Sentences with phrase «in parliament which»

An Act of Parliament would be passed in this Parliament which would set two referendums in motion.

One of the key problems in Parliament which is little understood, but which hugely undermines its effectiveness, is the Whips» stranglehold over the scrutiny of Government bills.

In a heated contest delayed due to a legal tussle, incumbent Joe Baidoo Ansah lost his seat in Parliament which he has occupied since 2001 to Joe Mensah.

«The consequence, in the extreme, is you could have a government in parliament which could command 45 %, or 45 % plus one, of parliamentary votes, but no more, and therefore couldn't deliver a budget, couldn't deliver its manifesto, couldn't deliver its normal legislation and yet couldn't be thrown out either,» he said.

He will need to rebuild some of his links with us Conservative Eurosceptics if he wants other MPs to back any of his proposals, second any of his motions and help him get some airtime in a Parliament which requires numbers to achieve things.

DPR Voting does not necessarily result in a parliament which is a microcosm of British Society.

Inevitably it ended in tears when he was caught out on his employers» email - and his MP noticed a stream of correspondence booking various lunches in Parliament which he hadn't attended.

The surveys of just over 1,000 people each were conducted between Monday and Wednesday this week before Thursday's events in parliament which may see the election brought forward slightly.

Get the Queen's Speech wrong and she sets herself up for a calamity in Parliament which could lead to her downfall.

«But having taken responsibility for something that happened ten years ago the only proper course of action for me is to resign my Eastleigh seat in parliament which I will do very shortly.

Not exact matches

The commission's proposal, which was prepared by Neelie Kroes, the commissioner for telecommunications, will require approval by the European Parliament and the Council of Ministers in a process likely to conclude next spring.

The state government will introduce legislation into parliament tomorrow designed to finalise the long - running Bell Group legal case, in which the Insurance Commission of WA and other creditors are fighting over a $ 1.7 billion payout.

A general election on March 4 resulted in a hung parliament in which no one party or coalition of parties won enough of the vote to govern alone.

The DUP in Northern Ireland obtained 10 seats, which would give Theresa May a majority in parliament.

Anti-Brexit protesters, one wearing a giant Theresa May head, hold placards outside Parliament on the day the Prime Minister will announce that she has triggered the process by which Britain will leave the European Union, in London, March 29, 2017.

In late September, Russia's Parliament voted to restrict foreign ownership of local media to 20 %, a move that could affect U.S. companies such as Disney, which has a Russian TV channel, and force the sale of the independent Russian financial paper Vedomosti, which is part owned by News Corp.'s Dow Jones and Pearson.

LONDON — A rather cynical tradition has developed in recent years in which, in the final days and hours before MPs leave Parliament for their summer break, the government releases a deluge of embarrassing reports, statistics, and statements in an apparently deliberate attempt to bury them.

«For sure, the priorities are immigration, the control of borders, of Europe, (the issue of) cultural identities and the understanding of how the Italian society should move ahead in a globalized world,» Terzi di Sant «Agata said, following the Italian election result which pointed to a hung parliament where no one party or coalition gained a majority of the vote that would allow it to govern alone.

The idea for an ACCC investigation was hatched during media reform negotiations in parliament earlier this year, which resulted in a relaxation of ownership laws to allow the country's big players to boost their market share to better compete against online disruptors.

The legislation, which has passed a vote in Pakistan's lower house of parliament, is supposed to target terrorism, but critics said the language is broad.

Churchill was a night owl, but he took two baths and a two hour nap every afternoon, which he claimed allowed him to be twice as productive as the normal person Naps were so sacrosanct to Churchill that he unapologetically kept a bed in the House of Parliament.

Talks will take place in the «coming weeks» about a transition deal, which Verhofstadt believes will be a «continuation of the existing rules, the existing policies, without [the UK] having a say» because Britain will no longer be a member of the European Parliament, adding that the EU is not against a transition period.

He also said the European Parliament wants an «association agreement» in which there will be a free trade deal.

Back in July, Greek voters voted against a new bailout package, but eventually the government gave in to demands from its European creditors, causing a divide in Syriza, which had been in control of Greek parliament.

«What I'm trying to drive at, is whether there are any circumstances in which you'd go back to the EU on certain points, for example, if the resolution were amended to say Parliament would like the government to seek an extension of the Article 50 process — is that possible?»

May stands to gain some 45 seats in Parliament, which could ultimately strengthen her hand to negotiate a hard - Brexit.

Greek TV networks predict that New Democracy will take about 127 seats in the parliament, which when combined with the 32 seats for PASOK, give the coalition more than the 151 seats needed to form a government.

There is a chance that May's opposition could gain power in parliament, and influence a stronger relationship with Europe — i.e., a «soft Brexit,» in which the U.K. might remain in the free trade zone.

Back in 2008, when he made his first (unsucessful) bid for a spot in parliament, he gave an interview to Investment Executive, which noted his wish to work with Flaherty on unifying the provincial securities regulators:

All this is in the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which gained the final approval of the European Parliament on Thursday.

