Sentences with phrase «when parliamentary committees»

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

Surely, this endorses my point that some form of cross examination should be present when the Parliamentary committee considers these submissions.

Not exact matches

Sandy Parakilas, who worked in data protection for Facebook in 2011 and 2012, told a U.K. parliamentary committee Wednesday that the company was vigilant about its network security but lax when it came to protecting users» data.

When it was all over, the tally of alleged wrongdoing cited here today, assigned to one party or another, included unpaid taxes (NDP), abusing election laws (Conservatives), improperly taking money from charities (Liberals), improperly claimed expenses (Liberals), illegal campaign debts (Liberals), illegal political donations (NDP), flouting Hill security (NDP), a potentially illegal cheque (Conservatives), secrecy (Conservatives) and sabotaging the committee to select the parliamentary budget officer (Conservatives).

The Liberals recently voted down a study of minimum income when the proposal was raised in parliamentary committee by NDP MP Guy Caron.

This message was brought home clearly earlier this year in Asia when on February 6, the South Korean Intelligence Agency reported to the Parliamentary Intelligence Committee that it deemed North Korea responsible for the hacking of the Japanese Bitcoin exchange centre.

This is the time of the week when we can get some serious work done unimpeded by an MP ricocheting all over the office demanding that we stop what we're doing every two minutes to Google their name, insisting that we write a press release on their recent parliamentary awesomeness, leaving their folder of top secret documents in Committee Room 6, and generally getting in the way of the correspondence, casework, the booking of Commons tours for schools and all the other myriad tasks that Members assume happen by magic.

The former chair of the parliamentary standards and privileges committee - which regulates Commons expenses - resigned his position when it emerged he had claimed nearly # 30,000 for a second home in which he rarely stayed.

The power, which was compared by human rights groups to the policies of Saddam Hussein, was rejected by the peers last month when they voted to send the clause to a parliamentary committee.

He was a member of the Health Select Committee from 2001 until 2003, then serving as Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to Home Secretary David Blunkett until 2004, when he became PPS to Education Secretary Ruth Kelly.

The tax waiver was granted last week when Parliamentary Select Committee on Finance in a report tendered before the House recommending for the House to «approve a waiver of US$ 185million for a period of five years for the Ghana Airports Company Limited.»

However, Finance Minister - designate, Ken Ofori Atta, answering questions when he appeard before the parliamentary Appointment Committee denied the President's pledge saying «I don't know where we (NPP) promised to pay all contractors in 100 days.»

A significant stage will come on Monday when a joint parliamentary committee will recommend that a second chamber should have 80 % of its members elected.

According to him, when the Minister of Finance appeared before the Parliamentary Select Committee, he was asked about the impact of the levy on Ghanaians after which he gave a vivid explanation to them.

He said: «In our experience once a reservation is in place, it tends to stay there even when the UN monitoring bodies, parliamentary committees and civil society organisations are united in the view that it's unnecessary and goes against the object and purpose of the treaty.»

He dithers over whether he really wants to be a junior minister rather than chairman of a select committee, and eventually is disappointed when he's only ever appointed to the most junior jobs as a parliamentary under - secretary.

The Trade Minister gave the list when he appeared before the five - member Parliamentary committee investigating the matter.

Johnson stated incorrectly before a parliamentary committee that Zaghari - Ratcliffe had been «teaching people journalism» when she was arrested in Iran last year.

When becoming an MP, he was elected on to the Treasury select committee and became Ed Miliband's parliamentary private secretary.

With a fair wind, the day will come to pass when scrutiny committees in local government are as respected and listened to, and seen as important in local politics and elections, as are the Parliamentary select committees.

He continues that if the chair of the Treasury Committee and members of the Committee were to be taken to complete a joint - parliamentary committee, they would be stretched, doing «two jobs» when there are other important issues that have yet to be cCommittee and members of the Committee were to be taken to complete a joint - parliamentary committee, they would be stretched, doing «two jobs» when there are other important issues that have yet to be cCommittee were to be taken to complete a joint - parliamentary committee, they would be stretched, doing «two jobs» when there are other important issues that have yet to be ccommittee, they would be stretched, doing «two jobs» when there are other important issues that have yet to be concluded.

The row between Macron and General Pierre De Villiers blew up last week when the chief of the defence staff told a parliamentary committee he would not allow the armed forces to be «screwed» by the government's plans to slash 850 million euros ($ 980 million) from the budget.

It is useful to recall that at the NEC meeting held on August 18, 2015 when the decision was taken on the primaries in Adansi Asokwa, it was both the Ashanti Regional Chairman and the 3rd National Vice Chairman, whose views persuaded the NEC to overturn the National Appeals Committee decision to disqualify aspirant Mr. Richard Anokye and uphold the earlier regional vetting committee decision to allow him to contest in the parliamentary pCommittee decision to disqualify aspirant Mr. Richard Anokye and uphold the earlier regional vetting committee decision to allow him to contest in the parliamentary pcommittee decision to allow him to contest in the parliamentary primaries.

