Sentences with phrase «select committee work»

For example, with regard to attendance and turnover rates, the size of the payroll vote impacts negatively upon the level of electoral competition for chair positions and membership, and select committee work is often incompatible with other parliamentary duties such as constituency case work, scrutiny of legislation and contributing to debates.

An expenses - weary, austerity - struck public might not like the idea of any MPs getting any more pay in any circumstances but a premium for select committee work may be one of the best possible ways of encouraging MPs to see scrutiny of government rather than membership of government as a worthy parliamentary career path.

The Wright Committee also wrote of the need to incentivise and increase the commitment of select committee members, and highlighted the view that it is «crucial to create a parliamentary career path focussed on select committee work».

The House of Commons Reform Committee reported in 2009 that they had received «universal praise», John Bercow has described them as «pivotal players in politics», and a key conclusion of the Liaison Committee's 2015 Legacy Report was that «public opinion, commentators and academic critics have all recognised that Select Committee work is the most constructive and productive aspect of Parliament».

To be a really powerful alternative career route, MPs will need to be convinced that select committee work can have an impact on policy.

Since 2008, the amount of media mentions of select committee work has more than trebled.

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In addition, he's worked many years on Capitol Hill including as the Minority Staff Director of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.

«We're also so hopeful that this is just the beginning, that other councils are watching and taking note, that Parliament itself, the Home Affairs Select Committee, will continue to look at this issue and find a solution that works not just for Ealing but for the whole of the UK.»

The panel is a committee of the Illinois Park and Recreation Association, which works with the Illinois Association of Park Districts to select honorees.

Brexit secretary David Davis» Kafkaesque appearance in front of a Commons select committee today provided an object lesson in how that process works.

And I think I'll have hopefully no regrets, and I believe I will have no regrets, working next to Carl Paladino if, in fact, the state committee selects him Wednesday.»

This resulted in the work and pensions secretary David Gauke agreeing to provide the papers to a select committee before Christmas.

His activities are deeply unusual for a select committee chair; a couple of other chairs earn over # 10,000 from legal work on the side, but these fall far short of his levels of earnings, or the proximity of those earnings to his policy area.

Flint has cleverly used the work of the public accounts committee to inform and promote her Finance Bill amendment on tax transparency, most select committee reports do not really change or initiate policy.

There is almost no discussion of Parliamentary debates or of significant select committee reports, and very little of academic / policy work that doesn't get mainstream media coverage.

Black, a member of the work and pensions select committee, is set to introduce a backbench bill aimed at curbing the benefits sanction regime.

These deficiencies are only partly compensated for by the pre-legislative work of select committees of both Houses.

«In the very end, my committee and I will support the candidate selected through this process and work diligently to ensure that he or she is victorious in the election.»

Having worked in healthcare consultancy for McKinsey before becoming an MP, Whately «s first move in the Commons was to sit on the health select committee and she now chairs the All Party Parliamentary Group for Mental Health.

In the House of Commons, Kyle sits on the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Select Committee where he questioned Mike Ashley, boss of Sports Direct, over poor working practices in his warehouses.

The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) is looking at Cambridge Analytica's work for President Donald Trump's campaign as part of its investigation into Russian efforts to meddle in the 2016 race, according to sources familiar with the probe.

It is doubtful any other hard working Select Committee could bolt this on to its agenda and give it the degree of scrutiny it deserves and needs.

And yet it is in the select and standing committees that much of the investigative and painstaking scrutiny work of Parliament now takes place, unseen by the outside world and unreported.

And on a recent visit to eastern Europe, the Home Affairs Select Committee said there was little evidence of people wanting to come over to the UK to work.

Even those anoraks who apparently sit glued to the Parliamentary Channel will find scarce coverage of the work of select committees and, in a dozen years as a chairman of legislative committees, I can think of no single occasion upon which a television camera has been present.

Speaking on the Today programme, work and pension select committee chair Frank Field looked back to the early 19th century for a comparison.

