Sentences with phrase «which scrutinises»

She added that a bill is being brought forward on data protection that will give tougher powers to the Information Commissioner's Office - which scrutinises the use of the public's private data for political purposes - to ensure organisations comply.

The Joint Committee on Human Rights, which scrutinises government Bills for human rights compatibility, highlighted the Armed Forces (Service Complaints and Financial Assistance) Bill, the Modern Slavery Bill, and the Serious Crime Bill as «likely to raise particularly significant human rights issues».

The Public Accounts Committee, which scrutinises the value of public spending, said there were early signs that pupil premium funding was making a positive difference.

Rifkind, now chair of the intelligence committee which scrutinises the work of the security services, understood the ins and outs of what was likely far better than many.

She added that a bill is being brought forward on data protection that will give tougher powers to the Information Commissioner's Office - which scrutinises the use of the public's private data for political purposes - to ensure organisations comply.

The Kenya National Commission on Human Rights, which scrutinises government institutions, accused police of using «unlawful and unacceptable» levels of force.

It is also ending the requirement, which it says is «bureaucratic», for local authorities to establish admissions forums - local bodies which scrutinise admissions policies and practices.

There was previously a Science and Technology Committee which was wound - up in 2007 and replaced by the Innovation, Universities, Science and Skills Committee, which scrutinised both the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS) and science.

Not exact matches

The index, which the BOJ scrutinises in gauging the broad price trend, showed annual consumer inflation slowed to 1.1 % in January from 1.3 % in December.

It increases the chance of higher fiscal spending but it will also reinforce the backlash against globalisation and associated forces of which migration policy and trade are obviously likely to be heavily scrutinised.

Mr Woolford and his team have been closely scrutinising the latest wine industry sales data for the main markets in which Treasury operates and concluded that the company's Asian performance «could surprise on the upside» with industry - wide Australian red wine volumes to China up 57 per cent in May.

The claims and cross claims will make for a riveting court case and no doubt pique investor's interests as the success of a2 — and the surge in its share price from 55 cents to almost $ 2 in the past year — rests largely on its health claims, which will be scrutinised in open court.

Over a decade ago, Southcorp, which at that stage owned the prized Australian wine brand of Penfolds and was a separate ASX - listed entity, had a close look at the very asset that Treasury boss Mike Clarke has been scrutinising.

To ramp up the levels of provitamin A, Drake and her colleagues scrutinised the original golden rice plants, which contained two extra genes.

The director of 12 Years A Slave praised the joint committee on human rights, which took the unusual step today of giving up on scrutinising the modern slavery bill and simply presented its own version instead.

«As other hon. Members have said, it is outrageous that we have been granted one day in which to debate and scrutinise a Bill of such significance.

It does not consider a new - build parliament when it must scrutinise all possible options — and it is based on figures which were proposed in 2014.

One of the issues which is increasingly being talked about within the UK Parliament is the extent to which Parliament will get a chance to scrutinise the ongoing negotiations of the UK with the EU on the terms of the Brexit agreements — a process likely to take several years.

The so called «repeal» bill being scrutinised in parliament for the first time will itself be repealed at certain key points against her will, merely the beginning of a stormy parliamentary journey over which she has limited control.

You don't have a counter example, you have anecdotal evidence none of which has been scrutinised or reviewed.

... One insider said the donations are likely to be scrutinised by the influential Treasury Select Committee of MPs, which will grill new committee members over the next few weeks.»

So, a report by the committee published on Tuesday which looks at the finances of the royal household should be scrutinised by those who are after the facts.

They announced Labour's support for the «McKay option» - a grand committee of 80 - odd MPs which would scrutinise and amend the detail of all bills that only apply to England, or to England and Wales.

Without descending into the detail of policy appraisal or the delivery of operational targets — both things that my environmental audit committee will scrutinise — the best snapshot of effort will come from the big policy packages that define the government's agenda, and which have the greatest environmental impact.

«We have transformed the way the department manages its finances, so spending is attached to tangible results on the ground, which are rigorously scrutinised by the new independent aid watchdog,» international development secretary Andrew Mitchell said.

The Pope is either making an official State visit, in which case the Vatican and the Holy See should be scrutinised on their damaging doctrines, or he is making a private, pastoral visit to proselytise.

