How To Use Select committee In A Sentence
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So, while not disavowing the memo should your Democratic staff on the select committee be taking that as a straightforward admonition?
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The Government still have not come clean about the information revealed in a Select Committee appendix.
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In a highly critical report, the health select committee said hospitals were resorting to short-term "salami slicing" as they try to find £20 billion in efficiency savings by 2014/15.
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Every party on the select committee, bar the Labour Party, opposed the bill.
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And what does the chairman of the august Commons select committee on public administration do about all this?
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The day after his address, a report of the select committee recommending a detailed survey of a 119 mile expansion westward from Porus to Montego Bay and north-eastward from Bog Walk to Port Antonio was presented before the council.
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Our forward planning is designed to enable us to take stock precisely as the Select Committee advocated.
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It is the select committee that looks at an issue, rather than at the politics of an issue.
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The Select Committee has taken an interest and has recognised that we have fully funded the programme that we set out.
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I commend this bill, as reported back from the select committee, to the House.
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I enjoyed being on a select committee.
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A decent gig on a highprofile select committee with a tasty inquiry can get you quality airtime.
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He goofed, he got it wrong, and again, the select committee has had to fix up his mistake.
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We need time to examine fully the findings of the Select Committee and to give our response.
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A good select committee chairman has more influence than a junior minister.
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The two-year inquiry by the Commons trade and industry select committee found civil servants kept vital information from ministers.
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The business select committee has urged the government to replace its newly appointed pubs code adjudicator, claiming that he has a conflict of interest.
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I speak on behalf of my colleague who sits on the select committee that dealt with this bill.
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Here she was, so recently subjected to tart commentary in a select committee, but willing to demonstrate exactly the kind of fiscal responsibility that this country needs right now.
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These issues were discussed in some detail by the Select Committee on the Coal Industry.
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I applaud the work that has been done by the select committee, and I commend this work, as it is shaped, to the House.
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I sat at home and watched him give evidence to the foreign affairs select committee on an airless summer's day in July 2003.
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She said that Mr Heseltine had told the industry select committee that he would consider legislation to change the market.
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We support the Select Committee's recommendation that air quality be continuously monitored around sites and the data made publicly available.
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The Treasury Select Committee interviewed bankers and the Prime Minister last week about the banking collapse.
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When budgets are drawn up they should be submitted to the relevant select committee for approval.
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Curiously, there does not seem to be any footage of the select committee subjecting Alastair Campbell to equivalent treatment.
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West Vancouver council has struck a select committee to review and make recommendations for streamlining the process of development in the district.
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As a result of those select committee considerations, reports are prepared that are tabled in the House.
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The select committee should also look at those processes to make sure they are compatible with existing law.
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MPs on the business select committee who were having their first opportunity to question the business secretary were taken aback at the news.
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The revelation was discussed at closed sessions of the Senate select committee on intelligence, chaired by Democrat David Boren.
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Poor attendance in the Chamber had been criticised, but the televised coverage of select committees had been welcomed.
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For the agricultural writer Arthur Young, yeomen were only freeholders who were not gentry, and the same definition was used by witnesses before the 1833 Select Committee on Agriculture.
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I intend to speak to a proposed motion to amend the resolution to commit the bill to select committee.
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Over half the backbenchers are regularly involved with select committee activity.
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So New Zealand First will support this bill's referral to the select committee.
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And nothing the Labour dominated select committee might decide will alter that conviction.
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The defence select committee said it would hear evidence on Lariam, also known as mefloquine.
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Not only have they revolted against the attempts by the whips to nobble select committees, they're starting to talk out of turn in Westminster.
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We recommend that the Intelligence and Security Committee be reconstituted as a select committee of the House of Commons.
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We believe it is vital that this bill be referred to a select committee.
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I commit the bill to the select committee for consideration.
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New legal powers to force witnesses to give evidence to select committees under oath.
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Changes to the proposals may be considered after the arguments have been fully canvassed by the select committee.
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Yet here we are, hours later, arguing footling amendments, ridiculously trivial rubbish, that the so-called famous chairman of the select committee, all on his own behalf, changes the number, and all the rest of it.
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He speaks with especial bitterness about the integrity of select committees and their chairmen!
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The officials were very explicit at the select committee.
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It had undergone detailed and lengthy examination by a Select Committee of this House.
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It is nice that the Minister finished up with a big thank you to the select committee after that slanging he gave us during his speech.
