Sentences with phrase «of cabinet committees»

In a conscious decision to reduce the procedural confusion that characterized Paul Martin's tenure as prime minister, Harper cut the number of cabinet committees drastically in 2006.

To ensure that the Government delivers on its commitments, a new results and delivery approach will be implemented that includes the establishment of the Cabinet Committee on Agenda, Results and Communications, chaired by the Prime Minister, and a Results and Delivery Unit, housed in the Privy Council Office.

She worked as Minister across nine Canadian government departments, and her service included the role of Vice Chair of the Treasury Board and chair of the cabinet committee for public safety, justice and aboriginal issues.

He said: «The Labour government is going backwards with Gordon Brown's demotion of the Cabinet committee on the environment, cuts in green taxes and rising carbon emissions.

Runswick goes further: «Unlock Democracy believes this conversation is long overdue and it is not something which can be conducted behind the closed doors of a Cabinet committee meeting.

Duncan Smith will not show his hand until the EU negotiations have been completed because he is a member of the cabinet committee overseeing them.

As the Commons debate opened, the Labour party announced that it would refuse an invitation from William Hague to contribute to the work of a cabinet committee.

having ex-officio membership of the Cabinet Committee on Indigenous Affairs and the Secretaries Group on Indigenous Affairs, where major decisions on Indigenous affairs are made at federal government level; alternatively, it could advise these bodies

Not exact matches

One section of the book, drawn up in 1992, reads: «The documents of the cabinet and ministerial committees are issued primarily to the sovereign, the Prince of Wales, and ministers... The need for secrecy calls for special care in circulation and handling.

Flanked by Speaker of the House Paul Ryan and House Ways and Means Committee chairman Rep. Kevin Brady (R - TX), President Donald Trump speaks about tax reform legislation in the Cabinet Room at the White House, November 2, 2017 in Washington, DC.

Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee Rep. Kevin Brady, R - Texas, talks with President Donald Trump during a meeting on tax policy with Republican lawmakers in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, DC on Thursday, Nov. 02, 2017.

The flap prompted scrutiny of other Cabinet members» travel, as the House Oversight and Government Reform committee launched a governmentwide investigation of top political appointees.

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.

Stages in the legislative process that make a bill law in the Canadian Parliament; ministers (not including the Prime Minister) on cabinet's powerful Priorities and Planning committee; former political figures (not including sovereigns or social activists) memorialized in bronze around Parliament Hill — twelve is the number in each of these interesting categories.

The main forum for those choices will be the little - understood cabinet committee structure of the Harper government.

These include holding open Cabinet meetings at least once a month, which will be broadcasted on the Internet; giving Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) a greater role by reforming the Legislative committee system and allowing government MLAs to vote freely (as opposed to voting according to the Party's preferences); restricting the tenure of a premier to two (four - year) terms; holding a Citizen's Assembly on electoral reform to examine alternative models for electing MLAs; instituting a system by which citizens can recall elected officials; and instituting elections for all government boards and commissions.

Tim started his career at the Department of Finance, Canada, and then held positions at the Privy Council Office — where he was Secretary to various Cabinet committees — and Agriculture and Agri - food Canada.

Former prime minister will speak to members of the Trudeau government's cabinet committee on Canada-U.S. relations

While many of the Church committee's 183 recommendations entrust oversight responsibilities to agency types, cabinet officers, and President's men who have been untrustworthy in the past, the Church plan taken as a whole attempts to put our check - and - balance system into better working order — not to tie the hands of intelligence but to enable it to serve a democratic society's needs without undermining its cherished principles.

There are 156 schools in Russia for the training of coaches and athletic directors; the chairman of the All Union Committee for Physical Culture and Sport has the equivalent of cabinet rank.

Her research has also informed the House of Commons Health Committee on Inequalities and informed the Prime Minister's Strategy Unit in the Cabinet Office on developing public services that empower service users.

The vice president with either the majority of the cabinet or a congressionally appointed committee (not currently existing) can remove him by deciding he is unable to perform.

Laws had a rare vantage point at the centre of Coalition government as he attended the Quad, met regularly with Clegg and his policy advisers, served on important Cabinet Committees, frequently brokering deals between the Coalition parties.

Then in the Local Government Act 2000 the idea of a Leader and Cabinet system was introduced, with committees reduced to the role «scrutiny».

Senate Republicans pushed through a pair of President Trump's Cabinet nominees Wednesday, upending standard committee rules to circumvent a Democratic boycott.

To be frank, I suspect that the chair of the home affairs select committee will be more able to get a public platform and more able to influence policy than a shadow cabinet minister or even the most junior ministers in government.

The Smith Commission has set out a raft of new powers for the Scottish Parliament, the Chancellor of the Exchequer has signed a new devolution agreement with Greater Manchester Combined Authority, the Deputy Prime Minister has signed an agreement with Sheffield City Council, and the Cabinet Committee on Devolved Powers has reported on options for change in Westminster.

@Stuart White: The Cabinet Office rule - book (draft of chapter 6, approved by the House of Commons Select Committee on Justice and drawn up in consultation, I understand, with the party leaders and with constitutional experts) lays it down that after an election the incumbent prime minister has a duty, as well as a right, to remain in office until there's clear and incontrovertible evidence that someone else is definitely in a position to command majority support in the house of commons.

