Sentences with phrase «debate on public services»

While a new leader is always keen to stamp their authority on the party and fashion a ministerial team in their own image is it really wise for Red Ed to have promoted Diane Abbott yet sidelined the cerebral Pat McFadden who has a strong contribution to make to the debate on public service reform?

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Wheeler's «split the baby» approach to the contentious net neutrality debate, reported on over the weekend by the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, would effectively reclassify Internet service providers as public utilities akin to the phone companies under Title II of the Telecommunications Act, but only in dealing with large content providers such as Netflix and Google's Youtube.

Religion News Service: Catholic bishops fail to agree on statement on the economy A divided Catholic hierarchy on Tuesday (Nov. 13) failed to agree on a statement about the economy after a debate that revealed sharp differences over the kind of social justice issues that were once a hallmark of the bishops» public profile.

What we lack is an honest public debate that acknowledges the connections, and the difficulties of reconciling public - service commitment with the rule book on one side and the claimed allocative efficiency of public - sector markets on the other.

Gender and Sexuality Columnist C.C. Hendricks discusses Christine Quinn's criticism of Cynthia Nixon as an «unqualified lesbian» and its impact on debates about qualifications for public service.

Politicians know that, which is why almost every Westminster debate about public services rings with glowing praise for those who work on them.

As the debate on staving off recession moves on to tax, the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) will be holding a public meeting on «Closing the Tax Gap» in committee room 5, House of Commons, Tuesday 18 November 3 pm *Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) will be holding a public meeting on «Closing the Tax Gap» in committee room 5, House of Commons, Tuesday 18 November 3 pm *public meeting on «Closing the Tax Gap» in committee room 5, House of Commons, Tuesday 18 November 3 pm * 5 pm.

Our Beeb is a digital challenge to the BBC and a debate on the nature and future of public service broadcasting across Britain in all its forms and media.

The House of Lords is holding a debate on two key British Humanist Association (BHA) publications: The Case for Secularism: A Neutral State in an Open Society and Quality and Equality: Human Rights, Public Services and Religious Organisations.

«It's an important opportunity for public service to really have an impact on the lives of regular people, and I feel very privileged that I have the chance to be part of these debates and to move an agenda for to help real New Yorkers,» Gillibrand said.

With debate in the Legislature set to begin in earnest on plans for restructuring the way the state pays for public school services, a new report released by The Education Trust - West shows just how inequitable the current system has become.

The crisis was the subject of heated parliamentary debate last week, with Teresa May's government struggling on multiple fronts to defend the idea of public services contracting, launch a convincing investigation of what happened, take credible steps to deal with what is widely seen as compensation - gouging by the company's directors, the perception of sweetheart contracts extended to a struggling company, continuing doubtsabout official and company conflicts of interest, and about the impact of still - undetermined huge taxpayer losses — not least over underfunded pensions that have now come onto its books.

When we have seen discussions and debates on television and radio, or in the press, about the PFI and Public Private Partnership, the Blairite line always seems to be that the result is actually a net increase in investment in public services and yet you seem to be suggesting that with refinancing and rigged comparators, that this isnPublic Private Partnership, the Blairite line always seems to be that the result is actually a net increase in investment in public services and yet you seem to be suggesting that with refinancing and rigged comparators, that this isnpublic services and yet you seem to be suggesting that with refinancing and rigged comparators, that this isn?t so.

Writing last week (in PR Week) about the challenges GCS faces this year, Alex Aiken, executive director of the service, named «build [ing] a rapid response social media capability to deal quickly with disinformation and reclaim [ing] a fact - based public debate with a new team to lead this work in the Cabinet Office» as the second item on his eight - strong list.

CREA's membership has been openly debating whether or not mls.ca should remain branded exactly as it is, due to its popularity with consumers, or rebranded to make it clearer to consumers that the content provided on the site is provided by Realtors, as only one of the services they have to offer the buying and selling public.

In public debate, the focus usually is on the ecosystem services of trees: their ability to clean the air, filter the water, soak up stormwater and lower energy bills by shading summer heat and blocking winter winds.