Occupy Ghana, which has been strong advocates for the passage of the Right To Information Bill, has called on the government to provide dates on when it will «publish and gazette the Bill,» on when the «bill shall be tabled for debate in Parliament» and finally on when «the Parliamentary Select Committee on Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary affairs shall conclude its deliberations on the Bill.»

The Press Association reports that the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, John Lyon, has finally passed on to the Commons Standards Committee the conclusions of his inquiry into Caroline Spelman's use of parliamentary allowances to pay a nanny - cum - secretary for two years during the late 1990s when she was first elected tParliamentary Commissioner for Standards, John Lyon, has finally passed on to the Commons Standards Committee the conclusions of his inquiry into Caroline Spelman's use of parliamentary allowances to pay a nanny - cum - secretary for two years during the late 1990s when she was first elected tparliamentary allowances to pay a nanny - cum - secretary for two years during the late 1990s when she was first elected to Parliament.

He also served on the Environmental Audit Select Committee until the cabinet reshuffle of May 2006 when he was appointed as the Parliamentary Private Secretary to the then Minister of State for Schools Jim Knight.

A Ranking Member of the Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee, Inusah Fuseini has downplayed the possibility of the Right to Information (RTI) bill being passed before Friday when Parliament rises for recess.

Instead, it is proposed that the parliamentary committee (which includes 6 «backbenchers», 6 government representatives and the parliamentary party officers but, confusingly, is also the name currently given to the shadow cabinet when in opposition) be established whether in opposition or in government.

Public confidence is likely to be tested again in this parliament — not least when the Standards Committee considers the findings of the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards on allegations about Alistair Carmichael MP leaking a government memo during the election campaign.

Former Vice Chairperson on Parliament's Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee, George Loh, has accused the Majority Leader of Parliament, Osei Kyei Mensah - Bonsu, of obstructing the passage of the Right to Information Bill (RTI) when the National Democratic Congress (NDC) was in power.

Chairman of the Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee, Ben Abdallah Banda said, «When we met, the committee came to the agreement that given the interest that the public has in the bill, we can not take it under the certificate of urgency, and therefore the committee recommended to take it through the normal legislative procesCommittee, Ben Abdallah Banda said, «When we met, the committee came to the agreement that given the interest that the public has in the bill, we can not take it under the certificate of urgency, and therefore the committee recommended to take it through the normal legislative procescommittee came to the agreement that given the interest that the public has in the bill, we can not take it under the certificate of urgency, and therefore the committee recommended to take it through the normal legislative procescommittee recommended to take it through the normal legislative process.»

Collier also alluded to regulatory action being taken against more than one exam board in relation to the increase when she addressed the parliamentary education committee on Tuesday, but would not say more.

The education secretary will take questions from MPs when he appears in front of the parliamentary education committee next week.

Spielman is due to face questions about unregistered schools from MPs when she appears in front of the parliamentary education committee this morning.

They could do with changing the culture in the Department itself, of a) wasting money on pet projects like Free Schools that don't materialise or need vast debts written off, b) failing to assess risks of funding reforms and provide enough funding for pupil number increases and cost pressures (NAO report) and c) inability to reconcile accounts for academies and LA schools even when challenged formally by Parliamentary Committees.

when he gave evidence before a Parliamentary committee a few weeks back.

Bob Ward says I uttered a «a number of inaccurate and misleading statements» when I appeared before a UK parliamentary committee in January 2014.

Hi Ben, what are your views with regards to the reply given to the Parliamentary committee by Phil Jones when asked about not sharing the data?

When a parliamentary task force on First Nations Self - Government was created in 1982 — the Special Committee of the House of Commons on Indian Self - Government — the AFN was invited to have a non-voting ex-officio member work with the MPs on the cCommittee of the House of Commons on Indian Self - Government — the AFN was invited to have a non-voting ex-officio member work with the MPs on the committeecommittee.

The committee, set up last April to examine concerns over the perceived growth of super-injunctions, warned the media to be careful when relying on Parliamentary privilege, saying that media stories that did not simply summarise or reprint Hansard «may well not» attract qualified privilege.

The situation was reinforced recently when we were notified that Parliamentary Vote Office will no longer produce hard copy of the Public Bill and General Committee Proceedings in official bound volumes.

When questioned over LIBOR by another Parliamentary Select Committee last October, Green told MPs: «We don't go after the people.

But another key date was July 29, 2013, when McLachlin met with the parliamentary committee putting together a short list of potential nominees to fill one of the three slots reserved for justices from Quebec.

In my next career, when I was doing parliamentary relations for various First Nations organizations, the Senate refurbished its committee rooms so that there were ear phone outlets at all the tables.

Sandy Parakilas, who worked in data protection for Facebook in 2011 and 2012, told a U.K. parliamentary committee Wednesday that the company was vigilant about its network security but lax when it came to protecting users» data.

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.

The Committee requests the State party, in accordance with the provisions of article 9, paragraph 1, of the Convention, to transmit the report of the Joint Parliamentary Committee's inquiry to the Committee when it is tabled.