Sentences with phrase «evidence on»

For all its domestic refusal to listen to evidence on drugs, the UK has a decent record of pushing for movement on harm reduction strategies at the UN and a tough approach to any country carrying out executions on drug crimes.

«We have both written to, and appeared before, the relevant parliamentary select committees providing detailed evidence on this matter to give an account of our best understanding of what took place five years ago.»

Yesterday Metropolitan police anti-terrorist officers put their case to a district judge at a closed court hearing, presenting evidence on each of the 23 cases.

«The evidence on the link between SEN and exclusion is not new.

In its annual assessment of long - term defence projects, the committee said ministers had been «at best confused and unhelpful and at worst deliberately obstructive» when giving evidence on their 2009 report.

Environmentalists are celebrating after Gov.Cuomo said there will be no hydrofracking in New York for now, citing inconclusive scientific evidence on the health effects of the gas drilling process.

Lord Levy, a close friend of Tony Blair (who was the Prime Minister's personal envoy to the Middle East, as well as tennis partner), had raised funds for Labour and was identified in the press as a key figure in arranging the loans and on 17 March 2006 it was announced that the Public Administration Select Committee of the House of Commons had invited him to give evidence on political financing.

The idea that UKIP are picking up old Labour supporters is also not supported by evidence on the social class of their intended voters.

Game - changing evidence on climate change was presented in last month's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, Mr Clarke points out.

Evaluating the Public Health Responsibility Deal for Alcohol surveys the evidence on the Government's flagship public health programme, which was launched in 2011 as a voluntary partnership with commercial organisations, public bodies, academics and NGOs to promote public health goals.

Evidence on the ground in many mining communities shows clear political bias and discrimination in selecting people for skills training.

Our main work is based around helping to bridge the gap between the scientific evidence on alcohol and the wider public.

The report combines a review of the evidence on alcohol's harm to others and data from two surveys in which over 2,000 adults * were asked about the harms experienced from others» alcohol consumption.

But there was enough evidence on 5 May to suggest that if the government is foolish enough to push ahead with HS2 this December, the decision will have very real electoral consequences for the main parties in Buckinghamshire and right along the route, beginning in 2013 with the county council elections.

The CIOT was responding to the Scottish Government's call for evidence on the Draft Scottish Fiscal Commission

The rush to secure the Commons» backing reinforces the impression that Britain is set to ignore the UN team's evidence on chemical weapons in Syria.

According to Halifax, when the host Kwesi Aboagye asked the minister their achievement since taking charge, her answers boarded on talk and little evidence on the ground adding that he was scandalized that for the 2 weeks that no new movie had hit the market, the Deputy Minister was in the dark about the development till Peace FM's broadcast jolted her to the Opera Square.

(But) I would say the empirical evidence on the Upstate economy over many decades suggests that what we were doing, we should not be doing.

There's no evidence on Thursday that the electorate «voted for» some kind of electoral reform, neither is there any evidence that they voted against it.

Evidence on the performance of academies compared to local authority schools is mixed, but on the whole suggests there is no substantial difference in performance.

Business secretary Vince Cable, who visits the Business Select Committee on Tuesday to give further evidence on the Royal Mail sell - off, has continued to receive criticism over selling shares too cheaply.

Audrey Mogan, a legal project worker at the Aire Centre, an organisation which provides legal advice on European human rights, has been researching and collecting evidence on Nexus for over a year.

From looking at other countries, the easiest approach for the UK would simply be to create some actual evidence on what jobs require, and transparently link this to a revised WCA.

In an unusual move, the Public Accounts Committee heard evidence on the policy prior to implementation.

«We're delighted that decision - makers at NHS England have looked at the evidence on this issue and made a clear decision»

The evidence on alcohol minimum unit pricing was covered up by Cameron and his cronies for their sponsors in big booze.

Published call for evidence on Operation Nexus: foreign national offenders & deportation.

Decision: Having reviewed the evidence on the actions and conduct of the Respondent after the gift was made, the Commission is satisfied that his actions and conduct sufficiently dealt with any conflict of interest that could have been occasioned.

Bill Mitchell from the BCS gave oral evidence on the need to re-introduce computer science, programming and more challenging aspects of ICT back into the school curriculum.

If they hear the evidence on some debated question and decide the right answer is X, then no one is allowed to offer any evidence or any argument that in fact X is wrong, under threat of fines and imprisonment.

12:52 - And with that this session wraps up; the home affairs committee next meets on Thursday, when home secretary Theresa May will be giving evidence on the riots.

The Home Office's own report from 2011 found there was «a general lack of robust evidence on the link between khat use and social harms».

But while Sarkozy emphasised the need for humanitarian safe havens on Syria's borders, UK prime minister David Cameron talked more of gathering evidence on war crimes to hold Syria's leaders to account some time in the future.

«In this instance, the DWP's arrangements for overseeing and inspecting its contractors were so weak that vital evidence on potential fraud and improper practice was not picked up.»

The liaison committee announced last week it would call the prime minister to give evidence on Thursday morning.

The latest systematic review of the evidence on this issue was published in 2009 («Optimal duration of exclusive breastfeeding (Review)», Kramer MS, Kakuma R.

I've helped thousands of birth professionals and parents around the world become clear about the evidence on VBAC.

Her recent piece on waterbirth, Evidence on the Safety of Water Birth, is a classic in this genre.

Check out these Pregnancy Podcast episodes for more information and evidence on Prenatal Vitamins and Supplements:

It is far from a slam dunk yet, but the evidence on probiotics is encouraging.

Just as we encourage parents in intact families to share care of their children, the social science evidence on the development of healthy parent — child relationships, and the long - term benefits of healthy parent — child relationships, supports the view that shared parenting should be the norm for post-divorce parenting plans for children of all ages, including infants and toddlers.

In response to a request from Mr Taylor, the World Health Organisation provided evidence on the importance of reducing added sugars and also on marketing, explaining that all products that function as breastmilk substitutes, including any milk products (liquid or powdered) that are marketed for young children (including follow - up formula and growing - up milks) are covered by the International Code.

The revised RCPCH position statement on breastfeeding, also launched today, points out the rapid decline in breastfeeding rates (leading to fewer than half of all babies receiving any breastmilk at all by 6 - 8 weeks after birth), the research evidence on improved health outcomes and intelligence scores, and the economic impact.

The letter follows the recent series in The Lancet on breastfeeding — the most comprehensive review of all the evidence on breastfeeding to date.

I don't have evidence on this topic — but in my experience and practice, if the lip is tucked and the baby is nursing well and mom comfortable, I don't instruct her to flip the lip up.

I am interested in seeing more data / evidence on intrapartum death rates.

We lack evidence on what happens after 42 weeks since few women go beyond.

«There isn't a lot of scientific evidence on these findings yet,» Nutting explains, «but many women find these foods to really help their supply.

This is consistent with existing evidence on blood pressure as a surrogate indicator of CVD and stroke risk for the general population.

To conduct a meta - analysis of available scientific evidence on the association between breastfeeding and childhood leukemia.