Sentences with phrase «parliamentary committee for»

Wylie told the UK Parliamentary committee for digital, culture, media and sports that India's Congress had been a client of Cambridge Analytica and he would be able to provide documents to back his statements.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper was the first to ask new Supreme Court judges to appear before a parliamentary committee for questioning, beginning with the 2006 appointment of Justice Marshall Rothstein of Manitoba.

The legislation will be submitted to a parliamentary committee for review.

The Parliamentary Committee for Finance on Wednesday unanimously approved a proposal to lower the VAT on e-books in Belgium to 6 %.

Mr Baey Yam Keng, deputy chairman of Singapore's Parliamentary Committee for Communications and Information, said there might be limits to what the Government could do to prevent it.

With the formation of the coalition in 2010 he was appointed as co-chairman of the Liberal Democrat parliamentary committee for health and social care, a position he relinquished at the end of 2013 to focus on producing a report examining the social and economic issues facing the north.

«Under the Labour government, hard won rights and liberties that have been a fundamental part of British life for centuries were eroded or simply cast aside,» said Tom Brake, co-chair of the Liberal Democrat parliamentary committee for home affairs.

Budget Omnibus Bills should be restricted to proposed tax changes only and all proposed spending initiatives should be presented either through the Main Estimates or through separate legislation, submitted to the applicable Parliamentary Committee for review.

Here, Mark Elliott welcomes calls from various parliamentary committees for a «pause» in the implementation of the reports recommendations.

Not exact matches

Last month the head of the parliamentary committee on national security and foreign policy, Alaeddin Boroujerdi, said Iran would block Telegram for reasons of...

In a resignation letter to May, Amber Rudd said she had inadvertently misled a parliamentary committee last Wednesday by denying the government had targets for the deportation of illegal migrants.

Last month the head of the parliamentary committee on national security and foreign policy, Alaeddin Boroujerdi, said Iran would block Telegram for reasons of national security.

Appearing before another parliamentary committee in 2003, Brooks had been asked whether News of the World or The Sun had ever paid police for information.

Sandy Parakilas, who worked in data protection for Facebook in 2011 and 2012, told a U.K. parliamentary committee Wednesday that the company was vigilant about its network security but lax when it came to protecting users» data.

The budget was restored only after the PBO submitted an «action plan» in response to recommendations made by the joint House and Senate Committee for the Parliamentary Library.

The Chair of parliamentary committee investigating «fake news», the conservative MP Damian Collins, accused both Cambridge Analytica and Facebook of misleading his committee's investigation in a statement early Sunday morning indicating that both companies would be called in for more questioning.

The chairman of a U.K. parliamentary committee announced Tuesday he was requesting that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who has remained silent for days, appear before the panel to supplement prior testimony by the company's executives.

So much for «We are accountable `; Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has declined a summons from a UK parliamentary committee that's investigating how social media data is being used, and — as recent revelations suggest misused — for political ad targeting.

Appearing before the country's parliamentary finance committee, Deputy Governor Nadine Baudot - Trajtenberg stated that cryptos should be «viewed as a financial asset,» and that the government holds no responsibility for investors of digital currencies.

Four years after Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation was enacted, the Ministry of Innovation, Science and Economic Development has pledged to change it, in response to a parliamentary committee, which pointed to glaring flaws that were creating confusion for those trying to comply with the law.

Under what are referred to as «supply» rules in Parliament, Main Estimates, which detail the Government's spending intentions for the upcoming fiscal year, must be referred to the appropriate Parliamentary Standing Committees for review before March 1st.

So much for «We are accountable `; Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has declined a summons from a UK parliamentary committee that's investigating how social media data is bein

The parliamentary committee also found that, even after the controversy around Goldman's deals, Deutsche went on to arrange two further loans worth a total of $ 1.23 billion for the already indebted fund in 2014.

A Malaysian parliamentary committee on April 7 slammed the board of state fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad for being irresponsible.

A parliamentary committee will be set up to investigate each of the 10, in a process expected to last for at least one month.

Speaking during the debate, central bank governor Stournaras said secret witness testimonies implicating himself and his wife, who runs a communications and consultancy company specializing in the health sector, were lies, and called for the parliamentary investigative committee to be set up to look into all allegations.

This message was brought home clearly earlier this year in Asia when on February 6, the South Korean Intelligence Agency reported to the Parliamentary Intelligence Committee that it deemed North Korea responsible for the hacking of the Japanese Bitcoin exchange centre.

