Sentences with phrase «number of parliamentary committees»

I have written elsewhere about why this proposal is fundamentally misguided, and have noted the excoriating criticism to which it has been subject by a number of parliamentary committees.

[1][2] He has served on a number of parliamentary committees, and lists his political interests as transport, sport, human rights, smoking and health, and sex equality.

Abbott has served on a number of parliamentary committees on social and international issues and held shadow ministerial positions.

Not exact matches

Following the announcement of a parliamentary committee to study electoral reform with a special emphasis on gender equity and inclusiveness, a growing number of supporters have come on board the campaign for proportional representation.

Parliamentary committees (particularly the Public Accounts Committee) and the public audit offices should be pressing for stepped overlapping series (that is, the numbers worked out in the old way and the new way) to be provided every time the definition and categorization of administration costs changes.

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.

Sophie Wilson looks at the numbers on gender balance of select committees since 1979 and what they mean for parliamentary scrutiny.

The Political and Constitutional Reform Committee, chaired by Labour MP Graham Allen has complained that it has been given inadequate time to scrutinise the legislation that will fix parliamentary terms, cut the number of MPs to 600 and enable a nationwide referendum on the voting system.

Sally Collier, the chief regulator of Ofqual, told MPs on the parliamentary education committee this morning that the 52 - per - cent increase in the number of grade changes this year resulted from problems at the review stage, rather than the original marks.

They could do with changing the culture in the Department itself, of a) wasting money on pet projects like Free Schools that don't materialise or need vast debts written off, b) failing to assess risks of funding reforms and provide enough funding for pupil number increases and cost pressures (NAO report) and c) inability to reconcile accounts for academies and LA schools even when challenged formally by Parliamentary Committees.

Bob Ward says I uttered a «a number of inaccurate and misleading statements» when I appeared before a UK parliamentary committee in January 2014.

Giving evidence today, to a UK parliamentary select committee that's investigating the use of disinformation in political campaigning, Wylie said: «The 50 million number is what the media has felt safest to report — because of the documentation that they can rely on — but my recollection is that it was substantially higher than that.

It did this through submissions to all the inquiries conducted by the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Native Title and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Land Fund, through a number of important reviews of aspects of the native title process, including a review commissioned by ATSIC into Native Title Representative Bodies32 and a review of PBC funding.33 It also commissioned an important paper in relation to water rights, of which native title was an important part.34 It is not clear whether the policy development role that ATSIC exercised in relation to native title issues has been transferred into the new arrangements and if so, how it is to be developed by the government.

Submissions to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Native Title and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Land Fund, Inquiry into Indigenous Land Use Agreements (ILUAs) in 2001, highlighted a number of problems.

NTRBs are funded by the Commonwealth in the following way: base funding for each NTRB53; additional funding and assistance provided to some NTRBs through a reserve fund; a strategic priority claims resolution program; and a capacity - building program.54 The Commonwealth Parliamentary Joint Statutory Committee on Native Title and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Land Fund is currently conducting an inquiry into NTRB capacity, with particular reference to NTRB funding.55 I provided a written submission to the committee and made a number of recommendations inclCommittee on Native Title and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Land Fund is currently conducting an inquiry into NTRB capacity, with particular reference to NTRB funding.55 I provided a written submission to the committee and made a number of recommendations inclcommittee and made a number of recommendations including: 56