Sentences with phrase «standards committee said»

However, the Commons standards committee said the amount was # 5,800.

The report by Parliament's standards committee said Mrs Miller should say sorry «for her attitude to the Commissioner's inquiries».

Not exact matches

«There has to be agreement and consensus across the member countries to take a standard forward,» said Mr. Dunn, who is also the head of the Australian delegation to the committee.

The committee's report «Brexit: devolutiion», said the supremacy of EU law and its interpretation by the EU's Court of Justice have helped ensure consistency of legal and regulatory standards across the United Kingdom's internal market.

He said News Corp. had set up an independent Management & Standards Committee to establish and enforce clear standards of operation.

Three days later, Business Standard reported that a committee of government officials had discussed a proposal for an Indian cryptocurrency and an unidentified source said the government might christen its cryptocurrency «Lakshmi.»

«Efforts to set privacy standards have been ignored or even repealed,» said Rep. Frank Pallone (D - NJ), ranking member of the House committee Zuckerberg will testify before on Wednesday.

The Bank of England's Financial Policy Committee said it would look «in more detail at underwriting standards in leveraged lending markets,» citing «recent market intelligence that standards had continued to weaken.»

In a statement, the University of Sheffield said: «The individual concerned is currently appealing the decision of a Fitness to Practise Committee, relating to professional registration and the standards of the relevant professional body.

Surprisingly, there isn't a league standard or rating system for shoulder pads, though league spokesman Brian McCarthy says this is an area that the Health and Safety committee is looking into.

«The injuries started popping up when the C405 aluminum alloy came out as the bat standard in 1996 — brain damage, broken jaws, teeth knocked out,» says Bill Thurston, rules editor of the NCAA baseball rules committee for the last 15 years.

You still want your kids wearing a helmet with the latest technology though and which meets all of the requirements of the National Operating Committee on Standards for Athletic Equipment (NOCSAE), with a certification sticker that says it meet the NOCSAE standard, since the CPSC does not mandate safety guidelines for football helmets.

But the International Labour Organization's committee of experts discourages drawing on sick leave benefits instead of maternity leave benefits, saying it's contrary to its standards on maternity protection.

«A whole generation of young people in our cities will potentially have their health impaired by pollution before the government meets air quality safety standards,» committee chair Joan Walley MP said.

Sen. Andrew Lanza, who co-chaired the committee that ultimately called for the expulsion of former Sen. Hiram Monserrate following his conviction on a misdemeanor charge of abusing his girlfriend, said yesterday that a «precedent» was set with the ex-Queens lawmaker — a precedent that, out of fairness, should now be the standard against which other misbehaving senators are measured.

«Departments need to be intelligent customers of debt collection agencies, and must be vigilant in monitoring agencies» performance and ensuring appropriate standards are followed in their interactions with debtors,» the public accounts committee's report says.

State Sen. Joseph Griffo, R - Rome, who chairs the energy committee, said the PSC should act on the nuclear issue but take its time working out other details of the clean energy standard, such as subsidies for energy efficiency, wind and solar.

He said: «I completely accept the findings of the report published today by the Privileges Committee and the report submitted by the commissioner for standards.

The Commons standards and privileges committee also said that Ms Smith had «clearly» breached rules by wrongly designating her main home and ordered her to apologise to the House on this issue.

10.20 am: Kelly says the powers of the standards and privileges committee ought to be strengthened.

Senate higher education committee chair Kenneth LaValle, a Long Island Republican, said the most difficult aspect of the bill to negotiate was the exact definition of «affirmative consent,» a new «yes means yes» standard.

Michael Mulgrew, the president of the United Federation of Teachers, the city teachers» union, had urged the members of the charter schools committee on Wednesday morning to reject the regulations, which he said would lower standards for charter schoolteachers, and promised to sue if the new regulations were approved.

Dianne Hayter, chair of Labour's national executive committee, said Labour was committed to the «highest standards of openness and transparency.»

Sir Alistair Graham, former chairman of the committee on standards in public life, said the meeting appeared to be a breach of the ministerial code.

The former Senate Education Committee chairman said he supports an effort to «address the concerns» raised by parents over the controversial Common Core education standards.

«The committee has unanimously accepted the chair» recommendation that he absent himself from committee business for the duration of the investigation of the parliamentary commissioner for standards, following his self - referral at the weekend,» a spokesperson said.

