Sentences with phrase «final year of a parliament»

Total spending will fall in that final year of this Parliament at the same rate as through the current spending review.

(Tsebelis 1995, 316) The House of Lords can act to block change from the status quo during the final year of a parliament, but it husbands its powers carefully, as it did when members withdrew their support for amendments last week.

Having been elected in the final year of the parliament, there is no guarantee that Wollaston and Stewart will be re-elected as Chairs by their parliamentary colleagues at the start of the next one.

Not exact matches

LONDON — A rather cynical tradition has developed in recent years in which, in the final days and hours before MPs leave Parliament for their summer break, the government releases a deluge of embarrassing reports, statistics, and statements in an apparently deliberate attempt to bury them.

He told Parliament, which resumed on Monday for its final two - week session of the year, that nothing in the bill threatened religious freedoms.

The twelve judges of the Constitutional Court (appointed by the Spanish parliament, central Government and the General Council of the Judiciary) took nearly four years to deal with the appeal, generating constant uncertainty regarding the final outcome.

As we approach the final six months of this parliament it is more important than ever to retain the discipline and unity that has been a feature of the Labour party over the past four and a half years.

Harper voted against all the reform options in the last parliament when Jack Straw made a late attempt in the final years of the Labour government to burnish its reformist credentials.

As last year's election was called, the final stages of the Higher Education and Research Act were rushed through parliament.

«Justice Atuguba has seniority over me because instead of continuing straight from the fourth year as we used to call it, of law school, to the fifth year which is the professional year or rather the final part of the professional course, I broke and went to do my master's so when I came back they — my first classmates — had already been called to the bar so I was called to the bar with Ato Dadzie and that younger generation,» she told parliament's Appointment Committee on Friday, 16 June when Minority Leader Haruna Iddrisu asked her to clarify to the committee whether she or Justice Atuguba was senior to the other.

The announcement by Johnson that he would after all seek to return to parliament a year before the end of his final term as London mayor prompted a flurry of speculation about the future leadership of the Tory party.

Lord Hunt of Wirral, left, said he believed remaining in the EU would be a vote for business stability over uncertainty while Lord Dunlop defied Theresa May last year when he voted in the Lords to give Parliament the final say over Brexit

Tessa Jowell's final speech to Parliament in January this year, when dying of a brain tumour, was possibly her finest hour.

Tessa Jowell's final speech to Parliament in January this year (pictured), when dying of a brain tumour, was possibly her finest hour, QUENTIN LETTS says

As MPs get ready for the final PMQs of the current Parliament, BBC archives recall highlights of the last five years.

Even in 1997 when Labour won an «historic landslide», the Conservative won back 16.5 % of the electorate in the final two years of the parliament.

Downing Street has decided that government in the final months of a five - year fixed - term parliament is an extension of the general election campaign.

However, many backbenchers remained unconvinced that parliament was being given enough of a say on the final deal, which will have to be struck over the next two years before the UK leaves the EU by the end of March 2019.

In the coming months, Europe's Council of Ministers must agree on a joint version of the plan with the incoming European Parliament before the final text can be adopted, possibly next year.

After 2 years of debate, Horizon 2020 (or H2020 as it is often abbreviated)-- the pan-European funding program that is to support research and innovation in Europe, starting in 2014 and finishing in 2020 — has been given the green light as both the European Parliament and the European Council (which gathers E.U. member states) gave their final approval to the budget and the overarching legislation.

After almost two years of intense negotiations, this week the European Parliament will give its final approval for the Climate Action Regulation, which aims to reduce emissions from transport, agriculture, buildings and waste management.

On the final day, at the Great Hall, Parliament House, the Prime Minister, Hon Kevin Rudd MP, the Minister for Health and Ageing, Nicola Roxon MP, the Opposition Leader, Brendan Nelson, as well as the leaders of the Indigenous health peak bodies2and the mainstream health peak bodies3signed a historic Close the Gap Statement of Intent in which they agreed to work together to achieve equality in health status and life expectancy between Indigenous and non - Indigenous Australians by the year 2030.

On the final day, at the Great Hall, Parliament House, the Prime Minister, the Hon. Kevin Rudd MP, the Minister for Health and Ageing, the Hon. Nicola Roxon MP, the Opposition Leader, the Hon. Dr Brendan Nelson MP, as well as leaders of Indigenous health peak bodies2 and the mainstream health peak bodies3 signed a historic Close the Gap Statement of Intent in which they agreed to work in partnership to achieve equality in health status and life expectancy between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians by the year 2030.