Sentences with phrase «parliamentary committee last»

Alexander Nix, chief executive of Cambridge Analytica, was questioned by a Parliamentary committee last month about using data to target messages.

«[Tamiflu] has never been directly compared with paracetamol — or indeed a stiff whisky,» Fiona Godlee of the BMJ told a UK parliamentary committee last week.

In a resignation letter to May, Amber Rudd said she had inadvertently misled a parliamentary committee last Wednesday by denying the government had targets for the deportation of illegal migrants.

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Last month the head of the parliamentary committee on national security and foreign policy, Alaeddin Boroujerdi, said Iran would block Telegram for reasons of...

Last month the head of the parliamentary committee on national security and foreign policy, Alaeddin Boroujerdi, said Iran would block Telegram for reasons of national security.

Yesterday Facebook revealed that more users than previously thought could have had their personal information passed to the company back in 2014 — saying as many as 87 million Facebook users could have had their data «improperly shared», thereby confirming the testimony of ex-Cambridge Analytica employee, Chris Wylie, who last month told a UK parliamentary committee he believed that substantially more than 50M Facebook users had had their information swiped.

A parliamentary committee will be set up to investigate each of the 10, in a process expected to last for at least one month.

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report by a specially convened parliamentary committee found the Eighth Amendment was not fit for purpose and should be repealed.

(b) At the end of last February The Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights published recommendations including the following: Para 65.

Brussels, 22 November 2017 — The trilogue agreement for a new organic regulation reached last June was adopted by the Special Committee on Agriculture on Monday and by the Parliamentary Committee on Agriculture today

This was highlighted last year by the International Development Committee's enquiry into parliamentary strengthening.

The power, which was compared by human rights groups to the policies of Saddam Hussein, was rejected by the peers last month when they voted to send the clause to a parliamentary committee.

Last month, three cross-party parliamentary committees published lengthy reports on the draft investigatory powers bill — the government's landmark surveillance legislation.

The tax waiver was granted last week when Parliamentary Select Committee on Finance in a report tendered before the House recommending for the House to «approve a waiver of US$ 185million for a period of five years for the Ghana Airports Company Limited.»

The Parliamentary, Constitutional and Legal Committee of Parliament last week rejected a request by the government for the office of the Special Prosecutor's Bill to be passed under a certificate of urgency.

Led by Roy Stone, Private Secretary to the Chief Whip and Mike Winter, Head of the Leader of the House's office, they operate in the dark, agents of the secret state of the most over-centralised political system in the Western world without so much as a Parliamentary Business Committee (promised but not delivered by the last government) to hold them to account.

«Last November, I mentioned to the Government chief whip and the parliamentary commissioner for standards my concern, on behalf of the House, about what many might regard as an inherent incompatibility between chairing a select committee and having commercial interests, even though fully transparently registered, in the sector covered by that committee,» the Speaker wrote.

Following the inability of the Huudu Yahaya - led conflict resolution committee of the National Democratic Congress to effectively deal with grievances arising out of last year's parliamentary primaries, the governing party risk losing some parliamentary seats it won or lost to independent candidates in the 2012 elections, investigations by The aL - hAJJ have uncovered.

«Speaking in the chamber is only one of the ways members hold the government to account and this research ignores members» contributions including amending legislation, asking the government written questions and serving on select committees — more than 320 members served on committees in the last session of parliament — as well as parliamentary work away from the chamber.

Christians in Parliament is a well supported all - party parliamentary group that decided last year to hold an investigation into whether or not Christian freedoms were being squeezed in this country, and so our «Clearing the Ground» select committee - style enquiry was born.

Last Monday at 6 pm, Cruddas and most of the other remaining 231 Labour MPs (26 fewer than a week before) crammed into committee room 14 in the House of Commons to hear Harriet Harman, the acting leader, attempt to lift the depleted, demoralised parliamentary party off the floor.

The company has complained to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards about the conduct of Iain Wright, the former Labour MP for Hartlepool, who chaired the business, innovation and skills select committee during the last parliament.

Johnson stated incorrectly before a parliamentary committee that Zaghari - Ratcliffe had been «teaching people journalism» when she was arrested in Iran last year.

«It is perhaps no coincidence that the two people he has identified in relation to his cover - up allegations are the same two people who pointed out that his son's evidence to the parliamentary select committee last year was inaccurate.

During last week's prime minister's questions, David Cameron was confronted by Caroline Lucas MP on why the government had done nothing to change our rotten extradition laws, despite a clear call from two separate parliamentary committees, a Commons motion in December last year and well - supported public petitions to do just that.

