Sentences with phrase «many debates in parliament»

Canada Post's decision to phase out home mail delivery over the next five years reverberated through headlines Wednesday morning and spurred a lively debate in Parliament this afternoon.

Ministers were warned during a debate in Parliament this week over a host of countries and minorities affected by persecution.

If the petition reaches 10,000 signatures, the British government will have to respond to the petition, and if its hits 100,000 signatures, the petition will be considered for debate in parliament.

This argument was also used by farm minister George Eustice to defend the government's cull policy in the debate in parliament on March 13th.

However the first some heard of Atkins was when she branded Donald Trump a «wazzock» during the recent debate in parliament about whether the tycoon should be allowed to enter the UK.

If things were in any way normal, we would expect the creation of a public body to involve primary legislation: an actual bill, debated in parliament, talked about on TV stations and radio programmes - the standard democratic routine.

That statement is not self - evident and it has never been debated in parliament or endorsed by voters.

Debates in parliament are covered in news programmes in 20 - second segments.

It is why my first act as Prime Minister last year was to lead the debate in Parliament that ensured the renewal of Britain's independent nuclear deterrent.

«This will have to be debated in parliament, so the exact intricacies of it will have to be ironed out,» the Home Office explains.

The select committees reports would be accompanied by a debate in Parliament and a corresponding report from the Office of National Statistics with simple figures on the number of quangos and their cost.

While there are exemptions for those working in sectors with a shortage, the move has caused public backlash, with a petition reaching more than 100,000 signatures and prompting a debate in parliament.

We look forward to Lord Falconer's sensible and compassionate bill being presented to and debated in parliament.

During the debate in parliament, Robertson said: «I would invite any member from the government side to tell the house what [the make - up of the moderate troops are].»

Most secondary legislation is not even debated in Parliament.

So before too long, all you'll need is 99,999 friends to agree on an issue and you'll be able to get it debated in Parliament.

Ironically, during a recent debate in Parliament on dangerous dogs, I was struck that the same arguments used in opposition to microchipping horses were now being deployed against the suggestion that dogs should also be chipped.

That's when we are likely to find out more details about a debate in Parliament on the UK's military action in Syria.

He said the government was keen to encourage a wide debate in parliament, political parties and across the country as a whole.

I want members to tell us what we should debate in parliament on opposition days.

Ceredigion's Welsh Liberal Democrat MP Mark Williams has highlighted the positive impact the Government's new childcare scheme will have on families in Wales, in a debate in Parliament last week.

While they had yet to become electable as a government, they underlined their growing reputation as a worthwhile alternative to Labour and Conservative, offering plenty of debate in parliament and not just representing a protest vote.

Only last week a cross-party group of MPs called for the liberalisation of cannabis laws during a Westminster Hall debate in parliament.

This means that any extension would not only be: - subject to a specific case being made by the Director of Public Prosecutions; - subject every seven days up to the agreed limit to the approval of a High Court Judge; - subject to the regular report of the independent reviewer with an annual debate in parliament; - but also be subject in each and every instance to a specific parliamentary notification procedure, to a further statement to parliament on the individual case, a review on the specific case by the independent reviewer and with the provision for this House to scrutinise and debate the report and all the circumstances.

Once we have published the command paper, we will then be able to discuss how we debate it in parliament and what the format and structure of any debate might be.»

A few months earlier, a motion calling for an assessment of the impact of welfare cuts on sick and disabled people was debated in parliament.

The debate in parliament on whether the risk register should be published was described by the deputy speaker as the «worst tempered» he had ever seen.

«I'm 52, I was in the army; to be honest for me sleeping rough in central London is a lot more comfortable than going on exercise in the army,» declared the MP for Gravesham in a debate in Parliament.

The Liberal Democrats will highlight the plight of British detainees still held in Guantanamo Bay prison camp with a special debate in parliament.

Beside posturing, the debates in parliament are mostly dedicated to fixing technical problems and changing nuances of the text.

But now that the Lords clearly considers the matter open for debate in parliament, it is unclear why Commons authorities do not follow suit.

Nick Spencer Hodder & Stoughton, # 16.99 Not once, during recent debates in Parliament, did I hear any MP accuse another of retiring «into what may be called his political cave of Adullam».

There was a heated debate in Parliament on Thursday between the Majority and Minority sides of the House following a statement made in the House by the Minister of Communications, Mrs. Ursula Owusu - Ekuful, on the Radio Spectrum Audit carried out and the actions taken by the NCA to enforce the law on communication services in the country.

Graham Jones, the Labour backbencher for Hyndburn, is seeking a debate in parliament on the circumstances leading to Meadows» death.

Abbott resigned from a cross-party group on abortion counselling saying it was no more than a front to push forward an anti-abortion agenda without debate in parliament.

Today in Parliament, I will lead a debate in Parliament, urging the Office of Fair Trading and the Financial Services Authority to investigate the oil market.

This prompted a Westminster Hall debate in parliament followed by a Scottish Affairs Committee inquiry.

Immigration detention is once more in the news and was debated in Parliament this week, this time because of a hunger strike by women held at Yarls» Wood, the detention centre where abuse by guards was filmed undercover for Channel 4 in 2015.

I hope that our sisters in Afghanistan heard both debates in Parliament to know that our voices were raised to demand their safety and security, their human rights and the right to engage fully in every aspect of life in Afghanistan.

While religious leaders are as entitled as anyone else to express their views about the Assisted Dying Bill - about to be debated in Parliament - there is no doubt the media give the opinions of «faith leaders» disproportionate prominence.

Union leaders have promised to fight «tooth and nail» against a controversial Trade Union Bill, set to be debated in parliament today.

Occupy Ghana, which has been strong advocates for the passage of the Right To Information Bill, has called on the government to provide dates on when it will «publish and gazette the Bill,» on when the «bill shall be tabled for debate in Parliament» and finally on when «the Parliamentary Select Committee on Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary affairs shall conclude its deliberations on the Bill.»

The boycott was due to the fact that, the motion to withdraw the deal was not debated in Parliament before being forwarded to the Mines and Energy committee.

Conserservative MPs need to «haunt» ministers with the above statement time after time in the coming debates in Parliament.

This will begin to matter when there is a public petition which gains enough signatures to secure the right to a debate in parliament and then, if the government loses, nothing happens.

After debate in Parliament, the budget is expected to be finalized in the next several weeks.

The debates in Parliament showed concern as to whether the proceeds of the lottery would be additional to the normal government grants for the arts, heritage, sports and the like.

The budget bill is now to be debated in parliament.

If the petition reaches the desired number of signatures, government will have to respond, and if Smith gains 100,000 names the petition will be debated in Parliament.

FD: By 2020 we should be five years on to delivering the SDGs I would like to see annual debates in parliaments holding the executives accountable to what they agreed in 2015.