Sentences with phrase «member of the parliamentary committee»

He also chaired the Home Affairs Select Committee and was a member of the Parliamentary Committee, giving him direct access to the court of Tony Blair.

The government, and the government members of the Parliamentary committee, disagreed with Australia's Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission and various international bodies, and stated that the 1998 amendments are «consistent with Australia's international obligations».

It is not a requirement that members of Parliamentary committees are members of Parliament.

[82] Accordingly, there is a difference between, on the one hand, the view of three international committees, the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission and the minority members of the Parliamentary Committee, and, on the other hand, the position of the government that introduced the amendments.

Not exact matches

Tuesday's reshuffle also saw cabinet posts given to four senior members of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC)- the group overseeing the 1MDB parliamentary investigation.

«I think, given the extraordinary evidence we've heard so far today, it is absolutely astonishing that Mark Zuckerberg is not prepared to submit himself to questioning in front of a parliamentary or congressional hearing, given these are questions of fundamental importance and concern to his users, as well as to this inquiry,» Damian Collins, the member of parliament heading the UK committee, said earlier on Tuesday.

He is currently a member of the European Parliament, where he sits on the Foreign Affairs Committee, and a Chairman of the Conservatives and Reformists parliamentary group.

The members of Crimond's committee have learned that he condones terrorism and might welcome the demise of parliamentary democracy.

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.

The Special Investigation Committee looking into the Parliamentary allegation has invited the Member of Parliament for North Tongu constituency to testify in the bribery case after he was earlier excluded.

This is the time of the week when we can get some serious work done unimpeded by an MP ricocheting all over the office demanding that we stop what we're doing every two minutes to Google their name, insisting that we write a press release on their recent parliamentary awesomeness, leaving their folder of top secret documents in Committee Room 6, and generally getting in the way of the correspondence, casework, the booking of Commons tours for schools and all the other myriad tasks that Members assume happen by magic.

Therefore, it is our manifest intention through this petition, to call on your good office and the Leadership of Parliament to remove Mr. Kennedy Agyapong as the Ranking Member on the Parliamentary Select Committee on Communications with immediate effect since his thoughtless comments and insults are a disgrace to Parliament in general and the NPP in particular.

According to the Parliamentary Affairs Minister, the fact that Nana Akufo - Addo was a ranking member on the committee Alban Kingsford Sumani Bagbin chaired and the former has become president does not necessarily suggest the NDC longest serving Member of Parliament can also become a presmember on the committee Alban Kingsford Sumani Bagbin chaired and the former has become president does not necessarily suggest the NDC longest serving Member of Parliament can also become a presMember of Parliament can also become a president.

The MP for Boston and Skegness is now a member of the Science and Technology Select Committee and Co-Chairs the All - Party Parliamentary Group on Broadband and Digital Communication.

Mr. Abum - Sarkodie was appointed acting EPA boss in July 2017 having previously served as Member of Parliament for the Mampong Constituency from 2005 to 2009, and a member of the Parliamentary Select Committee for Science and EnviroMember of Parliament for the Mampong Constituency from 2005 to 2009, and a member of the Parliamentary Select Committee for Science and Enviromember of the Parliamentary Select Committee for Science and Environment.

In the case of parliamentary elections there shall in addition be a National Electoral Committee with no fewer than five members.

He was a member of the Health Select Committee from 2001 until 2003, then serving as Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to Home Secretary David Blunkett until 2004, when he became PPS to Education Secretary Ruth Kelly.

«Speaking in the chamber is only one of the ways members hold the government to account and this research ignores members» contributions including amending legislation, asking the government written questions and serving on select committees — more than 320 members served on committees in the last session of parliament — as well as parliamentary work away from the chamber.

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.

That this House approves the recommendations of the First Report from the Members» Expenses Committee on the Operation of the Parliamentary Standards Act 2009

Current Conservative officeholders who are members of the group include the Work and Pensions Secretary, Iain Duncan Smith; David Cameron's PPS, Desmond Swayne; Nick Clegg's Parliamentary Under - Secretary, Mark Harper; the Minister of State for Transport, Theresa Villiers; a Parliamentary Under - Secretary of State at the Ministry of Justice, Jonathan Djanogly; three government whips, Angela Watkinson, Mark Francois and Greg Hands; the Chairman of the Procedure Committee, Greg Knight; and the Chairman of the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee, John Whittingdale, who was Mrs Thatcher's Political Secretary in the late 1980s.

After holding ministerial office, he became a member of the ecclesiastical and the public accounts parliamentary select committees.

He is also an Executive Committee Member of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (UK Branch).

Mullin was at one time chairman of the home affairs select committee and a member of Labour's parliamentary committee, which usually met with Blair once a week.

Parliamentary Committees The current situation is that Committees have approx a dozen members made up to reflect the current party political balance of the lower house.