[12] Kawczynski was recorded as having attended only 12.5 % of all Justice Select Committee meetings and 31.3 % of International Development Select Committee meetings during that last Parliamentary session.

«Dianne Hayter, chairman of Labour's National Executive Committee, said: «We do not believe a parliamentary by - election should be held at taxpayers» expense to resolve tensions at the top of the Conservative Party... She claimed that Mr Davis had done a deal with Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg, who said last week that his party would not contest the by - election, and never intended to put his seat at risk.»

The row between Macron and General Pierre De Villiers blew up last week when the chief of the defence staff told a parliamentary committee he would not allow the armed forces to be «screwed» by the government's plans to slash 850 million euros ($ 980 million) from the budget.

All the expatriate business representatives scheduled to appear before the Parliamentary ad hoc committee looking into allegations of the payment of monies to sit near President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo at an awards event last year failed to show up on Tuesday.

The independent committee, convened by Andrew Cubie, was formed in the wake of a divisive Scottish Parliamentary election last May.

A French parliamentary committee convened to examine what has been discovered about transmission of the AIDS virus over the past decade sat for the first time last week.

While many would blame nature for last year's Fukushima nuclear accident, a Japanese parliamentary committee report has concluded that culpability really lies with Homo sapiens.

Ugandan ICT Parliamentary Committee member Hon Barnabas Tinkasiimire MP said of last year's event «I wish all summits would be like this one... This is the best time I have had during the times I have attended conferences.»

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.

The parliamentary education committee wrote to Damian Hinds after a hearing last week with former chancellor George Osborne and other representatives of the Northern Powerhouse Partnership highlighted a «stark educational attainment gap between the north and other parts of England, particularly for disadvantaged pupils».

Conservatives Lucy Allan, Michele Donelan and former teacher William Wragg, who served on the last committee, will return to the fold in this parliamentary session.

Schools minister Nick Gibb first revealed plans for the formal agreement last year in his response to a recommendation from the parliamentary education committee that the 11 - plus test should not be the only basis for admissions to grammar schools.

The committee, set up last April to examine concerns over the perceived growth of super-injunctions, warned the media to be careful when relying on Parliamentary privilege, saying that media stories that did not simply summarise or reprint Hansard «may well not» attract qualified privilege.

Sure enough Conservative MP Tom Lukiwski, Parliamentary Secretary to the Government House Leader, raised the Ottawa Citizen story the first chance he could, at Committee, last Thursday.

When questioned over LIBOR by another Parliamentary Select Committee last October, Green told MPs: «We don't go after the people.

A British parliamentary committee was mandated last year to look into super injunctions.

We Canadians thought that allowing a parliamentary committee to very briefly and very, very politely interview a nominee for the Supreme Court of Canada last winter was a big deal.

The bill is in its last stages of approval after a thorough year of amendments due to the opposition of three parliamentary committees.

Zuckerberg turned down a similar request from European regulators last week, in which they asked him to appear before a UK Parliamentary committee undertaking a similar investigation.

Yesterday Facebook revealed that more users than previously thought could have had their personal information passed to the company back in 2014 — saying as many as 87 million Facebook users could have had their data «improperly shared», thereby confirming the testimony of ex-Cambridge Analytica employee, Chris Wylie, who last month told a UK parliamentary committee he believed that substantially more than 50M Facebook users had had their information swiped.

Last week, a U.K. parliamentary media committee summoned CEO Mark Zuckerberg to testify about how Facebook uses data, while U.K. Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham is investigating how Cambridge Analytica got the data.

Last month a former Cambridge Analytica (CA) employee, Chris Wylie, told a UK parliamentary committee that the London - based company, deeply embedded in the ongoing data mining scandal, had potentially shared some of its Facebook harvested data with the Canadian AggregateIQ consultancy, which is accused of targeting social media users for political campaigns — including during the 2016 US election and the UK's Brexit campaign.

Last month, a Facebook representative was questioned by the parliamentary Select Committee studying deliberate online falsehoods.

Kim Byung - kee, a member of South Korea's parliamentary intelligence committee, said this week that North Korea stole cryptocurrency worth billions of South Korean Won (millions in U.S. dollars) over the course of the last year, mostly stolen through phishing campaigns.

Rio Tinto advised the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Native Title last year that because of the insufficiencies of the Commonwealth's funding of NTRBs, the progress of many negotiations relied on company funding: