Sentences with phrase «public administration select committee»

On 4 March 2010 the House of Commons Public Administration Select committee decided to hold a «special one - off inquiry» into Lord Ashcroft's peerage and his tax affairs.

The chairman of the commons public administration select committee declined to comment on whether he was seeking to table the question.

Son of former labour MP and Public Administration Select Committee Chairman Tony Wright.

Andrew Tyrie MP Anne McIntosh Bernard Jenkin MP Christopher Chope MP Douglas Carswell MP Education Energy and Climate Change Environment Graham Stuart MP Greg Knight MP James Arburthnot MP John Whittingdale MP Michael Fallon MP Nadine Dorries MP Peter Bone MP Philip Hollobone MP Public Administration Select Committee Richard Ottaway MP Robert Wilson MP Select Committees Treasury

13:00 - Cabinet Office minister Oliver Letwin, before public administration select committee, on: strategic thinking in government

Tony Wright, chairman of the influential public administration select committee, argued that while he agreed with the principle of collective responsibility the value of the information tribunal's «external and independent arbitration» was being undermined by the veto.

Wright, chair of the all - party public administration select committee, made the suggestion of a «new special committee of authoritative reform - minded MPs» in a private letter to Brown on 1 June, saying his ideas would not threaten the government's legislative programme, but «would help make a more vital Commons from which other reforms would flow».

In a little - observed statement in the House of Commons on Monday this week, the Chancellor George Osborne — in responding to a question by Tory backbencher and Chair of the House of Commons Public Administration Select Committee, Bernard Jenkin MP, over the «orderly break - up of the euro» — stated in his reply, ``... as I say, it would not be sensible to advocate to our European colleagues the break - up of the euro.

«Policy decisions are made for short - term reasons, little reflecting the longer - term interests of the nation,» MPs on the commons public administration select committee will say.

He is a Member of the Advisory Board of the Constitution Society and a Special Adviser to the Public Administration Select Committee.

The report follows another report by the public administration select committee (PASC), which found that the public «can't rely on Police Recorded Crime Statistics».

The Government Affairs Group is the public affairs wing of the CIPR and it represents the views of public affairs professionals across the industry, giving evidence to the Committee on Standards in Public Life and the Public Administration Select Committee.

To Portcullis House, for the latest roundof the public administration select committee's star chamber on lobbying.

Meanwhile, in the UK, the Public Administration Select Committee's report on lobbying recommends mandatory regulation with strict reporting requirements.

Parliament has taken an interest, with Paul Flynn, an MP on the Public Administration Select Committee, revealing it may look into «the vile verbal atrocities that clog Parliamentary communications» at some point during this session.

Colin Talbot is a Professor of Government and Public Administration at the University of Manchester, former Specialist Advisor to the House of Commons Treasury Select Committee and the Public Administration Select Committee.

This argument was widely debunked by the Electoral Commission, the Public Administration Select Committee and former Ministers and the government was defeated.

The Public Administration Select Committee found that many were still confused over the Big Society's message, and warned that two years into the government there was still no clear implementation plan for the policy.

Upon her re-election, she was appointed to the Constitutional Affairs and Public Administration Select Committees.

The phrase may not have got a mention in July's Open Public Services white paper but the public administration select committee (Pasc) today released its second report on the subject, suggesting that those in Parliament at least still take the idea seriously.

The Commons» Public Administration Select Committee, chaired by the Tories» own Bernard Jenkin, has today released a report on the matter, which is far from kind about what has been achieved.

On 25 March 2006 it was revealed that Scotland Yard had requested that parliament halt the Public Administration Select Committee hearing with four of the peerage nominees, Sir David Garrard, Sir Gulam Noon, and Chai Patel, Barry Townsley as it could prejudice the criminal investigation.

Both are members of the Public Administration Select Committee.

[32] On 27 March they gave MPs more details of its inquiry into the complaints [33] and the Public Administration Select Committee agreed to postpone its hearing on this issue in order not to prejudice possible police action.

In July 2004, the Public Administration Select Committee (PASC) of the House of Commons and, concurrently, Sir Hayden Phillips, Permanent Secretary at the Department of Constitutional Affairs, both concluded reviews of the system.

From 2001 - 2003, the Audit's then director, Stuart Weir, acted as special adviser to the Public Administration Select Committee during two inquiries which resulted in two significant reports on the «Quango state.

Charlie Elphicke is the Member of Parliament for Dover and a member of the Public Administration Select Committee.

Lord Levy, a close friend of Tony Blair (who was the Prime Minister's personal envoy to the Middle East, as well as tennis partner), had raised funds for Labour and was identified in the press as a key figure in arranging the loans and on 17 March 2006 it was announced that the Public Administration Select Committee of the House of Commons had invited him to give evidence on political financing.

After five years chairing the Public Administration Select Committee, the independent - minded Tory MP for Harwich and North Essex is now at the helm of the re-vamped PACAC — where he will continue to scrutinise the quality of administration in the civil service and examine constitutional issues, too.

Bernard Jenkin, chair of the Commons» public administration select committee, told the Standard newspaper: «At first glance, this does appear to be a civil service blunder and not a problem of policy that is down to ministers.»

In what is understood to be an unprecedented move, Conservative members have withdrawn from the public administration select committee, some following discussions with the party whips.

Bernard Jenkin, the chairman of the Commons public administration select committee, said Heywood appeared to be acting in an «unorthodox and unprecedented» manner.

There followed years of misery as lawyers, pressure groups and the public administration select committee argued with the MoD over the detail.

Moreover, as I write, the government has not responded to the Public Administration Select Committee's report on lobbying, but the Conservatives have.

The Commons» public administration select committee has published a report criticising a «strategic vacuum» at the heart of the coalition government, which is united around a commitment to reducing the deficit.

But Tory MPs opposed to remaining in the bloc were quick to challenge the report's validity, with public administration select committee chair Bernard Jenkin leading the charge.

The public administration select committee today claims the government encouraged British workers to sign up for occupational pensions without warning of the risks involved in investing in such schemes.

A report by the public administration select committee expresses regret that the then independent adviser Sir Philip Mawer was not consulted in the events leading up to Fox's resignation.

He has a keen interest in constitutional affairs, and from 1999 to 2010 was chairman of the Public Administration Select Committee.

But Bernard Jenkin, the chairman of the Commons public administration select committee, who is tabling an urgent question in the Commons, said Heywood appeared to be acting in an «unorthodox and unprecedented» manner.

For example, in 2011 we submitted written evidence to parliament's Public Administration Select Committee's inquiry into the Big Society, and our Chief Executive gave oral evidence (see also the transcript).

Yesterday, at the Public Administration Select Committee, I asked senior Mandarins Sir Gus O'Donnell and Ian Watmore whether or not such spending on «conferences» could be justified.

Today, a new report from the Public Administration Select Committee reveals that the statistics those claims are based on are little better than a guesstimate.

Such cases continue to have a negative effect on public trust in the government and the take - up of private or third sector employment by former ministers and public servants is being looked into by the Commons public administration select committee.

Tony Wright, chairman of the public administration select committee, offered the most balanced view on show in the Commons yesterday.

In recent years, he has acted as an advisor and consultant to the Electoral Commission, the Committee on Standards in Public Life, the Council of Europe, the Hayden Phillips review of Party Finance, and the Public Administration Select Committee.