He remains on the panel, which scrutinises several other regulations.
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The White House should bolster the office that scrutinises proposed rules.
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The finance ministry scrutinises the requests and trims them when it drafts the budget plan.
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According to Tussell, a consultancy that scrutinises public procurement, Interserve has 51 government contracts, worth £2.1bn.
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When Parliament scrutinises his Brexit proposals Mr Johnson is likely to struggle as much as Mrs May did.
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The upcoming BOJ tankan on April 1 is among key indicators the BOJ scrutinises when making monetary policy.
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She scrutinises complex, often compromised, characters and tells their stories in a broad historical context, but no two stories are the same.
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The public-accounts committee, which scrutinises government spending, must be chaired by the opposition leader—a position that cannot exist in a one-party Parliament.
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The Netherlands has an influential voice in Europe as the seat of the European Medicines Agency, which scrutinises and approves drugs for all EU countries.
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Core inflation, which strips out volatile unprocessed food and energy and which the ECB scrutinises in policy decisions, also fell to 1.1% in July from 1.3% in June.
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On the album, the 20-year-old rapper scrutinises his insecurities as well as confronting his demons ("Probably battling with manic depression/Man, I think I'm going mad again").
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"There is going to need to be a rethink," said Paul Johnson, director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, a non-partisan think-tank which scrutinises the public finances.
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Since January 2015 it has won contracts from 292 different public-sector buyers, far more than any other supplier (see chart), according to Tussell, a consultancy that scrutinises public procurement.
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Professor Brown has never sat on one of the committees that scrutinises carefully conducted, peer-reviewed scientific studies prior to producing reports by international bodies, such as the IAEA and UNSCEAR.
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The most prominent exception is Britain, which allows Huawei's kit but scrutinises it at a laboratory run by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), part of GCHQ, Britain's electronic-spying agency.
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That matters because Republicans have long sought to overhaul the central bank by subjecting its monetary policy decisions to review by the Government Accountability Office, which scrutinises policies on behalf of Congress.
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"The politics of the budget are going to be as important or more important than what is said economically," said Morgan, who heads a committee that scrutinises the work of the Treasury.
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FOR eight months up to this April, a French bookstore chain had video in a Paris shop fed to software that scrutinises shoppers' movements and facial expressions for surprise, dissatisfaction, confusion or hesitation.
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Reuters had reported earlier that the acquisition was in the final stages of being cleared by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), which scrutinises deals for national security implications.
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Analysts polled by Reuters reckon core inflation data, stripping out unprocessed food and energy, which the ECB scrutinises in policy decisions, fell to 1.0% in August, slipping further from July's 17-month low of 1.1%.
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Schools increasingly turn to the research for guidance: two-thirds now consult the EEF's advice, up from one-third in 2012, according to a report by the National Audit Office (NAO), which scrutinises government spending.
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These include changes to stress-test and capital-review thresholds and an overhaul of the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977, which scrutinises banks' provision of credit and other services in poor areas and to poor people.
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RIYADH, Feb 23 (Reuters) - The Bank of Japan (BOJ) will ensure it is fully prepared to take necessary policy action as it scrutinises developments on the impact of coronavirus, its governor Haruhiko Kuroda said on Sunday.
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Mr Chen has trained his employees in Six Sigma, a management method popularised by Jack Welch, a former boss of General Electric, to eliminate waste; and in a financial methodology that scrutinises investments for economic value added.
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It already scrutinises its equipment and products closely for such contamination, but according to Robert Baker, who is in charge of food safety at the firm, the current arrangements can take days or weeks to return results.
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LONDON, Oct 23 (Reuters) - Former junior finance minister Mel Stride has been elected to chair the British parliament's Treasury Committee, which scrutinises the Bank of England, finance ministry and financial sector, parliament speaker John Bercow said on Thursday.
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The committee, which scrutinises and advises on policy but has no legislative power, was split over the impact that a no-deal Brexit would have, but agreed by a narrow majority that it would be "chaotic and damaging".
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The BOJ tankan, one of the major indicators the central bank scrutinises in guiding monetary policy, showed in December that business mood held steady but it was seen deteriorating three months ahead - reflecting the slowdown in emerging economies.
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The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), a government panel that scrutinises deals for possible security concerns, has not identified any steps the companies could take to allow the deal to be completed, they said.
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"In some of these cases the conduct took place on the day after the Code of Practice came into force or shortly thereafter," the annual report, which scrutinises UK public bodies' interception and acquisition of communications data, reads.
