Sentences with phrase «government policy announcement»

Gregory Klump, CREA's Chief Economist, says, «Homebuyers and sellers both reacted to the recent Ontario government policy announcement aimed at cooling housing markets in and around Toronto.

Carbon Brief picks out the key details from the CCC's fifth carbon budget advice and reviews the latest government policy announcements.

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The announcement is the result of months of consultation and study by an expert panel convened to help the government write the policy.

Thus, the central government may loosen policy to help the locals without making a formal announcement.

The joint announcement of the inflation target between the Government and the central bank helps demonstrate that there is unlikely to be any inconsistency between the setting of monetary and fiscal policy.

Normally, the government's economic and fiscal situation is set out with or before the policy announcements.

Just last week, the Globe and Mail reported that the Government is planning a bare - bones budget in early February, saving major policy announcements for the 2015 budget, just in time for the 2015 election.

VICTORIA — Dan Woynillowicz, policy director at Clean Energy Canada, made the following statement in response to the federal government's announcement regarding electricity regulations and a just transition for workers: «The regulations announced today mark important progress in implementing the federal government's commitment to cut carbon pollution, but equally important is recognizing that clean growth...

The Harper government's response to the humanitarian disaster in the Philippines in the wake of Typhoon Haiyan, and the announcement on November 22nd of the Canada - United States Asia Pacific Defence Policy Cooperation Framework, signal that its policy towards Asia is developing a greater security dimension to accompany its single - minded emphasis to date on economic objecPolicy Cooperation Framework, signal that its policy towards Asia is developing a greater security dimension to accompany its single - minded emphasis to date on economic objecpolicy towards Asia is developing a greater security dimension to accompany its single - minded emphasis to date on economic objectives.

Stelmach said in a press conference shortly after the announcement his new cabinet is «better prepared to communicate the policies and objectives» of the Progressive Conservative government.

The Japanese economy continued to weaken in the first half of 1998, prompting the announcement of further policy measures by the Japanese government.

European yields have generally taken their lead from developments in the US over recent months, with yields on German 10 - year government debt also falling toward 4 per cent in mid January, before increasing to 4.2 per cent after the Fed's late January monetary policy announcement.

Washington DC — Wine Institute, the public policy advocacy group for California wineries, applauds today's announcement by the U.S. government requesting formal World Trade Organization (WTO) consultations with the Government of Canada to ensure that both imported and British Columbia (B.C.) wines have equal access to B.C. grocery storgovernment requesting formal World Trade Organization (WTO) consultations with the Government of Canada to ensure that both imported and British Columbia (B.C.) wines have equal access to B.C. grocery storGovernment of Canada to ensure that both imported and British Columbia (B.C.) wines have equal access to B.C. grocery store shelves.

Some of these industry policies predate recent State Governments» announcements on restricting the sale of sugar - containing beverages in School Canteens.

Recent policy announcements indicate that the government is willing to countenance regional and local asymmetry in taxation.

Commenting today on the Government's announcement that it will support a new build indemnity scheme, Paul Broadhead, BSA Head of Mortgage Policy, said:

The announcement came after several state lawmakers introduced legislation that would create a new email retention policy for the state, requiring that online communications be preserved for at least seven years — much like how the federal government currently operates.

A few days after the President's announcement, his Senior Minister, Yaw Osafo Maafo hinted that government may use parts of the Heritage fund to support the Free SHS policy.

Hours before Schneiderman's announcement, several members of the Legislature introduced email retention policy legislation — most of it based on the federal government's policy, which requires emails to be preserved for at least seven years.

According to detail policy document from government to the BNI and copied to all regional and district offices of the security outfit and sighted by thenewsplatforms.com directs officers to secretly test the reactions from the public before its announcement in March during the budget statement.

Labour attacked Morgan's first policy announcement as yet more «headline - chasing» by the government.

In the same way that Blair made some immediate policy announcements post 1997, Cameron and Osborne are using the weeks following their election victory to show what a majority Conservative Government really looks like.

First, we commend you for the action that you have taken in ensuring that the Government get the message that important policy announcements should be made to Members of this House first and not to the wider media.

«That this House commends the Speaker on the action he has taken over the past year to reassert the principle that Ministers ought to make statements to the House before they are made elsewhere; notes that paragraph 9.1 of the Ministerial Code says that when Parliament is in session, the most important announcements of Government policy should be made in the first instance in Parliament; believes that compliance with this principle is essential for backbenchers to be able to represent the interests of their constituents and hold the Government to account; and invites the Procedure Committee to consider how the rules of the House could be better used or, if necessary, changed to ensure compliance with this principle and to develop a protocol for the release of information.»

The announcement of the suit came a day after Mr. de Blasio visited Rikers for the first time during his 13 years in city government, touting reform policies.

