Sentences with phrase «joint parliamentary committee»

A Special Joint Parliamentary Committee recommended that people with psychiatric illness should be eligible.

contribute to the new Joint Parliamentary Committee on Human Rights and Statement of Compatibility processes for new federal law and regulations, including promoting effective arrangements for participation by community organisations.

John Mann, a member of the Treasury select committee interviewing Bob Diamond today, has just been on the news attacking the chancellor's decision to set up a joint parliamentary committee to pursue the Libor investigation.

Hain has written a brief foreword to a report from pro-reform MPs who sat on the joint parliamentary committee which scrutinised the draft legislation.

Ms Jowell accepted the Lords amendment, calling for a joint parliamentary committee to scrutinise the government's plans.

10.45 am: David Anderson, the government's independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, gives evidence to the joint parliamentary committee on the draft enhanced terrorism prevention and investigation measures bill.

A significant stage will come on Monday when a joint parliamentary committee will recommend that a second chamber should have 80 % of its members elected.

7 pm update: Labour will support Andrew Tyrie's chairmanship of a joint parliamentary committee holding an inquiry into the banking industry.

The campaign, «Holy Redundant», follows on from the Joint Parliamentary Committee on the Draft House of Lords Reform Bill reporting on Monday in support of the Government's proposals to keep reserved seats for Bishops in a reformed second chamber by a vote of 13 - 7.

The Joint Parliamentary Committee was set up in 1881 by The Co-operative Union.

A motion was tabled at the 1917 Congress held in Swansea by the Joint Parliamentary Committee and 104 retail societies, calling for direct representation at national and local government levels.

As a joint parliamentary committee unveils its plans for a mainly elected second chamber, a YouGov poll commissioned by Unlock Democracy found that 69 % of voters support a reformed House of Lords.

Unlock Democracy is releasing its poll to coincide with the publication of a report by a joint parliamentary committee which is expected to call for a second chamber in which 80 % of members would be elected.

After putting forth a highly - spirited argument to justify the need for Parliament to accept the agreement tabled before them by a joint parliamentary committee, the Speaker Prof. Mike Oquaye decided to take a voice vote.

The Bill has started its march onto the statute books and a Joint Parliamentary Committee has been established to consider the draft.

Mr. Strayer, as he then was, testified before a joint Parliamentary committee about what was understood and intended by the drafters in respect of the phrase «fundamental justice».

The ICC (United Kingdom) evidence to the Joint Parliamentary Committee says: «The UK will not wish to have «weaker» law against bribery than other countries.

I indicated to the Joint Parliamentary Committee in response to a series of questions put to me when I appeared before it on 22 February 2000 that the amended NTA as a whole could not be considered a special measure but to the extent that the amended NTA recognises and protects the traditions and customs of Indigenous people then this recognition and protection was a non-discriminatory differential treatment of Indigenous people.

Attorney - General's Department, Submission No 24, Part I, p17; quoted in the Joint Parliamentary Committee CERD Inquiry, op cit, p8.

It is also suggested in the government's written submission to the Joint Parliamentary Committee that the removal of a special measure is permissible at international law and does not require the consent of Indigenous people.

[1] Mineral Council of Australia, Submission to the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Native Title Representative Bodies, July 2004.

The Committee requests the State party, in accordance with the provisions of article 9, paragraph 1, of the Convention, to transmit the report of the Joint Parliamentary Committee's inquiry to the Committee when it is tabled.