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The change to statutory self-declaration, already law in Ireland and several other countries, would end the current situation, in which a tribunal scrutinises which toys you played with as a child and how gender-dysphoric you felt about your body.
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Employees and shareholders can hold companies to account using data or by consulting independent monitors such as the Human Rights Campaign, which scrutinises how firms treat gay and transgender employees, or the World Wildlife Fund, which tracks firms' environmental work.
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The TSC, as it is known, scrutinises Chancellor Philip Hammond, the Bank of England, and the wider financial services sector in the UK. The TSC needs a new chair after its long-time leader, Tory backbencher Andrew Tyrie, stood down at the 2017 general election.
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Professor Prem Sikka of the University of Essex, the lead author of the study, said the model of parliament's intelligence committee which scrutinises sensitive defence-related matters, sometimes taking evidence in secret, could be the model for how lawmakers might better ensure HMRC was being effective and fair.
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In a warehouse at the secure Argonne National Laboratory, which arose from the University of Chicago's work on the Manhattan Project, he scrutinises foreign-made cars, trucks and lithium-ion batteries to discover their technological secrets and share them with his employer, the Department of Energy, and its friends in the Big Three car companies.
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Ms Freund scrutinises the lists of billionaires, excludes those whose wealth was inherited and then classifies the self-made billionaires into four categories: those whose wealth came from government concessions and other forms of rent; those in finance or property; the founders of businesses that genuinely compete in the market; and highly paid executives at such Schumpeterian businesses.
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The company now oversees the agency's actions and scrutinises its work.
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The Foreign Affairs Select Committee is one of many select committees of the British House of Commons, which scrutinises the work of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.
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Standing Committee on Defence (SCOF) is usually a parliamentary committee of parliaments of nations following a parliamentary system of governance. It generally scrutinises the government's actions on defence-related matters.
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It assesses the performance of each regulator, conducts audits, scrutinises their decisions and reports to Parliament. It seeks to achieve balance in the oversight of regulation through the application of the concept of right-touch regulation.
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She is a member of the Finance Commission (French: Commission des Finances), the parliamentary committee that scrutinises public spending. On 27 March 2019, she was appointed as Secretary of State for European Affairs, succeeding Nathalie Loiseau.
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Adam later scrutinises Kile's apartment secretly and notes this. Baird's movements are noted by Purvis' agents spying on everyone. Baird however notes this, and thinks there's more than meets the eye. He understands Kile's intention behind kidnapping Hater.
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250px Lords select committee circa 2013 The House of Lords appoint Sessional select committees to examine and explore general issues such as the constitution or the economy; the European Union Committee scrutinises EU action via its sub- committees; each session Special Inquiry committees are appointed to examine specific issues.
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The Audience Council Wales scrutinises the BBC's services on behalf of BBC audiences in Wales and on behalf of BBC audiences across the UK alongside the other Councils in Scotland, Northern Ireland and England. The role and responsibilities of the Audience Councils are set out in the BBC Royal Charter.
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Parliament also scrutinises each CRI on a regular basis. Day-to-day, however, CRIs operate as any commercial company would, acting within their strategic statement of intent (agreed with the shareholders) that aligns with the CRI Act purpose and principles. The CRIs cooperate as Science New Zealand, formerly the Association of Crown Research Institutes.
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The House of Lords is the only upper house of any bicameral parliament in the world to be larger than its lower house.Alan Siaroff, Comparing Political Regimes, University of Toronto Press 2013, chapter 6. The House of Lords scrutinises bills that have been approved by the House of Commons. It regularly reviews and amends Bills from the Commons.
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In New Zealand, the bill passes through the following stages: # First reading: MPs debate and vote on the bill. If a bill is approved, it passes on to the committee stage. # Select committee stage: The bill is considered by a Select Committee, which scrutinises the bill in detail and hears public submissions on the matter. The Committee may recommend amendments to the bill.
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But this sort of good-natured person, exemplified by Eldon, is, if one scrutinises the case, good-natured out of selfishness: "tread on the toe of one of these amiable and imperturbable mortals, or let a lump of soot fall down the chimney and spoil their dinners, and see how they will bear it."Hazlitt 1930, vol. 11, p. 142.
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House of Commons Debates 25 June 2009 The committee was officially re-established on 1 October 2009 and has a remit to examine the work of the Government Office for Science. The committee currently scrutinises the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, headed by the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Alok Sharma. The current minister of science is Amanda Solloway.
