Sentences with phrase «bill over parliament»

Conservative rebels inflicted a humiliating defeat on Theresa May in the House of Commons as they backed an amendment to her flagship European Union withdrawal bill over parliament's right to a meaningful vote on the Brexit deal.

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Like all E.U. law, the bill that passed Tuesday is a messy compromise hashed out over months of three - way negotiating between parliament, the Commission, and the member states.

But May is also facing pressure from the many pro-Remain lawmakers in her ranks, who are up in arms over a new «EU Withdrawal» bill that will effectively allow the government sweeping powers to change laws already in force without consulting parliament, once the U.K. leaves the EU.

There's a school of thought around Parliament Hill that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Finance Minister Bill Morneau have stumbled unwittingly into the battle now raging over their proposal to seriously tighten up the rules on small - business taxation.

For a bill that took over 10 years to move beyond the walls of the Parliament, the preparation on - ground was one that couldn't boast of as it took a lot of time.

Over a year since it was forced through Parliament by the Harper government, Canadians will soon have a chance to finally overturn Bill C - 51.

His conscience — and perhaps also his resentment of the long years waiting for the throne — propels him into a conflict with Parliament over a bill to restrict the tabloid news.

The so called «repeal» bill being scrutinised in parliament for the first time will itself be repealed at certain key points against her will, merely the beginning of a stormy parliamentary journey over which she has limited control.

[51] Michael Millar, writing in The Spectator, was of the opinion that «the Equality Bill before parliament today gives employers the right to choose an ethnic minority candidate or female candidate over a white male, specifically because they are an ethnic minority or female.»

Control over business rates is partially devolved but is expected to be transferred to the Welsh Government in full through the Wales Bill currently being considered by Parliament.

The Government has so far suffered a series of humiliating defeats at the hands of the Lords over the EU Withdrawal Bill — with peers backing plans to remain part of a customs union with the EU and to give Parliament more say over the final Brexit deal.

The Cabinet is split over the future of the Royal Mail it has emerged as Harriet Harman was revealed as having attempted to delay the publication of tomorrow's bill before Parliament that will part - privatise the service.

Shadow health secretary Andy Burnham warned it would be an «outrageous insult to parliament» if the government succeeded in keeping the register secret while the health and social care bill completes its passage through parliament over the next ten days.

There were heated exchanges on the floor of Parliament on Wednesday over the laying of the Office of the Prosecutor Bill.

«He said; «The party supports the establishment of a Heritage Fund as proposed in the bill and encourages Parliament to provide the necessary precautions to ensure that its value is not eroded over time.

The health and social care bill's slow progress through parliament comes amid an ongoing battle over the transition risk register, a currently secret document detailing the government's assessment of the potential negative side - effects of its proposed changes.

So Labour is working with the present government, starting with the Bill currently going through Parliament, to resolve the problems over copyrighting, piracy and intellectual property.

Whitehall negotiations are currently ongoing over whether to toughen up community sentences in the legal aid, sentencing and punishment of offenders bill, which is currently working its way through parliament.

An attempt by Parliament in December 2016 to finally pass the bill, hit a snag as the minority members in the House raised red flag over aspects of the bill.

One of the key problems in Parliament which is little understood, but which hugely undermines its effectiveness, is the Whips» stranglehold over the scrutiny of Government bills.

While on recess, the joint committees on Communication and Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs have been working on the over decade old bill which has been moving in and out of parliament over the years.

The Bill has been in and out of Parliament over the last decade, but has not received...

The Bill, which has been in and out of Parliament for over a decade, is yet to be passed despite its enormous benefit of enhancing access to information in the country.

Anti corruption campaigner, Sydney Casely Hayford has suggested that it will be unnecessary for Parliament to pass the Right to Information (RTI) Bill, which has consistently been before the House for well over a decade.

The bill was laid before Cabinet after the last Parliament failed to pass it, although the passage has been pending for over a decade.

Contrast this with your approach to House of Lords reform, where a draft bill will be published before the end of the year, which will then be subject to full pre-legislative scrutiny by a joint select committee over several months before a bill is formally presented to Parliament.

Public debate over the ethical issues raised by medical advances is likely to be rekindled in France by three bills being presented to parliament in the coming weeks.

Many fear a new bill making its way through the Russian parliament will cripple science in that nation, handing it over to government bureaucrats with no scientific background

Over five years have passed since the Academies Bill passed through Parliament with the speed usually reserved for national emergency followed by unrelenting propaganda pushing academy conversion yet still 74 % of schools in England are not academies.

Initially drafted in 2003 with the support and input of NGOs, the bill had been changed so much by the time it first arrived in parliament in 2010 that 73 leading civil - society organizations said it would «open the door for irreversible destructions [of] the country's nature» by allowing land uses such as mining, urbanization, tourism facilities, dam construction, and other forms of energy development to have priority over protection.

The decision breaks the deadlock over the Government's 11 bills introducing an emissions trading scheme (ETS), which were defeated in Parliament last Thursday and are not due to be reintroduced until November.

The Asian semiconductor powerhouse, whose parliament passed in June a crucial renewable energy bill which seeks to add between 6,500 and 10,000 megawatts of installed renewable energy over the next 20 years, announced last week its goal to raise its solar panel capacity from five megawatts to 1,000 megawatts by 2025.

In December 1918, Parliament passed a bill to establish a Commission with both regulatory and investigative powers, including taking over the enforcement of the existing Electric Light and Power Act, which regulated all electricity generators and distributors.

It confirms that whether or not a Bill becomes an Act is ultimately a matter for Parliament rather than the government, although it is a matter over which the government has much influence given its control of the Parliamentary timetable and its majority in the elected chamber.

She adds that as the recently published Child Maintenance and Other Payments Bill passes through Parliament over the next few weeks, Resolution is calling on MPs to ensure that it sets out clearly the rights to redress for those failed to date and for any errors in the future.

Although Stephen Harper threatened over the recent minority government parliaments that he would regard the defeat of a variety of proposals, and even defeat of bills in the Senate as votes of non-confidence, historically and constitutionally there are only two kinds of parliamentary proposals that constitute votes of confidence (or non-confidence should the proposals fail).

The provisions governing the age at which a child can consent to the processing of their personal data for Information Society Services has caused some concern during the Bill's passage through parliament; it is ressonable to assume that the issue will come up again once the Bill reaches its final stage of the Parliamentary process in the House of Commons in light of developments over the past week.

[14] Nevertheless, the English Bill of Rights remains an important constitutional document, more for enumerating the rights of Parliament over the monarchy than for its clause concerning a right to have arms.

The Withdrawal Bill will repeal the 1972 European Communities Act, which took Britain into the EU, and meant that European law took precedence over laws passed in the UK Parliament.

The Children and Families Bill is expected to be introduced early in 2013 and carry over into the third session of this parliament for royal assent.

Recent months have seen the start of the national Adoption Support Fund, the introduction of the Education and Adoption Bill in Parliament, the launch of a Regional Adoption Agencies support programme, and the announcement of a new fund for central payment of the inter-agency fee over a twelve month period.