Here's what the committee on standards in public life has to say about its lessons learned from overseas models: «The importance of the prize — political office — is such that the temptation for avoidance or, in some cases, evasion is considerable.»

The group said its mission is to elect Democrats to countywide offices, and to support local, county, statewide and national Democratic candidates, and that is the standard by which the committee operates, Kosmider said.

He has also taken individual action to set an ethical standard, such as cutting up his state - issued parking placard — which read «on official police business» — and refused his lulu, a $ 9,500 payment ostensibly for the extra work of being on a committee, but one he said is used by the leadership to secure a member's loyalty.

Duncan Smith said it may be right to end the way in which MPs have the sole right — apart from the non-voting lay members of the standards committee — to sit in judgment on the findings by the independent standards watchdog.

In the case of Miller, the standards committee rejected the commissioner's findings about the location of her second home, pointing out the commissioner had said the case law and evidence was «finely balanced».

«When I asked Standard during the [parks] committee meeting what the estimate for their profit would be during those first 10 years [of the agreement], their answer couldn't have been clearer,» said Parker in a released statement.

Former Southold Republican Committee chairman Denis Noncarrow, an outspoken local critic of the standards, said he's not sure a new party line would make much of a difference in the effort to halt Common Core entirely.

I think there's a real concern there, there's a double standard being held,» he said, referring to former mayor Michael Bloomberg's donations to the Senate Republican Campaign Committee to help the GOP retain the state Senate majority.

Move comes after standards and privileges committee says decision should be deferred until standards watchdog has completed review

The report published by the standards and privileges committee said that he breached Commons rules by making a claim for expenses that were «not wholly and exclusively incurred in connection with his parliamentary duties».

He said the committee also recommended the establishment of more laboratories and testing centres to help improve quality and standard of export and the domestication of the Office of Technical Regulation (OTR) as recommended by UNIDO.

Labour MP John Mann, a member of the Treasury select committee, said Theresa May was behind a campaign to shift the focus of public anger at the likely fall in living standards to Threadneedle Street.

Earlier the chairman of the committee for standards in public life said banning MPs from hiring relatives «could be the right thing to do».

Maria Miller may still have to answer more questions from Parliament's standards committee, the report into the Culture Secretary's expenses claims says.

Stunell will say that the system, which involves a central standards board, costing # 6m, and standards committees for individual councils, is fuelling «petty complaints and malicious vendettas».

In its release, the Bar Association said its Judicial Screening Committee considers «integrity, experience, professional ability, education, reputation, industry, temperament, fairness, statutory standards, attitude, and» — wait for it — «punctuality.»

«It's hardly the highest standard when the response of the administration, in my opinion, is inconsistent with law,» said Robert Freeman, executive director of the state Committee on Open Government, which provides guidance on the state's Freedom of Information law.

On Monday, he said the culture secretary had «done the right thing» after she was asked by the Commons standards committee to repay # 5,800 and apologise for failing to co-operate.

Education Committee Chair John Flanagan says the actions were a protest against the roll out of the new Common Core learning standards, which is widely viewed as flawed.

That's according to a report by a House of Commons committee published this week, which also says that membership has improved the country's standards and given it a stronger voice in international negotiations.

The HEFCE's move to introduce minimum standards is part of a wider, and welcome, trend, says Jeremy Hoad, general secretary of the National Postgraduate Committee.

«It's similar to using personal finance software at home where you have to gather income and expenditure data, «run the numbers» and then use the results to make smart process changes — savings, cutbacks, streamlining, etc. — that will optimize your monthly budget,» said NIST systems engineer Kevin Lyons, who chaired the ASTM committee that developed the manufacturing sustainability standard.

It could be an indication of new physics — or simply an error in the experiment that the researchers overlooked, says Peter Mohr of the Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA), which publishes standard scientific values.

«The president is opposed to mandatory caps on greenhouse gases, opposing a mandatory 10 -[mile - per - gallon] increase in cars and trucks, opposing a national renewable electricity standard, opposing state efforts to cut emissions from cars, and pushing for new sources of dangerous pollution from liquid coal,» said Rep. Ed Markey (D — Mass.), chairman of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, in a statement released after the speech.