Sentences with phrase «reading in parliament»

Many Conservative Party back benchers voted in favour at 2nd Reading in Parliament, as did Green Party Leader, Elizabeth May.

Next month, a bill to ban the advertising of unpaid internships is set to have a second reading in Parliament, after being introduced by Labour MP Hazel Blears last year.

The Ministry of Law (MinLaw) has submitted four Bills for First Reading in Parliament today.

The Modern Slavery (Transparency in Supply Chains) Bill 2017, which recently (8th September 2017) had its second reading in Parliament, seeks to amend the MSA to make further provision for transparency in supply chains.

The Electronic Commerce Protection Act, Bill C - 27, has passed second reading in Parliament and will go to committee for review.

According to Nana Addo, details of the review will be announced by Finance Minister, Ken Ofori - Atta at the 2018 budget reading in Parliament.

Britain took another step on the long road to its forthcoming in / out EU referendum today, after European Union (Referendum) Bill had its second reading in Parliament today.

The action came in the same week that the controversial trade union bill had its third reading in parliament.

The Trade Union Bill is getting its first reading in Parliament latter today.

Former Attorney General, Deputy Dominic Ayine in 2015, moved the bill for second reading in Parliament.

The bill has support across political parties in Iceland and is due for its first reading in parliament.

Also, while it likely won't hit until 2018, issuers should track the amendments to the Canadian Business Corporations Act, which passed their first reading in Parliament in September.

Christian Labour MP Emma Lewell - Buck, whose bill urging the Government to measure food insecurity will be read in Parliament on Friday, said: «Now is the time for the Government to sit up and tackle the growing issue of hunger in our country.

If it means something for the families of dead service people to hear their names read in parliament, I would suggest that the Speaker should do this — and so should the Speaker of the House of Lords, which currently does nothing.

According to him, the bill was far advanced and needed only three readings in Parliament to become...

According to him, the bill was far advanced and needed only three readings in Parliament to become law, but Mensah - Bonsu, who was then the Minority Leader, said his team members were not interested.

Not exact matches

The social network's Chief Technology Officer Mike Schroepfer apologized for the breach of users» trust in a statement given to the U.K. parliament's media committee Thursday and admitted in a hearing that Facebook did not read all the terms and conditions of the app that shared data.

Indeed, transfers and regional equity are enshrined in Section 36 of the 1982 Constitution Act and Section 36 (2) reads: «Parliament and the government of Canada are committed to the principle of making equalization payments to ensure that provincial governments have sufficient revenues to provide reasonably comparable levels of public services at reasonably comparable levels of taxation.»

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He was accused of involvement in the famous «Gunpowder Plot» the previous year in which Guy Fawkes and his co-conspirators attempted to blow up the Houses of Parliament and assassinate King James I. Continue Reading»

Read out by the Speaker of the House at the Parliament buildings in Wellington (pictured above), the parliamentary prayer is delivered in Te Reo - a Maori language.

Mr Mugabe wrote in a letter which was read out in parliament: «My decision to resign is voluntary on my part and arises from my concern for the welfare of the people of Zimbabwe and my desire for a smooth, non-violent transfer of power.»

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The draft text will now be discussed in the second reading and, if passed, will go to Committee stage for line by line scrutiny before returning to Parliament for the third reading to approve it to go to the House of Lords for debate and approval there.

The first reading of the bill just requires the title to be read out in Parliament, followed by the MPs present agreeing to order it is printed.

In a speech read on his behalf by the Speaker of Parliament, Edward Joe Adjaho at the grand durbar of chiefs and people of Asogli State to climax this year's Asogli Yam Festival in Ho, the president said he will work to ensure the region gets its fair share of the development cakIn a speech read on his behalf by the Speaker of Parliament, Edward Joe Adjaho at the grand durbar of chiefs and people of Asogli State to climax this year's Asogli Yam Festival in Ho, the president said he will work to ensure the region gets its fair share of the development cakin Ho, the president said he will work to ensure the region gets its fair share of the development cake.

«My reading is that with the uncertainty about the outcome of the election whether it be a hung parliament, whether it be a Tory majority or any of that stuff, people actually tuned in much more to local issues.

I have read a proposal (not supported by Mr. Wilders) to require parties that wish to participate in the elections to be democratically organised and member - based, arguing that it would make democracy less vulnerable (the wannabe - dictator could then be ousted by his own party members even if he has a majority in parliament).

The only democratic way out of the sovereignty hole that government and parliament have dug for themselves is, in my considered opinion, the one proposed by Tim Farron (Lib Dem, Westmorland and Lonsdale) in his intervention as leader of the Liberal Democrats in the first reading of the Bill:

Just how much precisely is read was redacted in the recent report by parliament's craven Intelligence and Security Committee.

«We want to point out that in any discussion with our partners we have to start from a fundamental constitutional principle, the same in the US and Romania, according to which the debates, decisions and votes in the Parliament take place in the name of the sovereignty of the people and can not be the object of any form of pressure,» reads the quoted communiqué issued by the heads of the two Chambers.

The full response of the Low Incomes Tax Reform Group to the call for evidence issued by the Finance Committee of the Scottish Parliament can be read in full, here.

Its standing in polls of vote intentions for Scottish Parliament elections averaged just 16 %, while its reading on vote intentions for a Westminster election were, at 14 %, even slightly worse.

But read in context, I assume these would be issues about reform of the UK parliament and not about the content of, say, English devolution.

Their failure to mount the slightest objection was scathingly attacked in an article by Nick Cohen in the Observer newspaper: «I don't think anyone who believed that a Labour government would make life slightly better for the poor could read the record of the meeting without embarrassed disgust... It was left to Damian Green — a Tory man, of all things — to ask them if it was for this that they spent «years in the political wilderness as Labour activists, hoping to become members of Parliament.»

Upon reading Total Politics I was surprised (in view of the magazine's title) that Amber Green's article about disabled MPs (TP, February) completely ignored the House of Lords which has long contained disabled members of parliament.

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).

Meanwhile, Parliament's Joint Committee on Human Rights has raised some concerns about the government's counter-terrorism bill - due for its second reading in the House of Lords on Tuesday.

Mr Clegg condemned Labour's actions, but told the Commons: «My hope is that we will return to this in the next parliament, emboldened by the historic second reading vote.

Moreover, we rightly pour scorn on the EU when we read budget proposals for increases of 20 % or more for the funding of political parties in the European Parliament and should not allow ourselves to go down that route.

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This should be read in conjunction with JR Maddicott's The Origins of the English Parliament, 924-1327 (OUP # 30).

As he slowed up in his nineties, my main fishing companions became and remain Jon Cruddas MP, George Hollingbery MP and Martin Salter, the former member of parliament for Reading West and now an energetic campaigner for the Angling Trust.

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The Prime Minister and First Minister had a «cordial» phone conversation, in which David Cameron seemed surprised by suggestions from opposition parties that the bill won't be included in the legislative programme read out by the Queen at the State Opening of Parliament.

Caroline Flint — born and currently lives in London, read American Literature and History combined with Film Studies at the University of East Anglia, spent 2 years in student politics, 8 years in local government and 3 years as a trade union researcher between University and Parliament

Rachel Reeves — born and currently lives in London, read PPE at Oxford, got an MSc Economics from LSE, worked for the Bank of England, the UK Embassy in Washington and HBOS for 10 years as an economist between University and Parliament.

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