Sentences with phrase «committee scrutinises»

Unusually, parts of the inquiry will be held in public, but there are still concerns around how effectively the committee scrutinises intelligence agencies.

The evidence delivered to the Scottish Parliamentary Committee scrutinising the bill has emphatically exposed the dangers of assisted suicide.

Director of public prosecutions Keir Starmer last week told a select committee scrutinising the bill that he supports it.

The select committee system now provides one committee scrutinising each Whitehall department's executive actions and implementation processes in detail.

He was appointed by his party to the select committee scrutinising the work of the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister — now the Department for Communities and Local Government.

Not exact matches

There is one final chance to improve the European Commission's proposals because they are being scrutinised by the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety committee (ENVI) of the European Parliament right now.

It was a study and I think that the ones published in reputable academic journals are pretty well scrutinised by ethical committees and probably fairly reliable in terms of impartiality.

The ENVI Committee had a final opportunity to scrutinise the regulations and Keith Taylor MEP tabled the three objections at a meeting in December.

The director of 12 Years A Slave praised the joint committee on human rights, which took the unusual step today of giving up on scrutinising the modern slavery bill and simply presented its own version instead.

Ms Jowell accepted the Lords amendment, calling for a joint parliamentary committee to scrutinise the government's plans.

The Commons» defence committee says the Ministry of Defence's (MoD) reluctance to discuss future spending is preventing it from scrutinising the department.

In a submission to the House of Lords Constitution Committee's inquiry into the passage of legislation through Parliament, the CIOT proposes: · The Finance Bill Public Bill Committee takes oral evidence from tax experts and others; · More effective liaison between select committees and the Finance Bill committee; · Increasing the resources available to Parliament for scrutinising tax matters; · Using technology to make it easier for those outside Parliament to comment on Bills, e.g. an online facility to input comments by clause numbers, so MPs can see who says what against each clause; · Asking the Office of Tax Simplification to publish simplification assessments of new tax pCommittee's inquiry into the passage of legislation through Parliament, the CIOT proposes: · The Finance Bill Public Bill Committee takes oral evidence from tax experts and others; · More effective liaison between select committees and the Finance Bill committee; · Increasing the resources available to Parliament for scrutinising tax matters; · Using technology to make it easier for those outside Parliament to comment on Bills, e.g. an online facility to input comments by clause numbers, so MPs can see who says what against each clause; · Asking the Office of Tax Simplification to publish simplification assessments of new tax pCommittee takes oral evidence from tax experts and others; · More effective liaison between select committees and the Finance Bill committee; · Increasing the resources available to Parliament for scrutinising tax matters; · Using technology to make it easier for those outside Parliament to comment on Bills, e.g. an online facility to input comments by clause numbers, so MPs can see who says what against each clause; · Asking the Office of Tax Simplification to publish simplification assessments of new tax pcommittee; · Increasing the resources available to Parliament for scrutinising tax matters; · Using technology to make it easier for those outside Parliament to comment on Bills, e.g. an online facility to input comments by clause numbers, so MPs can see who says what against each clause; · Asking the Office of Tax Simplification to publish simplification assessments of new tax proposals.

Perhaps, Professor Caney suggested, it is time to think about redesigning our political institutions to give future generations a voice, as has been done elsewhere, by introducing structures such as committees for future generations with the task of scrutinising the impact of legislation on future generations.

... One insider said the donations are likely to be scrutinised by the influential Treasury Select Committee of MPs, which will grill new committee members over the next few weekCommittee of MPs, which will grill new committee members over the next few weekcommittee members over the next few weeks.»

So, a report by the committee published on Tuesday which looks at the finances of the royal household should be scrutinised by those who are after the facts.

They announced Labour's support for the «McKay option» - a grand committee of 80 - odd MPs which would scrutinise and amend the detail of all bills that only apply to England, or to England and Wales.

Without descending into the detail of policy appraisal or the delivery of operational targets — both things that my environmental audit committee will scrutinise — the best snapshot of effort will come from the big policy packages that define the government's agenda, and which have the greatest environmental impact.

An Appropriation Bill is not sent to a select committee, a lengthy process undergone by most bills during which they are scrutinised in detail by the committee, which also receives public submissions relating to the bill.

Marking the first anniversary of the Government's moratorium from new domestic regulation for micro businesses, the FSB has published a report which argues that the Regulatory Policy Committee (RPC) needs more powers to scrutinise performance, advocate regulatory reform and act as an ombudsman.

