Sentences with phrase «own parliamentary questions»

«We are considering potential changes to the UK passport after the UK has left the European Union,» the immigration minister, Robert Goodwill, said in reply to a parliamentary question about reintroducing Britain's «old blue style passport» from the Conservative MP Julian Knight.

Once you had got past the police sentinels, who knew who everyone was, you could go everywhere, even the thrilling ministerial corridor behind the Speaker's chair, from which Prime Ministers emerged to face what was then the genuine ordeal of Parliamentary questions, twice a week.

After Mann spotted a story in The Guardian, he began to fire parliamentary questions at Fox about his dealings with the infamous Adam Werrity.

Labour's deputy leader Harriet Harman appeared to back down quickly, tweeting that parliamentary questions on the matter would be suspended until after key figures give evidence to the Leveson inquiry by the end of the month.

The super-injunction was revealed to have included a parliamentary question, triggering an angry backlash against Carter Ruck, which secured it on behalf of Trafigura, in the Commons.

A minister answering Parliamentary questions learns which backbenchers to fear.

There has been a 35 per cent rise in the number of under - 18s admitted to A&E after binge drinking, parliamentary questions by the Liberal Democrats revealed.

There is still a place for tried and tested methods, such as Early Day Motions (EDM), parliamentary questions and petitions.

Today the DWP confirmed during parliamentary questions that small businesses will not have to start automatically enrolling their employees into a pension until the start of the next parliament.

The information came to light following a parliamentary question from Liberal Democrat MP Mike Hancock.

In response to a parliamentary question tabled in the House of Lords, the Department for Education (DfE) has at last conceded that the overwhelming majority of objections submitted to school admission policies by the British Humanist Association (BHA) and Fair Admissions Campaign (FAC) correctly identified breaches of the law.

Rhetoric, political grandstanding or lengthy dull answers can usually get you through a tricky spot in parliamentary questions or a debate, but a select committee hearing allows a more detailed consideration with follow up questions and probing.

«Relocation of staff out of expensive London offices to other regions continues to be high on the agenda as an option to deliver the savings needed,» Smith said in response to a written parliamentary question by Labour MP Diana Johnson.

The government has revealed in answer to a parliamentary question that 200,000 children will be pushed into relative income poverty by its bill to cut social security benefits and tax credits in real terms.

The Home Officer Minister responsible for firearms licensing, Nick Hurd MP, has announced in a written answer to a parliamentary question that fees for licensing are being reviewed

Lords» Questions, which are similar to Parliamentary Questions (PQs) in the House of Commons, are effectively tools for obtaining information from the Government that is not already in the public domain.

[http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld201213/ldhansrd/text/130206w0001.htm#13020694000387] I was very pleased at the commitments given to seeking to find a resolution to the current dispute we have regarding pensions, pay and working conditions although it would have been more appropriate for these to have been communicated to us directly rather than via a response to a parliamentary question.

Campaigners and MPs expressed disappointment after a parliamentary question revealed the update on the vulnerable persons relocation scheme, which was set up to run in parallel with UN-led refugee programmes.

Dear Michael, I am writing to you after reading the response of your Schools Minister Lord Nash on 6 February to a parliamentary question tabled by Lord Taylor of Warwick (HL 4987).

As National Statistician I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question concerning the number of new additional jobs created since 1997 in the (a) public sector and (b) private sector.

We can not be entirely sure on this, because 10 Downing street seems to have had a policy in recent times, under the current incumbent, of not answering parliamentary questions about visits or meetings.»

The Parliamentary Under - Secretary of State, Ministry of Justice (Lord Bach): Ministers have received two letters and one Parliamentary Question from the noble Lord, Lord Carlile of Berriew, answered by my noble friend Lord Hunt of Kings Heath on 29 September 2008 (Official Report, col. WA416) specifically about the presence of Law Lords in the House of Lords since the passing of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005.»

While the parliamentary questions might be relatively easily resolved in the short term, some of these bigger questions could prove very difficult indeed.

Liberal Democrat MP Jo Swinson, who obtained the information through parliamentary questions, said: «These figures show the yawning gulf between rhetoric and reality when it comes to this government's record on renewable energy.

