Sentences with phrase «labour government introduced»

Although grant - maintained status was abolished in 1998 many schools retained that financial control over their finances, and in the year 2000 schools were once again able to obtain funding directly from government through Labour Government introduced Academies.

«I'm one of two Conservative MPs who have taken out a civil partnership - thanks to legislation which - to their credit - the current Labour government introduced.

The previous Labour government introduced various measures to reduce prison overcrowding, with mixed results.

The Labour government introduced its «preventing extremism together» taskforce in the wake of the July 7th 2005 terrorist attacks.

«The Welsh Labour Government introduced the Pupil Deprivation Grant in exchange for the Welsh Liberal Democrats to support their annual budget.

September 2007 — The Labour Government introduces a 50 % cap on religious selection at new Academy schools that did not replace a pre-existing state - funded school.

Not exact matches

This week the Ontario government introduced plans for truly sweeping labour reforms.

In the 1930s, governments introduced a vast collection of labour laws to assuage the grievances of a burgeoning working class, and Castelli says the laws have become ingrained in the commercial ethos of the nation.

Sustain has welcomed commitments from shadow Health Secretary Jon Ashworth that a future Labour Government would introduce legal standards for hospital food, extend the sugary drinks tax and ban junk food advertising during family TV, for the benefit of the nation's health.

A Labour government will insist on the OTs and CDs introducing central, publicly accessible registers of the millions of people who are the real, flesh - and - blood owners of the companies they host.

Control orders, which place severe restrictions on the movements of people deemed terror suspects, were introduced by the Labour government.

The «raft of authoritarian legislation» introduced by the Labour government has done little to improve security, Menzies Campbell has warned.

Local government formed one of the devolved powers and the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004 was introduced by a coalition Scottish Executive formed between the Labour party and the Liberal democrats.

In 1992, Labour published its Right to Information Bill: shadow home secretary Roy Hattersley promised that it would be the first piece of legislation introduced by a new Labour government.

Present arrangements were introduced under the New Labour government.

Apparently labour introduced an increase of pension age to 65 in 1995 but failed to inform the women of the 50's who would be most directly affected, the government failed its legal duty to inform all women personally of this change, they tried to get away with this by stating they didn't have any current details, except they forget that they have all details from PAYE, us women still received all our NI demands and self - assessments as well as any tax or child benefit details, so they do have out details, they just failed to carry out this legal action.

Beginning with the Labour governments of Tony Blair, which introduced 374 new peers into the house in order to balance the Conservative majority that had developed under the previous Conservative governments, the size of the house has grown substantially.

Liberal Democrats have identified the following problems with Labour's plans to introduce taxpayer - funded meals for primary children: — the Labour Government won't fund a pilot scheme as Islington doesn't meet its criteria so local taxpayers will have to pick up the whole tab.

[1] The 1997 Labour manifesto included a commitment to reform local government in London by introducing an elected mayor.

On the other hand, the Labour Party has to acknowledge that it introduced a bedroom tax for private rented houses when it was last in government.

«Ministers fear Lib Dem activists at the party's annual conference, which starts this weekend in Glasgow, are set to rebel against key Government policies and may vote to reinstate the 50p rate introduced by Labour weeks before it lost power in 2010.

Originally the Labour government had ruled out a referendum on the Treaty Establishing a Constitution for Europe (2004), which among other things introduced new shared competencies with member states.

17:29 - Jack Straw, the New Labour veteran, says that he regrets his government introduced programme motions.

Auditors examined PFI deals drawn up over 25 years under Tory and Labour governments, as well PF2, introduced as improved public - private financing deals set up under David Cameron's premiership.

So building on the success of Labour's Future Jobs Fund — so short - sightedly scrapped by this government — we will introduce a Compulsory Jobs Guarantee for young people and the long - term unemployed.

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo, in a meeting with the press to mark his first year in office, explained that due to sound economic management policies his government has introduced, the battle between the labour unions and government is over.

«If the proposal for License to Practise signals a commitment by a future Labour Government to restore qualified teacher status (QTS) as a requirement for all teachers in state funded schools, to introduce, within a national framework of pay and conditions of service, a contractual entitlement for all teachers to continuing professional development and to re-establish a proper system of professional regulation which ensures that all headteachers have QTS and NPQH and are accredited to lead and manage schools, then this is a basis on which progress could be made.

In opposition, Labour will say, Cameron vowed not to introduce a top - down reorganisation and then in government did precisely that.

«If George Osborne doesn't announce these measures, the next Labour Government will waste no time introducing them.