MPs will begin scrutinising the bill on a clause - by - clause basis in committee stage on March 1st.

After five years chairing the Public Administration Select Committee, the independent - minded Tory MP for Harwich and North Essex is now at the helm of the re-vamped PACAC — where he will continue to scrutinise the quality of administration in the civil service and examine constitutional issues, too.

It is incredibly important the committee carries on the important work we are doing scrutinising government.»

Yesterday the Commons agreed to send the report to the standards and privileges committee, to decide what should happen to the three men who misled Mr Watson, Ms Mensch and the other MPs who scrutinised phone - hacking.

Hilary Benn has been elected chair of the new parliamentary committee that will scrutinise government policy on the UK's exit from the EU.

Parliament's House of Commons select committee system, which allows groups of backbench MPs to scrutinise the work of government departments and to initiate their own inquiries in areas related to the work of those departments, has existed in its present form since 1979.

The new cohort of select committee chairs will be scrutinising the work of a weakened government, write Mark Goodwin, Stephen Bates and Marc Geddes.

Back in July, I was appointed to a Joint Committee of both Houses of Parliament that was tasked with scrutinising the Government's draft House of Lords Reform Bill.

Firstly, since Select Committees are Parliamentary institutions that seek to scrutinise and hold government to account, the chair must be a backbencher.

The primary function of a Departmental Select Committee is to scrutinise and investigate the activities of a particular government department.

While most legislation is looked at by a small group of MPs at the committee stage, as a major constitutional bill, this one will be scrutinised on the floor of the commons.

As someone who spent time scrutinising the Bill at committee and report stage, I can still see a number of areas that need serious improvement which I hope the Lords will be able to achieve.

If the vote passes, then the proposed bill will progress to committee stage where it will be properly scrutinised.

Rifkind, now chair of the intelligence committee which scrutinises the work of the security services, understood the ins and outs of what was likely far better than many.

Her independent reviewer of terror legislation is actually independently reviewing terror legislation and her committee tasked with scrutinising the intelligence agencies is actually scrutinising the intelligence agencies.

The Conservatives yesterday set up a committee of business experts to scrutinise the planning and budget of the London 2012 Olympic Games.

Most House of Commons committees have a remit to scrutinise a government department, so it is no surprise to see that 51 % of witnesses at Commons committees are from the public sector.

In June 2010 he was elected onto the Education Select Committee responsible for scrutinising Government policy on education.

MPs are likely to criticise David Cameron's decision to bypass a scrutinising committee when he gave out unexpected honours during this week's reshuffle.

It can be no coincidence that the House of Lords constitutional affairs committee is now scrutinising the wisdom of one person serving as both justice secretary and lord chancellor.

The committee's statement said it had scrutinised lists of the operations, British individuals and email addresses involved in all requests where GCHQ obtained intelligence from the US.

We then established a joint committee, of both Houses, to scrutinise our proposals.

Moreover, the quality of decision making would be improved if the abolition of the Lords was accompanied by appropriate reforms to the House of Commons (such as changing the voting system to PR and greatly strengthening select committees to scrutinise legislation and temporarily appoint outside expert advisers, etc).

It says Parliament no longer effectively scrutinises legislation and backs calls to beef up the role of select committees.

At the evidence sessions of the committee which has just finished scrutinising the legislation Labour MPs tore into the Catholic Bishops as if they were prosecutors at a war crimes trial.

After all, with a devolved London Mayor and Assembly in place, and with other departmental select committees already scrutinising issues of relevance to the capital (such as the Underground, the Olympics etc) it is hard to see what meaningful purpose such a committee can possibly have.

«HM Revenue & Customs should be scrutinised behind closed doors — like spy chiefs, the Lords Economic Affairs Committee will say.

Ex-Ministers including Michael Gove planning committees take over to scrutinise Britain's EU exit deal

«We sought assurances from the Minister today on the timely introduction of overall SEN reform, but the Minister refused to accept the recommendations of the scrutinising committee, and that decision, coupled with the lack of robust financial data, means that the Welsh Liberal Democrats can not support the Education Bill as it currently stands.

After the EU referendum the Department of Exiting the EU Committee, chaired by Labour's Hilary Benn, was set up to scrutinise the work of DExEU.

How effective is the Westminster parliament in scrutinising central government policymaking — especially select committees?