Sentences with phrase «of constitutional affairs»

This investigation followed an investigation in 2005 by the then Department of Constitutional Affairs (DCA) who, while finding issues in the unregulated market for will - writing services, concluded that voluntary regulation, such as a code of practice approved by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT), might be a proportionate solution.

The Political and Constitutional Reform Committee was set up in 2010 when Nick Clegg's portfolio of constitutional affairs was moved from the Ministry of Justice into the Cabinet Office.

The Department of Constitutional Affairs (DCA) is likely to implement proposals contained in today's report in the near future, with a consultancy paper on «transparency» in family courts expected shortly.

However, a spokesman from the Department of Constitutional Affairs rejected the idea that the county court system was in crisis.

Running the election cost more than # 90 million, according to the Department of Constitutional Affairs.

The meeting of the constitutional affairs committee went ahead despite warnings by Scotland Yard that it could prejudice investigations into the loans - for - peerages row.

In July 2004, the Public Administration Select Committee (PASC) of the House of Commons and, concurrently, Sir Hayden Phillips, Permanent Secretary at the Department of Constitutional Affairs, both concluded reviews of the system.

In the House of Commons, Keeley served as a member of the Constitutional Affairs Select Committee and from February 2006, the Finance and Services Committee.

Not exact matches

«Whether Canada ends up as one national government or two national governments or several national governments, or some other kind of arrangement is, quite frankly, secondary in my opinion,» said Harper, who was at the time constitutional affairs critic for Reform.

In 1787, at the age of eighty - one, Benjamin Franklin addressed the Constitutional Convention: «I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth: that God governs in the affairs of men.

In normal times the people may be content with representation and constitutional judicial review, while they largely focus on private affairs; while at times of what Bruce Ackerman calls constitutional politics the level of civic action may become extraordinary (Ackerman, 1991).

House of Representatives Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs

The plans have been presented to the Department for Constitutional Affairs on the eve of Parents» Week (October 20 - 26) and before a week of threatened demonstrations in London by fathers» rights groups.

State secretaries of state are prohibited as a matter of law and constitutional principle from conducting foreign affairs.

Shadow constitutional affairs secretary Oliver Heald added that some of the lord chancellor's comments do not apply to the Human Rights Act.

He indicated that Bagbin should bear in mind that he was made the chairman of the parliamentary select Committee on Constitutional and Legislative Affairs based on parliamentary procedures and not because he was better than Nana Akufo - Addo.»

So, while the courts could slow down the process, they are likely to stay out of the Legislature's affairs as a simple matter of respect for the constitutional separation of powers.

So if Bagbin became the chairman of the Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee it was because of the fact that his party was in power and it does not mean that he was knowledgeable than Nana Addo.

«Early indicators suggest that hundreds of thousands of people have gone missing from the electoral register,» shadow constitutional affairs minister Stephen Twigg said.

Bernard Jenkin, the Conservative chair of the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee (Pacac), told Civil Service World that he believed the change had echoes of Tony Blair's decision to allow a small number of Spads — including director of communications Alastair Campbell — to give instructions to officials.

In 2001, she was appointed Solicitor General for England and Wales, serving until 2005 when she became Minister of State for Constitutional Affairs.

Bernard Jenkin is Conservative MP for Harwich and North Essex and Chair of the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Select Committee

Tory MP and chair of the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee, Bernard Jenkin, was among the senior parliamentarians to attend the event, along with his Conservative colleague Crispin Blunt.

She was recently employed as a specialist adviser to the Lord Speaker's Committee on the Size of the House of Lords and is currently a specialist adviser to the House of Commons Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee.

«Mr. Heald: To ask the Prime Minister whether the Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs will receive the pension entitlement of the Lord Chancellor (a) during the planned transition period before the proposed abolition of the office and (b) subsequently, if the office is abolished; and if he will make a statement.

In the last parliament, members of the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee were astonished to learn that the transcript of our oral evidence session with the Chair and Chief Executive of The Kids Company charity was to be turned into a musical.

However, the public administration committee and the Electoral Commission have delayed their investigations on the advice of the police, and last night the Scottish National party (SNP) said the constitutional affairs committee should have followed suit.

In a measure aimed to avoid any conflict of interest, Dromey's wife Harriet Harman — a minister in the Department for Constitutional Affairs — relinquished her responsibilities for overseeing electoral reform and House of Lords reform.

In the last parliament, members of the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee...

Bernard Jenkin is Conservative MP for Harwich and North Essex and chair of the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee.

