Sentences with phrase «to a parliamentary question»

This was only confirmed to parliament via responses to parliamentary questions from MPs.

Not a single written Parliamentary question, intervention in the chamber or press release.

We raise awareness of diabetes and issues which affect people with the condition through Parliamentary Questions, debates and a programme of events.

The party cited statistics obtained after parliamentary questions as showing that police numbers were on the decline in areas experiencing the most violations of the law.

I shall ask a formal parliamentary question as to when the government hopes to take the decision.

Recent parliamentary questions indicate that the issue of hunting with dogs has never really gone away.

Based on information supplied to me through parliamentary questions, I've estimated that this could deliver savings to the taxpayer of at least # 6.2 million per annum.

A series of parliamentary questions from Labour MP Frank Field showed the government has no idea how many tenants have downsized as a result of the policy, how many disabled people have had to move home or how many wheelchair users have been affected.

His prison minister was asked a series of parliamentary questions about the amount of contraband getting into prisons through parcels in the lead - up to the ban.

The Guardian's report alleged that Al - Fayed had approached the paper and accused Ian Greer of paying then - MPs Neil Hamilton and Tim Smith to table parliamentary questions on his behalf at # 2,000 a time.

In Parliamentary Questions on 16 November 2017, Pensions Minister Guy Opperman made it clear that the Government does not intend to amend legislation in this area.

Labour's deputy leader Harriet Harman appeared to back down quickly, tweeting that parliamentary questions on the matter would be suspended until after key figures give evidence to the Leveson inquiry by the end of the month.

House of Commons Library statistics show that he has increased the number of Urgent Questions taken in the House, although the average number of oral and supplementary parliamentary questions answered daily is little different than under Betty Boothroyd or Michael Martin.

«To ask the Prime Minister how many parliamentary questions for written answer he has transferred to other Ministers since May 2007; and if he will make a statement.

Nick Clegg announced a review of the policy last month but it was mocked when parliamentary questions revealed it would only reporting back in 2015 and not involve any public consultation.

The following Parliamentary Question was tabled by Michael Fabricant and has just been answered:

In separate parliamentary questions, Watson is also pressing the prime minister to be clear whether Osborne will have access to privy council papers, attend full privy council meetings and receive sensitive information on privy counsellor terms while he is editor of the newspaper.

Official figures revealed in 21 separate parliamentary questions show Downing Street cost the taxpayer # 17.8 million last year, compared to just # 6 million under John Major.

After that we'll continue PQs [parliamentary questions] if necessary.»

After Mann spotted a story in The Guardian, he began to fire parliamentary questions at Fox about his dealings with the infamous Adam Werrity.

A minister answering Parliamentary questions learns which backbenchers to fear.

Today the DWP confirmed during parliamentary questions that small businesses will not have to start automatically enrolling their employees into a pension until the start of the next parliament.

As National Statistician I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question concerning the number of new additional jobs created since 1997 in the (a) public sector and (b) private sector.

In the meantime, I've asked the Foreign Office in a written Parliamentary question exactly where another # 20 million of taxpapers» money has gone.

To illustrate just how bad things are I have been looking at the answers to my own Parliamentary Questions to Ministers over the past few months.

Perhaps Cameron missed a reshuffle trick judging from the sparks shooting from the Hansard stenograph as Nicky Morgan rattled off responses during her first parliamentary questions as education secretary.

The most damaging claim is that what was on offer was a change in the law, not just asking embarrassing parliamentary questions

Through tabling parliamentary questions Mr Shapps discovered nearly one in nine tagged prisoners were accused of a crime in 2006.

Meanwhile, Mr Johnson launched a defence of his own decision to fire Prof Nutt, both in a letter to the Guardian and in response to an urgent parliamentary question from the Conservatives.

Both Conservatives and Liberal Democrats have posted parliamentary questions about the future of the ACMD, which will be replied to in the Commons at 15:30 GMT.

Her rise was based on the responses to a tranche of Parliamentary questions finally coming through.

During 2005, Woolas was accused of evading parliamentary questions with regard to public calls for reform of the Local Government Ombudsman in 2005.

In recent months, Kevin Brennan MP, shadow minister for schools, has asked several parliamentary questions about the information available to parents on websites.

In April 1959 the display of his Large Sack (1952) at the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna prompted parliamentary questions.

The retailers» demise has generated high profile mandates for Weil, DLA and Squire Patton Boggs but past advisers of BHS have also been in the headlines, with advice given by Linklaters and Olswang during last year's sale of the business set to come under scrutiny as the pair face parliamentary questions over their roles.

He had also failed to register monies received properly; to deposit the contract he signed to provide services; and to declare a relevant interest when tabling parliamentary questions, tabling an early - day motion, when making approaches to other MPs, and at a meeting of a prospective All - Party Parliamentary Group.

Rhetoric, political grandstanding or lengthy dull answers can usually get you through a tricky spot in parliamentary questions or a debate, but a select committee hearing allows a more detailed consideration with follow up questions and probing.

In response to a written parliamentary question from Labour MP Kevin Brennan about the publication's timing, Mr Gibb said that after considering all the review's documentation «the government believes that schools are best placed to decide how they use and deploy teaching assistants, and to set standards for the teaching assistants they employ.

We can not be entirely sure on this, because 10 Downing street seems to have had a policy in recent times, under the current incumbent, of not answering parliamentary questions about visits or meetings.»

«Relocation of staff out of expensive London offices to other regions continues to be high on the agenda as an option to deliver the savings needed,» Smith said in response to a written parliamentary question by Labour MP Diana Johnson.

Shadow justice secretary Sadiq Khan fired off a raft of parliamentary questions about Grayling's draconian prison reforms last month only to have them all dismissed as too expensive to answer.

Liberal Democrat MP Jo Swinson, who obtained the information through parliamentary questions, said: «These figures show the yawning gulf between rhetoric and reality when it comes to this government's record on renewable energy.

«We are considering potential changes to the UK passport after the UK has left the European Union,» the immigration minister, Robert Goodwill, said in reply to a parliamentary question about reintroducing Britain's «old blue style passport» from the Conservative MP Julian Knight.

Then on Thursday Christian MP Jim Shannon asked a Parliamentary Question about support of Christians in the UK who face difficulties in following their faith in the workplace and public life.

Once you had got past the police sentinels, who knew who everyone was, you could go everywhere, even the thrilling ministerial corridor behind the Speaker's chair, from which Prime Ministers emerged to face what was then the genuine ordeal of Parliamentary questions, twice a week.

The super-injunction was revealed to have included a parliamentary question, triggering an angry backlash against Carter Ruck, which secured it on behalf of Trafigura, in the Commons.

Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu said on Thursday, July 27 that «you know the essence of parliamentary questions is significant and integral to the exercise of oversight.

There has been a 35 per cent rise in the number of under - 18s admitted to A&E after binge drinking, parliamentary questions by the Liberal Democrats revealed.

There is still a place for tried and tested methods, such as Early Day Motions (EDM), parliamentary questions and petitions.