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When the evidence came to the select committee, he found that it did not sustain his fond beliefs.
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The select committee has been raising that issue pretty constantly now for the last 2, 3, or 4 years - in fact, ever since the Labour-Progressive Government came to power, funnily.
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Other oversight bodies would include Select Committees and audit agencies.
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I have never heard of a judicial officer saying to a select committee that they want more jobs, better conditions, better pay, and all those things that flow from it.
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The Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, dubbed the super-committee, was formed as part of the last-minute compromise this summer to raise the legislative borrowing limit and avoid default.
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MPs had an election last week for a new chairman or woman of the health select committee.
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Some of the important matters that the hon. Gentleman raises have been the concern of several Select Committees.
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The Select Committee drew attention to the under-reporting of accidents in the oil industry.
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The revelation was discussed at closed sessions of the Senate select committee on intelligence, chaired by Democrat David Boren.
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The Select Committee that examined the Bill took a very close interest in and sought several undertakings about groundwater.
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And what does the chairman of the august Commons select committee on public administration do about all this?
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When budgets are drawn up they should be submitted to the relevant select committee for approval.
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No "immediate" plans, chorused James and Rupert when the select committee asked.
Murdoch could let the News of the World rise again
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It has been widely reported that the select committee report calls for a greater liberalisation of Britain's drug law, and that the old fuddy-duddies in the government won't go for it.
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NHS-funded public health observatories in London, the north-west and the north-east – which are not scheduled to close – are nevertheless also at risk, says the Commons health select committee.
David Cameron's pledge to protect NHS clouded by emerging reality of cuts
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Although we have some concerns with the bill as proposed, our reason for supporting it is the opportunity to iron out its wrinkles in the select committee process.
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At the same time, a Catalan MP has told the Welsh Affairs Select Committee how similar legislation in Catalonia has had no negative effects on business there.
The week that was
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A total of 93 select committee meetings were televised.
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The revelation was discussed at closed sessions of the Senate select committee on intelligence, chaired by Democrat David Boren.
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I recalled Speaker Weatherill's advice to the Select Committee on Members 'Interests that 'a Member must be vigilant that his actions do not tend to bring the House into disrepute' and, in particular, that Members who hold financial consultancies must not use their position improperly.
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The London 2012 Olympics also remains "another critical area of vulnerability", according to the report from the Commons home affairs select committee published today.
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The general view of the select committee was that the 2002 election ran a lot more smoothly.
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It became evident in the select committee some weeks ago that there was an enormous risk that North Shore City would be denied the fruits of the results of the High Court decision.
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MPs on the business select committee who were having their first opportunity to question the business secretary were taken aback at the news.
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Those leading projects would be identified and expected to give evidence to select committees.
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Spending on foreign jaunts soared by a fifth last year as select committee members flew on 50 fact-finding visits.
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The select committee has redrafted the bill extensively, and the bill is better for it.
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Select committees were set up by the House with full powers of investigation.
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The Big Four clearers have also come under fire from the Treasury select committee over excessive profits being made on the accounts held by Small & Medium Sized Enterprises.
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Here the select committee is categorical: the government has failed.
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David Willetts told the Commons home affairs select committee he had had three meetings with the immigration minister, Damian Green, to discuss differences in the detail of reforms to the student immigration system, which he described as an "excellent British export industry", worth more than £4bn a year.
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Since then he has been an active backbencher, chairing the influential Treasury and Civil Service select committee.
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A Treasury Select Committee Report suggests as much as 60% of endowment policies may have been mis-sold.
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I happily commit this bill to the select committee.
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In 1986 the Prime Minister listed 150 select committee policy recommendations accepted by the government that year.
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Select committees are not just talking shops.
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It is rare for anyone to refuse to appear at a select committee inquiry.
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Keith Vaz, chairman of the Commons home affairs select committee, also said this would "humanise" officers and improve relations with the public.
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He told a select committee that he anticipates "huge fusses" over cutbacks: "There'll be all hell let loose.
BBC delivers £2 to economy for every pound of licence fee, says Deloitte report
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In 1838 he had made an important statement of evidence before the select committee on workmen's combinations.
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Violence is being fuelled by the widespread availability of legal highs, according to a report published by the Commons justice select committee.
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And what does the chairman of the august Commons select committee on public administration do about all this?
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I believe that the Government has taken excessive licence from the views of the select committee.
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I enjoyed being on a select committee.
