Sentences with phrase «home affairs committee»

Manhunt was erroneously implicated in a 2004 murder case by the tabloids, with MP and chair of home affairs committee Keith Vaz telling the House of Commons: «The parents of the victim believe that the perpetrator of this savage attack was influenced by the videogame Manhunt.»
«We are astounded at the length of time it has taken for News International to cooperate with the police but we are appalled that this is advanced as a reason for failing to mount a robust investigation,» wrote members of the House of Commons Home Affairs Committee in the report.
A recent home affairs committee report showed that the granting of asylum often turned out to be poisoned chalice for those fleeing persecution, with the approval decision activating a period of financial uncertainty which lasted up to four months.
It is a measure of how Government totally dominates Parliament that this document is «owned» by the Cabinet, and is safely lodged in the Cabinet's Home Affairs Committee chaired by Nick Clegg.
«The HM Passport Office is in chaos and the home secretary's urgent action shows the true scale of the problem,» home affairs committee chairman Keith Vaz said.
Christopher Graham, giving evidence to the Commons» home affairs committee for its inquiry into phone - hacking allegations, said his role was «frankly pretty limited».
11:00 - former head of the UK Border Force Bodie Clark and UK Border Agency chief executive Rob Whiteman, before home affairs committee, on: Border checks during Summer 2011
And the Commons home affairs committee called for a royal commission into drug law late last year.
Party to submit opposition day motion asking for documents to be scrutinised by home affairs committee
Search engine giant reveals plans for pilot scheme to home affairs committee hearing, with Facebook and Twitter also probed over extremism policies
Mr Vaz, 59, who has two children with Ms Fernandes, quit as chairman of the influential House of Commons Home Affairs Committee after becoming embroiled in the scandal.
I am writing concerning the current home affairs committee inquiry into the unauthorised tapping of Mobile Communications.
Commons home affairs committee says landlords could discriminate against all immigrants regardless of their status
Sixteen Lib Dem MPs, including home affairs committee member Julian Huppert, signed a letter holding their party leadership to its civil liberty principles.
Dave Roberts also told the Commons home affairs committee yesterday that checking up on individual illegal immigrants was «not an effective use of resources», adding: «We are making huge efforts to remove them but not at the basis of tracing individuals.»
The UK parliament's Home Affairs Committee criticised the world's largest tech companies last week for shying away from the war on ISIS.
At Westminster, Lidington previously participated in the Education Select Committee and Conservative Backbench Home Affairs Committee.
Boris Johnson and senior police figures faced questions from the Commons» home affairs committee over their decisions in response to rioting across the capital.
«We have always warned that the privatisation of Surrey and West Midlands police forces was a dangerous experiment which is wasting taxpayers money and now we have damming advice from the respected Home Affairs committee backing up our claims.
The publication report from the all - party home affairs committee, which has been brought forward in time for Cameron's statement today, has found that News International «deliberately» tried to block a Scotland Yard criminal investigation into phone hacking at the News of the World.
The powerful home affairs committee rubber stamped Theresa May's controversial decision to appoint Tom Winsor the chief inspector of police earlier today.
The difficulty is this — and I am really quite keen on this,» he told MPs on the Commons» home affairs committee last week.
The Government will face further pressure on the Windrush scandal when Ms Rudd appears before MPs on Ms Cooper's Home Affairs committee later today.
Benn and Cooper elected to chair Brexit and home affairs committees respectively - Politics live
But the prime minister did not rule one out entirely, saying that he wanted to let the Commons home affairs committee conduct its inquiry first.
Warsi has written to Labour MP Yvette Cooper, the chair of the parliamentary home affairs committee, to ask her to investigate hate speech.
Julian Huppert, a Liberal Democrat home affairs committee member, said the vans had demonised people who were in the country legitimately.
On the BBC today Naz Shah MP, a member of the FGM Home Affairs Committee, stated frontline practitioners should lose their jobs if they fail to report FGM but perhaps her attention would be better focused on how we enable them to deliver a very full safeguarding remit.
In May, the UK's Home Affairs Committee also urged the government to consider a regime of fines for social media content moderation failures — accusing tech giants of taking a «laissez - faire approach» to moderating hate speech content on their platforms.
Home affairs committee chairman Keith Vaz was there this morning, waiting outside of court, celebrating with those who campaigned for the case and congratulating the legal team.
11:00 - policing and criminal justice minister Nick Herbert, before home affairs committee, on: Extradition, Policing Protocol, Work of the UK Border Agency (August - November 2011)
Home affairs committee chair Keith Vaz offered his support to the campaign, saying a referendum would «determine the modern, settled view of the British people».
The Commons home affairs committee says the measures — contained in the government's new immigration bill — are designed to create a hostile environment for illegal migrants.
Khan was chairman of Labour's backbench home affairs committee, so we've often talked about issues such as identity cards and anti-terror laws.
In the end a compromise of sorts was reached, with Nick Clegg announcing a «grassroots» inquiry involving community organisers while the home affairs committee focused on policing.
Should the Home Affairs Committee be concerned instead with the fact that a large number of migrants are kept in uncertainty and destitution for a long time because a significant number of UKBA's initial decisions are wrong?
Speaking to the home affairs committee, Sir Paul Stephenson, who resigned as Met police commissioner earlier this week, elaborated on his resignation statement, which had been interpreted as a barbed attack on David Cameron.
Then comes Keith Vaz, the home affairs committee chair, who raises a diabetes question.
Her husband may have sparkled on the dance floor, but now Yvette Cooper is waltzing into the political spotlight as the new chair of the Home Affairs Committee.
14:31 - Time to zip away now from the home affairs committee, for just around the corner we're gearing up for the Murdochs» appearance.
By Tuesday both coppers were in front of the home affairs committee enthusiastically landing Downing Street in it.
The home affairs committee inquiry into «policing large scale disorder» will start by interviewing Boris Johnson and his deputy, Kit Malthouse.
The Home Affairs Committee has recently published a report into the work of the UK Border Agency in which it criticises the UKBA for failing to deport more than 600 Foreign National Prisoners who were released between 1999 and 2006 and are still in the country.
Is the Home Affairs Committee implicitly questioning and undermining the fairness of the British Judicial system?
I have become spokesman for the party on the justice and home affairs committee, a role I previously had in the 1999 - 2004 Parliament.
14:01 - As the news channels show helicopter footage of a car which may contain one or two Murdochs - just half an hour to go there - we're sticking with the home affairs committee, which is now turning its attention - well behind schedule, it should be noted - to John Yates.
Then comes a question from Tory MP Michael Ellis, a member of the home affairs committee, who suggests Hague could use his surveillance powers to find out what the Labour party's position actually is.
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