Reforms to empower parliamentary committees, strip the PM of powers and give a greater role to cabinet may not immediately give power to the general population, but they stop the rot of centralisation and begin to spread the power again.

Although he is not a member of the shadow cabinet, Mr Cameron told the meeting of the 1922 Committee last night that Mr Clarke would speak from the front bench «from time to time».

We'll look at the main areas being suggested for further devolution in Scotland by the Smith Commission — powers over the economy and the Welfare State — and examine how they apply to Wales; and then look at how devolution to England and the recommendations of UK Government's Cabinet committee under William Hague will impact on the workings of the UK, and what its future should be.

CIHT welcome the decision by Prime Minister David Cameron to launch a targeted review of the resilience of the transport network to extreme weather events, announced at yesterday's first meeting of the new Cabinet Committee on flooding.

10.15 am: Former cabinet secretaries Lord Armstrong, Lord Wilson, Lord Turnbull and Lord O'Donnell give evidnce to the Lords constitutional committee on the role of civil servants.

He has also proposed an English regions cabinet committee and the offer of city regions to be led by directly elected mayors.

A new liaison committee was established with members of the TUC General Council, the NEC, and the Labour Shadow Cabinet, which gave the unions direct access to policy making.

In May 1998, the then Chairman of the Political Honours Scrutiny Committee, former Conservative Cabinet Minister Lord Pym, told a House of Commons Select Committee that the committee considered a political donation a point in a nominee's favour as it indicated involvement in public life, and that the nominee had «put their money where his mouth iCommittee, former Conservative Cabinet Minister Lord Pym, told a House of Commons Select Committee that the committee considered a political donation a point in a nominee's favour as it indicated involvement in public life, and that the nominee had «put their money where his mouth iCommittee that the committee considered a political donation a point in a nominee's favour as it indicated involvement in public life, and that the nominee had «put their money where his mouth icommittee considered a political donation a point in a nominee's favour as it indicated involvement in public life, and that the nominee had «put their money where his mouth is».

First, and most straightforwardly, what none of the cabinet Brexit committee's 11 members seem to accept is that the existing government proposals to solve the customs conundrum are good enough.

Home Secretary Theresa May chaired a meeting of the Cabinet Office Briefing Room committee (COBRA)[77] attended by Defence Secretary Philip Hammond, the Mayor of London Boris Johnson, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan - Howe, the Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Cressida Dick and other unnamed members of the intelligence agencies.

The defence secretary said he expected an «adult conversation» would take place after it emerged the Treasury is reforming its committee of Cabinet ministers as a «deterrent» to those still holding out.

4 pm Soft Power and the UK's Influence Subject: Soft Power and the UK's Influence Witness (es): (at 4.20 pm) evidence will be heard from Nicholas Beadle CMG, Senior Associate Fellow of the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), Lt General Simon Mayall CB, Defence Senior Adviser for Middle East, Ministry of Defence and Steve McCarthy — Director of International Security Policy, Ministry of Defence Location: Committee Room 1, Palace of Westminster Tuesday 9th July 9.30 am Public Administration Subject: Work of the Cabinet Office Witness (es): Richard Heaton CB, Permanent Secretary, Cabinet Office Location: Room 15, Palace of Westminster

But, while in agreement with Labour's governing body, the National Executive Committee, that Corbyn should be on the ballot paper in the leadership contest, Smith nevertheless decided to resign and oppose his leader when a meeting between Corbyn and the so - called soft left of the shadow cabinet, including shadow energy secretary Lisa Nandy, led to rancour.

However, as a final role before leaving the Commons, Mr Curry replaced Sir George Young as chairman of the Commons» Standards and Privileges Committee when the latter was recently promoted to the Shadow Cabinet.

11 of the 47 elected Chairs were previously, or subsequently, members of the Cabinet or shadow Cabinet which suggests they may not be quite the maverick outsiders that some analyses of the select committee system have suggested.

On the Labour side, for example, prominent non-Corbynites and former Shadow Cabinet members such as Yvette Cooper, Hilary Benn, Mary Creagh and Rachel Reeves will chair committees, while the list of Conservative party chairs and candidates is significantly more liberal and less Eurosceptic than the party leadership, with Tom Tugendhat, Robert Halfon and Nicky Morgan joining fellow Remainers Damian Collins, Sarah Wollaston, Bob Neill and Neil Parish.

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, who chairs the local growth cabinet committee, also hailed the announcement as marking the end of a culture of «Whitehall knows best» and helping to end an over-reliance on the banks and the City of London.

A prominent campaigner for remain, the former education secretary has used her position at the helm of the Treasury select committee since losing her cabinet position to press the government over its plans for leaving the EU — often acting as a voice for business in parliament in her efforts to prevent a no - deal Brexit.

In a joint statement they announced that the role of the joint Lib - Lab cabinet committee will be expanded to get rid of the «destructive tribalism» of the past.

«We don't need a joint cabinet committee to work out the details of policies where we already agree,» one strategist said yesterday.

In 2012, it became one of the first authorities in the UK to return to a Committee System, abolishing the single party Cabinet, as allowed under the Localism Act [11]

At least two expected candidates for the leadership, Simon Hughes and Charles Kennedy, have spoken against this winter's extension of the remit of the official Lib - Lab cabinet committee, itself unprecedented.