Sentences with phrase «work of parliamentary committees»

Now Mulley has added access to the work of parliamentary committees.

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Andrew Tyrie, chair of the British parliamentary committee investigating the LIBOR, asked Paul Tucker, the deputy governor of the Bank of England, whether he was confident that it was now working normally.

«The Committee is of the opinion that the PBO works first for parliamentarians and parliamentary committees,» the committee explained, «and it is they who ultimately control the publication of the work done at their requesCommittee is of the opinion that the PBO works first for parliamentarians and parliamentary committees,» the committee explained, «and it is they who ultimately control the publication of the work done at their requescommittee explained, «and it is they who ultimately control the publication of the work done at their request.»

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.

Parliamentary committees (particularly the Public Accounts Committee) and the public audit offices should be pressing for stepped overlapping series (that is, the numbers worked out in the old way and the new way) to be provided every time the definition and categorization of administration costs changes.

There is almost no discussion of Parliamentary debates or of significant select committee reports, and very little of academic / policy work that doesn't get mainstream media coverage.

Even those anoraks who apparently sit glued to the Parliamentary Channel will find scarce coverage of the work of select committees and, in a dozen years as a chairman of legislative committees, I can think of no single occasion upon which a television camera has been present.

«Speaking in the chamber is only one of the ways members hold the government to account and this research ignores members» contributions including amending legislation, asking the government written questions and serving on select committees — more than 320 members served on committees in the last session of parliament — as well as parliamentary work away from the chamber.

All the issues about entry on to the premises of Parliament, the searching of parliamentary offices and constituency correspondence and what is, or should be, available to the court can be considered by the Speaker's Committee, which the House agreed should start its work after the criminal proceedings had come to a conclusion.

There must be a solution which protects parliamentary privilege and the continuing integrity of the standards committee's work whilst having external regulation of this sort of complaint.

Current Conservative officeholders who are members of the group include the Work and Pensions Secretary, Iain Duncan Smith; David Cameron's PPS, Desmond Swayne; Nick Clegg's Parliamentary Under - Secretary, Mark Harper; the Minister of State for Transport, Theresa Villiers; a Parliamentary Under - Secretary of State at the Ministry of Justice, Jonathan Djanogly; three government whips, Angela Watkinson, Mark Francois and Greg Hands; the Chairman of the Procedure Committee, Greg Knight; and the Chairman of the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee, John Whittingdale, who was Mrs Thatcher's Political Secretary in the late 1980s.

Government could use parliamentary committees to look at proposals and identify problems in advance — pre-legislative scrutiny in practice doesn't match its current remit, and there is a need to bring back «in - house» a lot of work that was traditionally done by civil servants but has been outsourced, with an unhealthy relationship between the private sector and consultants.

Having submitted both written and oral evidence to the House of Lords Select Committee on Religious Offences and the All Party Parliamentary Group on Islamophobia, Chris also sits as an independent expert on the Cross-Government Working Group on Anti-Muslim Hatred based in the Department for Communities & Local Government.

Whilst calling on the President to remain focused on delivering on his mandate to the people of Ghana, the Cadres appealed to the National Executive Committee to work hard to resolve all the differences among some of the Parliamentary candidates at the just ended NDC primaries and urged them to work hard to ensure the party's victory in the 2016 general election.

Mr Duncan Smith and members of his parliamentary team are understood to have approached at least three Tory MPs on the cross-party committee to ask them to ensure that Robert Devereux, Permanent Secretary at the Department for Work and Pensions, was singled out for censure.

Lack of experience will not be an issue for Heath; there are few parliamentary committees or departments he hasn't worked on.

He said Labour MP Tony Wright, chair of the public administration committee, would work with a cross-party Parliamentary commission to discuss constitutional reform.

«I will appeal to the joint committees on Constitutional, Legal, and Parliamentary affairs who have already done a great deal of work during the recess on the Right to Information Bill 2018 to make a report as quickly as possible in order for us to deliberate thereon,» Prof. Ocquaye said.

The Speaker of Parliament Prof. Aaron Mike Oquaye however agreed that the communications committee joins the constitutional, legal and parliamentary affairs committee but insisted that much of the work would rest on the constitutional, legal and parliamentary affairs committee.

While on recess, the joint committees on Communication and Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs have been working on the over decade old bill which has been moving in and out of parliament over the years.

The Wright Committee also wrote of the need to incentivise and increase the commitment of select committee members, and highlighted the view that it is «crucial to create a parliamentary career path focussed on select committee worCommittee also wrote of the need to incentivise and increase the commitment of select committee members, and highlighted the view that it is «crucial to create a parliamentary career path focussed on select committee worcommittee members, and highlighted the view that it is «crucial to create a parliamentary career path focussed on select committee worcommittee work».

An expenses - weary, austerity - struck public might not like the idea of any MPs getting any more pay in any circumstances but a premium for select committee work may be one of the best possible ways of encouraging MPs to see scrutiny of government rather than membership of government as a worthy parliamentary career path.

For example, with regard to attendance and turnover rates, the size of the payroll vote impacts negatively upon the level of electoral competition for chair positions and membership, and select committee work is often incompatible with other parliamentary duties such as constituency case work, scrutiny of legislation and contributing to debates.

The Minister for Water Resources and Sanitation, together with the management of the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL), will later today [Tuesday], face the Parliamentary Select Committee on Works and Housing over the ongoing water rationing programme.

In its response to the parliamentary education committee's recent inquiry into the work of academy trusts, the DfE said the move to release trust performance measures in this manner was made «based on feedback from users and to accommodate new performance measures».

Dr. Carter acted as an expert witness on climate change before the U.S. Senate Committee of Environment & Public Works, the Australian and New Zealand parliamentary Select Committees into emissions trading, and in a meeting in parliament house, Stockholm, Sweden.

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.

If everything works out as per the recommendation of the parliamentary committee, you might be able to pay a one - time premium for third - party insurance for your new automobile (s).

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.