Sentences with phrase «to a parliamentary committee»

He speaks to audiences across the country about a wide range of human rights issues, appears regularly before parliamentary committees and is a frequent commentator in the media.

I am ready to share troubling evidence with the PAC and other parliamentary committees investigating the bailout.

The new approach was proposed by the chairman of an important parliamentary committee who criticized law enforcement agencies for cracking down on crypto miners.

But that is part of a fast - disappearing cooperative process when parliamentary committees were more than a government rubber stamp.

Schools should be forced to run related - party transactions past the government for prior approval, a powerful parliamentary committee has recommended — dividing opinion among unions and lobbying groups.

Parliamentary committees produce a wide range of publications, including reports, and records of evidence sessions and debates.

The UK Parliamentary committee on Digital, Culture, Media and Sport also wants Zuckerberg to testify in front of them regarding the issue.

Wylie told the UK Parliamentary committee for digital, culture, media and sports that India's Congress had been a client of Cambridge Analytica and he would be able to provide documents to back his statements.

Abbott has served on a number of parliamentary committees on social and international issues and held shadow ministerial positions.

contribute to the new Joint Parliamentary Committee on Human Rights and Statement of Compatibility processes for new federal law and regulations, including promoting effective arrangements for participation by community organisations.

I indicated to the Joint Parliamentary Committee in response to a series of questions put to me when I appeared before it on 22 February 2000 that the amended NTA as a whole could not be considered a special measure but to the extent that the amended NTA recognises and protects the traditions and customs of Indigenous people then this recognition and protection was a non-discriminatory differential treatment of Indigenous people.

Budget Omnibus Bills should be restricted to tax changes only and all proposed spending initiatives should be included in the Estimates or through separate legislation and referred to the applicable Parliamentary Committee for review.

A British parliamentary committee on Tuesday summoned Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to answer questions on whether personal data was improperly used to influence elections.

Senior police officers, and James and Rupert Murdoch of News Corporation, have been questioned by parliamentary committees.

Scottish parliamentary committee report says legislative clauses do not meet the spirit or substance of recommendations on welfare and benefits

He had told parliamentary committees that there was «never any evidence» of phone hacking beyond the case of Clive Goodman.

The process is well under way, with funding promised in the 2016 Budget, stakeholder consultations and Parliamentary Committee hearings currently in progress.

The head of Cambridge Analytica, Alexander Nix, recently appeared before a British parliamentary committee which is investigating fake news and denied claims that his company worked for Leave.EU, a pro-Brexit group.

A UK parliamentary committee reviewing a proposed bill to increase government surveillance powers releases a report rejecting provisions in the measure requiring encryption backdoors in software.

Chief Technology Officer Mike Schroepfer was questioned Thursday by a U.K. parliamentary committee investigating the impact of social media on recent elections.

The Every Voter Counts Alliance, bringing together over 60 organizations from across the country representing diverse groups, will be hosting a press conference on Parliament Hill later this morning just as the special parliamentary committee on electoral reform is set to begin its deliberations.

I'll be making a written submission to a UK parliamentary committee examining the latest IPCC report

The ICC (United Kingdom) evidence to the Joint Parliamentary Committee says: «The UK will not wish to have «weaker» law against bribery than other countries.

«[Tamiflu] has never been directly compared with paracetamol — or indeed a stiff whisky,» Fiona Godlee of the BMJ told a UK parliamentary committee last week.

Officials at the Palace of Westminster have really embraced the project and we have presented our findings at Parliamentary committees, where we hope our research will influence discussion on the restoration and renewal work required within the building today.»

Today's announcement follows a series of backlash against Facebook since the Cambridge Analytica news came to light, with a UK Parliamentary committee calling for CEO Mark Zuckerberg to testify, Facebook stock tanking and erasing billions off its market value, and user trust in the company continuing to decline.

A cross-party parliamentary committee in Stockholm is currently reviewing central bank legislation to examine whether banks should be forced to provide cash services for their customers.

The chairman of a British parliamentary committee announced Tuesday he was requesting that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg — who has remained silent for days — appear before the panel to supplement prior testimony by the company's executives.

Earlier this month the chairs of four parliamentary committees also issued a joint plea for education secretary Nicky Morgan to act.

The correct answer is no, as I explained before the Canadian Parliamentary Committee investigating the Ozone question.

Gordon Nardell QC in discussions with the All Party Parliamentary Committee in April talked of the «legal bonanza» following a Brexit vote.

I have explained this in my submission to a Commonwealth Parliamentary Committee considering the effect of Australia's (voluntarily - assumed) obligations under the International Covenant on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination:

Mr. Strayer, as he then was, testified before a joint Parliamentary committee about what was understood and intended by the drafters in respect of the phrase «fundamental justice».

There have been repeated calls for increases to NTRB funding in the reports of Commonwealth agencies, (139) as well as by Commonwealth Parliamentary committees.

Last December, a report by a specially convened parliamentary committee found the Eighth Amendment was not fit for purpose and should be repealed.

However, evidence given at the hearing in Clare of the SA Parliamentary Committee Inquiry into Wind Farms, suggests that the houses may well have been vacated due to loss of employment at the local quarry.

Budget Omnibus Bills should be restricted to proposed tax changes only and all proposed spending initiatives should be presented either through the Main Estimates or through separate legislation, submitted to the applicable Parliamentary Committee for review.

The five - member bi-partisan parliamentary Committee probing the alleged collection of monies from expatriates to enable them sit close to the President during the 2017 Ghana Expatriates Business Awards ceremony, has ended its public sitting which sought to collect evidence from various individuals and institutions.

Canada Committee, a British parliamentary committee established 2 May 1828 to settle political disputes which were paralysing representative government in Lower Canada and creating difficulties in Upper Canada.

In the United Kingdom, for example, judges are sometimes invited to appear as part of parliamentary committees looking into legal and justice issues.

Facts, politically best handled in parliamentary committee rooms, in Whitehall and in seminars, were the first casualty in the Referendum, dismissed by Gove along with «experts».

Dan Rogerson, co-chair of the Liberal Democrat parliamentary committee on education, said: «A two - tier system, with all the upheaval and instability this would cause, is not the way to achieve higher standards.

The seemingly endless series of reports from parliamentary committees and expert organisations calling for reform of Britain's drug policy continued today, after a cross-party group of peers called for a change in the law.

Zuckerberg has also been called to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee but declined to appear before a UK parliamentary committee undertaking a similar investigation.

Last month, three cross-party parliamentary committees published lengthy reports on the draft investigatory powers bill — the government's landmark surveillance legislation.

On the same day, Zuckerberg turned down British lawmakers» invitations to explain to a British parliamentary committee what went wrong.

A Liberal - dominated parliamentary committee asked government to explore the concept in a pre-budget report tabled Friday.

We will strengthen Parliamentary committees so that they can better scrutinize legislation.