Sentences with phrase «government over its defence»

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament for Builsa North, James Agalga has suggested that Minority Members of Parliament are ready to back the suit filed by a member of the party against the government over the defence cooperation agreement with the United States.

Not exact matches

Defence Issues Minister Paul Papalia says Western Australia has been dudded in the federal government's $ 89 billion naval shipbuilding plan, of which WA will receive just over $ 3 billion of work, while the prime minister has lauded it as «unashamedly nationalistic».

«We hope that discussions between Lagos State Government and Federal Government over Federal Government lands and state lands within Lagos, as well as over disuse or surplus lands which Federal Government especially Defence and Prisons are still occupying in Lagos, and are now surplus to requirement, will be held to settle this palaver once and for all,» Okunnu said.

Poor negotiating by the government over the sale of defence research firm Qinetiq cost the taxpayer # 90 million, according to an influential group of MPs.

Surprisingly, IBB appears very radical in his «restructuring»: a Federal Government with powers over just foreign policy, defence, and the economy, eerily close to the confederal arrangement the Emeka Ojukwu - led Eastern Region called for in 1967.

Over the past few weeks, Ghanaians have been debating the government of Ghana's defence cooperation agreement with the United States.

Military contingency plans are already being drawn up by the Ministry of Defence despite question - marks remaining over the legality of any military action, the binding nature of any Commons vote and the government's intention to publish the evidence justifying an armed intervention.

That's what happened post-election in 2010 — the government conducted a Strategic Defence and Security Review that didn't look at Trident, while planning to spend over # 100 billion on its replacement.

At the same time, the Trudeau government is preparing a new defence policy, which is expected to offer a long - term vision for the military over the next couple of decades.

Jim Murphy MP, shadow defence secretary, called on the government to think again over the strategic defence and security review:

Defence secretary Bob Ainsworth's parliamentary aide has said the government's decision to fight extra compensation for two wounded soldiers threatens a victory of «bureaucracy over bravery».

He has fought a losing battle with the chancellor over defence cuts - with the comprehensive spending review overshadowing all other government plans.

A few corruption blackspots remain, especially in areas like overseas sales of defence equipment, and private contractors taking over government - run services on a payment - by - results basis.

Ben Wallace (Con) asks why the government has cut spending on defence research by 23 % over the last three years.

Unsourced briefings to several newspapers over Christmas, attributed to people in Corbyn's camp, claimed that members of the shadow cabinet — including Dugher, as well as the shadow foreign secretary, Hilary Benn, and the shadow defence secretary, Maria Eagle — could be removed as revenge for siding with the government over the question of whether to extend airstrikes against Isis to Syria.

Former defence secretary Liam Fox has turned down an opportunity to return to the government as a Foreign Office minister, more than two years after he resigned over a controversy about his unofficial adviser and friend Adam Werritty.

Pro-Trident Labour MP John Woodcock told PoliticsHome: «Aside from being another sign that the «open minded» review of defence policy is nothing of the sort, Jeremy's choice to speak at the CND rally just ensures another weekend of public focus on Labour's divisions over a policy that can't change when we should be holding the Government to account and making the case to remain in the European Union.»

Michael Gove, the environment secretary, Penny Mordaunt, the newly - promoted defence secretary, David Gauk, the work and pensions secretary, Sajid Javid, the communities and local government secretary, Andrea Leadsom, the Leader of the House of Commons, and Chris Grayling, the transport secretary, have all used official expenses claims to pay for «ERG subscriptions» over the last 12 months.

Meanwhile the highest ranking members of the Israeli government, along with Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (Lior Ashkenazi) and Minister of Defence Shimon Peres (Eddie Marsan) debate over Israel's policy of «never negotiate with terrorists».

Dating from 1885, the building spent fifty years as the prestigious Hôtel Métropole before it was taken over by the Government in 1936 and used as Ministry of Defence offices.