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Lawyer Liam Foxwell attends a performance appraisal. Agonising over it, he repeatedly watches the "re-do" on his "grain", an implant which records footage from his eyes and ears and allows it to be replayed. Arriving at a dinner party for his wife Ffion and her friends, he finds Ffion laughing with Jonas. Throughout the dinner, Liam scrutinises Ffion's reactions to Jonas, whose engagement recently ended.
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He scrutinises with special interest the characters of Caliban and Ariel, pointing out that, as they arise within the structure of the play, neither could exist without the other, and neither alone illuminates the sum of our nature better than both together. Caliban is gross, of the earth,Hazlitt 1818, p. 118. whereas "Ariel is imaginary power, the swiftness of thought personified."Hazlitt 1818, p. 121.
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As of 2006, he serves on Carmarthenshire County Council's Planning Committee and Social Justice Scrutiny Committee, the latter being the committee that scrutinises the Council's equal opportunity policies. He is also a Carmarthenshire Local Education Authority appointed governor of Bryngwyn Comprehensive School in Dafen, Llanelli. He also serves on Llanelli Town Council's Selwyn Samuel Management Committee and is a Minor Authority appointed governor of Old Road County Primary School in Llanelli.
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The Chair and Vice-Chair of each campus sit on the Corporate Student Executive Committee (CSEC). CSEC is the highest decision making body in CCSU. It sets the budget for the academic year, determines what campaigns are run, sets policy that applies to the entire student union, and scrutinises the President. The full-time sabbatical president is elected by their entire student body on a cross-campus ballot.
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Committee on Budgetary Control , EPP Group in the European Parliament, retrieved on 13 April 2013. The discharge procedure is the main tool at hand of the parliamentarians in the committee. During this procedure it scrutinises the implementation of the EU Budget by all actors involved, i.e. inter alia the Commission, Parliament, other institutions and Agencies on the basis of the yearly annual report of the European Court of Auditors.
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IPI undertakes extensive research on issues relevant to the media and circulates several Publications on press freedom, including the quarterly magazine IPI Global Journalist. IPI regularly scrutinises new media laws and provides governments with recommendations on how to bring their legislation in line with internationally accepted standards on freedom of expression. IPI also monitors journalists killed worldwide. Since 1997, it has kept a Death Watch of media casualties.
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Peers may be created on a non-partisan basis. Formerly, nominations on merit alone were made by the Prime Minister, but this function was partially transferred to a new, non-statutory House of Lords Appointments Commission in 2000. Individuals recommended for the peerage by the Commission go on to become what have been described by some in the British media as "people's peers". The Commission also scrutinises party recommendations for working peerages to ensure propriety.
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The Municipal Council is responsible for everything that is of local interest. This organ draws up rules and ordinances, establishes municipal taxes, approves the budget and the accounts of the municipality, scrutinises the local services, and looks after the interests of its population in general (spatial planning, road building, security, health, youth, sport,...). The Council also appoints the aldermen. The mayor is nominated by the majority and appointed by the Flemish Government.
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The Commission was asked to consider how the Parliament scrutinises legislation, how the committee system functions and the extent of the parliament's independence from the Scottish government. The commission met for first time on 7 November 2016. In January the committee took evidence from two former Labour First Ministers Jack McConnell and Henry McLeish. The Commission will publish its report, with recommendations to the Presiding Officer, on Tuesday 20 June 2017 at 10.00 am.
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Barney decides to losen up and party with his friends, then his parent unexpectedly return him. His father Angus (Edward Peel) tells him that he would like him to leave HCC and attend a high class university. Barney is reluctant, but his mother Judith (Caroline Langrishe) threatens to stop his allowance. When Judith scrutinises Ash for her dress sense and bemoans his choice of friends, Barney lashes out at his parents and defends his circle of friends.
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Elphicke served as one of 11 members of the Public Administration Select Committee (PASC) from his election until his appointment as a Parliamentary Private Secretary in 2012. The Committee, which scrutinises the civil service, called for ministers to accelerate civil service reform. In one investigation, Elphicke looked at Ordnance Survey (OS) expenses for 2007–2010 totalling £8.7 million. Items included a stay at a luxury hotel which cost over £3,000 and a staff reward scheme which cost £32,100.
