Sentences with phrase «parliamentary committee found»

The government has not adequately addressed concerns about the UK's national security strategy (NSS) ahead of the Scottish independence referendum, a parliamentary committee found today.

Last December, a report by a specially convened parliamentary committee found the Eighth Amendment was not fit for purpose and should be repealed.

Not exact matches

The parliamentary committee also found that, even after the controversy around Goldman's deals, Deutsche went on to arrange two further loans worth a total of $ 1.23 billion for the already indebted fund in 2014.

Despite endless discussion and Cabinet Secretary Gus O'Donnell's rather creative warning that officials are «working on Brexit plans in their head» to avoid FOI, we found the chilling effect to be a myth (as did a Parliamentary committee).

Even those anoraks who apparently sit glued to the Parliamentary Channel will find scarce coverage of the work of select committees and, in a dozen years as a chairman of legislative committees, I can think of no single occasion upon which a television camera has been present.

Sir Ian Kennedy, chairman of the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, told The Sunday Times (#) that Parliament should end the system under which a cross-party committee of MPs is able to overrule the findings of an investigation by the standards commissioner.

In March 2007, a senior aide to Rupert Murdoch told a parliamentary committee that a «rigorous internal investigation» found no evidence of widespread hacking at the News of the World.

Pursuant to Order 191 of the parliamentary standing orders, the committee can not find him guilty of contempt.

As a joint parliamentary committee unveils its plans for a mainly elected second chamber, a YouGov poll commissioned by Unlock Democracy found that 69 % of voters support a reformed House of Lords.

Lord Laird, the Ulster Unionist peer who was investigated by the BBC's Panorama programme, should face a four - month suspension after he was found to have offered to help undercover reporters set up an all - party parliamentary group in return for payment, the Lords committee for privileges and conduct said.

MPs have approved the Commons standards and privileges committee's report into Mr Conway, who was found to have overpaid his son Freddie for work as a parliamentary researcher.

Prime Minister David Cameron has repeated his support for Culture Secretary Maria Miller, a Conservative MP who was ordered to apologise after a committee found her attitude to an inquiry into her expenses had breached the parliamentary code of conduct.

Mikardo outlined in the House of Commons attempts by some members of the Parliamentary Select Committee, of which he was a member, to find the truth about the sinking of the Belgrano during the Falklands War.

Public confidence is likely to be tested again in this parliament — not least when the Standards Committee considers the findings of the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards on allegations about Alistair Carmichael MP leaking a government memo during the election campaign.

In November 2012, he was suspended from the Labour Party after the House of Commons Standards and Privileges Committee found that he had submitted 19 false invoices «plainly intended to deceive» the parliamentary expenses authority.

Les Hinton, Rupert Murdoch «s lifelong lieutenant and closest adviser, faces questions over whether he saw a 2007 internal News International report, which found evidence that phone hacking was more widespread than admitted by the company, before he testified to a parliamentary committee that the practice was limited to a single reporter.

Last year, an inquiry by the parliamentary women and equalities committee found that 29 per cent of 16 - to 18 - year - old girls had experienced unwanted sexual touching at school, and 71 per cent of pupils that age regularly heard terms such as «slut» used towards girls.

A guide for written submissions to Select Committees may be found on the parliamentary website at: http://www.parliament.uk/commons/selcom/witguide.htm

-- The chief of the U.K. parliamentary committee that invited Mark Zuckerberg to come testify finds it «absolutely astonishing» that Zuckerberg is sending two top executives instead of coming himself.

The Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporate and Financial Services59 found in its inquiry into banking and financial services that there are many barriers to access these services for people in rural, regional and remote areas of Australia.