An Appropriation Bill is not sent to a select committee, a lengthy process undergone by most bills during which they are scrutinised in detail by the committee, which also receives public submissions relating to the bill.

«If the UK Budget is to be moved to the autumn, then the Scottish Government may feel pressure to ensure their draft Scottish Budget is prepared after the UK fiscal event, as was the case in 2015 and 2016 and potentially resulting in inadequate time with which to scrutinise the Scottish budget.

Marking the first anniversary of the Government's moratorium from new domestic regulation for micro businesses, the FSB has published a report which argues that the Regulatory Policy Committee (RPC) needs more powers to scrutinise performance, advocate regulatory reform and act as an ombudsman.

«It is outrageous that we have been granted one day in which to debate and scrutinise a bill of such significance,» Green MP Caroline Lucas said.

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.

In a separate statement, Abbott said: «It is of critical importance that we are able to scrutinise the conditions in which people are held, especially given the allegations of appalling treatment, abuse, and a lack of legal advice and medical support in this centre.

As someone who spent time scrutinising the Bill at committee and report stage, I can still see a number of areas that need serious improvement which I hope the Lords will be able to achieve.

These strange little groups, which are supposed to scrutinise prisons, use a baffling recruitment process to recruit an army of wealthy retired people to monitor prisons full of people whose lives they will never be able to understand.

Now the Ministry of Defence is expected to unveil proposals for a new independent watchdog which will scrutinise defence procurement in order to generate the savings needed by the Treasury.

It follows yesterday's curtailed debate on the coroners and justice bill, in which just two of the nine groups of amendments were scrutinised by MPs.

I was on the Metropolitan Police's Domestic Extremist database for more than ten years, when I was both an elected representative of the people of London and on the Metropolitan Police Authority which exists to scrutinise them.

But the reform which would have the biggest impact on the ability of local authorities to scrutinise themselves would be a change to the voting system.

At the evidence sessions of the committee which has just finished scrutinising the legislation Labour MPs tore into the Catholic Bishops as if they were prosecutors at a war crimes trial.

Baroness Jan Royall, Labour's leader in the Lords, said: «I am very proud to lead an excellent team which will scrutinise and vigorously oppose legislation where it harms the interests of the people of our country, and support Ed Miliband as he builds trust in our party so that we can defeat this unfair, incompetent and out of touch government at the next election.»

His comments came after a week in which culture secretary Ben Bradshaw said he believed the BBC should be scrutinised by the National Audit Office, like government departments.

It's a poorly - scrutinised treaty which the Commission, nevertheless, thinks is «an opportunity to initiate a full conversation with the United States and France on the conditions that could allow the allied nuclear weapon states to consider closer coordination of their continuous patrolling posture».

It will also cause a headache for the Chancellor ahead of the Comprehensive Spending Review slated for this autumn, which the OBR will be charged with scrutinising.

Mrs Beckett and Sir Menzies both found their claims scrutinised in the Daily Telegraph and sought to defend them on the programme, in which Tory frontbencher Theresa May also appeared.

Labour has submitted a list of candidates for the Lords which has been scrutinised for the past few months.

Whatever might be the deficiencies of the process by which Parliament scrutinises primary legislation, it is undeniable that the extent and depth of the scrutiny that such legislation attracts vastly outstrips the scrutiny that secondary legislation receives.

BHA Faith Schools Campaigner Richy Thompson commented, «It is vitally important that Free School proposals can be properly scrutinised by the public, and this is extremely difficult when we don't know who they are until they are backed by the Government to open — by which point, it is often too late to stop them.

The Committee concludes that the Strathclyde Review does not provide a «sufficient basis for changing how Parliament holds the Executive to account»; that «both Houses of Parliament... need to play an active role in considering how powers should be delegated appropriately in primary legislation, how those powers should be exercised by Government and the way in which both Houses scrutinise and approve delegated legislation»; and that «[t] he use and scrutiny of delegated legislation is at the heart of the delicate balance of power between Parliament and the Executive».

But doubts about the credibility of the results ought to be sorted out in the SC, which was empowered to scrutinise the issues being raised by Raila & Co..»

«I only believed that after I had very carefully scrutinised the data on which our graphs are based.»