Sentences with phrase «authority of parliamentary committees»

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.

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Sir Ian Kennedy, chairman of the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, told The Sunday Times (#) that Parliament should end the system under which a cross-party committee of MPs is able to overrule the findings of an investigation by the standards commissioner.

The Parliamentary Select - Committee is scandalized that in spite of the support it has given GNPC to go ahead and build for its self a deserving Head Office, the oil company has disregarded the Parliamentary goodwill and rather introduced on their blindside, an idea of going to build an Energy City on the land currently occupied by the Workshop Department of the Ghana Police Service and the 37 office of the Driver Vehicular and Licensing Authority (DVLA).

Stretching back to the Neil Hamilton cash for questions saga, the committee on standards in public life was established in 1994 and then in the wake of the expenses scandal, the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) was painfully born.

There was a sudden eruption of outrage at a meeting of the Conservative 1922 committee this afternoon over the new MPs body, Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA).

In November 2012, he was suspended from the Labour Party after the House of Commons Standards and Privileges Committee found that he had submitted 19 false invoices «plainly intended to deceive» the parliamentary expenses authority.

MPs on the parliamentary education committee have heard evidence from headteachers and local authority officers, who warned that vulnerable pupils are being forced out of mainstream schools due to «cliff - edge» accountability measures and a narrowing of the school curriculum.

Richard Colvin, the Canadian diplomat who has testified before a Parliamentary committee concerning his warnings to the government about the torture of Afghan detainees captured by the Canadian military and turned over to Afghan authorities, has released a sixteen - page letter in which he addresses the claims of the government concerning his testimony.