Sentences with phrase «parliamentary agenda»

UPDATE: The Bill described below was not debated due to an over-packed Parliamentary agenda and lack of time.

UPDATE: The Bill was not debated due to an over-packed Parliamentary agenda and lack of time.

State and Federal Politicians went over the books this week as Senate Estimates hearings dominated the parliamentary agenda.

Press release 24 March 2017 UPDATE: The Bill was not debated due to an over-packed Parliamentary agenda and lack of time.

As MPs return to parliament after the summer recess, the main item on the parliamentary agenda is the passage of the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill.

Yet we need to see it do more to support politics on the backbenches and an extended role for shaping Conservative policies at the next election, helping to deliver a Conservative majority in 2015 and dominating the Parliamentary agenda.»

From dominating the parliamentary agenda to hiding bad news in a volley of announcements, our government wields extraordinary control.

Their parliamentary agenda for 2012 - 13 is all of a piece with the budget — incompetent, ill - conceived and for most of us irrelevant to the nation's needs.

Sadly, England still lags behind in this regard but a new campaign called the Right Year for Children — led by the Children's Rights Alliance for England (CRAE) along with several charitable partners — is aiming to push children's rights to the top of the parliamentary agenda.

We have a few excellent MPs on side but there needs to be a lot more in order to push this issue on to the parliamentary agenda.

The rest of the week's legislating - on data protection and energy price caps in the Commons - will provide moments of controversy, but overall the parliamentary agenda continues to be pretty insipid.