Responding to a parliamentary question from Tory MP Bob Neill in July 2009 regarding possible reductions in the present level of green belt protection, housing minister John Healey insisted that the level of protection would not be affected by any regional spatial strategy and that this was set out in National Planning Policy.

Mr Iddrisu said: «You know the essence of parliamentary questions is significant and integral to the exercise of oversight.

His prison minister was asked a series of parliamentary questions about the amount of contraband getting into prisons through parcels in the lead - up to the ban.

An answer to a parliamentary question has also revealed that the BHA has received a further # 35,000 from the Equality and Human Rights Commission to to deliver «increased understanding of issues of religion or belief in the context of equality and human rights within the voluntary sector, media and general public».

[17] The following month Loughton tabled «hostile» parliamentary questions to the Department of Education on the subject of complaints by staff, which the Independent described as «a significant escalation of hostilities» between Loughton and some of his old colleagues.

The matter was raised at Business Questions and a number of written parliamentary questions followed - including a number from vocal campaign supporter and Tory chairman Eric Pickles, and later came an adjournment debate initiated by Labour's David Cairns.

To illustrate just how bad things are I have been looking at the answers to my own Parliamentary Questions to Ministers over the past few months.

Just received from CCHQ: «Parliamentary Questions, buried by John Prescott and yet to be published in Hansard, have today revealed that Prescott has spent # 645 of taxpayers money on a new sign for his office — replacing the previous «Office of the Deputy Prime Minister» sign with a new «Deputy Prime Minister's Office» sign.

In 2005 he visited Gibraltar twice, as a guest of the Gibraltar government and the Liberal party of Gibraltar, and subsequently asked two parliamentary questions and tabled three early day motions without declaring his interests.

We raise awareness of diabetes and issues which affect people with the condition through Parliamentary Questions, debates and a programme of events.

In answer to a parliamentary question from Caroline Flint MP, Labour's Shadow Energy and Climate Change Secretary, the Government confirmed that the budget for this year's Warm Front scheme is # 100m.

Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union, has today written to the Secretary of State challenging the accuracy of an answer given by Lord Nash to a parliamentary question on the NASUWT's and NUT's current national industrial action.

This was only confirmed to parliament via responses to parliamentary questions from MPs.

All contact with outside interests is registered and may well form the subject of a Parliamentary Question.

Shadow justice secretary Sadiq Khan fired off a raft of parliamentary questions about Grayling's draconian prison reforms last month only to have them all dismissed as too expensive to answer.

To clarify, it seems to me that the LibDems are well placed to take a lead on (2) in terms of formal scrutiny of the policing, Parliamentary questions, etc..

Parliamentary questions have revealed a worrying catalogue of fires and coolant leaks at British nuclear installations.

House of Commons Library statistics show that he has increased the number of Urgent Questions taken in the House, although the average number of oral and supplementary parliamentary questions answered daily is little different than under Betty Boothroyd or Michael Martin.

Perhaps Cameron missed a reshuffle trick judging from the sparks shooting from the Hansard stenograph as Nicky Morgan rattled off responses during her first parliamentary questions as education secretary.

Anti-EU campaign group Veterans for Britain revealed that he was challenged in a Parliamentary Question to assess the potential effect on Ministry of Defence spending of leaving the EU.

On Thursday, Hain put down a parliamentary question for the Cabinet Office minister, Francis Maude, demanding he «explain the nature and purpose of IRG Ltd».

He had also failed to register monies received properly; to deposit the contract he signed to provide services; and to declare a relevant interest when tabling parliamentary questions, tabling an early - day motion, when making approaches to other MPs, and at a meeting of a prospective All - Party Parliamentary Group.

A written Parliamentary question by Farrelly, answered on 19 October 2009, became the subject of debate as The Guardian newspaper was prevented from reporting on it by a court injunction that became known as a super-injunction.

Only a few years ago, Parliamentary select committees were often dismissed as distracting sideshows — comparable in terms of wasted time to Parliamentary Questions.

Meanwhile, Mr Johnson launched a defence of his own decision to fire Prof Nutt, both in a letter to the Guardian and in response to an urgent parliamentary question from the Conservatives.

The party cited statistics obtained after parliamentary questions as showing that police numbers were on the decline in areas experiencing the most violations of the law.