

«While it is disappointing that our amendment did not win a majority of votes in the House of Commons, what it shows is that pro-European backbench MPs of all parties are not going to simply submit to a hard Brexit.

But it is actually the PM's own house that may be tripping him up this time, as it has done time and time again on government votes likely to be unpopular with a strident, disenchanted backbench Tory contingent.

Howard was in his mid-60s, so one Parliament on the backbenches followed by a comfortable berth in the House of Lords represented a logical next move.

First, the House ensured that the Chairmen of the Backbench Business Committee will always be a member of a non-governing party.

The Government's decision to change the rules of the Backbench Business Committee - the substance of which I wrote about yesterday morning - was debated and voted upon in the House yesterday.

In between announcements, Cameron found time to address the Conservative backbench 1922 Committee in a packed out room in the House of Commons, where there was plenty of cheering and desk banging.

Backbench Tories fail to stop UK Youth Parliament from being able to use House of Commons chamber

The debate gives the Deputy Leader of the House the opportunity to confirm for the avoidance of doubt, as lawyers would say, that the commitment in the coalition agreement will be complied with, and when he gives that commitment perhaps he would also answer my hon. Friend's question on whether there will be a House business committee and the Backbench Business Committee or just one covering both important subjects.»

Between Liam Fox's speech this morning, and David Cameron's statement to the House about his European Council meeting (at 3.30 pm), a number of backbench Tories have voiced their mixed feelings about the Prime Minister's referendum intervention.

I just say to the hon. Gentleman, who is chattering incessantly from a sedentary position, that when he was Deputy Leader of the House he did not introduce a Backbench Business Committee.

The Wright report also recommended the establishment of a House Business Committee, made up of the elected members of the Backbench Business Committee together with frontbench representatives nominated by the party leaders, which would assume responsibility for the House's weekly agenda.

He had support from both the Conservative and Labour leadership, however many backbench MPs, particularly those from the Labour Party (who held a large majority in the House at the time), viewed Young as someone who had too recently been a member of his party's front bench team and was thus not sufficiently in touch with ordinary MPs.

Oral Questions - Energy and Climate Change, including Topical Questions Business Statement - Leader of the House Consideration of any Lords amendments - Canterbury City Council Bill, Leeds City Council Bill, Nottingham City Council Bill and the Reading City Council Bill Private Business - The Chairman of Ways and Means is expected to name opposed private business for consideration Backbench Business - Liaison Committee's Report on Select Committee effectiveness, resources and powers - Sir Alan Beith Adjournment - UK vehicle registration mark regime - Steve McCabe

The bill was opposed on both sides of the House and Brown was facing a growing backbench rebellion.

One of the ways in which John Bercow annoys Conservatives is his enthusiasm for castigating backbench Tory MPs in front of the House.

The backbench business committee, which for the first time gives parliamentarians some control over what is debated in the house, is being sidelined and decisions on its motions ignored.

During the House of Commons vote in October 2011 on a backbench motion for a bill to be introduced in the next parliamentary session to enable a referendum to be held on Britain's continued membership of the European Union, Mosley was one of 81 Conservative MPs who voted against the Government Whip to support a referendum.

Speaking to the 1922 committee of backbench Conservative MPs, May reportedly defended the idea of selection by saying: «We have already got selection haven't we - it's called selection by house price.»

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In 2014, a Conservative backbench MP from Saskatchewan introduced Bill C - 560, which, if passed into law, would have legislated a rebuttable presumption of ESP, but it failed to pass second reading in the House of Commons, it was reported at the time.