Sentences with phrase «parliamentary questions about»

In recent months, Kevin Brennan MP, shadow minister for schools, has asked several parliamentary questions about the information available to parents on websites.

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.

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.

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.»

«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.

On Tuesday 19th July, Edward Timpson provided a written answer to a Parliamentary Question about the timing of the National Funding Formula (NFF).

Not exact matches

Conservative Party members will gather in Manchester next week for the party's annual conference, against the backdrop of Mrs May having lost her parliamentary majority in a snap election and continued questions about cabinet unity over Brexit.

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

In fact, it wasn't thus even one hour beforehand, when no - one would say anything about him except «he has questions to answer» (parliamentary code for «get your coat, mate, you're done»).

The election results will influence thetiming but questions about the future for Labour need to be urgently raised within the parliamentary party.

What may indeed turn out to be most significant about these proposals, in constitutional terms, is that they may create the impetus for a broader reformist agenda around the question of a more clearly delineated «English» dimension within the UK's system of parliamentary government.

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.»

If it wasn't enough that, as his research assistant, I was having to daily talk him through attaching files to emails, finding an internet page, the joys of Twitter and the benefits of blogging, I am now doing three times more work than the entire parliamentary IT unit by answering his basic and annoying questions about gadgets.

Surely the fact that these files were still active for at least 10 years while we were MPs raises fundamental questions about parliamentary sovereignty and privilege — principles that are vital to our democracy.

18:16 - Our parliamentary correspondent has been chatting to MPs about the Question Time issue.

The U.N. and Iraqi political leaders called for investigating electoral - fraud complaints and sought manual recounts in some districts, as questions intensified about the legitimacy of the recent parliamentary vote.

I think this also raises enormous questions about the role of the Communications Allowance in funding Parliamentary activity.»

Continue reading «Tory MPs raise questions about the cost of the proposed parliamentary nursery»»

«In a significant escalation of hostilities between the former minister and his old colleagues at the Department of Education, he has used parliamentary procedure to question whether any formal complaints have been made about Dominic Cummings.»

That these files were still active for at least 10 years while I was an MP certainly is and raises fundamental questions about parliamentary sovereignty.

Former chancellor George Osborne will be questioned by the parliamentary education committee about the state of education and support for disadvantaged pupils in the north of England.

In response to a written parliamentary question from Labour MP Kevin Brennan about the publication's timing, Mr Gibb said that after considering all the review's documentation «the government believes that schools are best placed to decide how they use and deploy teaching assistants, and to set standards for the teaching assistants they employ.

The Department for Education has responded to questions from the parliamentary education committee about the movement of schools between academy trusts.

Spielman is due to face questions about unregistered schools from MPs when she appears in front of the parliamentary education committee this morning.

Rather than the Muir Russell panel «thoroughly investigating» an issue highlighted by the Parliamentary Committee, there is no record of Jones» answering a single question about the request to «delete all emails» or the equally damning instruction that Briffa «should say» (untruthfully) that there had been no such correspondence between him and Wahl.

Like the heated question of whether a non-entrenchment clause could be dug into our law to protect UK parliamentary sovereignty, this one wasn't about law, or even constitutional theory; it was essentially about differing ideological positions vis a vis judicial power.

In a written reply to a question tabled by an MP who evidently cares about theses matters, the Ministry's Parliamentary Secretary Mrs Peggy Fenner announced to the House of Commons on 16 February 1984 that although the Act had a useful function in specific areas such as the control of roadside weeds, it was «not appropriate to use the Act to control weeds in domestic gardens».

Before I turn to the questions I want to say something about the basic facts of the case which have become entirely lost in the furore about «gags», superinjunctions and parliamentary privilege.

Update: Collins returned to the theme of the Facebook founder's reluctance to put in a personal appearance to answer questions about the issue more than once during the four hour oral hearing, remarking later: «I must say that given the extraordinary evidence we've heard so far today, and the things we've heard in the other enquiry, I think it's absolutely astonishing that Mark Zuckerberg is not prepared to submit himself to questioning in front of a parliamentary or congressional hearing given that these are questions of a fundamental importance and concern to Facebook users and to our enquiry as well.»

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

Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Singapore's deputy prime minister and minister in charge of the central bank, was speaking at a parliamentary session yesterday when he fielded questions by three Members of Parliament (MEPs) about any potential ban of cryptocurrency trading in Singapore.