The Labour government of 1997 - 2010 introduced pre-appointment hearings for some ministerial appointments, formalising a de facto system which had been developing gradually.

Most of the changes introduced by the 1945 — 51 Labour government were accepted by the Conservatives and became part of the «post-war consensus» that lasted until the late 1970s.

Labour's Shadow Secretary of State for Housing John Healey has today pledged that under a Labour government there would be a «consumer rights revolution» for renters, starting by introducing tougher... Read more

Last month, the Electoral Commission reported about 770,000 names had been removed from the register as the government introduced the requirement that people sign up as individuals rather than as households, leading to Labour complaints about the risks of disenfranchisement.

Labour's Shadow Secretary of State for Housing John Healey has today pledged that under a Labour government there would be a «consumer rights revolution» for renters, starting by introducing tougher legal minimum standards for all private rented homes.

«The Welsh Liberal Democrats will continue to put pressure on the Welsh Labour Government to introduce free school meals in Wales.

«The Welsh Liberal Democrats have recently launched a petition callingon the Welsh Labour Government to introduce a free hot lunch scheme for all children in reception year 1 and year 2.

During First Minister's Questions this afternoon, Kirsty Williams, leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats, called on the Welsh Labour Government to consider introducing free school meals for all year one and year two primary pupils as has been announced in England by Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg.

Despite his opposition to Blair's government on issues like the Iraq War, Livingstone was invited to stand for re-election as Labour's candidate and was re-elected in 2004, expanding his transport policies, introducing new environmental regulations, and enacting civil rights policies.

The more seats a party or grouping has, the more chance it has of forming a government - with 198 seats out of 646 the Conservative Party could only form a government if significant numbers of other MP's decided to back them, as happened in 1924 when there was a situation that the Conservatives didn't want to form a coalition with either other main party and equally the Liberals didn't want a coalition with Labour and the Liberals and Conservatives saw it as an opportunity to allow Labour into government but in a situation in which legislation was still reliant on Liberal and Conservative votes and they could be brought down at the most suitable time, supposing the notional gains were accurate and in the improbable event of the next election going exactly the same way in terms of votes then 214 out of 650 is 32.93 % of seats compared to at 198 out of 646 seats - 30.65 % of seats and the Conservative Party would then be 14 seats closer towards a total neccessary to form a government allowing for the greater number of seats, on the one hand the Conservatives need Labour to fail but equally they need to succeed themselves given that the Liberal Democrats appear likely to oppose anyone forming a government who does not embark on a serious programme to introduce PR, in addition PC & SNP would expect moves towards Independence for Scotland and Wales, the SDLP will be likely to back Labour and equally UKIP would want a committment to withdraw from Europe and anyway will be likely to be in small numbers if any, pretty much that leaves cutting a deal with the DUP which would only add the backing of an extra 10 - 13 MP's.

[73] In 2003 Labour introduced tax credits, government top - ups to the pay of low - wage workers.

We have looked at all Cameron's cabinets introduced following reshuffles, to see how the makeup of it has changed since he came to power and how this compares to those of Labour governments in the past.

However in the English context of today, I remember very well during the last Labour government John Prescott's department attempting to introduce sundry «English Regional assemblies» and elected mayors, across key areas of England.

The Welsh Liberal Democrats are repeating their calls on the Welsh Labour Government to use this extra funding to introduce a similar scheme for Welsh infants.

Richard Ali, Chief Executive of BASC said: «BASC welcomes the fact that the order is based on Treasury guidelines and the principles of better regulation, both introduced by the last Labour government.

Richard Ali, Chief Executive of BASC said: «BASC hopes that Ms McCarthy, despite the positions she has taken in the past, will approach her new post of the basis of evidence based policy and the principles of better regulation introduced by the last Labour government.

Introducing PR for local government has been particularly unpopular with several in the Labour tribe.

But actually in the last Labour government, increasing maternity leave, rights at work, introducing the national minimum wage disproportionately helped women and children, child poverty targets — things like that delivered actually tangible changes to peoples» lives.

A Labour MP will call on the government to introduce a veteran's ombudsman to deal with disputes between service personnel and the Ministry of Defence.

As the Tories and Labour manoeuvred each other to a standstill on tax policy, Cameron pledged to introduce a new law within the first 100 days of a Conservative government to prevent any rises in income tax, VAT or national insurance in the next parliament.

During the same period it has opposed, delayed and sought to reject almost all of the steps taken by former Labour governments to introduce social reforms, from the inception of the NHS to any changes to the House of Lords itself.