Sentences with phrase «on the home affairs committee»

Special mention has to be given to the Met's own «dodgy geezer», John Yates, whose utter inability to realise he was dropping himself in it provided a jaw - dropping three hours for incredulous MPs on the home affairs committee.

Alcohol promotions should be banned to help overrun police deal with alcohol linked crimes, MPs on the home affairs committee have said.

«On the issue of anonymity, I sat on the Home Affairs Committee that examined this issue; it was of course a Committee in a previous Parliament, dominated by Labour Members, and very ably chaired by Chris Mullin.

«If the home secretary decided that appointing me would lead to the production of a meek and complacent regulator then she's going to be disappointed,» he told MPs on the home affairs committee today.

Civil rights veteran Jesse Jackson spent the afternoon rejecting the views of MPs on the home affairs committee as he gave evidence on violent knife and gun crime.

Watson said he learnt much about select committees when he first entered parliament and served under the chairmanship of Chris Mullin on the home affairs committee.

Not exact matches

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The Green Party Member of European Parliament, a German citizen who looks even younger than his tender 35 years, shepherded the legislation through as vice chair for the parliament's Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs.

In the end a compromise of sorts was reached, with Nick Clegg announcing a «grassroots» inquiry involving community organisers while the home affairs committee focused on policing.

Yvette Cooper is rebuilding her political career in the serious role of chairing the Home Affairs select committee while constantly being asked about her husband Ed Balls» embarrassing dad dancing on Strictly Come Dancing!

The Tuesday afternoon Home Affairs select committee on leadership and standards in the police should provoke interest from all sides of the political spectrum.

Speaking to the home affairs committee, Sir Paul Stephenson, who resigned as Met police commissioner earlier this week, elaborated on his resignation statement, which had been interpreted as a barbed attack on David Cameron.

Her husband may have sparkled on the dance floor, but now Yvette Cooper is waltzing into the political spotlight as the new chair of the Home Affairs Committee.

The Liberal Democrats and the home affairs committee have called for a royal commission on drug policy and for more thorough assessments of experiments with legalisation overseas, including in various US states.

On his way to give evidence before the home affairs select committee inquiry into last year's riots, Boris tactfully juxtaposed the seriousness of the hearing with the silliness of his headgear.

as a national catchphrase that was emblazoned on T shirts, cost Vaz his job chairing the Home Affairs select committee.

Downing Street sources say she speaks well in the Commons and has impressed on the home affairs select committee.

In the event, the home affairs select committee did not let down those who were relying on him to show a bit of steely resilience after the recent newspaper allegations about his private life.

12:52 - And with that this session wraps up; the home affairs committee next meets on Thursday, when home secretary Theresa May will be giving evidence on the riots.

Home Secretary Theresa May and G4S boss Nick Buckles are both due to appear before MPs on the Home Affairs Select Committee in September.

Keith Vaz's home affairs committee is going to grill key figures on the disorder; they're getting under way in just a little over five minutes» time.

Theresa May backtracked on several of her statements about the riots while appearing in front of the home affairs committee today.

I think Sunder's evaluation of the relative merits of the Home Affairs Committee report and the HMIC report is spot on.

6,000 emails to MPs from supporters calling for a Home Affairs Committee inquiry, to make sure that the Home Office follow through on their promises.

The passport backlog is another obvious one for him to go on following the appearance of Paul Pugh in front of the Home Affairs committee yesterday.

And on a recent visit to eastern Europe, the Home Affairs Select Committee said there was little evidence of people wanting to come over to the UK to work.

Others are setting their sights on the chairmanship of the home affairs select committee.

While many of us were clearing up our tinsel and packing away our trees, the effervescent Keith Vaz pitched up at Luton Airport to welcome new arrivals from Romania and Bulgaria to highlight the Home Affairs Select Committee's view on the hype around newly lifted restrictions on residents of the two eastern European countries working in the UK.

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[210] Later on the same day, giving evidence to the Home Affairs Select Committee, former director of public prosecutions Lord MacDonald stated that it took him «three to five minutes» to decide that the same emails contained in the file passed to Harbottle & Lewis contained «blindingly obvious» evidence of corrupt payments to police officers, which had to be immediately passed to the Metropolitan Police.

On 12 July 2011, Metropolitan Police deputy assistant commissioner Sue Akers told MPs and the Home Affairs committee chairman Keith Vaz that police had contacted 170 of the 3,870 people named in Glenn Mulcaire's files to date.

[241] On 19 July, Lord MacDonald the former Director of Public Prosecutions engaged by News Corporation to review the emails handed to Harbottle & Lewis in 2007, said in evidence to the Home Affairs Select Committee:

The big highlight of the parliamentary week will be ex-UK Border Force chief Bodie Clark, who is up before the home affairs committee on Tuesday morning.

11:00 - former head of the UK Border Force Bodie Clark and UK Border Agency chief executive Rob Whiteman, before home affairs committee, on: Border checks during Summer 2011

Sir Richard Branson was said to have blown into Westminster, a gust of glamour, his white - blond lion's mane blowing behind him, to tell the Home Affairs Committee his views on drugs.

Amid a growing international consensus that the war on drugs has failed, the home affairs committee called for the prime minister to set up a royal commission on current policy and to pay particular attention to experiments in Portugal decriminalising drug use.

But Mr Starmer brought considerable doubt on that argument in a letter to the home affairs committee, prompting chair Keith Vaz to write a searching letter to the acting deputy commissioner.

Vaz attended his final home affairs select committee in the Grimond Room on Tuesday and was given a round of applause as he left the room.

He said: «He's made his decision because he felt that to carry on in the circumstances that he is now involved in would detract from the work of the home affairs committee.

He accused the police of «mealy - mouthed logic - chopping» as the officer was questioned by the Home Affairs Select Committee on police actions stretching back several years.

In December, both the home affairs select committee and the joint commitee on human rights report that there is no evidence to suggest the law needs to be changed.

Giving evidence at the home affairs select committee on Monday, the Labour leader said that he had used the phrase to describe the militant groups during a meeting in parliament in 2009.

The Home Affairs Committee concluded that British police focused too closely on the actions of Goodman and Mulcaire, which former counter terrorism chief Peter Clarke said stemmed from a lack of resources.

Elsewhere, Mr Corbyn will appear before the Home Affairs Select Committee today to answer questioned on alleged anti-Semitism in the Labour party.

The Labour leader raised the issue in the Commons yesterday during a debate on the unrest but it was rejected by Mr Cameron, who insisted the ongoing home affairs select committee inquiry was a satisfactory vehicle.

Areas of concern to the shooting community in the Home Affairs Select Committee report on firearms control were:

He told MPs: «The government will conduct further consultations on the arrangements for this vote, in particular with the European scrutiny committees, and the Commons and Lords home affairs and justice select committees and a further announcement will be made in due course.»

The difficulty is this — and I am really quite keen on this,» he told MPs on the Commons» home affairs committee last week.

BASC welcomes the Government's measured and sensible response to the Home Affairs Select Committee's report on firearms control

11:15 - HM inspector of constabulary Sir Dennis O'Connor, before home affairs committee, on: policing large scale disorder