For example, while businesses and government departments in the UK must comply with the Data Protection Act, the Canadian parliament is currently debating a new piece of legislation, the Information Sharing Act, which will allow all departments of government to share information in ways that are not currently permitted in the UK.

The European Parliament voted strongly in favor of regulations, which would deter cryptocurrency - based money laundering and terrorism financing.

Also, while it likely won't hit until 2018, issuers should track the amendments to the Canadian Business Corporations Act, which passed their first reading in Parliament in September.

This was quite a change from the 2006 election promise and related documents, in which they had indicated that it would be an independent agency, reporting directly to Parliament.

Brittney Kaiser, a former employee for Cambridge Analytica — who left the company in January and is today giving evidence in front of a UK parliament committee that's investigating online misinformation — has suggested that data on far more Facebook users may have found its way into the consultancy's hands than the up to 87M people Facebook has so far suggested had personal data compromised as a result of a personality quiz app running on its platform which was developed by an academic working with CA.

Under what are referred to as «supply» rules in Parliament, Main Estimates, which detail the Government's spending intentions for the upcoming fiscal year, must be referred to the appropriate Parliamentary Standing Committees for review before March 1st.

In Parliament last year, the NDP introduced Bill C448, which would have banned terminator technology.

In the EU it currently invokes a exception in Irish law to circumvent more fulsome compliance — which, even setting GDPR aside, raises some interesting competition law questions, as Paul - Olivier Dehaye told the UK parliament last montIn the EU it currently invokes a exception in Irish law to circumvent more fulsome compliance — which, even setting GDPR aside, raises some interesting competition law questions, as Paul - Olivier Dehaye told the UK parliament last montin Irish law to circumvent more fulsome compliance — which, even setting GDPR aside, raises some interesting competition law questions, as Paul - Olivier Dehaye told the UK parliament last month.

Normally Parliament recesses in mid-June, which implies that there may be only 15 days for committee review of Bill C - 59 by both the House of Commons and the Senate.

In her Opinion on the 2009 - 10 condensed financial statements, the Auditor General noted that she would be commenting in more detail on «significant accounting changes to the accounts for the Employment Insurance program», which she wanted to draw to Parliament's attentioIn her Opinion on the 2009 - 10 condensed financial statements, the Auditor General noted that she would be commenting in more detail on «significant accounting changes to the accounts for the Employment Insurance program», which she wanted to draw to Parliament's attentioin more detail on «significant accounting changes to the accounts for the Employment Insurance program», which she wanted to draw to Parliament's attention.

In reaction to the vote by the Legal Affairs Committee, Michael Izza, chief executive of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, pointed out that a number of the changes voted through by the members of the European Parliament seem to align the EU audit reform proposals more closely with international standards, which he considers a positivIn reaction to the vote by the Legal Affairs Committee, Michael Izza, chief executive of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, pointed out that a number of the changes voted through by the members of the European Parliament seem to align the EU audit reform proposals more closely with international standards, which he considers a positivin England and Wales, pointed out that a number of the changes voted through by the members of the European Parliament seem to align the EU audit reform proposals more closely with international standards, which he considers a positive.

To ensure that relations between the auditor and the audited company do not become too cozy, members of the European Parliament approved a mandatory rotation rule whereby an auditor may inspect a company's books for a maximum of 14 years, which could be increased to 25 years if safeguards are put in place.

There are two types of spending in the Main Estimates: first, there are «voted» expenditures that require annual approval from Parliament; and second, there are «statutory» expenditures (e.g., major transfers to the provinces and individuals) for which legislation was previously approved setting out the specific terms and conditions under which payments can be made.

Our projection is based on a Library of Parliament analysis which determined that a new tax bracket of 33 percent on individual incomes in excess of $ 200,000 would have increased revenue in 2014 by $ 3.24 billion.

AfD seems certain to repeat its local success in a general election - in which case Ms Merkel's critics will see her as the German leader who paved the way for a racist and nationalist party to gain a toehold in the national parliament for the first time since 1945.

Since this debate over pipelines began in earnest last Fall, Jason Kenney and others have been calling on the federal government to invoke clause 92 (10)(c) of the Constitution, which allows the federal government to exert authority over infrastructure such as pipelines which, «although wholly situate within the Province, are before or after their Execution declared by the Parliament of Canada to be for the general Advantage of Canada or for the Advantage of Two or more of the Provinces.»

Mr. Collins, the British lawmaker, said he planned to call Alexander Nix, the chief executive of Cambridge Analytica, to return to Parliament and answer questions about testimony last month in which he claimed that the company never obtained or used Facebook data.

ATHENS, Greece (AP)-- Greece's left - led government submitted to Parliament late Wednesday a new package of creditor - demanded tax hikes and reforms worth 1.8 billion euros ($ 2 billion), which it hopes to have approved by lawmakers in time for a meeting of European officials next week.

The Left Platform, which holds about 40 seats in parliament and is composed of former communists and others closely aligned with labor unions, could defeat the government if its members vote against the plan.

We have not arrived on the exact mechanism in which that could be done,» Mr. MacKay said on Parliament Hill on Wednesday, adding: «We're examining it.