Sentences with phrase «proper parliamentary scrutiny»

The government is facing claims from Remain supporting MPs that it is giving itself sweeping powers to change legislation without proper Parliamentary scrutiny.

But the report by the Constitution Committee - which is chaired by former Conservative Scottish Secretary Lord Lang - said proper parliamentary scrutiny was lacking.

Any bullying UK - centric approach to repatriation of powers that seeks to overstep proper parliamentary scrutiny and involve devolved legislatures poses a serious threat to the principles of democratic devolution.

The government disputes this, but today's report said that the intelligence backing up their claim had not received proper parliamentary scrutiny.

«Because we think there will be a majority across the House of Commons, not just in our party but working with others and with Conservatives as well, to amend it in such a way that we get proper parliamentary scrutiny.»

He also criticised the repeated leaking of the plans to scrap GCSEs which he said meant that such changes avoided proper parliamentary scrutiny.

Elsewhere, Shadow Brexit Secretary Keir Starmer has vowed to fight any attempts to let the Government repeal EU legislation without proper parliamentary scrutiny.

Should the government really be able to alter what constitutes «illegality» at whim, without proper parliamentary scrutiny?

Lib Dem MPs, led by Julian Huppert, have called for any such plans to be subject to proper Parliamentary scrutiny; it now appears that this will be the case, with Deputy Prime Minister acknowledging «draft clauses» will be published at the time of the Queen's Speech, to be followed by Parliamentary hearings.

Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell, meanwhile, vowed to force the Government into «proper parliamentary scrutiny» and backed a plan allowing MPs to «influence negotiations as we go along».

Those powers should not, however, be used to pick and choose which elements of EU law to keep or replace — that should be done only through primary legislation that is subject to proper Parliamentary scrutiny.

The report argues that Parliament should make sure the Government does not use delegated powers in the forthcoming «Great Repeal Bill» as a way of changing the law in areas currently governed by the EU, without proper parliamentary scrutiny.

Ministers would have to be granted powers to push through major changes without proper Parliamentary scrutiny.