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This law requires most new legislation and administrative instruments (such as delegated/subordinate legislation) to be tabled in parliament with a statement outlining the proposed law's compatibility with the listed human rightsAct No. 186 of 2011, Part 3. A Joint Committee on Human Rights scrutinises all new legislation and statements of compatibility.Act No. 186 of 2011, Part 2 The findings of the Joint Committee are not legally binding. Legislation also establishes the Australian Human Rights Commission.
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Nor was the vote overseen by the regional constitutional court. The Council of Europe, Europe's democracy watchdog, said it did not abide by its fundamental criteria. Reporters without Borders, an organisation that scrutinises freedom of the press, denounced the harassment and intimidation – sometimes physical – of reporters who did not toe the pro-independence line. These points often get drowned out in the romantic wave of commentary that Catalonia and its history can understandably inspire, within and beyond Spain.
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She has spoken openly about the need to define what ethical AI actually means. She works with companies on developing ethical governance and algorithms that explain their decisions transparently. She is determined to use AI to improve diversity in recruitment. Chowdhury, alongside a team of early career researchers at the Alan Turing Institute, developed a Fairness Tool which scrutinises the data that is input to an algorithm and identifies whether certain genders (such as race or gender) may influence the outcome.
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When this proved too awkward, he began to write a non-fiction narrative of the events - events made memorable by the "television images of the braggart moustachioed Lieutenant Colonel Tejero." It is not straight history however, Cercas "enters people's minds and speculates on their motives.", The Independent, 4 February 2011 The moment Cercas scrutinises in the book has been captured in TV footage. It is when Tejero, having stormed into the Spanish parliament, orders the MPs to get down on the floor.
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The Fire Service Installation Task Force inspects fire service installations in buildings, handles complaints regarding building fire service installations and monitors the performance of registered fire service installation contractors. The Railway Development Strategy Division scrutinises fire safety strategies and processes building plans of new railway infrastructure projects. It also carries out acceptance tests of fire service installations on completion of those projects. The Theme Park Projects Division formulates fire safety requirements for buildings and other supporting infrastructures in the Hong Kong Disneyland theme park in Penny's Bay.
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Rose's primary foci are Martin Heidegger, to whom she devotes three chapters, and Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Derrida, to whom she devotes one chapter apiece. In addition, however, she scrutinises a few of the neo- Kantians (Emil Lask, Rudolf Stammler, and Hermann Cohen), Henri Bergson, and Ferdinand de Saussure and Claude Lévi-Strauss. Her central argument is that with the post-structuralists a "newly insinuated law [is] dissembled as a nihilistic break with knowledge and law, with tradition in general."Rose (1984). p. 7.
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After the election, he was soon elected by fellow MPs to become a member of the Public Accounts Committee, which scrutinises government spending. Conservative Home named him as one of a minority of loyal Conservative backbench MPs not to have voted against the government in any substantive rebellions. Following the appointment of Theresa May to Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Barclay was appointed as a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury. In June 2017, Barclay joined HM Treasury as the Economic Secretary to the Treasury.
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Both bodies are elected; the Council acts as a select committee which scrutinises the work of the Board. Furthermore, a majority of the members of Council are nominated for election by a process of random selection, similar to jury service, in the interests of wider participation. How it works: by opening an account, a person becomes a member of the Society and buys non-transferable withdrawable shares to the value of their investment. £1 buys one share and people can invest between £100 and £100,000.
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They lead an Official Opposition Shadow Cabinet which scrutinises the actions of the Cabinet led by the Prime Minister, as well as offer alternative policies. There is also a Leader of the Opposition in the House of Lords (currently The Baroness Smith of Basildon). In the nineteenth century party affiliations were generally less fixed and leaders in the two Houses were often of equal status. A single, clear Leader of the Opposition was only definitively settled if the opposition leader in Commons or Lords was the outgoing prime minister.
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The term "opposition" has a specific meaning in the parliamentary sense; it is an important component of the Westminster system, with the Official Opposition directing criticism at the Government. The leader of the Opposition leads a Shadow Cabinet, which scrutinises the policies and actions of the Cabinet led by the prime minister, as well as offer alternative policies. The Opposition leader may be viewed as a prime minister in waiting. He or she is expected to be ready to form a new government if the incumbent government is unable to continue in office.
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Nokes sat on the Scrap Metal Dealers Bill Committee, and was a member of the Justice and Security Bill Committee. She also sat on the Children and Families Bill Committee which scrutinises a bill designed to improve legislation affecting fostered and adopted children, children in care, children with Special Educational Needs, and the family justice system. Nokes was also a member of the Deregulation Bill Committee and the Modern Slavery Bill Committee, a subject in which she had previously expressed a constituency interest and on which she had questioned the government.
