Sentences with phrase «with peers elected»

He said a 15 year timetable has been set out for the reform, with peers elected for 15 year terms introduced in three tranches, so there was no need to rush into decisions on Lords powers.

Not exact matches

While he may be a «world - class player» — in President - elect Donald Trump's words — the financial metrics of his time as Exxon's CEO reveal some less than stellar results compared with peers.

As a McDonald's franchisee and chairman of the National Leadership Council, a group of franchise - owners elected by our peers, representing more than 2,400 McDonald's franchisees in the U.S., I can say with firsthand knowledge that the article «Coffee leaves»em jumpy; McDonald's owners fret cost of new drinks» (Business, Dec. 3) does not represent the truth regarding franchisee alignment with the company and support for our combined beverage business.

The changes are focused on reassuring MPs that the newly elected peers will not become «ersatz MPs», competing with Commons MPs.

The government on Wednesday set out areas of agreement between it and the joint committee: a mainly elected chamber, elected members voted on a system of single transferable vote, staggered elections with one third coming up for renewal at a time, peers to serve 15 - year terms, current peers to leave in stages, a reduced number of peers, and powers to expel peers.

The peers say with opposition peers being more assertive there is confusion about the Lords» powers and «considerable uncertainty about its relationship with the elected House of Commons».

Conservative MP Sir Patrick Cormack has laid his own proposals which would see all members except bishops and archbishops created life peers, with no elected members.

A century after the People's Budget took on the hereditary peers, let us honour Lloyd George with a Great Reform Act, finally fully electing the Lords, alongside Commons reform, votes at 16, fixed election dates and, perhaps, full PR for local government, too.

April 2005: Labour launches its election manifesto, which proposes a review of the powers of the House of Lords, with the last hereditary peers removed and MPs given a free vote on whether to elect some peers.

These included funding for dinners for the panel of chairs, a group of MPs who help with Bercow's parliamentary duties, # 1,700 on a reception for retiring MPs, # 3,000 on an event for newly elected MPs, and # 2,000 on a «standing down» dinner for Dawn Primarolo, who served as deputy speaker and is now a peer.

Roland Watson, The Times» political editor, reports (#) that a group of Tory peers are ready to disrupt the Coalition's legislative programme if Cameron and Clegg press on with their plans for a largely elected Upper House:

The vast majority of hereditary peers have been kicked out and replaced with a group of Lords elected by and from among their own ranks.

With a moratorium on new life peers, 46 new directly elected «senators» would represent barely 6 % of the House, merely a quarter of the number appointed in this parliament and exactly half those there by accident of birth.

Speaking out against the bill the Earl of Caithness said axing hereditary peers would leave the Lords with an appointed system only and delay progress towards a democratically elected upper house.

«The Government agrees with Lord Strathclyde's conclusion that on statutory instruments, as with primary legislation, the will of the elected House should prevail,» she told peers in a statement this lunchtime.

The deputy prime minister published a plan last month to replace the Lords with a wholly — or 80 % — elected chamber of about 300 peers.

Under the Tory proposal to be put to Nick Clegg, the 92 hereditary peers would be replaced with elected peers.

Tony Blair, who expressed unease in early 2005 about a «hybrid» house with elected and appointed members, pledged in the Labour manifesto for that year's general election to remove the remaining hereditary peers and to «allow a free vote on the composition of the house».

The legislation is expected to propose cutting the number of lords from about 900 to 300, with at least 80 per cent of peers being elected.

Michelle Barton, Ph.D., was nominated and elected by her scientific peers in recognition for her contributions to understanding the function of the tumor suppressor, p53 in stem cells, particularly with respect to the discovery of TRIM24, an E3 - ligase and epigenetic regulator that is overexpressed in many cancers.

An equal number of students to adults on the school board are elected to represent their peers at every meeting, in every committee, and throughout every function of the school board with a full vote.

In this next installment of the Bienal, titled Affective Affinities, chief curator Gabriel Pérez - Barreiro has elected to distribute curatorial decision - making in a more horizontal manner, selecting seven artists from different backgrounds, generations and art practices to each conceive a group show in which their work dialogues with that of their peers.

The Eighth Circuit concluded that «Iowa's legitimate interest in selecting the most qualified judges encompasses an interest in having the views and expertise of Iowa's attorneys represented on the Commission to assist with this selection, [and that] the State's decision to allow members of the Iowa Bar the opportunity to elect seven of their peers to serve as the Commission's attorney members bears a rational relationship to this legitimate interest.»

PPGen groups all across the country engage their campus to organize, host events, educate their peers about sexual health, register voters, work with their elected officials, and support their local Planned Parenthood health centers.