Sentences with phrase «cross-party parliamentary committee»

On 30 April 2014 the Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR)- a cross-party parliamentary committee composed of MPs and peers - published its report on the totality of the Government's judicial review changes, including those contained within the Civil Legal Aid (Remuneration)(Amendment)(No. 3) Regulations 2014.

Last month, three cross-party parliamentary committees published lengthy reports on the draft investigatory powers bill — the government's landmark surveillance legislation.

Then both cross-party Parliamentary Committees tasked with reviewing delegated legislation — the House of Lords Secondary Legislation Committee and the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments (JCSI)-- expressed doubt about the legality of the measures.

Not exact matches

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 seemingly endless series of reports from parliamentary committees and expert organisations calling for reform of Britain's drug policy continued today, after a cross-party group of peers called for a change in the law.

Sir Ian Kennedy, chairman of the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, told The Sunday Times (#) that Parliament should end the system under which a cross-party committee of MPs is able to overrule the findings of an investigation by the standards commissioner.

Griffin sits on the Scottish Parliament's Education and Culture Committee and is a member of a number of Cross-Party Parliamentary Groups, including the Cross Party Groups on Deafness, Sport and Industrial Communities.

Mr Duncan Smith and members of his parliamentary team are understood to have approached at least three Tory MPs on the cross-party committee to ask them to ensure that Robert Devereux, Permanent Secretary at the Department for Work and Pensions, was singled out for censure.

The report also supports cross-party chairing, a key feature of the Parliamentary select committees, but has held back from following the Guidance in Wales, which requires opposition parties to chair at least one scrutiny committee in each council.

He said Labour MP Tony Wright, chair of the public administration committee, would work with a cross-party Parliamentary commission to discuss constitutional reform.