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The raid, which failed, was followed by a lengthy and inconclusive inquiry by a select committee of the Commons, at which Rhodes acted with unconcealed contempt and arrogance.
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When budgets are drawn up they should be submitted to the relevant select committee for approval.
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I thank the select committee for its consideration of the bill, and I commend the committee's report to the House.
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If the motion is to refer the bill to a select committee, then I think that is unexceptionable.
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It set up a House of Lords Select Committee in 1881 to examine the extent of juvenile prostitution.
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Select committees are not just talking shops.
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Great, and while the DOJ is replowing old ground, let's also readdress the issue of when Speaker Pelosi and the Select Committee on Intelligence were briefed on the interrogation methods.
Republican calls Holder decision 'bulls**t'
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That takes us back to many arguments that were already canvassed during the early select committee process on the previous bill, which I naively thought had been resolved.
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The government argued that select committees could examine the actions of civil servants but not their conduct.
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She is a member of the Commons Select Committee on education.
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The standing committees are an empty formality, and the cross-party select committees have no power.
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MPs had an election last week for a new chairman or woman of the health select committee.
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The London 2012 Olympics also remains "another critical area of vulnerability", according to the report from the Commons home affairs select committee published today.
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On top of this, she is one of only a small handful of MPs to be both a frontbencher and a select committee member.
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It is rare for anyone to refuse to appear at a select committee inquiry.
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Andrew Tyrie, chairman of the select committee, argued that the creation of the FCA was an opportunity to improve on the FSA's approach to regulating consumers following the debacles surrounding mis-selling of payment protection insurance and endowment policies.
FSA spin-off to protect consumers could be a 'poor relation', warn MPs
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New legal powers to force witnesses to give evidence to select committees under oath.
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I do not believe, and I do not think anyone on the select committee believed, that 15 cumecs of water would cause it to lose its ability to generate electricity for the rest of New Zealand.
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It may authorize the chairman, or recommend that the chairman of the Select Committee should write to the responsible minister.
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As a result of that process, the bill was quite monstered at the select committee stage.
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At the select committee a proposition was put to the submitters, which were all the territorial local authorities in the Auckland region - all eight of them.
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This is a classic example of legislation going to a select committee, people then discovering they want to add something to it - this so-called omnibus bill - and the bill coming back twice as big as it was before it went to the committee.
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In line with a recent select committee report, he backs more reconciliation and greater court powers against intransigent parents.
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Spending on foreign jaunts soared by a fifth last year as select committee members flew on 50 fact-finding visits.
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This approach to community policing and its focus on dealing with low level crime is important and over the last 40 years the direction of the police, particularly in London has oscillated between the ‘Bobby on the beat’ and dealing with the big, ’important’ crimes that the Police Federation and John Denham Chair of the Home Office Select Committee seem to want them to go back to pursuing.
The trouble with targets | Jo Christie-Smith
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In 1844 Phillips gave evidence before the select committee on the tobacco trade.
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We have no hope of getting anything sensible done when protesters are forcibly corralled and coshed and select committees spend their time and expertise on reports only to find themselves ignored.
MPs condemn coalition's bonfire of the quangos as botched
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Select committees have the power to subpoena witnesses.
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The right step is for the Select Committee on Catering to consider the proposals, as it will do shortly.
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The minister was warned by fund manager Tim Bush, who sits on the urgent issues task force at the FRC, that the body has "misrepresented" the role of auditors in a recent submission to the Treasury select committee by saying auditors did not have any role to pay in ensuring financial stability.
RBS director blames high bankers' bonuses on public disclosure
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The local sheikh, who has not been named, has been enlisted by the Allies to select committee members.
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I am sure that not many of those on the Labour side of the select committee will go through the Ayes lobby and vote for the bill to continue.
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Those leading projects would be identified and expected to give evidence to select committees.
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MPs on the business select committee who were having their first opportunity to question the business secretary were taken aback at the news.
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New York Times reports that the "" dustup "over President-elect Barack Obama's selection of Leon Panetta" to lead the CIA appeared to cool Wednesday "after Senator Dianne Feinstein, incoming chairwoman of the Select Committee on Intelligence," dropped her criticism, "saying,
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When budgets are drawn up they should be submitted to the relevant select committee for approval.
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We take the view that it is appropriate that it go before a select committee so that consideration can be given to dealing with the excrescences in the drafting, and to aiding the commission to do what is, clearly, critical work.
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Select committees have the power to subpoena witnesses.
