Sentences with phrase «select committee chairmanship»

In the Commons John Bercow has just announced the results of the elections for four select committee chairmanship vacancies.

As most readers know, the Select Committee Chairmanships have been carved out among the parties, and tomorrow's elections for the posts will be cross-party.

Not exact matches

Others are setting their sights on the chairmanship of the home affairs select committee.

Following the 2015 general election, it was announced in June 2015 that he had been elected to the chairmanship of the Work and Pensions Select Committee.

Step forward, then, Peter Bone - standing for the Chairmanship of the Health Select Committee - John Baron, contesting Foreign Affairs (Baron pursued Ministers energetically about Iraq during the last Parliament) and, in the Defence Select Committee poll, no fewer than three of the candidates: Julian Lewis, Patrick Mercer and, above all, Douglas Carswell (one half of the Carswell - Hannan «Cannon» dynamic duo).

Andrew Tyrie took the Treasury Select Committee; Richard Ottaway, Foreign Affairs (a big, big consolation prize, after his defeat in the 1922 Committee Chairmanship election); James Arbuthnot, Defence; Stephen Dorrell, Health; Tim Yeo, Climate Change.

Gentile was notoriously on Speaker Quinn's pay - no - mind list, and suffered the indignity of being denied chairmanship of a committee or even a subcommittee: instead he was made Chairman of the Select Committee on Libraries, of which he was the solcommittee or even a subcommittee: instead he was made Chairman of the Select Committee on Libraries, of which he was the solCommittee on Libraries, of which he was the sole member.

Assuming the parliamentary rights previously enjoyed by the Liberal Democrats, the SNP has gained the right to ask the Prime Minister two questions each week and the chairmanship of two select committees.

In May 2014, Blunt was one of seven unsuccessful candidates for the chairmanship of the House of Commons Defence Select Committee.

Select committee membership and chairmanship no longer depends upon patronage of the Whips, and committees have been injected with the confidence and authority that flows from the imprimatur of a democratic mandate.

I have had the privilege of serving on the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee under the formidable Chairmanship of John Whittingdale.

My Chairmanship of the Defence Select Committee, an especially rewarding role, comes to an end at the end of this Parliament.

Watson said he learnt much about select committees when he first entered parliament and served under the chairmanship of Chris Mullin on the home affairs committee.

The party is also expecting to be handed at least two chairmanships of select committees and two questions at prime minister's questions, as well as opposition debate time.

Last week it emerged that Conservative MPs will chair twelve of Parliament's select committees, with those influential chairmanships being decided by ballots of all MPs from across the Commons next week.