While many of us were clearing up our tinsel and packing away our trees, the effervescent Keith Vaz pitched up at Luton Airport to welcome new arrivals from Romania and Bulgaria to highlight the Home Affairs Select Committee's view on the hype around newly lifted restrictions on residents of the two eastern European countries working in the UK.

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.

«Speaking in the chamber is only one of the ways members hold the government to account and this research ignores members» contributions including amending legislation, asking the government written questions and serving on select committees — more than 320 members served on committees in the last session of parliament — as well as parliamentary work away from the chamber.

Esty said her Democratic colleagues approached House Speaker Paul Ryan asking to form a select committee on gun violence prevention to work on crafting a bipartisan bill.

He said: «A smaller, more effective house will be able to build public confidence and support for its crucial constitutional role in checking bills before they become law and in reviewing policy through their hard - working select committees.»

He was a member of the Treasury Select Committee from 2004 until he was briefly, in 2005, a spokesman on work and pensions under the leadership of Michael Howard, but returned to the backbenches later in the year when David Cameron became Conservative leader.

Current Conservative officeholders who are members of the group include the Work and Pensions Secretary, Iain Duncan Smith; David Cameron's PPS, Desmond Swayne; Nick Clegg's Parliamentary Under - Secretary, Mark Harper; the Minister of State for Transport, Theresa Villiers; a Parliamentary Under - Secretary of State at the Ministry of Justice, Jonathan Djanogly; three government whips, Angela Watkinson, Mark Francois and Greg Hands; the Chairman of the Procedure Committee, Greg Knight; and the Chairman of the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee, John Whittingdale, who was Mrs Thatcher's Political Secretary in the late 1980s.

The programme has been plagued by delays and the work and pensions select committee has launched an inquiry into the problems being reported by those who are already receiving it.

David Davies Electing select committee chairpeople has really worked in some cases — like Andrew Tyrie — but really not in the case of David Davies [chairman of the Welsh affairs select committee].

Chairman of the culture select committee since 2005, launched to prominence by his probing work during the phone - hacking scandal.

I was on the Work and Pensions Select Committee with Purnell during the Parliament before last, and he took a cool, dry - eyed, private sector - friendly view of how IB should be reformed.

Someone close to the intelligence select committee tells me that «work is being done» on potential Russian interference in the referendum.

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.

This raises the intriguing possibility that Commons select committees, which pride themselves on their consensual and non-partisan approach, could become a venue for cross-party working among MPs who are neither hard Corbynites nor hard Brexiteers.

GOP SENS. KELLY AYOTTE, JOHN MCCAIN AND LINDSEY GRAHAM: «We applaud the decision of Speaker John Boehner... We call on Majority Leader Harry Reid to take similar action and to work with Speaker Boehner to make the Select Committee a joint effort between the House and Senate.»

Bryant continued: «This decision is ludicrously premature when the CPS is still considering corporate charges against News Corp, when the House of Commons privileges committee has still to rule on whether three News Corp executives lied to Parliament, as claimed by the select committee when it was chaired by John Whittingdale, and when the Leveson inquiry has to still to complete the second part of its work into the events at the News of the World.

I know from my work with the education select committee that when agencies do not work well together, children and young people are put at risk.

Having submitted both written and oral evidence to the House of Lords Select Committee on Religious Offences and the All Party Parliamentary Group on Islamophobia, Chris also sits as an independent expert on the Cross-Government Working Group on Anti-Muslim Hatred based in the Department for Communities & Local Government.

Mark Harper, the minister for disabled people, will appear in front of the work and pensions select committee on Wednesday today to defend the government's troubled record on implementation of the new disability benefit, the personal independence payment (PIP).

That's why I've decided to call for the Work and Pensions select committee — of which I am a member — to hold an inquiry into this issue.

UKYP voted to «make public transport cheaper, better, and accessible for all» and set up a Select Committee to work on the issue and to create policies.

Andrew Tyrie, who has been campaigning on it entirely separately to his work as chair of the Treasury select committee, has been pleased with the government's approach ever since David Cameron hinted he would take this route in a recent appearance before MPs.

The Select Committee's subpoena power will expire in 2016, but Wisniewski expects it to wrap up its work much sooner.