Sentences with phrase «scrutinising government»

The unit is scrutinising government research laboratories to see if any can be privatised or made more cost - effective by other means.

In British politics, the Shadow Home Secretary is the person within the shadow cabinet who «shadows» the Home Secretary; this effectively means scrutinising government policy on home affairs including policing, national security, immigration, the criminal justice system, the prison service, and matters of citizenship.

It is by addressing these issues, scrutinising the Government and understanding why things like the cost of living matter so much to people that will reconnect voters with politicians - not pursuing a Z - list career on a popular, but ultimately trivial, TV programme thousands of miles away from this country.

In June 2010 he was elected onto the Education Select Committee responsible for scrutinising Government policy on education.

Back in July, I was appointed to a Joint Committee of both Houses of Parliament that was tasked with scrutinising the Government's draft House of Lords Reform Bill.

It is incredibly important the committee carries on the important work we are doing scrutinising government.»

The nation shook under the global spotlight then, and they need to do so again — this time scrutinising the government, and the brutality of their continued response.

The Kenya National Commission on Human Rights, which scrutinises government institutions, accused police of using «unlawful and unacceptable» levels of force.

See also John Durie, «ACCC boss Rod Sims pushes for powers to scrutinise governments» (The Australian, 7 November 2014)

It will have two tasks: MPs must scrutinise the government's specific plan to ensure it is legal and work able, and, crucially, article 50 should only be triggered following a vote of consent from MPs.»

Ms Jowell accepted the Lords amendment, calling for a joint parliamentary committee to scrutinise the government's plans.

This is likely to be the most scrutinised government and most powerful parliament in living memory.

Hilary Benn has been elected chair of the new parliamentary committee that will scrutinise government policy on the UK's exit from the EU.

Most House of Commons committees have a remit to scrutinise a government department, so it is no surprise to see that 51 % of witnesses at Commons committees are from the public sector.

It should be able to scrutinise government positions on the EU before the relevant minister goes to Brussels, as well as after.

The Science and Technology Committee is unusual amongst departmental select committees in that it scrutinises the Government Office for Science (GO - Science), which is a «semi-autonomous organisation» based within the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS).

The Joint Committee on Human Rights, which scrutinises government Bills for human rights compatibility, highlighted the Armed Forces (Service Complaints and Financial Assistance) Bill, the Modern Slavery Bill, and the Serious Crime Bill as «likely to raise particularly significant human rights issues».

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As a result of Animals Australia's investigation in Indonesia last year, new government regulations are now in place that have forced the live export industry to transform itself — adhering to new rules that will make exporting live animals more expensive, more difficult and importantly, more heavily scrutinised.

If brands are prepared to have their values openly scrutinised by governments, NGOs and consumers then we may be able to evolve to the point where what a brand stands for goes beyond price and flavour and features ethical considerations as part of its DNA.

On the request by State Governments for a refund of amounts owed by the Federal Government, Mr. President directed that claims be subject to verification by the Debt Management Office and a team was established and given the mandate to scrutinise claims and reconcile with available records.

So Cabinet can not reach a decision because it does not know what it is doing and parliament is not allowed to scrutinise legislation because the government can not trust that it will do the right thing even though it doesn't know what that is.

More importantly, all politicians and officials should scrutinise legislation lest it impinge on the ability of our elected representatives to challenge government and ask the questions necessary to preserve our liberties.

An important part of the devolution deals negotiated between combined authorities and national government was deciding how the new metro mayors will be scrutinised and held to account.

The work of the Mayor of London is scrutinised by the London Assembly, a unique arrangement in the English local government system.

Without descending into the detail of policy appraisal or the delivery of operational targets — both things that my environmental audit committee will scrutinise — the best snapshot of effort will come from the big policy packages that define the government's agenda, and which have the greatest environmental impact.

When will SPUC stop spreading these untrue stories, and when will the government start properly scrutinising their activities, and the claims they are making in schools?

The government has tried to turn the tide of the expenses scandal by creating a new independent body to scrutinise MPs» claims.

«If the UK Budget is to be moved to the autumn, then the Scottish Government may feel pressure to ensure their draft Scottish Budget is prepared after the UK fiscal event, as was the case in 2015 and 2016 and potentially resulting in inadequate time with which to scrutinise the Scottish budget.

Marking the first anniversary of the Government's moratorium from new domestic regulation for micro businesses, the FSB has published a report which argues that the Regulatory Policy Committee (RPC) needs more powers to scrutinise performance, advocate regulatory reform and act as an ombudsman.

The independent body set up to scrutinise new Government regulations needs sharper teeth to defend small businesses against poorly framed regulations, the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) has warned.

It needs to be able to scrutinise performance in a transparent way and be a powerful advocate for Government - wide change.»

The UK government said the proposal to give votes to 16 and 17 year olds at Holyrood elections would be fully scrutinised by the Scottish Parliament.

Parliament's House of Commons select committee system, which allows groups of backbench MPs to scrutinise the work of government departments and to initiate their own inquiries in areas related to the work of those departments, has existed in its present form since 1979.

The new cohort of select committee chairs will be scrutinising the work of a weakened government, write Mark Goodwin, Stephen Bates and Marc Geddes.

Firstly, since Select Committees are Parliamentary institutions that seek to scrutinise and hold government to account, the chair must be a backbencher.

The primary function of a Departmental Select Committee is to scrutinise and investigate the activities of a particular government department.

«Our job is to scrutinise decisions made by the Welsh Government on behalf of the people of Wales.

Yet this bill would hand powers straight from the Assembly to Government Ministers and then there would be no way Assembly Members could scrutinise their decisions.

The idea that liberals in government could sit by and watch as the state took over regulation of a device meant to scrutinise it is appalling to me.

This used to be Lord Carlile, who was arguably even more hawkish on terror legislation than the governments he was meant to be scrutinising.

We hope the Government will review the decision to back Exeter gaining state funding, and scrutinise in more detail the curricula and health policies of Hereford and Frome.»

Civil liberties activists were carefully scrutinising details of the protection of freedom bill today, after the government finally published details of how it would restore British freedoms.

The Government will be committed to the maintenance of Britain's nuclear deterrent, and have agreed that the renewal of Trident should be scrutinised to ensure value for money.

In a sign of ongoing government solipsism over Brexit, Westminster's initial reaction to Amber Rudd's replacement by Sajid Javid has been to scrutinise what it means for the balance of power among soft and hard Brexiteers around the cabinet table.

The government is to allow the Commons five days to debate the bill triggering article 50, it said on Thursday, prompting some MPs to complain this was insufficient time to scrutinise the legislation.

How effective is the Westminster parliament in scrutinising central government policymaking — especially select committees?

Baroness Jan Royall, Labour's leader in the Lords, said: «I am very proud to lead an excellent team which will scrutinise and vigorously oppose legislation where it harms the interests of the people of our country, and support Ed Miliband as he builds trust in our party so that we can defeat this unfair, incompetent and out of touch government at the next election.»

His comments came after a week in which culture secretary Ben Bradshaw said he believed the BBC should be scrutinised by the National Audit Office, like government departments.

«I just think that, as a backbench Member of Parliament, you've got to be there, particularly when we have a very weak opposition — to ask the questions that the Government needs to be scrutinised on before we embark on such a huge issue.

The Welsh Liberal Democrats believe any plans to restrict use of the FOI Act would make it more difficult for people to scrutinise the Welsh Government.