Sentences with phrase «from parliamentary committees»

This year was no exception and we have had at least three important papers on constitutional matters: two from parliamentary committees and one from the Home Office.

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.

Recommendations from a Parliamentary committee to strengthen the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act and give more power to the federal privacy commissioner are likely being driven by privacy requirements coming into effect in Europe.

Not exact matches

The parliamentary committee interviewing Schroepfer has recently heard evidence from whistle - blower Christopher Wylie, former Cambridge Analytica executive Brittany Kaiser, and Kogan, the researcher who shared Facebook user data with Cambridge Analytica.

When it was all over, the tally of alleged wrongdoing cited here today, assigned to one party or another, included unpaid taxes (NDP), abusing election laws (Conservatives), improperly taking money from charities (Liberals), improperly claimed expenses (Liberals), illegal campaign debts (Liberals), illegal political donations (NDP), flouting Hill security (NDP), a potentially illegal cheque (Conservatives), secrecy (Conservatives) and sabotaging the committee to select the parliamentary budget officer (Conservatives).

This post is in response to the following excellent comment from Stephen Moore, the man who will trounce Ralph Goodale in the next federal election (or at least do better than I did): April 2007 testimony before the parliamentary committee on International Trade saw Industry Canada, DFAIT reps and others stress the importance of the -LSB-...]

So much for «We are accountable `; Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has declined a summons from a UK parliamentary committee that's investigating how social media data is being used, and — as recent revelations suggest misused — for political ad targeting.

So much for «We are accountable `; Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has declined a summons from a UK parliamentary committee that's investigating how social media data is bein

The Every Voter Counts Alliance, bringing together over 60 organizations from across the country representing diverse groups, will be hosting a press conference on Parliament Hill later this morning just as the special parliamentary committee on electoral reform is set to begin its deliberations.

That is a key takeaway from a damning 106 - page report by a bi-partisan parliamentary committee into the goings - on at 1Malaysia Development Berhad.

Politicians call for watchdog to gauge affects of deal, saying it should not hurt suppliersMPs from two parliamentary committees have called on the competition regulator to examine how the merger of Sainsbury's and Asda will affect suppliers.The merger of the UK's second - and third - largest supermarket chains could hand them control of about 30 % of the -LSB-...]

Nearly three - quarters of the seafood consumed by Australians is shipped from overseas, leading seafood producers told a parliamentary committee examining country of origin labelling laws.

After many postponements for other reasons, the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the NPP, called for a re-run of all elections in the Manhyia North Constituency from the polling station level to the Constituency executive level before the election of a parliamentary aspirant could take place.

Human rights are at risk from «controversial» anti-terror legislation, a parliamentary committee has said.

Mr. Abum - Sarkodie was appointed acting EPA boss in July 2017 having previously served as Member of Parliament for the Mampong Constituency from 2005 to 2009, and a member of the Parliamentary Select Committee for Science and Environment.

He was a member of the Health Select Committee from 2001 until 2003, then serving as Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to Home Secretary David Blunkett until 2004, when he became PPS to Education Secretary Ruth Kelly.

«Speaking in the chamber is only one of the ways members hold the government to account and this research ignores members» contributions including amending legislation, asking the government written questions and serving on select committees — more than 320 members served on committees in the last session of parliament — as well as parliamentary work away from the chamber.

«Third report from the Committee of Privileges: Recommendations of the Select Committee on Parliamentary Privilege», HC 417 1976 - 77 para 16.

That this House approves the recommendations of the First Report from the Members» Expenses Committee on the Operation of the Parliamentary Standards Act 2009

One other statement I've seen from someone in the government - a letter from a Home Office minister to the Parliamentary Human Rights Committee - was much less encouraging.

Hilary Benn has been elected chair of the new parliamentary committee that will scrutinise government policy on the UK's exit from the EU.

From Westminster he also developed an international role as a member of the Nato parliamentary assembly and later, from 2005, as a much - travelled member of the Commons» foreign affairs commitFrom Westminster he also developed an international role as a member of the Nato parliamentary assembly and later, from 2005, as a much - travelled member of the Commons» foreign affairs commitfrom 2005, as a much - travelled member of the Commons» foreign affairs committee.

Commenting on the publication of the second report by the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards, Adrian Coles, Director - General of the Building Societies Association said: «It is clear from the this morning's report that there the Committee has strong feelings about the right percentage level for the minimum leverage ratio.

Mr. Bagbin said the minority wants the House to constitute a special Parliamentary Committee to investigate whether President John Dramani Mahama received a Ford Expedition Vehicle from a Burkinabe Contractor.

«The committee has unanimously accepted the chair» recommendation that he absent himself from committee business for the duration of the investigation of the parliamentary commissioner for standards, following his self - referral at the weekend,» a spokesperson said.

