Results 1-20 of 9,583 for "committee was" 01/01/2008..01/12/2008

Northern Ireland Assembly: Executive Committee Business: Consideration Stage (1 Dec 2008) See 2 other results from this debate

Michael McGimpsey: ...that Peter Robinson is talking through his hat. Given the importance of the issue, I find the attitude of some members of the Health Committee astonishing, given that, as has been indicated, the Committee was divided on the issue, and the DUP members on the Committee who opposed the proposals found themselves in a clear minority. There is a time to oppose and there is a time to learn, and...

Northern Ireland Assembly: Ministerial Statement: Independent Review of Economic Development Policy in Northern Ireland (1 Dec 2008)

Jennifer McCann: ...Cheann Comhairle. In my capacity as Deputy Chairperson of the Committee for Enterprise, Trade and Investment, I thank the Minister for her statement and for briefing the Committee this morning. The Committee was given the opportunity to comment on the draft terms of reference for the review, and members spent considerable time discussing them before responding. One of the Committee’s...

Scottish Parliament: Disabled Persons' Parking Places (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1 (26 Nov 2008) See 1 other result from this debate

David McLetchie: .... That would require legislation at United Kingdom level. It is fair to say that the minister's desire to promote a Scotland-first solution rather got in the way of reasoned judgment, and the committee was duly grateful to Jackie Baillie and her advisers for untying his legal knots and making it clear that the matter was indeed reserved. Having finally established that, I am inclined to...

Written Answers — Home Department: Identity Cards (26 Nov 2008)

Meg Hillier: The report of the Science and Technology Select Committee was published in July 2006 and the Government's response followed in October 2006. The Independent Scheme Assurance Panel carefully considered the findings of the committee and the need for ICT assurance and have taken on responsibility for high-level ICT assurance. As the Government's response to the Select Committee's report noted,...

Written Answers — Home Department: UK Border Agency: Complaints (26 Nov 2008)

Jacqui Smith: The budget for the Complaints Audit Committee was £107,883 in each of the last three years.

Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 (Amendment) Order 2008 (25 Nov 2008)

Viscount Bridgeman: ..."— that is, skunk. It continues: "In their view the balance of harms more closely equates to substances in Class B than Class C". I suggest that we can assume that the minority on that committee was as impressive in composition as was the committee overall. That is just one point that reinforces the Government's attitude to this matter. Before concluding, I take this opportunity to...

Northern Ireland Assembly: Private Members’ Business: Construction Industry (25 Nov 2008)

Sue Ramsey: ...some very worrying statistics, including the fact that by September 2008, there were 6,700 construction workers claiming unemployment benefit. That is a rise of 64% on the previous year, and the Committee was told that that figure could rise to 8,000 by the end of the year and to 10,000 by next summer. Construction workers not engaging in what they do best is something that the Assembly...

Counter-Terrorism Bill (24 Nov 2008)

Lord Robertson of Port Ellen: ...reliance we have found the solution to a number of major threats. The problem is that this enters a very big back door. As a result of previous debates in this House and in the other place, the Chilcot committee was established. It is a committee of privy counsellors, appointed by the Prime Minister to look into the issues and concerns surrounding the use of intercept material. When it was...

Energy: Renewables (EUC Report) (20 Nov 2008)

Lord Bradshaw: ...sensitive areas, but I am sure we are going to have to agree to wind farms in many areas. It was rather appropriate that we should have had a Planning Bill and an Energy Bill at the same time as the committee was deliberating. I am disappointed that we are still talking about 50 megawatts being the lower limit, as it were, for the Infrastructure Planning Commission. That may have to be...

Scottish Parliament: Looked-after Children (20 Nov 2008)

Nigel Don: ...@n—the Community Law Advice Network. "Jack's story" takes us through an education appeal committee process in which exactly what I described happened. In the case, which was anonymised, the appeal committee was advised by the council's lawyer on matters of law, but the same lawyer took the council's side. Had the child not been represented independently by the group that wrote the...