The Finance Minister, Ken Ofori Atta, made this announcement on the floor of Parliament today, Wednesday, November 15, whilst presenting the government's budget and policy statement for 2018.

Benjamin Barnes, who heads the state's Office of Policy and Management, made a startling announcement Tuesday when he declared Connecticut has «entered into a period of permanent fiscal crisis in state and local government.»

9.30 Scottish health secretary Nicola Sturgeon makes an announcement on the Scottish government's alcohol policy

The Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT) has expressed disappointment at today's announcement that Disincorporation Relief will not be extended beyond its current March 2018 expiry date.1 The relief was created to address the problems faced by some small businesses that have chosen to be a limited company in the past and want to return to a simpler legal form, be it a sole trader or a partnership or a limited liability partnership.2 While there has been a very low take up of Disincorporation Relief since it was introduced in 2013 (fewer than 50 claims had been made as of March 2016) the CIOT has suggested3 that the relief might be more popular if it was broader.4 John Cullinane, CIOT Tax Policy Director, said: «It's a shame the Government are letting this relief lapse.

It is expected tomorrow, to follow up on a series of policy announcements from Osborne which were intended to prove the government has the vision and determination to change Britain's economic situation.

Commenting on the announcement of the draft Scottish budget for 2013/14, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the fastest growing teachers» union in Scotland, said: «While the Scottish Government has been placed in a difficult position by the Westminster Government's imposition of its austerity measures, it is deeply disappointing that the Scottish Government has chosen to follow the Coalition's flawed economic policies by imposing another year of pay freeze on public sector workers.»

So it is right the government looks at how we can reduce the impact of policies on bills and we expect to make announcements on or before the Autumn Statement in December.

«This was a consequence of the Government's flawed policy of giving excessive freedom to academies and free schools, freedom which today's announcement now seeks to curtail and is clearly an admission of yet another failed policy.»

The Government is today announcing a large - scale investment in the intercity trains network, following hot on the heels of the Conservatives» announcement yesterday of the conclusions of its own review of rail policy.

Since becoming Speaker John Bercow has (rightly) made a big deal about the Government not making policy announcements to the media before they had been made to the Commons.

Labour MP John Mann said it was extraordinary that Downing Street did not make any public announcement after the resignation and arrest of former government policy adviser Patrick Rock.

This is done against the general principle set out in the Ministerial Code that when Parliament is in Session, the most important announcements of Government policy should be made in the first instance, in Parliament, and taking into account the importance of the issue and the other business before the House.»

The announcement looks set to appease pro-EU Tory MPs who demanded that the policy document be published before the Government's Article 50 bill has gone through the Commons.

And today's announcement by David Cameron, promising that a future Conservative government would make it easier to set up independent schools within the state sector, prompted schools minister Jim Knight to remark: «Cameron has had to accept that the Government's policy of encouraging headteachers to operate setting in individual subjects is the best poligovernment would make it easier to set up independent schools within the state sector, prompted schools minister Jim Knight to remark: «Cameron has had to accept that the Government's policy of encouraging headteachers to operate setting in individual subjects is the best poliGovernment's policy of encouraging headteachers to operate setting in individual subjects is the best policy.»

Conservative Chancellor George Osborne replaced the PBR and its policy announcements in 2010 with a new Autumn Statement focusing on economic growth and government finances as projected by the Office of Budget Responsibility (OBR).

«The economy has started responding to these policy initiatives of the government as evidenced in the improvement and stability of the naira exchange rate; increase in the country's foreign reserves and the recent announcement by the National Bureau of Statistics NBS that the country has officially come out of recession.

Now the party has five cabinet ministers and more than a dozen junior ministers; for the first time in living memory, announcements of government policy are being made at a Lib Dem party conference.

«Is it not extraordinary and unacceptable,» he went on to add, «that the honourable gentleman should have made that announcement before the conclusion of the 1994 review on nuclear policy, which the government commissioned from the industry?»

«In a further significant announcement, the government has made clear that small rural schools are not under threat from its policies on school structure.

It prefers unilateral announcements of agency policy without any form of public participation or review by other government agencies.

Commenting on today's government announcement, Julie McCulloch, interim director of policy at the Association of School and College Leaders, said: «We need a system which better reflects the entirety of their schooling and the vital work in the infant years, and we therefore support a light - touch assessment near the beginning of reception which will provide an earlier starting point for measuring progress and give parents a more complete picture.

«The announcement is all the more intolerable, because the government's own policies cause more delays to school improvement than any head teacher ever could.»

Education reformers misread resilience as a trait they like to call «grit,» and consequently develop misguided policies such as the recent announcement by the federal government that the National Assessment of Educational Progress will create a standardized test to determine whether children have «grit.»

News of the research school forms part of a wider announcement about the next stage of the government's opportunity areas policy, which will give # 72 million to projects in 12 areas over the coming years.

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