Sentences with phrase «urgent question on»

It also forces an urgent question on us: what teaching strategies have been shown to «work»?

The test was valid and had gone ahead as planned, Mr Gibb told MPs in response to an urgent question on the matter.

I hope that as the Carnegie Foundation continues to wrestle with this work, it invests time in tackling a far more interesting and urgent question on the horizon: how should we measure time within emerging competency - based systems?

New Home Secretary Sajid Javid responds to an urgent question on the Windrush controversy in the House of Commons

Speaker John Bercow has granted an urgent question on the leaks from the Budget which preceded yesterday's announcement.

In a sign that Speaker John Bercow was also irritated by the announcement, he granted an urgent question on the decision today.

«The integrity of our democracy is at scrutiny around the world,» Labour MP Tom Watson told Theresa May after tabling an urgent question on the matter this afternoon.

1230 - UK Parliament - Frank Field MP is to ask the Urgent Question on Romanians and Bulgarians drawing benefits at 12.30 pm.

The extraordinary development came after Philip Hammond was dragged back to the Commons for the second time in two days to answer an urgent question on Afghan strategy.

As the evidence session took place, immigration minister Damian Green was forced to answer an urgent question on the row in the Commons, prompting accusations of cowardice from the home secretary.

This afternoon in the Commons, Cabinet Office minister Mark Harper was summoned to the Dispatch Box to answer an Urgent Question on the decision to grant the right to vote to prisoners.

The home secretary will face MPs over the Olympic security fiasco this afternoon, after Speaker Bercow approved an urgent question on the matter.

Labour is expected to attempt to force Eric Pickles and work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith to answer an urgent question on the issue today in the Commons.

John Hemmings revealed the name of the footballer in the Commons during an urgent question on super-injunctions.

Applying these advances will help to address urgent questions on macroecological dynamics of temperate, mesic forests as climate change intensifies over the next century.

Not exact matches

Vaden says, «When you ask yourself that question, you will find that you immediately feel less pressure to only focus on the urgent things that are pressing today or this week and you instead gain a perspective to start thinking about what you can be doing now to make a positive impact on the future.

By focusing on strategy, it may be that questions about the turning of the cycle become a little less urgent.

And I will note that the movie's final passage focuses on an urgent question — Is romance worth all you have to sacrifice for it?

If the pressure toward globalization of our thinking in practical matters continues to increase, as it almost inevitably will, it can only intensify the spiritual questions that our common fate on this earth raises in new and urgent ways.

These convictions posit the necessity — before a church lobby can exist, before the mobilization of opinion behind specific policies can be achieved — to create a process for broadening and deepening public debate on urgent questions.

As the years go on, and the Church continues to flounder in the West and to be split over fundamental questions of morality, Fr Holloway can be seen as a prophetic voice, whose message is becoming more and more urgent if we are not to lose the battle with atheism completely.

Responding earlier to an urgent question in the House of Commons, food minister David Heath said that retailers and suppliers were «on course» to provide «meaningful results» on testing of beef products on Friday.

«It's in no - ones interest to rush to judgement on this,» attorney general Dominic Grieve told the Commons, following an urgent question from MP John Whittingdale.

It was there again on Tuesday, as he answered an urgent question from Tory rising star Tom Tugendhat on the Salisbury poisoning and Britain's relations with Russia.

Some of the shine was taken off that choreography, however, when pesky Jeremy Corbyn — and even more pesky John Bercow — agreed while the PM was on his way to Wiltshire that the Labour leader should be allowed to ask an urgent question in the Commons.

In an over-subscribed Urgent Question debate in the Commons yesterday, on the Palestinian statehood bid, foreign office minister Alistair Burt (standing in for Hague who was in Libya) refused to be drawn on whether the government would officially support a Palestinian bid for UN membership.

All this faces us all with an urgent question: Which side are you on?

Further to my report earlier and that of Lee Rotherham on Monday about Herman Van Rompuy's Task Force on EU Economic Governance, Treasury MInister Mark Hoban came to the Commons this afternoon to answer an Urgent Question from Bill Cash on the issue.

Bernard Jenkin, a leading Tory Eurosceptic, led the rebellion with an urgent question to the government, saying the limits went further than those imposed on ministers in 1975 and created a worse atmosphere.

One Urgent Question today from @johnmannmp on regulating complaints about fellow #MPs.

Blowing his top My MP was quite keen to get in on an Urgent Question that saw a certain PM hauled before the Commons to make a statement about a certain culture secretary and a certain deal to buy BSkyB.

The Brexit ministers hoped No 10 would face strong pressure to back down on the Heywood guideline on Monday following signs that the Speaker would grant an urgent question to Bernard Jenkin.

He said he intended to ask an urgent question in the House of Commons on Monday to urge ministers to reveal any guarantees that they may have given.

But we're going to make this a very urgent effort, and Aimee will have the ability to track each and every one of the schools, the ability to call in the school leaders on a rotating basis as is done at CompStat, question them, find out what they need, push them harder, make sure they're doing their job, and if she doesn't see what she likes, just as at the NYPD, there's a whole host of actions that can be taken to improve the situation and to address the leadership dynamics,» Mr. de Blasio said.

John Bercow has remarkably granted an emergency SO24 debate to Labour on money resolutions based on exact same Urgent Question he granted to Afzal Khan last week.

«While there is an urgent operational need to ascertain information from Musa Kusa with respect to the present conflict in Libya, the relevant authorities, including the police, should in time be able to ask him all the necessary questions about Libya's violent history, not least on British soil.»

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The urgent question is still going on, and more Tory Brexit MPs have been complaining about Cameron's rules relating to what ministers can and can not see.

21 MPs who have been on Caabu delegations to Palestine spoke in a parliamentary debate following an Urgent Question tabled by Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry on 15 May 2018 on the issue of violence against protesters in Gaza.

One of those party leaders, the Green MP, Caroline Lucas, will tomorrow table an urgent question in the Commons on the Newsnight allegations, including those involving Bercow.

Welsh Lib Dem leader Kirsty Williams challenged Labour's First Minister in the Senedd on the decision, following an urgent question submitted by her today.

The party's plans would see clear criteria to be used by the Presiding Officer when ruling on urgent questions laid down in Standing Orders.

Jim Murphy nailed Liam Fox again with another urgent question in the Commons, forcing the defence secretary back to the floor of the house to explain why RAF personnel were being made redundant on their return from Afghanistan.

Recent work by Paul Farmer and others challenges bioethics to address urgent questions of global health equity not only on the level of method but in the form of strategic partnerships with the most vulnerable populations.

To respond to these and similarly urgent requests, we have created an On - call Scientists Hotline made up of especially experienced On - call Scientist volunteers each with an exemplary record of contributing to human rights questions in a wide breadth of fields.

Based on going though all the information of the site about probiotics and microbiome, three questions that came up repeatedly and really need an urgent answer for someone on a whole food plant based diet:

The movie depicts a counselor who seems to be on call around the clock for Mitty (to answer such urgent questions as «should I send her a wink?»

I have to give Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky a lot of credit, not just as documentarians carrying microphone on their hands and camera on their shoulders pointing and focusing to its unwary subject, but as urgent human beings, not there just to cyclically perform «ask and hear», «question and answer», but to «listen and heed», «immerse and absorb».

Knowing that teachers will turn to their professional networks for advice, an urgent question for the field is: Are there ways to enrich those networks with more systematic evidence on the quality and impact of digital tools?

It invites educators to fight for a position (the idea that children's individual needs should be met) that nobody opposes, when they ought to be focusing on more urgent questions: Assuming that we all want instruction to be more responsive to students, what should we do with the adults who work in schools?