Sentences with phrase «public administration committee»

Tory public administration committee chair Bernard Jenkin also supported the calls for an inquiry.

17:00 - Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude, before public administration committee, on: role of the head of the civil service

The union will seek to build momentum against the changes after criticism from the Commons» public administration committee last month, which described the changes as rushed and said they would not bring about «significant cost savings».

Now it is no longer in coalition the government has decided to abolish the committee and combine its remit with that of the existing Public Administration Committee (PASC)-- creating a committee on Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs.

The scrutiny of these proposals started in earnest in April 2008, with the House of Commons Public Administration Committee taking oral evidence from relevant government ministers, the First Civil Service Commissioner together with constitutional experts in the area.

The chairman of the Commons public administration committee has said the identities of 95 formal signatories are included in a letter urging the Prime Minister to adopt new EU veto powers, but most of the names are not intended to be made public.

The public administration committee chair is standing down due to poor health, but Labour will defend a majority of 9,227 in his constituency.

But later in the day, the Cabinet Office minister Matt Hancock was given a rough ride by Eurosceptic Conservative MPs in the Commons, as he sought to justify the decision; and Heywood was forced to explain his thinking to MPs on the public administration committee.

However, the public administration committee and the Electoral Commission have delayed their investigations on the advice of the police, and last night the Scottish National party (SNP) said the constitutional affairs committee should have followed suit.

Everyone involved denies any wrongdoing, and Tony Wright, the chairman of the public administration committee, said he now believed the inquiries should go no further.

Bernard Jenkins, the Conservative chair of the Commons public administration committee (PASC), said his party leader's behaviour was further proof the rules around the code needed to be changed.

Tony Wright, former chairman of the public administration committee, argues that to defend politics we have to also defend politicians in his book, Doing Politics (Biteback # 9.99).

I'm on the public administration committee, which is an absolute hoot — famously, the story of those flipping fig trees in Portcullis House got into the public domain... # 40,000 worth of what?

PPS to business secretary Vince Cable since March 2012, and member of the public administration committee since 2010.

Paul Flynn, a Labour backbencher who sits on the public administration committee, says he would be particularly keen on a referendum - type show if it ended up being presented by someone like Andrew Marr or Jeremy Paxman.

I mention this because Mr Heywood's appearance before the Public Administration Committee — chaired by Bernard Jenkin, and with the Conservative MPs Alun Cairns, Charlie Elphicke, Robert Halfon and Priti Patel among its members — will have done nothing to reverse this collective opinion.

In these cases (provided, as with the case of the Public Administration Committees questioning of Nigel Shadbolt and Stephen Shakespeare, the experts in question are not active participants in a Government initiative) committees have a range of different potential invitees.

Yesterday Sir Gus O'Donnel, head of the civil service, assured MPs on the public administration committee he was taken by surprise by the arrest.

Two committees of MPs - the home affairs committee and the public administration committee - are looking in to the arrest.

The Public Administration Committee criticism of the Government is unfair.

Quizzed by Tony Wright, chairman of the public administration committee, on why he had chosen to act now, Mr Brown said that with damage to Parliament's reputation over the past year «it seemed to me that we had to reach a conclusion on where we could go».

Tory grandee Bernard Jenkins, chairman of the Commons public administration committee, also demanded the case be handed to Sir Alex Allan, the prime minister's independent adviser on ministers» interests.

He said Labour MP Tony Wright, chair of the public administration committee, would work with a cross-party Parliamentary commission to discuss constitutional reform.

Asked about the practice as he gave evidence to the Commons public administration committee this morning, the cabinet secretary said: «I think when it comes to press cuttings I personally am strongly with you, that I can not see a reason why you couldn't use electronic methods of doing this.

In a sign of increasing tensions between Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition partners, Bernard Jenkin, the chair of the Commons public administration committee, said: «If the politics of envy made a country rich, we'd be very rich... Most rich people are contributing far more in tax than other people.»

In a sign of increasing tensions between Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition partners, Bernard Jenkin, chair of the Commons public administration committee, said: «If the politics of envy made a country rich, we'd be very rich... Most rich people are contributing far more in tax than other people.»

The Chairman of the Public Administration Committee commented that the awards constituted «politicisation of the honours system» and flew in the face of the stated position of the government.

This is almost exactly what the public administration committee is calling for.

Furthermore, what's either group to do if two candidates put up from its ranks - as they're doing in the case of the Public Administration Committee, where Chris Chope and Bernard Jenkin are going head - to - head?