Sentences with phrase «year in parliament»

His office provided this list of the 274 permanent remote communities in Western Australia, as tabled last year in Parliament: http://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/publications/tabledpapers.nsf/displaypaper/3912310ca46fe4aa73894bf748257d9c000c3c9c/$file/tp-2310.pdf.

«The businesses that will be under the most pressure, paying a significantly higher minimum wage - 6 % higher on average every year in this parliament - aren't the same businesses as a whole who will get the benefit from the tax reductions.»

He got his first cabinet job in just his fourth year in parliament when he was appointed culture secretary in 2014, and was appointed business secretary after the 2015 election.

Starmer's first year in parliament, he adds, has left him feeling both «privileged» at the opportunity to help his constituents and «deeply frustrated» at his inability to do so effectively from the opposition benches.

Will also managed the public affairs team at the Commission for Racial Equality and worked for 5 years in Parliament as a researcher.

Throughout her seven years in parliament, Wollaston has not been afraid to speak against her party on issues from the EU through to Syria.

During his 39 years in Parliament he has been suspended from the House of Commons for accusing the government of conducting a crooked deal to sell off coal mines (1995), calling John Gummer a «little squirt of a Minister» (1992), accusing George Osborne of snorting coke (2005), calling David Owen a «pompous sod» (1984), accusing the Deputy Speaker of bias towards the Conservatives (2006) and calling Jim Prior, then Secretary of State for Employment, the «Minister of Unemployment» (1980).

The 62 - year - old, who was EU trade commissioner following his 12 years in parliament and subsequently returned to government as Lord Mandelson, will become chancellor of Manchester Metropolitan university from April.

By the time the seventh (7th) Parliament of the 4th Republic ends in January 2021, Bagbin, who just celebrated his 60th birthday, would have done an exceptionally historic 28 years in Parliament.

The MP, Mr. Adakudugu, dressed in a heavy white smock with a party - branded muffler around his neck, said he deserved another 4 years in Parliament having shown maximum commitment towards the development of the constituency and the welfare of the constituents.

«Although in reality his record only consists of five years in parliament voting with David Cameron.

It says a lot about John Battle that, after 22 years in parliament, he's still prepared to describe his constituency as a «work in progress».

The former Dulwich and West Norwood MP, who stood down at the general election after 20 years in Parliament, earned widespread plaudits for the role she played in London's bid for the 2012 Olympics and her subsequent performance as Olympics minister.

Even his rival in the battle to be the so - called «unity candidate» to challenge Jeremy Corbyn's beleaguered leadership, Angela Eagle, has more name recognition after her 25 years in parliament, albeit you would be unlikely to hear her spoken of down at the metaphorical Dog and Duck.

For Willott, four general elections and 10 years in parliament is enough.

The tale was first reported by PoliticsHome, with Reed having made the stunning revelation in an article for The House magazine looking back on his 12 years in parliament.

Lamb was Farron's rival for the leadership in 2015 and has been a key campaigner on mental health and the NHS over the past two years in parliament, which has won him much acclaim from MPs across the house.

«The same Jeremy Corbyn who has been through the past year and indeed the past 30 years in Parliament.

At Goldsmiths, University of London, on 26 October 2012, a jubilee celebration was held to honour Abbott's 25 years in parliament, with a series of contributions by Linton Kwesi Johnson, Kadija Sesay, Tunday Akintan and others.

Crispin Blunt, the Tory MP for Reigate, hit back: «Damian Green, who I've been with for 20 years in parliament, is an outstanding parliamentarian.

She is of the same generation as Jeremy Corbyn, and in their early years in Parliament they were on all of the same sides.

He may pause to wonder why he has not held ministerial office during his 16 years in Parliament.

[23] His first five years in parliament were spent on the Conservative opposition benches.

Speaking during a Q&A session on the bill, which has just gone to the Lords, he said: «I've never known a bill, in my 14 years in parliament, that has gone to the House of Lords and come back exactly as it was when it left the House of Commons.»

A grammar school boy from Essex who went on to work in law, he spent his first five years in parliament representing Hornchurch, but had to apply for a series of other seats as it was being abolished, eventually winning Old Bexley and Sidcup.

