Sentences with phrase «by parliamentary committees»

They could do with changing the culture in the Department itself, of a) wasting money on pet projects like Free Schools that don't materialise or need vast debts written off, b) failing to assess risks of funding reforms and provide enough funding for pupil number increases and cost pressures (NAO report) and c) inability to reconcile accounts for academies and LA schools even when challenged formally by Parliamentary Committees.

Orme is one of the mose visible DfE officials because he regularly gives evidence to inquiries by parliamentary committees.

That approval is usually given by June 23rd, after examination by Parliamentary committees.

That approval is usually given in June, after examination by Parliamentary committees.

Brussels, 22 November 2017 — The trilogue agreement for a new organic regulation reached last June was adopted by the Special Committee on Agriculture on Monday and by the Parliamentary Committee on Agriculture today

Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg has been called on by a parliamentary committee to give evidence about the use of personal data by Cambridge Analytica.

And it doesn't seem the current probe being undertaken by a parliamentary committee to ascertain whether or not the Energy Minister, Mr. Boakye Agyarko, paid a bribe to the members of the appointment committee to approve his nomination.

One might expect parliamentarians to be queuing up to protest that this looks very much like an attack on freedom of speech within Parliament, and an infringement of Parliamentary privilege, and therefore these events should be investigated by a Parliamentary committee, preferably a joint committee of both Houses, and both Jacqui Smith and Lord Ahmed should be summoned as witnesses to explain themselves.

On 5 May, both plans were approved by the parliamentary committee on higher education, science and technology.

Rather than the Muir Russell panel «thoroughly investigating» an issue highlighted by the Parliamentary Committee, there is no record of Jones» answering a single question about the request to «delete all emails» or the equally damning instruction that Briffa «should say» (untruthfully) that there had been no such correspondence between him and Wahl.

The draft bill had amendments proposed for it by a parliamentary committee — to include the government's own definition of low carbon, to guarantee the independence of the Climate Advisory Council, and to include the principle of climate justice — none of which were included in the final legislation.

Alexander Nix, chief executive of Cambridge Analytica, was questioned by a Parliamentary committee last month about using data to target messages.

Not exact matches

In testimony before a parliamentary committee, Jeff Silvester of B.C. - based AggregateIQ also insisted his company's services, which he said include digital ads, website creation and software development, are already widely used by Canada's major political parties.

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.

In a resignation letter to May, Amber Rudd said she had inadvertently misled a parliamentary committee last Wednesday by denying the government had targets for the deportation of illegal migrants.

«What has happened has happened and there is that parliamentary process with the public accounts committee and the various investigations by respective agencies.

Following the May 28 hearings (held following a motion by the NDP), the parliamentary committee has not filed a report with the federal government and the government has not tabled any official response.

The budget was restored only after the PBO submitted an «action plan» in response to recommendations made by the joint House and Senate Committee for the Parliamentary Library.

The chairman of a U.K. parliamentary committee announced Tuesday he was requesting that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who has remained silent for days, appear before the panel to supplement prior testimony by the company's executives.

The Liberals recently voted down a study of minimum income when the proposal was raised in parliamentary committee by NDP MP Guy Caron.

Unlike the Public Accounts, the Estimates have changed very little over time, even though the Estimates provide the details of the spending requests by departments and agencies, which parliamentary committees review and Parliament votes on.

A UK parliamentary committee has published a cache of documents provided to it by an ex CA employee, Chris Wylie, who gave public testimony in front of the committee at an oral hearing earlier this week.

In addition, by including many major policy initiatives, it precludes substantive policy reviews by the appropriate Parliamentary Committee and by Parliament itself.

By including these «tax expenditures» as spending, they would be subject to more scrutiny and review by applicable Parliamentary CommitteeBy including these «tax expenditures» as spending, they would be subject to more scrutiny and review by applicable Parliamentary Committeeby applicable Parliamentary Committees.

The first Omnibus bill engendered considerable discussion and hostility because, by including major policy changes in the Bill, it precluded substantive policy reviews by appropriate Parliamentary Committees, and indeed limited review by Parliament itself.

That is a key takeaway from a damning 106 - page report by a bi-partisan parliamentary committee into the goings - on at 1Malaysia Development Berhad.

In commenting on the information provided by the Government to the House of Commons on the costs of the fighter jets, the proposed crime legislation and the projections of corporate profits, the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) did provide an assessment of these estimates [2] in their report to the Committee.