The chairmen of five parliamentary committees have teamed up to demand David Cameron remove international students from the net migration statistics.

He was speaking as a report from the Lords constitutional committee warns that despite attempts to tighten the scope of the bill - dubbed the «parliamentary scrutiny (abolition) bill» by critics - it remains «over-broad and vaguely drawn».

During last week's prime minister's questions, David Cameron was confronted by Caroline Lucas MP on why the government had done nothing to change our rotten extradition laws, despite a clear call from two separate parliamentary committees, a Commons motion in December last year and well - supported public petitions to do just that.

«Criticism of this move has come from all sides including the Fire Brigade Union and parliamentary select committee reports, but the government is not listening.»

In opposition he became Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee, and a member of the British parliamentary delegation to the Council of Europe from 1955, where he was elected in 1957 as vice-president and in April 1959 as President of the Consultative Assembly.

Labour's National Executive Committee (NEC) barred five MPs from standing as official Labour Party candidates at the 2010 general election in the wake of the United Kingdom Parliamentary expenses scandal.

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.

This is now well fought territory, with competing views amongst the experts reflected in competing reports from different parliamentary committees.

The Select Committee Data Archive Project covers all Commons committees for parliamentary sessions from 1979 - 80 to 2014 - 15.

The row between Macron and General Pierre De Villiers blew up last week when the chief of the defence staff told a parliamentary committee he would not allow the armed forces to be «screwed» by the government's plans to slash 850 million euros ($ 980 million) from the budget.

The Constitutional, Parliamentary and Legal Affairs Committee of Ghana's Parliament in its report to the plenary, recommends that the Constitutional Amendment Bill 2016, which will change the country's date of election from December 7th to the first Monday of November in election years, should be adopted and passed by Parliament.

From 1992 - 5, Taylor was Parliamentary Secretary at the Lord Chancellor's Department, a Parliamentary Under - Secretary of State at the Department of Trade and Industry from 1995 - 7, and then a delegate Member of the Council of Europe and Vice-Chairman of the Conservative Parliamentary Committees on Trade and Industry and Legal AffaFrom 1992 - 5, Taylor was Parliamentary Secretary at the Lord Chancellor's Department, a Parliamentary Under - Secretary of State at the Department of Trade and Industry from 1995 - 7, and then a delegate Member of the Council of Europe and Vice-Chairman of the Conservative Parliamentary Committees on Trade and Industry and Legal Affafrom 1995 - 7, and then a delegate Member of the Council of Europe and Vice-Chairman of the Conservative Parliamentary Committees on Trade and Industry and Legal Affairs.

The committee, which takes its name from the year in which its founders were elected, meets each week to discuss parliamentary business and take grievances to the Conservative leadership.

The committee, which takes its name from the year in which its founders were elected, meets each week to discuss parliamentary business and its chairman then takes any grievances to the Conservative leadership.

Here, Mark Elliott welcomes calls from various parliamentary committees for a «pause» in the implementation of the reports recommendations.

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In November 2012, he was suspended from the Labour Party after the House of Commons Standards and Privileges Committee found that he had submitted 19 false invoices «plainly intended to deceive» the parliamentary expenses authority.

It was reported on 14 October 2010 that the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards (on instruction from the Standards and Privileges Committee [51]-RRB- had referred an expenses - related complaint about MacShane from the British National Party [52] to the Metropolitan Police.

The programme, which aired on 23 February, and Telegraph articles led Straw to suspend himself from the parliamentary Labour party and Rifkind to step down as the chairman of parliament's intelligence and security committee and as an MP.

The organisation committee agreed that Holborn & St Pancras and Merthyr Tydfil & Rhymney would choose parliamentary candidates from open lists, and that Cynon Valley should conduct a full selection from an all - women shortlist.

The motion, tabled by the Scottish National party's foreign affairs spokesman, Alex Salmond, was backed by MPs from six other parties, and called for parliamentary committees to investigate and take appropriate action against the former prime minister.

In a motion dated August 3, 2016, the Minority requested that Parliament recalled from recess to constitute a special Parliamentary Committee to investigate the following:

In addition, there's a nimble turn from Rory Kinnear as M's assistant Tanner, Albert Finney as Kincade, the ancient retainer to the Bond family, and Helen McCrory as the haughty chairperson of a Parliamentary committee investigating the incompetence of M and the British security services.

Sally Collier, the chief regulator of Ofqual, told MPs on the parliamentary education committee this morning that the 52 - per - cent increase in the number of grade changes this year resulted from problems at the review stage, rather than the original marks.

In its response to the parliamentary education committee's recent inquiry into the work of academy trusts, the DfE said the move to release trust performance measures in this manner was made «based on feedback from users and to accommodate new performance measures».