Sentences with phrase «important parliamentary committee»

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One important venue of parliamentary scrutiny and accountability is the Commons select committee system, which has just elected a new cohort of committee chairs.

With a fair wind, the day will come to pass when scrutiny committees in local government are as respected and listened to, and seen as important in local politics and elections, as are the Parliamentary select committees.

He continues that if the chair of the Treasury Committee and members of the Committee were to be taken to complete a joint - parliamentary committee, they would be stretched, doing «two jobs» when there are other important issues that have yet to be cCommittee and members of the Committee were to be taken to complete a joint - parliamentary committee, they would be stretched, doing «two jobs» when there are other important issues that have yet to be cCommittee were to be taken to complete a joint - parliamentary committee, they would be stretched, doing «two jobs» when there are other important issues that have yet to be ccommittee, they would be stretched, doing «two jobs» when there are other important issues that have yet to be concluded.

He was appointed as a parliamentary private secretary in 1963, became secretary of the party's agricultural committee, an important body at the time, and in 1965 was appointed vice-chairman of the Conservative party with responsibility for candidates.

The parliamentary select committees play no formal role in agreeing legislation, but are surprisingly important.

As University of Denver law professor Sam Kamin advised the parliamentary committee, «The more different and innovative approaches the provinces take — from distributing cannabis themselves, to regulating and taxing it, to prohibiting distribution entirely — the more we will learn about the impact of regulatory policy on important outcome metrics.»

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.

It did this through submissions to all the inquiries conducted by the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Native Title and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Land Fund, through a number of important reviews of aspects of the native title process, including a review commissioned by ATSIC into Native Title Representative Bodies32 and a review of PBC funding.33 It also commissioned an important paper in relation to water rights, of which native title was an important part.34 It is not clear whether the policy development role that ATSIC exercised in relation to native title issues has been transferred into the new arrangements and if so, how it is to be developed by the government.