Sentences with phrase «select committee system»

We must keep our sceptics» hats on, of course, but in the mean time, if someone could find a way of cloning Watson we could have an excellent select committee system.

In addition to any amendments to the Finance Bill that would reflect our general economic approach, I believe we should focus some attention on the possibility that the new Select Committee system will be able to comment more forcefully on government policies and programmes.

The Commons select committee system largely mirrors the departmental structure of Whitehall, together with some cross-cutting committees such as the Public Accounts Committee and Environmental Audit.

There has been a glacially slow improvement in this over the past 35 years or so, since the creation of the modern Departmental Select Committee system.

The (elected) select committee system valued expertise; the (appointed) public bill committee system did the reverse.

The House of Commons select committee system has grown in influence over time.

They can turn from gamekeepers to poachers by embracing the scrutiny role of parliament through the select committee system.

Tony Wright's reforms of the select committee system have freed them from the nefarious influence of the whips, making them much more efficient in doing their job.

I would also like to thank the clerks of the House for the amazing work they have done to strengthen the Select committee system, we are not quite on par with the United States, but we are getting there.

The integrity of the select committee system matters to me.

One important venue of parliamentary scrutiny and accountability is the Commons select committee system, which has just elected a new cohort of committee chairs.

The select committee system now provides one committee scrutinising each Whitehall department's executive actions and implementation processes in detail.

The Commons select committee system has just received a further injection of new blood in the person of former GP and Conservative back - bencher Dr Sarah Wollaston MP.

In the aftermath of the election the shape of the select committee system in the new parliament is now beginning to emerge, with the party label of the chairs of the various House of Commons committees being allocated.

Joint fifth you have two Labour MPs with very different types of behaviour: Frank Field, rebellious on a relatively high number of occasions (17 so far this parliament) but very far from the most rebellious Labour MP and Margaret Hodge, steadfastly loyal to the party whip, but who uses the select committee system to great advantage.

The select committee system (founded in 1979) has provided an ever more influential mechanism for «shadowing» each department and bringing legislators» views to bear.

Graham Allen, however, will vote against the party line, but only does so rarely (just six times so far this parliament) and is another who is currently utilising the select committee system to good effect.

I believe that our inquiry set a new standard for the importance and relevance of a Select Committee system.

On their own, the Wright reforms have not yet proved a sufficiently powerful mechanism to drive improvement of the select committee system, especially when it comes to membership engagement.

There are thus a number of factors that militate against transformative change in the operation of the select committee system and engagement with it.

This led to the creation of today's select committee system.

Consequently the government's decision to forgo the temptation of making unnecessary machinery of government changes to mark the start of the new parliament — showing the sort of restraint that the IfG has argued for — means that the select committee system will also stay broadly the same.

Increasing attendance rates and decreasing turnover rates were, respectively, explicit and implicit aims of the Wright Committee in its desire to boost the select committee system and the vitality of Parliament.