Sentences with phrase «in coalition agreement»

The Government subsequently confirmed in its coalition agreement that it would set up the Green Investment Bank.

Some proportion will be used to support jobs in a targeted and effective way, as set out in the coalition agreement, for example through the cancelling of some backdated demands for business rates.

Their problem is that, though both reforms were promised in the coalition agreement two years ago, they weren't linked.

I was also delighted to read in the coalition agreement that rebalancing the economy is a key Government aim and that the Government are committed to boosting the provision of workplace apprenticeships.

Later he is asked why he accepts Andrew Lansley's bolt - from - the - blue health reforms — a shock to all since they were not in the coalition agreement, and the coalition agreement in fact stipulates no top - down reforms.

And he adds that, «If one party, be it the Lib Dems or the Conservatives, started not delivering pledges in the coalition agreement, then that will obviously be something that would be a de-stabilizing and a very negative development.»

It is thus important to grasp, amidst these controversies, exactly what obligations backbenchers and frontbenchers respectively have, from each Coalition partner alike, to commitments made in their manifestos and in the Coalition Agreement.

«The rebalancing of our economy is a key aim of the Government, as is set out in the coalition agreement.

Campaigners had become increasingly concerned that the pledge, which was in the coalition agreement, was being kicked into the long grass following months of silence over the issue.

Many Conservative MPs just do not understand the move when the tax measure is in the Coalition Agreement.

It was being stressed that the Lib Dems had stuck to their guns and it was the first time that the Tories had failed to deliver on a commitment in the coalition agreement.

Miliband asked a series of questions that didn't seem to hang together very well, claiming that promises in the Coalition Agreement were being broken.

In the coalition agreement were commitments, crucial to the Lib Dems, to a referendum on electoral reform, tax reform and more money for poorer pupils in schools.

But the Tories in the coalition feel that there is enough creative ambiguity in the coalition agreement to allow them to alter age thresholds.

Notably, it only included the minimum requirement as stated in the coalition agreement.

He said this was something that the Tories had promised before the election and that it was included in the coalition agreement.

Hughes issued a blunt warning to the Tories that the government would break up if key pensioner benefits in the coalition agreement were cut.

I want to take the child benefit step this week... The policy in the coalition agreement is not specific.

Then they abandoned it in the coalition agreement — and, worse still, many of them voted with the Tories for a trebling of tuition fees.

In answering another question Lord Strathclyde confirmed that «it was in the coalition agreement that, in the event of there being an elected second Chamber, it would be under the system of proportional representation.»

Lord Strathclyde responded: «My Lords, over time, we shall certainly wish to produce what is in the coalition agreement.»

That's more difficult now, however, as the government has committed itself in the Coalition Agreement to «put a limit on the number on Special Advisers» [sic].

It is written in the coalition agreement.

Is there anything in the coalition agreement about candidates for the next GE?

Top of the list, though, is the possibility that the government might actually introduce a measure it had originally pledged to implement in the coalition agreement: a House business committee giving backbenchers a say in what the Commons debates.

Conference regrets that some of the proposed reforms have never been Liberal Democrat policy, did not feature in our manifesto or in the Coalition agreement, which instead called for an end to large - scale top - down reorganisations.

There is no basis for taking such decisions in Liberal Democrat policy, nor in the Coalition Agreement.

The mechanism that we have proposed to achieve that stability is set out in the coalition agreement, which states that the Government will «put a binding motion before the House of Commons in the first days following this agreement stating that the next general election will be held on the first Thursday of May 2015.

1B Calls for there to be effective consultation with the party at large, through its democratic structures, when new Government policies are proposed, which are not included in the Coalition agreement, and which conflict with Lib Dem policy or principles

The Guardian revealed government figures on Monday which show that the sale of school sports fields continues even though ministers declared in the coalition agreement that they would seek to protect them.»

The Tories have been more than happy to go along with the former, raising the income tax threshold as promised in the Coalition Agreement.

It would list those items in the coalition agreement that have already been achieved, and set out the coalition's priorities for the next two and a half years, he said.

The two parties have put in place ways of reaching agreement on issues not in the coalition agreement, he says.

On Lords reform, he says he wants to deliver all of what is in the coalition agreement.

«I worked for some years to get us committed in our party to what we call fair taxes, lifting low - paid people out of tax, we got that in the coalition agreement and it was in the first Budget.

The debate gives the Deputy Leader of the House the opportunity to confirm for the avoidance of doubt, as lawyers would say, that the commitment in the coalition agreement will be complied with, and when he gives that commitment perhaps he would also answer my hon. Friend's question on whether there will be a House business committee and the Backbench Business Committee or just one covering both important subjects.»

In the Coalition Agreement it was agreed to adjust representation in the Lords to reflect the distribution of votes at the last election.

Q. (From Paul Cotteril) Would you encourage the party to accept the money on offer from the government for trial runs of primaries in safe Labour seats, as set out in the coalition agreement?

Reeves seems to be implying, as other Lib Dems have said over the past weeks, that it would be unreasonable for Tories to rebel against something that was in the Coalition agreement.

I reckon that somebody in the Dem camp got their sums wrong when they asked for AV to be in the coalition agreement.

Dr Fox: The Government remain committed, including in the coalition agreement, to the renewal of our nuclear deterrent.

Going further, it seemed that the aims and ambitions of both partners, set out in the Coalition Agreement, were so similar that the two might as well, in future, merge into one.

«But of equal concern is that the plans follow promises made both before the election and in the coalition agreement that there would be no more top down reorganisations in the NHS - promises that have now been broken by a health secretary operating in isolation in Whitehall and running a rogue department.»

Delivering one but not the other would create an imbalance — not just in the Coalition Agreement, but also in our political system.

We started with a limit on those who come here to work, as we promised to do in the Coalition Agreement.

«It was in the coalition agreement to do this.

«The CCSA welcomes government's continued commitment to proceed with the four CCS demonstration plants as outlined in the coalition agreement.

«We did make sure that in that coalition agreement were serious policies that would get immigration under control.»

Outside parliament, protestors had little sympathy for MPs planning on abstaining - a move allowed for in the coalition agreement.

A Home Office spokesperson said the policy was in the coalition agreement document, but conceded that ministers would consider debate in the Lords.