Sentences with phrase «questions from mps»

There will be a flare - up in the Brexit phoney war on Monday when Theresa May takes questions from MPs about the policies in her big Brexit speech but after that things quieten down, with sporadic guerrilla activity in various select committees.

Linklaters and Olswang are set to face questions from MPs over the sale of British retailer BHS last year, little more than 12 months before it collapsed into administration.

Nick Gibb will face questions from MPs about curriculum and assessment, teacher recruitment and retention and school accountability next week.

The education secretary Justine Greening took questions from MPs in the House of Commons this afternoon.

The education secretary will take questions from MPs when he appears in front of the parliamentary education committee next week.

Hinds also faces questions from MPs about the contrast between the success of some large MATs in London and recent high - profile failures of others in the north.

The new home secretary has been answering questions from MPs about the immigration issues facing the Windrush generation.

earlier in prime minister's questions from MPs on the backbenches.

If that did ever happen again, I would be in favour of them submitting - on a weekly basis - to a specially convened session of questions from MPs.

He repeatedly leaned forward in his seat and jabbed his finger as he responded to questions from MPs.

Meanwhile the Home Secretary is set to face fresh questions from MPs over the affair next week, with the Home Affairs Committee - chaired by Labour's Yvette Cooper - expected to quiz Amber Rudd on Wednesday.

Review our live coverage from parliament as David Cameron faced questions from MPs and gave a statement on the Hillsborough disaster.

Gordon Brown, taking questions from MPs during the protest, said it was important decisions were taken on the floor of the House of Commons and not on the roof.

But when he went on to answer questions from MPs, he suddenly veered off script.

This was only confirmed to parliament via responses to parliamentary questions from MPs.

A former editor of the Sun has been forced to bat away questions from MPs over how much the media pays police for information.

Follow our live coverage of a historic day in parliament, as leading figures in the phone - hacking scandal face questions from MPs.

The foreign secretary will face questions from MPs tomorrow afternoon after making a statement to the Commons on the issue.

13:26 - It's getting much more hectic in the Commons now as Hunt continues answering questions from MPs.

Review his progress in fielding questions from MPs here.

Poloz answered questions from MPs as he presented his economic outlook and envisioned a sequence of events that would lead the country on a path to further prosperity.

The latter charge relates to committee hearings during October and November this year, when he tried to stonewall questioning from MPs in the course of their investigation.

A blatant power grab by the Conservatives is now taking shape in Westminster - after David Cameron took a major step in revealing the details of the Tories» plan under questioning from MPs.

Under fierce questioning from MPs, Home Office permanent secretary Mark Sedwill admitted the investigator's identity was kept secret, the report had hardly been read by anyone, it was not going to be published even in a redacted form, and even the cursory investigative techniques had not been brought to bear on the problem.

Leadsom announced the investigation after an urgent question from MPs prompted by a Newsnight investigation alleging that Bercow's private secretary resigned and had post-traumatic stress disorder after working in his office.

The three executives will face fierce questioning from MPs who have fought a tenacious campaign to expose the phone hacking scandal which has plunged Mr Murdoch's media into crisis in the space of two weeks.

Not exact matches

Moments earlier, the daily question period in the House of Commons — the scene of a near brawl 24 hours earlier — had been cancelled as teary MPs from all parties crossed the aisles to console one another.

Under questioning by MPs, Sherman said by video link from California that it's possible a «small amount» of users» private messages may have also been inappropriately shared as part of the breach, without their consent.

In that regard it is a pity that Conservative MPs on the ethics committee were apparently uninterested in hearing from Mr. Wright, but then there are still two questions on the order paper that the government side might deign to respond to before the House rises for the summer.

This dour mood is also reflected in a second question from Total Politics on whether MPs are thought of ashighly as people in «respectable careers» like magistrates, doctors or policemen.

«It would give MPs have the chance to debate the issues arising from the select committee hearings and ensure the prime minister answers the many unanswered questions that he faces,» he continued.

The Commission examines solutions to the «West Lothian Question» (WLQ) other than cutting the numbers of MPs from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

The official response to a question posed by several MPs from Die Linke stated that, «armed UAS [s]-LSB-...] can engage a target -LSB-...] quickly, precisely and in a scalable way.

The coalition's housing benefit changes are being hit by scathing criticism from MPs, in a report questioning the fundamental economic justification for the reforms.

«There is also the question, with all the new powers coming to the Scottish Parliament, MSPs have a lot more to do than backbench MPs from Scotland do now.

But various experts — for instance former civil servant Jim Gallagher — disagree, suggesting that questions about policy can and should be treated differently from questions about funding, with only the latter voted on by MPs from across the UK.

A question worth asking is: what do constituents expect from MPs?

After coming under pressure from Labour and Liberal Democrats, he told MPs at Prime Minister's Questions last week that he was ready to consider taking in refugees in cases of extreme hardship.

12:19 - There was a short tribute to Bob Crow from Clegg by the way - triggered by an MPs» question.

Cameron's decision to make him answer questions from Miliband in the Commons damaged the prime minister but it also humiliated Hunt, as he desperately appealed to MPs not to ask him about issues above his pay grade.

Mr Corbyn also came under fire for polling loyal party members on the Syria question, which some MPs saw as a scare - tactic from the leader to back his anti-war position.

That's why, as MPs start the second reading of the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill on 6 September, I am tabling an amendment that would rewrite the referendum question to allow people to choose from a wider range of voting systems, including properly proportional options such as the additional member system (used in elections for the Scottish Parliament, Welsh Assembly and Greater London Assembly) and the single transferable vote (used in Northern Ireland).

There then followed questions from a wide variety of MPs, including many angry Tories from across the whole spectrum of the party.

The briefing was smoked out by an «Email your MP» campaign launched by the People's Pledge just 48 hours beforehand, as Labour MPs then contacted party headquarters to ask how they should respond to questions from constituents about their voting intentions on July 5.

Phillip Hammond, the Defence Secretary has said in the Commons yesterday that «all submariner roles will be open to women» in response to questions from Tory MPs Caroline Dinenage (Gosport) and Harriet Baldwin (West Worcestershire).

Many Conservatives feel this just doesn't provide a satisfactory answer to the West Lothian Question, which sees Scottish MPs vote on English matters but English MPs prevented from having a say on issues affecting Scotland.

The home secretary John Reid told MPs yesterday the intelligence and security committee will examine the questions posed «before, during and after» the fertiliser bomb trial but insisted a full inquiry by the Home Office or MI5 would divert resources from ongoing counter-terrorism measures.

Anyway, Cameron will try to focus on the story and expect lots of planted questions from Tory MPs about how Miliband's relationship with Flowers.

In a particularly boisterous session of prime minister's questions, Mr Blair gave as good as he got from David Cameron, displaying the same relaxed approach as when he faced senior MPs on the Commons liaison committee yesterday.

And it seems that some Labour MPs — such as Rachel Reeves and Toby Perkins - might also like to see different questions from at least one of their own colleagues.