Sentences with phrase «by government departments on»

I don't agree with his views on academies or free schools but the issue of apprenticeships and the lack of leadership shown by government departments on this is the type of issue that Labour shadow ministers should be shouting about wherever they can.

Official figures show almost half a million pounds has been spent by government departments on Christmas festivities in the last five years.

Not exact matches

Two JRs have been brought against government departments in Northern Ireland relating to decisions taken by these departments (on planning and environmental grounds) and Dalradian is a notice party.

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice, on the other hand, determines emergency procedures for its hundred - odd facilities on its own without standards set by state or local governments, and evacuated about 6,000 people due to Hurricane Harvey.

The GDP release also delivered an unwelcome surprise on government spending: budget trimming by federal agencies, especially the defence department, shaved an estimated eight percentage points off growth.

«Qualcomm has become well - known to, and trusted by, the U.S. government,» the Treasury Department wrote to lawyers involved in the deal on Monday.

We'll likely see a lid clamped on government spending, with some department budgets cut by as much as 10 %.

The Justice Department is planning legal action to halt the pending acquisition of Time Warner by telecom giant AT&T if the government and companies can't agree on a settlement, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Lynch leaves office following a nearly two - year tenure marked by massacres carried out by violent extremists, including the shootings at a nightclub in Orlando, Florida; persistent hacking from overseas, including Russian government efforts to meddle in the U.S. presidential election; and an election - season investigation into Hillary Clinton's email server that entangled the Justice Department in presidential politics and led to criticism for her ill - timed meeting on an airport tarmac with former President Bill Clinton.

The government's findings put the city behind New York as the world's second-most unequal city in terms of income, according to the household income distribution report released on Friday by the Census and Statistics Department.

Developed by the New York Fed's Community Affairs department, the Facts & Trends series provides analytical summaries intended to present key facts on topical issues to assist governments, community advocates and others to better understand, monitor and address specific economic concerns within the Federal Reserve's Second District.

In its response, the Department of Finance has agreed to publish fiscal sustainability reports for the federal government on an annual basis, by 2013 at the latest.

This is leading to poor coordination on GHG reduction plans across government departments, and delayed action by industry,» said Elizabeth May, Leader of the Green Party of Canada (MP, Saanich - Gulf Islands).

According to the Justice Department, the data stolen by the two intelligence officers were used by the Russian government to spy on a range of targets,...

However, unlike the present «pilot» program which invites all companies with any new pre-commercial product to apply for its innovation to be trialled within government, the CICP should catalyze Canadian competitiveness through «smart assistance» by focusing on addressing the identified future needs of government agencies and departments through closer collaboration with federal agencies and industry associations.

The Standing Committees of the Public Accounts and on Government Operations and Estimates have also recommended that the «Office of the Comptroller General complete its study of accrual - based budgeting and appropriations and report back by March 31, 2013 its recommendations on whether the Government of Canada should pursue accrual - based budgeting in departments and accrual - based appropriations in its financial reporting system».

However, the information released by the Department of Finance only related to the federal government, even though it promised in 2007 to present analyses on the total government sector.

Also supporting prices is the Commerce Department's decision last week to slap duties on aluminum coming into the U.S. from a number of Chinese producers that were found to be heavily subsidized by the Chinese government.

The Standing Committees of the Public Accounts and on Government Operations and Estimates have also recommended that the «Office of the Comptroller General complete its study of accrual - based budgeting and appropriations and report back by March 31, 2013 its recommendations on whether the Government of Canada should pursue accrual - based budgeting in departments and accrual - based appropriations in in its financial reporting system».

This large difference leads to two conclusions: first, fiscal forecasting by the Department of Finance has lost all credibility, and second, the Government is on track to meet its balanced budget commitment for 2015 - 16 if not sooner.

On Saturday, Trump lashed out on Twitter over a New York Times report that reported speculations that Cohen, his longtime personal lawyer who is under criminal investigation by the Department of Justice, could end up cooperating with government officialOn Saturday, Trump lashed out on Twitter over a New York Times report that reported speculations that Cohen, his longtime personal lawyer who is under criminal investigation by the Department of Justice, could end up cooperating with government officialon Twitter over a New York Times report that reported speculations that Cohen, his longtime personal lawyer who is under criminal investigation by the Department of Justice, could end up cooperating with government officials.

The current Liberal government, led by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, is approaching two years in office, and with a relatively new Minister of Immigration and a swathe of new approaches within the department, now is as good a time as any to reflect on how this government is faring on immigration.

On April 16, 2018, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the United Kingdom's (UK) National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) released a joint Technical Alert (TA) about malicious cyber activity carried out by the Russian Government.

The move to partner with the Ethiopian government will result in the Ethiopian Ministry of science and technology working together with Cardano's African Operations Department (led by John O'Connor) towards the realization of an agritech platform on Cardano's Blockchain.

A spokeswoman declined to answer a series of direct questions from CNBC about his case, instead providing a statement from Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department's Tax Division: «Bradley Birkenfeld was afforded due process of law and sentenced by a federal district court after full consideration of all relevant facts and circumstances, including his admission that he advised wealthy UBS clients on how to conceal their assets from the U.S. government,» she said.

