Sentences with phrase «access to government ministers»

«The drinks industry continues to have high - level access to Government ministers and officials while no forum currently exists for the public health community to put forward its case in an environment free from vested interests.

This money nexus is already well - advanced — ranging from the appointment of unelected business leaders to ministerial posts, the various trade - offs with Murdoch, the tobacco companies over Formula 1 racing and others, down to the merging of the political apparatus around Blair and Mandelson with lobbyists selling access to government ministers.

Not exact matches

«Our government's priority is to ensure that Ontario businesses and workers have access to other markets and are treated fairly when operating within those markets.,» International Trade Minister Michael Chan said in a statement.

Prime Minister Theresa May's government appears to be moving towards a «hard Brexit,» whereby Britain would regain control over its borders at the expense of access to the single market.

In his mandate letters to the minister of international trade and to the minister of small business and tourism, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called for the two ministers to «prepare and execute a new Canadian international trade strategy to ensure that programs and approaches are supportive of small and medium - sized enterprises,» specifically making it easier for them to get access to government funding and export - oriented sminister of international trade and to the minister of small business and tourism, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called for the two ministers to «prepare and execute a new Canadian international trade strategy to ensure that programs and approaches are supportive of small and medium - sized enterprises,» specifically making it easier for them to get access to government funding and export - oriented sminister of small business and tourism, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called for the two ministers to «prepare and execute a new Canadian international trade strategy to ensure that programs and approaches are supportive of small and medium - sized enterprises,» specifically making it easier for them to get access to government funding and export - oriented sMinister Justin Trudeau called for the two ministers to «prepare and execute a new Canadian international trade strategy to ensure that programs and approaches are supportive of small and medium - sized enterprises,» specifically making it easier for them to get access to government funding and export - oriented supports.

Thanks to an Access to Information request filed by Blacklock's Reporter, an online newsmagazine, we've learned that the Harper government has been drafting legislation since last November to strip away pension security for federally - regulated workers, despite Finance Minister Joe Oliver's statement this past April that no changes would be made without the consent of the retirees.

The provincial government is streamlining the application process for Manitoba Student Aid and Manitoba Bursary to help more low - income and Indigenous students access funding, Education and Training Minister Ian Wishart announced today.

In fact, last week reports suggested that Industry Minister James Moore and the government had established a target of 2019 for universal access to broadband.

While the Canadian government has yet to respond publicly to the recommendations, my weekly technology law column (Toronto Star version, homepage version) reports that according to documents recently obtained under the Access to Information Act, earlier this year Industry Minister James Moore launched a series of private consultations with Canadian business on intellectual property issues.

Immigration minister Brandon Lewis said: «The government has been clear that our priority is to ensure that victims of this tragedy get the access they need to vital services, irrespective of immigration status.

The Minister who condemned insinuations that the Federal Government is shielding the parents and the media from having access to the girls said there is the need for the girls to be taken through some process to relieve the trauma they passed through while in captivity.

However the prime minister's performance and innovation unit has previously rejected this proposal saying that «numerical access criteria could well undermine the government's policy rather than strengthen it», and pointing out that «it would be possible for the Post Office to close down two - thirds of its rural outlets whilst still ensuring that 99 per cent of people in rural areas lived within three miles of a post office».

The prime minister hired Sir Tim on Wednesday, telling MPs he» «would help us drive the opening up of access to government data in the web over the coming month,» in order for government information to be accessible and useful for the widest possible group of people.

Today David Cameron and his deputy prime minister appointed Hughes the government's «advocate for access to education».

Some of the best political memoirs and diaries have been kept by junior ministers who, nevertheless, had access to the inner workings of government and the Prime Minister — think Alan Clark and Chris Mullin.

The UK Government says there has been «a really big improvement in performance» from its Work Programme, but Employment Minister Esther McVey will meet her counterpart at the Welsh Government soon, to «ensure jobseekers in Wales have access to the same range of help available to those in England.»

Michael Fabricant, the Conservative MP, says Cameron's decision to stop pro-Brexit ministers having access to some government papers is «a huge blunder».

Concerns remain that ministers are not giving Lib Dem MPs more access to government departments as policies are developed.

The report adds: «It seems to us indefensible that the Westminster parliament is denied access to the draft conclusions when some other national parliaments are provided with the draft conclusions by their governments and have the opportunity to question ministers about them before the meeting of the European Council.»

