Sentences with phrase «by cabinet committee»

Instead, the voting rights of Scottish MPs will be curtailed — though exactly how is to be hammered out by a Cabinet committee headed by Commons leader William Hague.

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To ensure that the Government delivers on its commitments, a new results and delivery approach will be implemented that includes the establishment of the Cabinet Committee on Agenda, Results and Communications, chaired by the Prime Minister, and a Results and Delivery Unit, housed in the Privy Council Office.

Flanked by Speaker of the House Paul Ryan and House Ways and Means Committee chairman Rep. Kevin Brady (R - TX), President Donald Trump speaks about tax reform legislation in the Cabinet Room at the White House, November 2, 2017 in Washington, DC.

In his appearance before a parliamentary committee, Facebook Canada's public policy head Kevin Chan was questioned by New Democrat MP Charlie Angus on why he had yet to register as a lobbyist, given the fact he's met senior cabinet members, including Finance Minister Bill Morneau.

These include holding open Cabinet meetings at least once a month, which will be broadcasted on the Internet; giving Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) a greater role by reforming the Legislative committee system and allowing government MLAs to vote freely (as opposed to voting according to the Party's preferences); restricting the tenure of a premier to two (four - year) terms; holding a Citizen's Assembly on electoral reform to examine alternative models for electing MLAs; instituting a system by which citizens can recall elected officials; and instituting elections for all government boards and commissions.

The vice president with either the majority of the cabinet or a congressionally appointed committee (not currently existing) can remove him by deciding he is unable to perform.

@Stuart White: The Cabinet Office rule - book (draft of chapter 6, approved by the House of Commons Select Committee on Justice and drawn up in consultation, I understand, with the party leaders and with constitutional experts) lays it down that after an election the incumbent prime minister has a duty, as well as a right, to remain in office until there's clear and incontrovertible evidence that someone else is definitely in a position to command majority support in the house of commons.

The committee has the power to suspend decisions put forward by the metro mayor and combined authority cabinet.

William Hague is leading a cabinet committee that is due to produce proposals about how to proceed with the so - called West Lothian question (it is being boycotted by Labour, who see the issue as a trap designed to make it harder for them to govern).

We'll look at the main areas being suggested for further devolution in Scotland by the Smith Commission — powers over the economy and the Welfare State — and examine how they apply to Wales; and then look at how devolution to England and the recommendations of UK Government's Cabinet committee under William Hague will impact on the workings of the UK, and what its future should be.

CIHT welcome the decision by Prime Minister David Cameron to launch a targeted review of the resilience of the transport network to extreme weather events, announced at yesterday's first meeting of the new Cabinet Committee on flooding.

After proposals for the new UK - EU customs arrangements were discussed by Brexit cabinet committee yesterday, KPMG's Customs Lead, Bob Jones said...

He has also proposed an English regions cabinet committee and the offer of city regions to be led by directly elected mayors.

But later in the day, the Cabinet Office minister Matt Hancock was given a rough ride by Eurosceptic Conservative MPs in the Commons, as he sought to justify the decision; and Heywood was forced to explain his thinking to MPs on the public administration committee.

Home Secretary Theresa May chaired a meeting of the Cabinet Office Briefing Room committee (COBRA)[77] attended by Defence Secretary Philip Hammond, the Mayor of London Boris Johnson, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan - Howe, the Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Cressida Dick and other unnamed members of the intelligence agencies.

A dippy, determined young girl from an unexceptional background, driven on by her father, faces snobby, sexist selection committees, makes it to Parliament and into the cabinet.

The Parliamentary Labour Party voted to abolish Shadow Cabinet elections in 2011, [94] ratified by the National Executive Committee and Party Conference.

The Prime Minister broke new ground by inviting Mr Ashdown to sit on a joint cabinet committee, and there will now be questions about whether his successor will be such an enthusiastic visitor to Downing Street.

The committee concludes that the independent adviser lacks independence in practice, as he is appointed personally by the prime minister, is supported from within the Cabinet Office, and can not instigate his own investigations.

Under the proposals of an unelected committee chaired by Margaret Beckett, the PLP looks set to abandon a requirement that an incoming Labour PM include elected shadow cabinet members in the new cabinet.