«The Committee is of the opinion that the PBO works first for parliamentarians and parliamentary committees,» the committee explained, «and it is they who ultimately control the publication of the work done at their requesCommittee is of the opinion that the PBO works first for parliamentarians and parliamentary committees,» the committee explained, «and it is they who ultimately control the publication of the work done at their requescommittee explained, «and it is they who ultimately control the publication of the work done at their request.»

That was for the parliamentary committee hearing on omnibus anti-union Bill C - 4, which guts federal public service union rights, and will force over a million workers to perform unsafe work.

For the first time, Parliamentary Committees will have up to date departmental spending numbers upon which to base their discussions.

Politicians call for watchdog to gauge affects of deal, saying it should not hurt suppliersMPs from two parliamentary committees have called on the competition regulator to examine how the merger of Sainsbury's and Asda will affect suppliers.The merger of the UK's second - and third - largest supermarket chains could hand them control of about 30 % of the -LSB-...]

Former Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page called for this system because it puts spending decisions back in the hands of Parliament; and in fact, Minister Clement has already examined this proposal in response to a recommendation by the House of Commons Committee on Government Operations and Estimates.

In addition, it would provide for more in - depth scrutiny of the Estimates by the respective Parliamentary committees.

Under current supply rules, the Main Estimates, which detail the Government's spending intentions for the upcoming fiscal year, must be referred to the appropriate Parliamentary Standing Committees for review before or on March 1st.

Following the announcement of a parliamentary committee to study electoral reform with a special emphasis on gender equity and inclusiveness, a growing number of supporters have come on board the campaign for proportional representation.

asked the parliamentary committee that oversees Britain's Department for International Development.

All this has attracted the attention of one Barry Sheerman, chairman of the parliamentary cross-party committee on children, schools and families, who now wants to haul offending bishops (the good news is that there are at least two) in front of his committee for an inquisitorial going - over (which by the time you read this may have taken place).

Farrow testified before a Canadian parliamentary committee, arguing that a vote for the proposal to allow gay marriage was «in fact a vote for tyranny and ratcheting up the religious rhetoric, that the proposal «has ten horns on its head.»

Last December, a report by a specially convened parliamentary committee found the Eighth Amendment was not fit for purpose and should be repealed.

Brussels, 22 November 2017 — The trilogue agreement for a new organic regulation reached last June was adopted by the Special Committee on Agriculture on Monday and by the Parliamentary Committee on Agriculture today

The parliamentary Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee have published letters written to Michael Gove MP, Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Secretary of State (DEFRA) and Greg Clark MP, Secretary for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), strongly endorsing our position and demanding progress on the Groceries Code Adjudicator (GCA).

The Parliamentary Justice Committee had recommended special consideration for pregnancy and maternity discrimination claims in 2016 but as no government action followed, the trade union Unison took the issue to court.

For example, the Progressive party, the Libertarian party, and Green Party, and the Dixiecrats have all followed essentially the same process in adopting their platforms, although the details of appointments to the relevant committees and parliamentary procedure differ modestly between the various parties.

The National Executive Committee (NEC) of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has scheduled the party's Parliamentary election in the North Tongu Constituency of the Volta Region for Sunday December 20, 2015.

The Special Investigation Committee looking into the Parliamentary allegation has invited the Member of Parliament for North Tongu constituency to testify in the bribery case after he was earlier excluded.

This is the time of the week when we can get some serious work done unimpeded by an MP ricocheting all over the office demanding that we stop what we're doing every two minutes to Google their name, insisting that we write a press release on their recent parliamentary awesomeness, leaving their folder of top secret documents in Committee Room 6, and generally getting in the way of the correspondence, casework, the booking of Commons tours for schools and all the other myriad tasks that Members assume happen by magic.

Professor Walker points (simply as examples) to the growing authority of Parliamentary committees and of various Commissions that have been set up such as the Calman Commission for Scotland and the Silk Commission for Wales.

«The NASUWT has called for a Parliamentary Select Committee enquiry into the cost of education, as it is now increasingly clear that a basic principle of our great public services, that they should be free at the point of use, is being seriously compromised.»

The former chair of the parliamentary standards and privileges committee - which regulates Commons expenses - resigned his position when it emerged he had claimed nearly # 30,000 for a second home in which he rarely stayed.

After many postponements for other reasons, the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the NPP, called for a re-run of all elections in the Manhyia North Constituency from the polling station level to the Constituency executive level before the election of a parliamentary aspirant could take place.