Although E&Y recommended that the Department of Finance should establish a mechanism to increase the distance between the economic and fiscal forecasts presented in the budget and the political process, by either having the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance engage a panel of independent reviewers to critique the government's economic and fiscal forecasts or alternatively establish an independent agency to provide the economic and fiscal forecast.

The CBC reported on November 4, 2014 that a Justice Department internal review concluded Ms. Redford could face criminal charges if allegations about her use of government airplanes are proven by an RCMP investigation.

The Treasury department is also supporting a bill to modernize reviews carried out by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, an inter-agency government committee that evaluates sales of US businesses to foreign entities to determine the impact on national security.

Since the President of the Treasury Board tables the Estimates on behalf of the departments and agencies and is responsible for the overall management of government spending, he should be in a position to provide a detailed and credible explanation as to the difference between what was approved by Parliament and what was actually spent by the individual departments and agencies.

Waterloo, ON (October 20, 2017)-- The leaders of Canada's fastest growing technology companies welcome the opportunity to engage and be consulted by the Department of Finance on the Government of Canada's proposed Tax Fairness plaON (October 20, 2017)-- The leaders of Canada's fastest growing technology companies welcome the opportunity to engage and be consulted by the Department of Finance on the Government of Canada's proposed Tax Fairness plaon the Government of Canada's proposed Tax Fairness plan.

On the economic front, meanwhile, there are concerns about allowing unfettered investment by Chinese state - owned companies given that China has been accused of cyberattacks that have targeted Canadian government departments and Canadian firms.

I would remind you that in comparison on the U.S. State Department list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations 90 % of the list is comprised of Islamic terrorist organizations supported by Muslim clerics and Islamic governments.

The State Department's report largely lines up with the analysis provided by the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), an independent, bipartisan government commission, last month.

On April 8, 2013, the Little Sisters responded to the «Notice of Proposed Rulemaking» from the Department of Health and Human Services by stating that «the federal government should not force us to counteract through the health benefits for our employees the very same Gospel of Life that we attempt to live out in communion and solidarity with the needy elderly.»

The government - appointed board advises the US Department of Agriculture on rules the organic industry must abide by.

There's no precise federal government definition of «free range,» so the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) approves these label claims on a case - by - case basis.

As I mentioned, the U.S. government has been working on this this issue for some time, led by key efforts from the EPA and our U.S. Department of Agriculture.

One of the scientists who was paid by the sugar industry was D. Mark Hegsted, who went on to become the head of nutrition at the United States Department of Agriculture, where in 1977 he helped draft the forerunner to the federal government's dietary guidelines.

IRRI's work in India is supported by contributions from ICAR, the DAC; state agricultural universities (SAUs); the Government of India and its Department of Biotechnology; state agriculture departments (MOA); Asian Development Bank (ADB); United States Agency for International Development (USAID); International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD); Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF); Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR); Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC); International Initiative for Impact Evaluation; SARMAP; German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ); CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF); CGIAR Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security Research Program (CCAFS); Generation Challenge Programme (GCP); Japan's Ministry of Finance; the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council of the UK (BBSRC), the Department for International Development (DFID); and the European Commission (EC).

The Ghanaian government, as part of measures to clean the payroll of «ghost names» introduced a scheme to validate personnel by the various heads of departments to ensure those whose names appeared on their vouchers were indeed at post.

It reverses the process by which a government department has to justify its spending on a project.

«It was not operated by the United States government, but by figures from both Ghanaian and Turkish organised crime rings and a Ghanaian attorney practicing immigration and criminal law,» the State Department said in a statement released late on Friday.

Statistics on handling of requests for information under the Freedom of Information Act by 43 central government bodies, including all major departments of state.

In this connection, we congratulate the US government on launching a Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Initiative, which was spearheaded by the US Department of Justice Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering.

A similarly ambiguous change involves the mooted ban on covert bill initiation by Government departments.

Documents made public by the city's Department of Investigation and city comptroller, respectively, along with the results of Freedom of Information Law requests filed by POLITICO New York, shed new light on the powerful figures — inside and outside state government — who helped Allure Group to take control of the site.

The second problem is that all this is based on an assumption that the Government CAN cut budgets in most departments by 25 %.

Following the submission today of the NASUWT response to the Department for Education consultation on «Proposed Increases to Contributions for Members of the Teachers» Pension Scheme», Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, said: «The Coalition Government should tell the public the truth about why it is seeking to raid the pensions of millions of ordinary public service workers and why it is taxing public sector workers who are acting responsibly by trying to save for their retirement.

The FSB believes that this performance could be improved if the RPC was able, for example, to ensure that issues it identifies in impact assessments were thoroughly addressed by the relevant Government department, and it was able to publish its opinions on all impact assessments.

Proposals published yesterday by the independent Committee on Climate Change, which want emissions on 1990 levels to be halved by 2025, have sparked concerns from some government departments.