Not exact matches

Canada Post's decision to phase out home mail delivery over the next five years reverberated through headlines Wednesday morning and spurred a lively debate in Parliament this afternoon.

There are facts every Canadian knows about Trudeau: he is the son of a famous prime minister, he was elected to Parliament in 2008, he beat the stuffing out of Sen. Patrick Brazeau in a boxing match last year and, yes, he has luxuriant hair.

They have also demanded a new vote on the budget for next year after the government approved the spending plan by not putting it though parliament, but holding the vote in an nearby chamber, with a high number of government supporters — something that the country's opposition deemed as «illegal.»

After returning to Serbia in late 2015 after 12 years in detention, Seselj led his party back into parliament last year as the strongest opposition force, and he now hopes for success in a presidential election due in April.

Poland's biggest political standoff in years began on Friday when opposition lawmakers objected to plans by the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party to curb media access to parliament, and blocked the plenary hall podium ahead of a budget vote.

Activists will march from Hyde Park Corner to Parliament Square on September 9 in protest against last year's Brexit vote.

Those rumours reached a boiling point in September when North Korea's parliament held a rare second meeting of the year.

LONDON — A rather cynical tradition has developed in recent years in which, in the final days and hours before MPs leave Parliament for their summer break, the government releases a deluge of embarrassing reports, statistics, and statements in an apparently deliberate attempt to bury them.

Sagawa headed the ministry division that submitted the documents before he was tapped as tax agency chief in July, an appointment critics saw as a reward for his efforts to diffuse the issue with his statements to parliament last year.

Xi began his second five - year term as party chief in October and at the end of the week will be formally appointed by parliament.

When Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize in 2010, China responded by squeezing Norway for years (Norway hosts the ceremony, and its parliament appoints the selection panel).

Perth Lord Mayor Lisa Scaffidi could face proceedings in the State Administrative Tribunal after a report tabled in parliament alleged that she failed to declare travel and gifts up to 45 times over seven years.

The idea for an ACCC investigation was hatched during media reform negotiations in parliament earlier this year, which resulted in a relaxation of ownership laws to allow the country's big players to boost their market share to better compete against online disruptors.

On November 27, 2008, Flaherty gave a fiscal update to parliament that took note of the economic storm clouds in the distance, but confidently suggested that the federal government's books would remain in the black in the year to come.

When the new Parliament started in 2010, the National Housing and Planning Advice Unit recommended that almost 300,000 new houses should be built every year until 2031, totaling almost 6 million houses.

It may seem auspicious, coming as it does while the federal government ponders approval of China National Offshore Oil Co.'s $ 15 - billion purchase of Calgary - based Nexen, but the new investment agreement with China that is soon to be ratified in Parliament was actually 18 years in the making.

Early this year, a National Sports Ethics Commission Bill was introduced in the Indian parliament in an attempt to order to improve the overall integrity of sporting culture.

If the Council's proposals are formalized in the summer and survive negotiations with the European Parliament, there will be a two - year waiting period before the new system takes effect.

«But in the end, is he really interested in five years of sitting in the very last row in the houses of parliament?»

Three years later Parliament enacted a law requiring newspapers that operated a printing press in Singapore to renew their government license annually.

Stephen joined Patrón after having served the last 5 years behind the bar at several top craft cocktail establishments in Dallas, Texas, most recently at Dallas» Parliament bar.

So they forced an election they couldn't possibly win by defeating the Conservatives on a confidence vote in Parliament — and gave Prime Minister Stephen Harper something he couldn't get without their invaluable help — a majority government with no chance of being defeated for four years.

It was two and a half years ago that Pierre Poilievre, parliamentary secretary to the Prime Minister at the time and apparently in a hurry to get to Parliament Hill, reportedly exited his car and pressed the entrance button without waiting for the RCMP to clear him.

This lecture was established forty years ago by the former member of parliament and commentator Bert Kelly in the name of his father, Stan.

In his September 2017 «state of the Union» address, Juncker declared that Europeans were not «naïve free traders» and presented a Commission proposal for an EU foreign investment screening procedure.21 The Commission's proposal is currently making its way through the European Parliament and might be adopted by the end of the year.