The All Progressives Congress Appeal Committee led by Alhaji Abdullahi Bello has dismissed an appeal filed by the Osun State Commissioner for Cabinet Matters, Senator Mudashir Hussein, an aspirant for the vacant seat of Osun West Senatorial primary election earlier scheduled to hold today June 12 2017.

The report by the committee of public accounts, into the Cabinet Office's effort to improve shared services, claimed the government «lacks accurate information of what corporate services cost and how they perform».

Committee wants answers about $ 139,000 doors, in latest showdown over spending by Trump's Cabinet officials

Andrew Tyrie said today's confirmation by Cabinet Office minister Ken Clarke that the investigation would instead be handed over to Parliament's controversial Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) was «a mistake».

Too few cabinet ministers and other top public sector appointees are held to account, either at appointment or recall, by Select Committees.

«Shadow cabinet elections will be considered by Labour's national executive committee as part of a wider party democratisation at a special meeting next month.»

The Olusola Oke Campaign Committee has cried out to President Muhammadu Buhari on the alleged plans by members of his cabinet to surreptitiously release the sum of Seven Billion Naira (N7 billion) to the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate in Ondo State, Mr Rotimi Akeredolu from a bogus N10 billion infrastructural contract slated for Owo community of the State to perfect plans to rig the November 26, 2016 election in the State.

The Olusola Oke Campaign Committee has cried out to President Muhammadu Buhari on the alleged plans by members of his cabinet to surreptitiously release the sum...

The agreement went through cabinet, the committee on mines and energy recommended by consensus to plenary and was passed by parliament.

However, the term used in the rule change was the «Parliamentary Committee» of the Parliamentary Labour Party which used to be the name by which the shadow cabinet was referred to in its standing orders.

I understand that this letter reflects Cameron's frustration that in the past, decisions have been taken by the relevant Cabinet committee and then disappeared into a bureaucratic fog.

News of the cabinet backlash comes on the eve of publication on Monday of a report by an all - party committee on Lords reform.

To guide the efforts, Bush created a cabinet - level global change committee headed by the secretaries of energy and commerce in collaboration with the director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

A very large distance separates a committee hearing from a law on the books, and a deep chasm divides a sympathetic hearing by a Cabinet secretary from effective protection of workers.

Building on earlier work done by the Academic Cabinet, a faculty committee, Lagemann made the development of a case - based core curriculum one of her first priorities as dean.

The honours list is put together by nine independent committees set up by the Cabinet Office, and this year there are equal numbers of male and female recipients.

3) in 2005 stated that at an Environment and Energy Cabinet Committee meeting the Chancellor and the Secretaries of State for Transport and Trade & Industry pressed for a promise to reduce CO2 emissions by an unachievable 20 per cent by 2010 to be abandoned.

Major changes in immigration policy have historically been achieved through legislation and regulations, which would normally involve public consultation, task forces, discussion papers, committee hearings, and parliamentary debate, as well as consultation of regulations before approval by Cabinet.

In 2010, ICBC's enabling legislation, the Insurance Corporation Act, was amended by Christy Clark's BC Liberal government to allow the Cabinet Committee to compel ICBC to pay specified dividends into the provincial treasury.

ACC or the Appointments Committee of Cabinet has accepted the proposal made by the Department of Financial Services to appoint V K Sharma as the chairman of LIC, for a period of 5 years, in fixed payment of Rs. 80,000 / -.

There's a joint effort by the Work and Pensions and Business committees with Carillion's top brass, and, intriguingly, the Liaison Committee, the super committee of all the select committee chairs, has an evidence session with David Lidington the Cabinet Office minister coordinating the government's response to CCommittee, the super committee of all the select committee chairs, has an evidence session with David Lidington the Cabinet Office minister coordinating the government's response to Ccommittee of all the select committee chairs, has an evidence session with David Lidington the Cabinet Office minister coordinating the government's response to Ccommittee chairs, has an evidence session with David Lidington the Cabinet Office minister coordinating the government's response to Carillion.

Both Ministers will report to the Aboriginal Affairs Cabinet Sub Committee, chaired by Mr Collier.

They can do this by establishing task forces, forming a children's cabinet in their administration, and appointing a business advisory committee.

The government established an inter-departmental steering committee led by the Office of Native Title within the Department of Premier and Cabinet.