Sentences with phrase «policy commissions focus»

Shadow cabinet and trade unions to discuss after complaints that none of party's policy commissions focus on Europe

Not exact matches

The Commission first issued warnings the TPP negotiation process in 2010, stating «a more transparent and strategic approach is required to ensure that there is an appropriate focus on policies that are most in Australia's interests».

The commission had attacked the charity, set up by Mr Fox in 1997, for being focused on promoting a political policy «closely associated with the Conservative party».

In yesterday's Telegraph, drawing on the experience of Holland and Sweden, Iain Duncan Smith condemned the UK Drug Policy Commission's recommendation that the fight against drugs should focus on minimising its harmful side effects.

's review of filings with the state Joint Commission on Public Ethics, the distributors spent at least $ 62,000 on lobbyist compensation from March through April; their efforts appear to have largely focused on medical marijuana - related policies or legislation, with some success.

According to The Alt's review of filings with the state Joint Commission on Public Ethics, the distributors spent at least $ 62,000 on lobbyist compensation from March through April; their efforts appear to have largely focused on medical marijuana - related policies or legislation, with some success.

The commission focuses on a range of issues, including agriculture policy, housing and infrastructure.

Richard Aborn is president of the Citizens Crime Commission of New York City — a non-partisan non-profit organization focused on criminal justice and public safety policies and practices — Richard Aborn draws on his wide experience in criminal prosecution and litigation...

Richard Aborn is president of the Citizens Crime Commission of New York City — a non-partisan non-profit organization focused on criminal justice and public safety policies and practices — Richard Aborn draws on his wide experience in criminal prosecution and litigation — policy development — management and government affairs to promote the Crime Commission's agenda of making...

Those commissions were often criticized as being too closely controlled by the mayor and too narrowly focused — sometimes with the goal of pushing pet projects or political initiatives or seeking policy changes that would have been more appropriately handled as legislation by the City Council.

He told PoliticsHome: «Like most of the Labour party, our attention is currently focused on the EU referendum, but we will finalise the interim report of the defence review in due course, and there will be plenty of time for both the International Policy Commission and the National Policy Forum to consider and debate it before it goes to conference.

Known as Betty, her contributions to public health policy came during her tenure from 1992 to 1998 as president of the William T. Grant Foundation, a social science research nonprofit focused on inequality and improving the lives of young people, and through her earlier work in 1977 as the director of studies of the President's Commission on Mental Health during the administration of President Jimmy Carter.

Bioethicists have said that they expect the new commission to be more policy - oriented and pragmatic than its predecessor, which focused largely on philosophical and moral issues involved in biomedical research.

One large study of America's ocean waters, published in May by the Pew Oceans Commission, noted that U.S. policies have for decades focused on developing ocean resources rather than emphasizing conservation.

Prior to founding the Third Mile Group, she had seven years of research, policy, and leadership experience at Education Commission of the States, focusing on school and district leader effectiveness.

The vote came as part of an overview hearing that the Assembly's education finance panel held focusing on a variety of challenges that the Commission on Teacher Credentialing has faced over the past year, including resolution of a critical audit that found deeply flawed practices and policies within the agency's educator disciplinary unit.

Under the leadership of California Commission on Teacher Credentialing Chair Linda Darling - Hammond, the state has forged a new path around program quality and assessment, revising its policies and practices to focus on outcomes instead of inputs.

The U.S. Department of Education's Policy and Program Studies Service commissioned this systematic literature review, which focuses on two specific approaches: (1) preschool and K — 3 alignment, and (2) differentiated instruction in kindergarten and first grade.

The third piece, focused on insurance and federal disaster policy, is wise to propose «a presidential commission tasked with redesigning our national disaster financing strategy.»

The California Energy Commission's Integrated Energy Policy Report (IEPR) and Federal Stimulus Program (Ad Hoc) Committees will conduct a joint workshop to discuss clean technology innovation efforts funded through U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) competitive solicitations with a focus on projects receiving cost - share funding from the Energy Commission's Public Interest Energy Research and Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Programs.

Steven leads CCC's finance pieces for the EU Commission's «Global Sectoral Approaches» project with CCAP (Centre for Clean Air Policy), focusing on Mexico and China.

In an interview in early April at a conference on sustainable energy in New York City, Maros Sefcovic, vice president of the European Commission for energy policy, said LNG exports were a central focus of meetings earlier in the year in Washington with Trump administration officials.

Well before moving to the state of Alaska in 2014, Dr. Baker was focusing on marine Arctic issues for entities such as the Alaska Arctic Policy Commission, Arctic Council, Inuit Circumpolar Council, U.S. Department of State and the Alaska Regional office of the National Marine Fisheries Service.

Japan, China, the US, the EU and other countries pay $ 27 billion to subsidize these vessels, according to a report by the Global Ocean Commission, an independent body of international leaders focused on ocean conservation policy.

October 4, 2013 Climate Change journal focuses special issue on Indigenous peoples as they cope with consequences of climate change This week, the Portland, Oregon based Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission (CRITFC), a technical support and coordinating agency for fishery management policies of the Columbia River Basin's four treaty tribes, is applauding the publication of the journal Climate Change.

Following the changes, the commission now has more of a policy and public interest focus.

The Innocence Commission will focus on policy.

After confirming that the existing policy was too expensive and should be replaced, I focused on improving the agent's proposal by reducing the commission and increasing the policy values for the same premium.

There's no commission pressure to quickly get a policy out the door and move on to the next one, the focus is on getting you the protection you deserve at a price you can afford.

It must build on the recommendations of the Royal Commission into the Protection and Detention of Children in the Northern Territory, with a strong focus on keeping children out of prison with a view to developing national minimum benchmarks for laws and policies to underpin this National Plan of Action.