Tewolde Gebremeskel, Director of Peace and Security Division - IGAD NDI Election Observation Mission — Dr. Aisha Abdullahi, former AU Commissioner for Political Affairs; Hon. Karen Bass, US Congresswoman; Professor Attahiru Jega, former Chair of Nigeria's Independent National Electoral Commission; Justice Yvonne Mokgoro, former Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa; and Hon. Christie Todd Whitman, former Governor of New Jersey.

The whole affair has raised major concerns about the way political parties are funded, and the constitutional affairs committee is one of a number of bodies looking at the issue.

The Minority on Thursday blocked the laying before Parliament, the report of the Joint Committee on Defence and Interior and Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs, on the agreement seeking to ratify the hosting of US military troops in Ghana.

«Despite a number of amendments being tabled during the process, some of which came from the Assembly's Constitutional and Legislative Affairs Committee, the Minister has refused to accept our recommendations.

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.

Oliver Heald, Shadow Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs, made the point that this would further increase the unlikelihood of Brown calling a snap election:

11.00 The House of Lords continues to debate the constitutional affairs elements of the Queen's Speech

The chair of the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee finds the Donmar's new musical Committee a fair and compelling portrayal of the hearing on the collapse of Kids...

His ministers have been speaking out in recent months - in August, constitutional affairs secretary Lord Falconer said the US was guilty of a «shocking affront to the principles of democracy» in using the camp to hold terror suspects.

Whatever the end result of the constitutional debate which is now underway, London is not going to be giving up its powers on foreign affairs.

91 Per David Lammy MP (Parliamentary Under - Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs): «The protection has been given to the Church in Wales, at its request, but the Church of England has said clearly that it does not want it.»

Out of the shadow cabinet fall Liam Byrne, shifted to shadow higher education, and Stephen Twigg, now shadowing constitutional affairs.

Shadow First Secretary of State, Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills Angela Eagle MP Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer John McDonnell MP Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury Seema Malhotra MP Shadow Home Secretary Andy Burnham MP Shadow Foreign Secretary Hilary Benn MP Opposition Chief Whip Rosie Winterton MP Shadow Secretary of State for Health Heidi Alexander MP Shadow Secretary of State for Education Lucy Powell MP Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Owen Smith MP Shadow Secretary of State for Defence Maria Eagle MP Shadow Lord Chancellor, Shadow Secretary of State for Justice Lord Falconer of Thoroton Shadow Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, Shadow Minister for the Constitutional Convention Jon Trickett MP Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change Lisa Nandy MP Shadow Leader of the House of Commons Chris Bryant MP Shadow Secretary of State for Transport Lilian Greenwood MP Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Vernon Coaker MP Shadow Secretary of State for International Development Diane Abbott MP Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland Ian Murray MP Shadow Secretary of State for Wales Nia Griffith MP Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Kerry McCarthy MP Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities Kate Green MP Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport Michael Dugher MP Shadow Minister for Young People and Voter Registration Gloria De Piero MP Shadow Minister for Mental Health Luciana Berger MP Shadow Leader of the House of Lords Baroness Smith of Basildon Lords Chief Whip Lord Bassam of Brighton Shadow Attorney General Catherine McKinnell MP Shadow Minister without Portfolio Jonathan Ashworth MP Shadow Minister for Housing and Planning John Healey MP

Liberal Democrats constitutional affairs spokesman Simon Hughes also praised the proposals, saying: «Often lessons learnt from one tragedy can prevent another... These plans are a way of doing more to make sure loss and suffering are not in vain.»

However, the plans still do not address concerns raised by the constitutional affairs select committee last summer that any fundamental reform of the coroners system must include a change in the way deaths are certified.

Constitutional affairs minister Harriet Harman said: «The findings of an inquest are important not just to explain how someone died but also to learn lessons for the future which will prevent deaths in similar circumstances.

The Government of Ghana had in an earlier statement signed by Foreign Affairs Minister Hanna Tetteh, condemned the coup of September 17, noting that it violates with impunity «the internationally brokered process to promote the principle of entrenching democracy and constitutional governance in Burkina Faso.»

Next month the Home Office will be split into two departments as the Department for Constitutional Affairs will become the Ministry of Justice to deal with criminal justice while the Home Office will be in charge of policing and counter-terrorism.

It can be no coincidence that the House of Lords constitutional affairs committee is now scrutinising the wisdom of one person serving as both justice secretary and lord chancellor.

He has a keen interest in constitutional affairs, and from 1999 to 2010 was chairman of the Public Administration Select Committee.