Sentences with phrase «affairs committee»

Read the full report by the home affairs committee criticising the police for their original investigation into phone - hacking.

The Campaign Against Anti-Semitism also called for her to step down from the Home Affairs Committee's anti-semitism inquiry.

The chair of the home affairs committee will include the Guardian's decision to publish alongside a broader counter-terrorism investigation, following a request from former defence secretary Liam Fox.

11:15 - HM inspector of constabulary Sir Dennis O'Connor, before home affairs committee, on: policing large scale disorder

In 1999, the Environment, Transport and Regional Affairs Committee warned that the Landfill Tax had had hardly any effect on the disposal of active waste, but improvement in recycling technology and a rising tax rate has addressed this at least in part.

Multiple failures at the UK Border Agency (UKBA) are ruining the government's reputation, the home affairs committee has concluded.

Home affairs committee chair Keith Vaz told Mr Starmer that his letter contradicts what the committee was told by Mr Yates last week.

The foreign secretary has been criticised for failing to give evidence to the foreign affairs committee (FAC) about Britain's relations with the EU.

The bill is currently in the hands of the Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee.

Mr Cameron's insistence that the home affairs committee is the best vehicle for inquiries reflects the views of those who wish to view the riots as being simple examples of criminality.

The comments from the deputy prime minister will be music to the ears of Keith Vaz, chair of the home affairs committee, who has long campaigned for a stronger political response to video game violence.

Blue Cross is pleased to see that the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee (Efra) is launching an inquiry into the Dangerous Dogs Act...

The difficulty is this — and I am really quite keen on this,» he told MPs on the Commons» home affairs committee last week.

Keith Vaz, chair of the home affairs committee, takes over.

The home affairs committee report comes amid sea - changes in the international outlook for drug liberalisation.

The matter is referred to foreign affairs committee and we give them a maximum of one week to be able to come with a report on it.»

The comments come amid an unprecedented push for liberalisation in parliament, with a home affairs committee report calling for a deeper look into the consequences of decriminalisation of drugs.

But in their response to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's annual human rights report, the foreign affairs committee urges the government to consider its policies.

The bill is currently in the hands of the Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee, but Kadaga has demanded that the committee report back to the House with its recommendations by November 20.

The home affairs committee will look at the government's proposed safeguards - police would have to argue their case for further detention before a senior judge at regular intervals - and also at alternatives to this detention.

The chair of the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee finds the Donmar's new musical Committee a fair and compelling portrayal of the hearing on the collapse of Kids...

The Commons home affairs committee will look at the strength of the arguments put forward by the government and police to justify extending the detention period from its current limit of two weeks.

The senator referred the bill to the Senate Veterans, Homeland Security and Military Affairs Committee in January, but in promoting his bill he made mention of a recent report by state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli's office that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority was many years behind and over-budget in its capital security program to protect the subways, buses, trains and bridges.

It was commissioned by the European parliament's constitutional affairs committee.

Washington (CNN)- House Veterans Affairs Committee Chairman Jeff Miller says the response by the Department of Veterans Affairs to a subpoena from his committee over allegations of deadly health care delays has been «very weak» and «unacceptable.»

From Westminster he also developed an international role as a member of the Nato parliamentary assembly and later, from 2005, as a much - travelled member of the Commons» foreign affairs committee.

In an article from Newsday, a DCCC spokesman accused Zeldin of missing two - thirds of the Veterans Affairs Committee's hearings.

The Home Secretary, who faced questions from the Commons Home Affairs Committee, said there have been no wrongful Windrush deportations.

The MP for North Tongu and Ranking Member on Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee, Samuel Okudjeto Ablakwa has commended Citi FM's support for Sierra Leone following a mudslide disaster in that country.

A Member of Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee, Reverend John Ntim Fordjour has called on MPs to take a stand against any attempt to legalize homosexuality in Ghana.

Van Bramer, who chairs the Council's cultural affairs committee, where the debate over library funding has largely been

The Ranking Member on the Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee of Parliament, Inusah Fuseini, has called on the Chief Justice to hurriedly determine whether a prima facie case has been established against the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC) Charlotte Osei, in order to clear any lingering doubts about the integrity of the Commission's leadership.

U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin, a freshman Republican from Long Island, sits on the Veterans Affairs Committee in the House of Representatives.

«Despite a number of amendments being tabled during the process, some of which came from the Assembly's Constitutional and Legislative Affairs Committee, the Minister has refused to accept our recommendations.

«We are astounded at the length of time it has taken for News International to cooperate with the police but we are appalled that this is advanced as a reason for failing to mount a robust investigation,» wrote members of the House of Commons Home Affairs Committee in the report.

The Home Affairs Committee concluded that British police focused too closely on the actions of Goodman and Mulcaire, which former counter terrorism chief Peter Clarke said stemmed from a lack of resources.

, the chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, and Rep. Eliot Engel (D - N.Y.), the top Democrat on the Foreign Affairs Committee, both flew on Air Force One with Obama from Andrews Air Force Base to Tel Aviv.

Ashley is a member of the Industry, Research & Energy Committee and the Economic & Monetary Affairs Committee in the European Parliament.

Previous horse carriage legislation has been considered by the Consumer Affairs Committee, but its chair, Councilman Rafael Espinal, opposes the ban and could have kept the legislation from the floor.

(CNN)- Major veterans» groups this Memorial Day weekend harshly criticized the top Republican on the Senate Veterans» Affairs Committee after he charged that the leaders of the service organizations are too cozy with embattled VA Secretary Eric Shinseki and won't call for him to resign despite allegations of mismanagement and wrongdoing in his department.

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WBEN)- As the Erie County Water Authority continues to face criticism following the revelation that Executive Director Earl Jann has a golden parachute agreement where he would receive between $ 300,000 and $ 400,000 if he is forced out of his role, the Erie County Legislature's Government Affairs Committee requested representatives from the authority to show up to Thursday's 11 a.m. meeting.

Speaking at his home in Abuja while receiving a report from the Strategy Review and Inter-Party Affairs Committee of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), he said that he had the strong belief that for a nation to grow, -LSB-...]

At the beginning of November, the UK parliament's foreign affairs committee (which has a Conservative majority) issued a report that was highly sceptical of the case for extending airstrikes against the terrorist group beyond Iraq into Syria.

In January, the DCCC highlighted allegations that Zeldin missed more than half of full House Foreign Affairs Committee hearings in his first year in Congress, that were first reported by the New York Post.

• Keith Vaz, the chairman of the Commons home affairs committee, has said he is «appalled» by the length of delays at border control at Heathrow.

Welsh Liberal Democrat leader Jane Dodds appeared yesterday before Parliament's Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee's inquiry into Brexit and devolution.

Recchia had sent his regrets to the Bay Ridge Community Council, the sponsor of the Sept. 23 debate held at Holy Angels Catholic Academy, according to Alexander Conti, chairman of the council's Public Affairs Committee.

Jenny Willott, MP for Cardiff Central, has welcomed the UK Government's response to a report on cross border road and rail links between England and Wales by the Welsh Affairs Committee.

Democrats said they are launching robocalls Tuesday to voters on Long Island's East End that charge their Republican congressman, Lee Zeldin, has missed two - thirds of the hearings in his assignment to the House Veterans Affairs Committee.

In Wisconsin, Sen. Ron Johnson, the chairman of the Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, who is locked in a tough race with Democratic former Sen. Russ Feingold, called for a briefing from Comey no later than Friday, four days before the election.