Sentences with phrase «new select committee system»

In addition to any amendments to the Finance Bill that would reflect our general economic approach, I believe we should focus some attention on the possibility that the new Select Committee system will be able to comment more forcefully on government policies and programmes.

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One important venue of parliamentary scrutiny and accountability is the Commons select committee system, which has just elected a new cohort of committee chairs.

He said members have been selected on the basis of their integrity and that the committee will chart a new course in the country's criminal justice system.

The Commons select committee system has just received a further injection of new blood in the person of former GP and Conservative back - bencher Dr Sarah Wollaston MP.

The debate around how to finance undergraduate education at English universities has been reignited by a new report from the business, innovation and skills select committee questioning the sustainability of the current student finance system.

The Institute for Government's Hannah White asks what her election as the new Chair of the health select committee tells us about the way the system is changing.

In the aftermath of the election the shape of the select committee system in the new parliament is now beginning to emerge, with the party label of the chairs of the various House of Commons committees being allocated.

I believe that our inquiry set a new standard for the importance and relevance of a Select Committee system.

In 2009, the House of Lords Select Committee on the Barnett Formula concluded that, «A new system which allocates resources to the devolved administrations based on an explicit assessment of their relative needs should be introduced.»

Consequently the government's decision to forgo the temptation of making unnecessary machinery of government changes to mark the start of the new parliament — showing the sort of restraint that the IfG has argued for — means that the select committee system will also stay broadly the same.

When the Education Secretary Justine Greening explained the new points system to the education select committee in March she said that grade 4 would be a «standard pass» and grade 5 would be a «strong pass».

Selected activities included the formation of Local Advisory Committees to inform the work; ongoing comparison of current practice to new science and best practice; identifying and addressing gaps in the system of care; education of providers, patients, and public about new information around prematurity and risks of early births; implementation of evidence - based practices; strengthening systems of care; and measuring progress.