Sentences with phrase «effectively scrutinised»

Lucy Emmerson, coordinator of the Sex Education Forum, says the committee's investigation has «effectively scrutinised the inconsistency of SRE in schools» and she said the subject is often neglected.

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

Peers are to hold an inquiry into how Parliament can effectively scrutinise the negotiations around Brexit.

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

In British politics, the Shadow Home Secretary is the person within the shadow cabinet who «shadows» the Home Secretary; this effectively means scrutinising government policy on home affairs including policing, national security, immigration, the criminal justice system, the prison service, and matters of citizenship.

As others have argued, it will be challenging for the new committee to scrutinise its new portfolio effectively given the potential scope of the constitutional change that we could see in this Parliament.

The focus should be on how to ensure that the actions of the Executive are scrutinised effectively and that parliamentary approval of delegated legislation — by members of both Houses of Parliament — is not a mere box - ticking exercise.

Although he accepted that there is no general duty to give reasons at common law (at para 51), Lord Carnwath took the view, following R v Home Secretary, ex parte Doody [1994] 1 AC 531, that reasons will be required where they are necessary to permit the courts to scrutinise the underlying decision effectively:

All pieces of legislation will soon have aspects of technology at their core and our ability to scrutinise effectively will rely on a deeper understanding than currently exists.