Sentences with phrase «government department»

Nick Clegg made it clear that the decision was not a reflection on my performance in the job, which he said was widely regarded as having been excellent, but rather a strategic political decision to «trade» this post for one in another government department.

For them not to have realised this fact would amount to serious levels of incompetence, even for a government department.

Most House of Commons committees have a remit to scrutinise a government department, so it is no surprise to see that 51 % of witnesses at Commons committees are from the public sector.

This is yet another example of not only his incompetence, but what can only be described as very shady and unscrupulous behaviour not befitting a member of Parliament, let alone a Secretary of State leading a government Department.

It routinely takes six to nine months — and sometimes more than two years — for the government department to complete reviews.

Given the importance of the industry to the UK economy the CIOB believes the role should be located within a highly influential government department; probably the Cabinet Office, with excellent links into the Treasury, the Office of Government Commerce (OGC), the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC), and the Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform (BERR).

If any other government department or agency was having the majority of its decisions overturned on appeal, they would be put into special measures.

Conservatives are calling on the Government to conduct an urgent audit and publish a public list of every government department, agency and their contractors which are processing data outside the United Kingdom and the EEA, and what measures are being taken in each case to maintain data security.

The primary function of a Departmental Select Committee is to scrutinise and investigate the activities of a particular government department.

The group also accessed several Ohio state government department websites, including that of Gov. John Kasich, on Sunday.

The Home Office, a United Kingdom government department, has, from August 2005 to 31 March 2009, excluded 101 individuals from the UK for having «engaged in unacceptable behaviour».

They approached her bosses in the government department she worked in and started asking questions about her.

The parts of the Constitution cited by Sagay empowers the Senate or House of Representatives to direct investigation into the conduct of affairs of «any person, authority, ministry or government department charged, or intended to be charged, with the duty of or responsibility for executing or administering laws enacted by the National Assembly.»

The FSB believes that this performance could be improved if the RPC was able, for example, to ensure that issues it identifies in impact assessments were thoroughly addressed by the relevant Government department, and it was able to publish its opinions on all impact assessments.

Currently a government department, the ONS is responsible for producing economic and social statistics, which are used both as a basis for policy making and holding government to account on its performance.

If you could run any government department, which would it be and why?

Mr Cameron repeated his call for a dedicated cabinet minister for national security, but he said he did not believe a separate government department was necessary.

David Tredinnick (Bosworth)(Con): Further to questions about the situation in Parliament square, is my right hon. Friend aware that there are now tents on the pavement outside at least one Government Department?

George Osborne plans to raise # 1.5 bn from Royal Mail sale and # 3bn in government department savings, prompting IFS warning

Cabinet secretary Sir Gus O'Donnell has written to the head of every government department ordering them to phase out bottled water.

The number of JR cases received by each UK government department can be found in this database of JR cases from 2007 to 2012, which lists over 57,000 JR applications, giving the topic, defendant and outcome of each case.

Cheryl Schonhardt - Bailey is Professor in Political Science in the Government Department of the London School of Economics and Political Science, where she teaches courses in the politics of economic policy and legislative politics.

And while the Ministry of Defence must hedge against the different kinds of future unknowable wars that Britain will have to fight, there is no government department which deals quite as much in the imponderable questions of the future as that of energy.

It reverses the process by which a government department has to justify its spending on a project.

However, the BBC World Service IS directly funded by the Foreign Office (UK government department).

She won a Junior Research Fellowship at New College, Oxford (1990 - 1992) and subsequently taught at Harvard University (Government Department) before taking up her Fellowship at University College, Oxford.

Vince Cable's government department will struggle to survive under the weight of student loan payments, a watchdog has revealed.

Maria Repnikova is a post-doctoral fellow at the Asan Institute for Policy Studies and a visiting scholar at Government Department, Georgetown University.

IT The IET is calling for a single Government department responsible for driving a unified approach to cyber security, ecommerce, privacy and legislation fit for the 21st Century Digital Economy.

The IET believes a single government department should drive a unified approach to cyber security, ecommerce, privacy and legislation fit for the 21st Century Digital Economy.

The DCMS is the government department responsible for delivering the London 2012 Olympic Games.

The move means Warsi has a chance at being moved to the head of a government department in the expected Cabinet reshuffle this summer.

Most documents produced by a government department or agency [Name of department or agency] will be protected by Crown Copyright.

Government department that leads committees for women's health topics, including breastfeeding, within the Department of Health and Human Services.

Many public schools charge for preschool or all day kindergarten, but the food served is subsidized through the USDA, the same government department responsible for food stamps.

We have contacted the responsible government department (the Department for Culture, Media and Sport) to ask it to intervene so that the public is not misled for the commercial gain of Danone and it issues its own guidance.»

Men and Family Relationships Services, which are funded under the Family Relationships Services Program (FRSP), are administered by the Family and Children's Services Branch of the Australian Government Department of Family and Community Services (FaCS).

Spartak Moskva — Narodnaya komanda (People's team) Spartak were never attached to a government department like their big city rivals.

How can ex referees raise issues that at the very least, PGMO is accountable to no one, and that serious breaches of administration of the rules by officials of PGMO, go unchallenged by TV pundits, the media, the FA, the EPL and finally, by the government department which is responsible for uncovering corruption in sport?

Animal welfare advocates, farmers, academics and consumers are disappointed that the government department responsible for draft industry standards for poultry welfare released in late 2017 colluded with the industrial livestock industry before the release, and failed to meet expectations to phase out battery cages.

The Australian Government Department of Agriculture and Water Resources develops and implements policies and programs to ensure Australia's agricultural, fisheries, food and fore stry indust ries remain competitive, profitable and sustainable, and supports the sustainable and productive management and use of rivers and water resources.

Mr Bolles is currently Deputy Chair The University of Melbourne FBE Alumni Council, Board member and Audit Committee Chair Road Trauma Support Services Victoria, Independent Chair Australian Dairy Farmers Audit, Risk and Compliance; and Remuneration Committees, Advisory Board member The Salvation Army State Social Command Victoria, Prequalified Audit and Risk Committee Independent Member for NSW Government, Registered Director Tasmanian Government Department of Treasury and Finance, past member of CPA / Victorian Government Problem Gambling Advisory Board and of others.

The Australian Government Department of the Environment, through the Commonwealth Environmental Water Office, is the administrative authority within Australia for the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands of International Importance.

NHMRC revised the Australian Dietary Guidelines with advice from experts on the Dietary Guidelines Working Committee and funding from the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing.

The Australian Government Department of the Environment and Energy, through the Commonwealth Environmental Water Office, is the administrative authority within Australia for the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands of International Importance.

Food Standards Agency The Food Standards Agency is an independent Government department set up by an Act of Parliament in 2000 to protect the public's health and consumer interests in relation to food.

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) Defra (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) is a UK Government Department.

Laser Mapping Data to Boost Wine Industry by Pinpointing Prime Grape Growing Areas: Laser mapping data can help the English wine industry identify the best places to grow grapes, says a UK government department, as it releases the data to the public...

Joshua Mitchell is chair of the government department at Georgetown University and author of Plato's Fable: On the Mortal Condition in Shadowy Times.

Every government department 10 or 20 % off of funding.