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The select committee also criticised his failure to meet researchers from the Commission for Racial Equality over a period of four months.
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It further concerns me that the select committee also states there are concerns about the inaccuracy of the translation, and that macrons have been used in an inconsistent manner.
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His remarks follow a highly critical report from the Commons Health Select Committee which said hospitals were resorting to short-term "salami slicing" as they try to find £20 billion in efficiency savings by 2014/15.
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Work approved by the select committee will finally be taken to a general convocation for a stamp of approval.
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A good select committee chairman has more influence than a junior minister.
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Last December it was slated in a highly critical report released by the powerful Commons Treasury Select Committee.
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Because of that, there was such a mess for the select committee to sort out that we were left with this document full of changes.
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It may authorize the chairman, or recommend that the chairman of the Select Committee should write to the responsible minister.
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The select committee process is being unnecessarily concertinaed.
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The Commons home affairs select committee last year produced a scathing report on agencies' failings.
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In 1988-89, the second report of the Environment Select Committee was on toxic and hazardous waste.
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Tom Watson asked James Murdoch, who is facing the Commons Select Committee for the second time, whether he was familiar with the mafia term 'omerta' - commonly defined as a "code of silence".
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To those politically committed souls already aware that an all-party group is a different creature from a select committee, the groups were regarded as essentially benign.
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It may authorize the chairman, or recommend that the chairman of the Select Committee should write to the responsible minister.
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The House could go into Committee, and the bill could be recommitted by motion back to a select committee.
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This was confirmed by a House Select Committee on Assassinations report in 1979 and recently by a US Department of Justice investigation.
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The revelation was discussed at closed sessions of the Senate select committee on intelligence, chaired by Democrat David Boren.
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It follows that we see no case for placing it on the semi-statutory footing proposed by the select committee.
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Spending on foreign jaunts soared by a fifth last year as select committee members flew on 50 fact-finding visits.
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However, earlier this month professional bodies condemned the revamp and on Tuesday the Health Select Committee published a highly critical report which said hospitals were resorting to short-term "salami slicing" as they try to find £20 billion in efficiency savings by 2014/15.
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I also pay tribute to the select committee secretariat for their work.
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In a sign of nervousness in Downing Street, which fears that the public backlash is jeopardising Cameron's work in persuading the public that the NHS is safe in Tory hands, Lansley will accept some of the broad principles in the health select committee report.
Andrew Lansley scrambles to save coalition's NHS reforms
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Through the select committee process we changed what had been a dog of a bill into a much-improved bill.
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The National Opposition will be supporting this bill to the select committee, because it covers some important issues.
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But the select committees do not themselves examine legislation: this remains the province of the transient and unspecialized standing committees.
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This should appease the select committee, where all but one MP represent constituencies outside the capital.
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Bob Diamond being questioned by the cross-party Treasury select committee during its hearing into competition and choice in British banking.
Bob Diamond loses his shine as MPs quiz him over banking and bonuses
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A decent gig on a highprofile select committee with a tasty inquiry can get you quality airtime.
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I will not ask the Minister about them now, because I know the time will come during the select committee stage and the Committee of the whole House.
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At the select committee a proposition was put to the submitters, which were all the territorial local authorities in the Auckland region - all eight of them.
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I am far from convinced that the Supplementary Order Paper does that, but we should wait until it is recommitted to the select committee so that we can further examine it.
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Goss, a CIA Operations Officer through most of the 1960s, then a congressman from Florida who became head of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, arrived at Headquarters with the clear intention to houseclean, and from the beginning he was seen more as a crusader and occupier than former colleague.
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Since then he has been an active backbencher, chairing the influential Treasury and Civil Service select committee.
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Eventually this pressure led in 1935 to a Parliamentary Select Committee enquiry into their case, conducted adversarially between two different systems of philosophy and treatment.
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There was no opportunity for submissions or proper consideration by a select committee.
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He had come down and explained to the select committee that New Zealand was on the verge of developing a massive export market in manuka and kanuka products.
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As I have said, National supports this bill's referral to a select committee.
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He learns he is to give evidence to the foreign affairs select committee, which would be televised.
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The Commons foreign affairs select committee said the 16% budget cut imposed on the service as part of the government's comprehensive spending review had "long-term ramifications" for the 79-year-old broadcaster and called for its future funding to be ringfenced.
BBC World Service cuts must be reversed, say MPs
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Poor attendance in the Chamber had been criticised, but the televised coverage of select committees had been welcomed.