Griffin sits on the Scottish Parliament's Education and Culture Committee and is a member of a number of Cross-Party Parliamentary Groups, including the Cross Party Groups on Deafness, Sport and Industrial Communities.

But the driving force behind the rebellion were members of the 2010 intake, who account for 49 % of the parliamentary party, who are normally loyal to No 10 and who recently challenged the likes of Jenkin in elections to the 1922 committee.

The Ranking Member on the Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee of Parliament, Inusah Fuseini, has called on the Chief Justice to hurriedly determine whether a prima facie case has been established against the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC) Charlotte Osei, in order to clear any lingering doubts about the integrity of the Commission's leadership.

From Westminster he also developed an international role as a member of the Nato parliamentary assembly and later, from 2005, as a much - travelled member of the Commons» foreign affairs committee.

She hoped to carry the spirit of openness and co-operation through to the final document, which would be signed off at the Clause V meeting (NEC members, shadow ministers and the parliamentary committee).

Speaker Snedden replied that a resolution had been passed by the Federal Parliamentary Press Gallery asking, inter alia, that the passes of two named persons be withdrawn and that no new members be admitted without consultation with the Gallery Committee.

In 1995 the Procedure Committee recommended that the Member with the longest continuous service (not being a Minister, Assistant Minister, Parliamentary Secretary, party leader or deputy leader, or a party whip) take the Chair during the election of the Speaker, in place of the Clerk, but the House did not adopt this recommendation.49

And it doesn't seem the current probe being undertaken by a parliamentary committee to ascertain whether or not the Energy Minister, Mr. Boakye Agyarko, paid a bribe to the members of the appointment committee to approve his nomination.

In parliament she was a member of the Public Accounts Committee following her initial election, and in 1999 she was appointed the Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Minister of State at the Department of Health, John Hutton.

This observation and assertion is grounded on the clear understanding and full knowledge of the Traditional NDC Members and even the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the NDC, that the Parliamentary Primaries which was held on the 22nd November, 2015 to elect a candidate was fraught and marred with violence, intimidations, fraud and false accusations spearheaded by Sam George, one of the candidates, for which reason the result of that elections could not be said or taken to represent the Will and aspirations of the majority of the NDC membership in the constituency and the country at large.

The entire Constituency Executive Committee of the National Democratic Congress in Afram Plains South wishes to congratulate our new Parliamentary Candidate and soon - to - be Member of Parliament [Isha Allah], Hon.Kevor Mark - Oliver for successfully filling his nomination to represent our dear party in the 2016 Parliamentary Elections.

The standards and privileges committee, in its report on the prime minister's conduct, noted «it is clearly dangerous for members of parliament to assume that the rules of other parliamentary assemblies.

«The National Executive Committee (NEC) of All People's Congress (APC) wishes to encourage our successfully Filed Parliamentary Candidates and members of our great Party to remain Calm and resolute as the Party leadership seek to use the legal approach to address the disqualification of our Presidential Candidate,» the statement said.

The Chairman of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Education and Member of Parliament for Jaman North in the Brong Ahafo Region, Siaka Stevens, has commended the Government for fulfilling its major campaign promise by implementing the Free Senior High School education programme.

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.

Mr Duncan Smith and members of his parliamentary team are understood to have approached at least three Tory MPs on the cross-party committee to ask them to ensure that Robert Devereux, Permanent Secretary at the Department for Work and Pensions, was singled out for censure.

In opposition he became Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee, and a member of the British parliamentary delegation to the Council of Europe from 1955, where he was elected in 1957 as vice-president and in April 1959 as President of the Consultative Assembly.

Dominic Raab is MP for Esher and Walton and a member of the parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights.

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.

Fellow Conservative Gary Streeter, a member of the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, explained that the final cost of the referendum on the parliamentary voting system will be published in the autumn.

The Tory party have reaffirmed that all its members were exonerated of any wrongdoing and that the failure to notify the parliamentary register merely reflected confusion over the application of the rules - an interpretation shared by the Commons standards committee.

A Member of the Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee of Parliament, Rockson Dafeamekpor, today [Wednesday], walked out of a meeting to consider an agreement with the United States of America for a defence cooperation arrangement, that will allow them to have a camp in Ghana for its military forces.

A Ranking Member of the Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee, Inusah Fuseini has downplayed the possibility of the Right to Information (RTI) bill being passed before Friday when Parliament rises for recess.

[3] Julie also served on the Standards and Privileges Select Committee [4] and is a member of the All Party Parliamentary Groups on Rail, Youth Affairs, Children, Community & Voluntary Sector and Save The Pub.

General News of Wednesday, 16 May 2018 Source: citinewsroom.com Three members of Parliamentary Appointments Committee in a recent session The deputy Special Prosecutor - nominee, Cynthia Lamptey, will appear before the Appointments Committee of Parliament, who will assess her suitability for the position, at a public hearing today May 16, 2018.