Sentences with phrase «labour chairman of the committee»

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Hague agreed to make a statement to MPs after the former shadow home secretary David Davis and the Labour chairman of the Commons home affairs select committee, Keith Vaz, raised serious concerns about the GCHQ disclosures.

Graham Allen, the Labour Chairman of the House of Commons Political and Constitutional Reform Committee, has led his colleagues through the possible ways of doing so if Parliament and people so wished.

[18] However the Treasurer of the Party, Jack Dromey, stated publicly that neither he nor Labour's elected National Executive Committee chairman Sir Jeremy Beecham had knowledge of or involvement in the loans and had only become aware when he read about it in the newspapers.

You here -GhanaPoliticsOnline.com The lawmakers stated this when the MP for Afadzato and Chairman of the Committee on Employment, Social Welfare and State Enterprises Joseph Amenowode made a Statement on the Floor of Parliament to mark this year's World Day Against Child Labour.

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.

Khan was chairman of Labour's backbench home affairs committee, so we've often talked about issues such as identity cards and anti-terror laws.

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 Chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee against Corruption, Prof. Itse Sagay (SAN), has faulted the planned industrial action by the leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) over the increase in the price of petrol.

Chairman of the Commons foreign affairs select committee, Labour's Mike Gapes, welcomed Mr Hain's comments and said there was a feeling among MPs that a «more forceful statement» should be made about the camp.

Keith Vaz, Labour chairman of the home affairs select committee, said: «If this is true, it will be a sad day and we will miss her.

MPs Hilary Benn, chairman of the Brexit select committee, wanted to know if Labour would back the House of Lords amendments to keep the UK in the EEA or a single market.

Mr Brown also backed proposals by Labour MP Tony Wright to beef up the power of MPs to hold the government to account, with elected select committee chairmen and control of what is debated at Westminster handed to a backbench committee.

The senior backbencher Barry Sheerman, the chairman of the schools select committee, called for a secret ballot of Labour MPs on Brown's future, which he predicted would result in a majority vote for the prime minister to go.

«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.»

Lord Beecham, a former chairman of Labour's National Executive Committee, will join the justice team, which will oversee response to the promised secret courts legislation.

Cameron quoted from a letter written by Labour's Chief Whip Geoff Hoon to Keith Vaz — the Chairman of the Home Affairs Committee — in which Hoon expressed deep thanks for Vaz's support and closed the letter with the line, «I trust that you will be appropriately rewarded».

The committee has a former Head of Service and Minister of Housing, Ama Pepple, as chairperson, while the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, will serve as deputy chairman.

Chairman of the Lords committee, Baroness Taylor was Labour leader of the Commons in 1997 when the Blair government ratified the Amsterdam Treaty.

«They include allowing Labour members to elect the party chairman; launching a «find - a-friend» campaign to double Labour's membership; training Labour Party members to become community organisers; and maintaining, in opposition, the requirement for the Labour leader to have weekly meetings with a committee of backbench MPs.»

Michael Connarty, the Labour Chairman of the European Scrutiny Committee during the last Parliament, asked the following question in the Commons earlier today -

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.

Graham Allen, who was Labour chairman of the Commons Political and Constitutional Reform Committee in the last parliament, said MPs should be recalled next Monday, if no party wins a majority to discuss the election outcome — including the electoral system.

Hilary Benn has announced he is running to be chairman of the newly - formed Brexit Select Committee - ruling out the possibility of him returning to the Labour frontbench.

Labour's Keith Vaz, chairman of the home affairs committee, said shoot - to - kill was «the right thing to do in those circumstances», adding that «we have given that power to those responsible to make that decision».

Labour MP Frank Field, chairman of the Work and Pensions Select Committee, has told the BBC News Channel: «They daren't sack him because it'll look farcical if they do that.

Mr Pope is the latest in a series of Labour figures to issue New Year calls for Mr Brown's removal as leader, following former Cabinet minister Charles Clarke and Commons Schools Committee chairman Barry Sheerman.

The Labour MP Richard Caborn, who is chairman of the trade and industry select committee, was also dismayed by the government's response.