During a parliamentary committee hearing Thursday, Morneau was repeatedly pressed by Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre to disclose how much the carbon tax would cost Canadian families.

Former Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page called for this system because it puts spending decisions back in the hands of Parliament; and in fact, Minister Clement has already examined this proposal in response to a recommendation by the House of Commons Committee on Government Operations and Estimates.

In addition, it would provide for more in - depth scrutiny of the Estimates by the respective Parliamentary committees.

All this has attracted the attention of one Barry Sheerman, chairman of the parliamentary cross-party committee on children, schools and families, who now wants to haul offending bishops (the good news is that there are at least two) in front of his committee for an inquisitorial going - over (which by the time you read this may have taken place).

The unusual step was taken by the responsible parliamentary committee of asking those who were opposed to the innovation to prove that it was wrong rather than expecting the supporters of change to justify the change [8].

Last December, a report by a specially convened parliamentary committee found the Eighth Amendment was not fit for purpose and should be repealed.

Nearly three - quarters of the seafood consumed by Australians is shipped from overseas, leading seafood producers told a parliamentary committee examining country of origin labelling laws.

The Surrey MP referred himself to the parliamentary standards committee after reports he had directed # 105,500 of public money towards a research company run by him and his wife.

This is the time of the week when we can get some serious work done unimpeded by an MP ricocheting all over the office demanding that we stop what we're doing every two minutes to Google their name, insisting that we write a press release on their recent parliamentary awesomeness, leaving their folder of top secret documents in Committee Room 6, and generally getting in the way of the correspondence, casework, the booking of Commons tours for schools and all the other myriad tasks that Members assume happen by magic.

This was highlighted last year by the International Development Committee's enquiry into parliamentary strengthening.

But it later emerged that the party's rules allow the selection of a parliamentary candidate to be decided by its national executive council in consultation with the constituency committee in the case of by - elections.

Facts, politically best handled in parliamentary committee rooms, in Whitehall and in seminars, were the first casualty in the Referendum, dismissed by Gove along with «experts».

The power, which was compared by human rights groups to the policies of Saddam Hussein, was rejected by the peers last month when they voted to send the clause to a parliamentary committee.

Unless and until Labour achieves some sort of coherence, it is a peculiarity of this parliament that opposition to a government with a truly precarious majority, arises in the oddest places: powerful individual performers, such as Keir Starmer and Angela Eagle, or dynamic parliamentary committees, such as the Women's Committee, chaired by Maria Miller.

The intelligence and security committee is the only parliamentary committee, whose members are nominated directly by the prime minister, with Conservative MP Malcolm Rifkind the current chair.

«Appalling» decision - making and a «catalogue of errors» are the reasons eight helicopters bought by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) in 2001 are still not airworthy, according to a parliamentary committee.

The lawyers, led by an official at the Prime Minister's office, tried to turn natural resource provision upside down in favour of the vessel owners, but to its credit the parliamentary committee in charge restored the original language of the clause proposed by the Constitutional Council.

Parliamentary scrutiny of the Brexit negotiations would be conducted by a Committee charged with this responsibility in each House of Parliament.

The Parliamentary, Constitutional and Legal Committee of Parliament last week rejected a request by the government for the office of the Special Prosecutor's Bill to be passed under a certificate of urgency.

Led by Roy Stone, Private Secretary to the Chief Whip and Mike Winter, Head of the Leader of the House's office, they operate in the dark, agents of the secret state of the most over-centralised political system in the Western world without so much as a Parliamentary Business Committee (promised but not delivered by the last government) to hold them to account.

«Last November, I mentioned to the Government chief whip and the parliamentary commissioner for standards my concern, on behalf of the House, about what many might regard as an inherent incompatibility between chairing a select committee and having commercial interests, even though fully transparently registered, in the sector covered by that committee,» the Speaker wrote.

Following the inability of the Huudu Yahaya - led conflict resolution committee of the National Democratic Congress to effectively deal with grievances arising out of last year's parliamentary primaries, the governing party risk losing some parliamentary seats it won or lost to independent candidates in the 2012 elections, investigations by The aL - hAJJ have uncovered.

The MP's present action is said to be linked to the decision by the NDC vetting committee to disqualify his protégé and preferred choice for the parliamentary seat, Isaac Yibor, who contested the 2012 election as an independent candidate.