The minister also claimed that the governor's grouse against him following the information available to him was because he (Shittu) frustrated the governor's attempts to «unjustifiably» remove the APC Chairman in Ido Local Government of the State, one Pastor Akintokun, who he (Ajimobi) felt had allowed me to have too much access to the political apparatus in the local gGovernment of the State, one Pastor Akintokun, who he (Ajimobi) felt had allowed me to have too much access to the political apparatus in the local governmentgovernment.

3.30 pm: Teather, Simon Hughes, the deputy leader and the government's advocate for access to education, Steve Webb, the pensions minister, and Lady Hussein - Ece, a commissioner at the equality and human rights commission, take part in a Q&A session on social mobility.

It also states that ministers should relinquish all government material when ceasing to hold a role, and provides rules on access to government papers by former ministers (for example, those writing memoirs may wish to check the documents from their time in office).

Legatum, which is a registered charity, raised eyebrows with its «unparalleled access» to Brexit minister David Davis and other senior government figures.

«Dominic Ayine, the Deputy Minister for Justice who represented the Government in the Supreme Court and opposed my application, and others, went public with the electronic and print media to mount unconstitutional and contumacious attacks and insults on the Court decision and on my person for daring to access the Court.»

Mr Joseph Kofi Adda, the Minister of Sanitation and Water Resources has reaffirmed government's commitment to supporting prudent initiatives aimed at increasing public access to safe water and improved sanitation.

Minister Berry said the Government will soon launch the new Safe and Inclusive Schools Initiative to equip schools with access to resources and support to provide a safe and inclusive environment for LGBTIQ + people.

Irrespective of being committed in the UNHCR activities and human rights promotion in general, the first post-apartheid Minister of the Department of Home Affairs (DHA) declared that the spirit, object and purport of the RDP will not be realised if non-citizens who are pouring into South Africa would be allowed access to the national resources.27 Again, this political attitude was, in 2011, reflected in the statement of the chairperson of the DHA Portfolio Committee, Ms Maggie Maunye, in which she stated that «foreign - nationals coming to South Africa are using up national resources and prevent citizens from enjoying their freedoms ’28 Even though she apologized, this statement reaffirms the spirit of government.

Conservative ministers frequently claim to have improved access to high - performing schools since they entered government in 2010, but the EPI's latest research casts doubt on this assertion.

Young Legal Aid Lawyers, Legal Aid Practitioners Group and Legal Action Group have sent an open letter to the new Prime Minister, Theresa May, welcoming her vision of «a country that works not for a privileged few but for every one of us» and calling on the government to review the impact of legal aid cuts on access to justice.

Former minister of public safety, health and justice in the Liberal governments of Jean Chrétien and Paul Martin and also a former law professor at the University of Alberta, Anne McLellan most recently was appointed chairwoman of the Task Force on the Legalization and Regulation of Cannabis, the panel that submitted recommendations to the federal government on the design of a new system to legalize, strictly regulate and restrict access to cannabis.

Following our meeting on Campaigning for Access to Justice in London, YLAL — together with LAPG and Legal Action Group — sent an open letter to the new Prime Minister, Theresa May, calling on the government to review LASPO as soon as possible.

The NaMo app updates users about achievements of the BJP government, and provides access to the audio of Prime Minister's «Mann Ki Baat».

We are keen on integrating blockchain technology into governance and look forward to our collaboration with Enterprise Ethereum Alliance and provide market access to the community,» J. A. Chowdary, special chief secretary and IT advisor to the chief minister at the Government of Andhra Pradesh (India), stated.

He demonstrated as social services minister a willingness to negotiate, but his approach was clearly to save money, and the government continued to try to legislate to have a four - week waiting period before getting any welfare payments, which is a disaster for those children from families without access to big houses and trust funds.

The Minister for Indigenous Affairs should direct public servants and Government Business Managers to conduct negotiations with Aboriginal communities to obtain access to Aboriginal land for infrastructure and related purposes rather than utilise the extensive powers to compulsorily acquire Aboriginal land through 5 year compulsory leases.

The Social Justice Commissioner also called for the Minister to direct public servants and Government Business Managers to conduct negotiations with Aboriginal communities to obtain access to Aboriginal land for infrastructure and related purposes.

Further, that the Minister direct public servants and Government Business Managers to conduct negotiations with Aboriginal communities to obtain access to Aboriginal land for infrastructure and related purposes.