Constitution: Executive, Judiciary and Parliament (Constitution Committee Report) (18 Nov 2008) See 1 other result from this debate

Baroness Royall of Blaisdon: ...no disagreement between us on the principle that Ministers should not undermine the rule of law through inaccurate or ill-considered comment with respect to the actions of any individual judge. The committee was concerned that there should be clear and unambiguous guidance to Minister generally setting out the principles governing public comment by Ministers on individual judges. Section 1...

Local Transport Bill [HL] (18 Nov 2008)

Lord Bradshaw: ...of petitioners were found to have standing, including a local authority, the Campaign to Protect Rural England, a group of individuals and two campaign groups. However, the report of the Select Committee was published two weeks after the hearings, so there was no delay in this House.

Immigration (EAC Report) (14 Nov 2008) See 1 other result from this debate

Lord Moser: ...conclusion from existing evidence is that immigration has very small impacts on GDP per capita, whether these impacts are positive or negative". What is the relevance of GDP as a yardstick? The committee was of course right in arguing that using GDP, which is simply a growth indicator that does not take account of population change, is misleading. If GDP was to be used at all, ideally it...

Health: Donor Organs (EUC Report) (14 Nov 2008) See 3 other results from this debate

Baroness Howarth of Breckland: ...me but, if you are chairing a committee made up of the members of Sub-Committee G, whom you will see in the list, you cannot possibly fail. I was totally impressed by the way in which the committee was able to follow the arguments, check through the kind of questions that we were to ask and ensure that at the end of the day we had looked not only at the European dimension, which is what we...

[John Bercow in the Chair] — Internet and Video Games (13 Nov 2008) See 3 other results from this Westminster Hall debate

Edward Vaizey: .... PEGI has the advantage of being a pan-European system. It also enables people to play online together. The point that PEGI made to me at the secret tea exposed by the Chairman of the Home Affairs Committee was that, if Europe had split rating systems, an 18-year-old who went online to play a game rated 18 by PEGI but classified differently by the BBFC might find themselves playing what...

Scottish Parliament: Scottish Futures Trust (13 Nov 2008)

Jeremy Purvis: ...another quotation—the longest application letter in history. Given the delays in procuring projects in rail, health, schools and roads, and given that the Economy, Energy and Tourism Committee was told by Grant Thornton that private sector procurement jobs are being lost because of delays in bringing forward a pipeline of projects, there is an urgency to the SFT debate that the SNP...

Bradford & Bingley plc Transfer of Securities and Property etc. Order 2008 (13 Nov 2008)

Viscount Eccles: My Lords, it is six weeks since this statutory instrument was laid and nine months since the enabling powers went through at the time of the Banking (Special Provisions) Act, which dealt with Northern Rock. It seems timely that there should be a debate on the Bradford & Bingley order. It has been, in the nine-month history, a matter of some concern to the Delegated Powers and Regulatory...

Modernisation of the House of Commons (Standing Orders): Speaker's Conference (12 Nov 2008) has video

Fiona Mactaggart: ...has made in Parliament is shocking. After 1,000 days of the Labour Government, I did a bit of cod research that made it completely clear that not only the debates had changed—the Defence Committee was talking about soldiers' families, Budgets were putting money into women's pockets and we got rid of the tax on sanitary protection. Those things would simply not have happened without...

Deferred Division: European Scrutiny (Standing Orders) (12 Nov 2008) has video See 1 other result from this debate

Keith Hill: I have already used that adjective; I am now describing it as a service Committee. The Committee was set up to facilitate the House's work in respect of the issues and initiatives arising from the European Union. Essentially, what we do each week is agree a Select Committee report to the House—a process, by the way, that occurs in private in every other Select Committee. The most...

Business of the House: Regional Accountability (12 Nov 2008) has video

Andrew MacKinlay: ...is absurd. If I were serving on such a Committee, I would not be constrained by that request—or, rather, hope—but would want to stretch the envelope to the maximum to ensure that the Committee was at least of some value. The proposal is nonsense and shows that the idea has not been fully thought through. I will not divide the House on that amendment, but I mention it to...