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The Justice Select Committee of the United Kingdom is a select committee of the House of Commons which scrutinizes the policy, administration, and spending of the Ministry of Justice. In addition, the committee examines the work of the Law Officers of the Crown, the Serious Fraud Office, and the Crown Prosecution Service. The committee also reviews draft Sentencing Guidelines issued by the Sentencing Guidelines Council. The committee scrutinises the work of the Secretary of State for Justice, Attorney General, Solicitor General and the Minister of State for Prisons among others.
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The House of Commons formally scrutinises the Government through its Committees and Prime Minister's Questions, when members ask questions of the prime minister; the House gives other opportunities to question other cabinet ministers. Prime Minister's Questions occur weekly, normally for half an hour each Wednesday. Questions must relate to the responding minister's official government activities, not to his or her activities as a party leader or as a private Member of Parliament. Customarily, members of the Government party/coalition and members of the Opposition alternate when asking questions.
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Charged with serving as the government's auditor, it must take part in the approval or rejection of the revenue and investment accounts of public funds, scrutinizes the collection and expenditure of government funds by the National Treasury, the municipalities, and other state services as determined by law. The office also performs a legality review function called "toma de razón". Exercising this ex-ante review power, the comptroller scrutinises, on constitutional and legal grounds, executive decisions and regulations prior to their official publication or communication. In practice, this checking procedure may represent an effective veto point in the Chilean administrative process.
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The London Assembly is a 25-member elected body, part of the Greater London Authority, that scrutinises the activities of the Mayor of London and has the power, with a two-thirds super-majority, to amend the Mayor's annual budget and to reject the Mayor's draft statutory strategies. The London Assembly was established in 2000 and meets at City Hall on the south bank of the River Thames, close to Tower Bridge. The Assembly is also able to investigate other issues of importance to Londoners (transport, environmental matters, etc.), publish its findings and recommendations, and make proposals to the Mayor.
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Signing bills into law As state notary of the republic, the president signs bills into law. Signing bills into law is a constitutionally mandated duty of the president and not a discretionary power; it is not comparable with the presidential veto in the United States or the Royal Assent in the United Kingdom. In their capacity as state notary, the president scrutinises the constitutionality of the lawmaking process, undertaken to enact a piece of legalisation. If the president finds the bill to have been crafted in an unconstitutional way, the president is ought to "fail" to sign; meaning that the president is compelled to deny signature, which strikes down the bill.
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The European Union Committee is a select committee of the House of Lords in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Its terms of reference are "To consider European Union documents and other matters relating to the European Union", as well as "to represent the House as appropriate in interparliamentary co- operation within the European Union". Much of the detailed scrutiny work on EU documents is conducted by the sub-committees, each dealing with a separate policy area. The main committee oversees the work of the sub-committees and approves their reports and scrutinises proposals that cross subject areas, such as the Treaty of Lisbon and the multiannual financial framework.
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Speaker William Hay ordered the change and the capital D was dropped from Hansard references. Officials edited the department's archive of press releases to make that change (despite its use by Mallon and Durkan when in office) but the capital D still appears in some places, and a spokesman confirmed on 20 March 2008 that the office had "no plans" to change the OFMDFM logo. However, the Assembly committee that scrutinises their work is now listed as the "Committee for the Office of the First Minister and deputy First Minister". Ultimately it was decided that McGuinness should be the deputy First Minister, unless all the other letters in the title are in capitals.
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In April 2014, it emerged that Barnes had transferred the Kent Police communications staff to report to her rather than the Chief Constable Local councillors issued a statement saying "This is the police and crime commissioner's most political move since she took office and we do not believe that it will turn out to be in the best interests of the people of Kent and Medway." The decision also came under fire from COPACC, an independent group that scrutinises and monitors the work of crime commissioners. Mrs Barnes presented the change as an administrative one that was related to legislation about commissioners, rather than being intended to increase her own public relations capacity.
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The other collaborators generally allowed Croker to take credit, notably William Maginn, though after his death his kinsmen insisted Maginn had written four or more of the tales. Croker retracted ten tales in his third edition of (1834), and after his death, a fourth edition (1859) appeared which was prefaced with a memoir written by his son. William Butler Yeats, who appropriated a number of tales for his anthology, characterised Croker as belonging to the class of the Anglo-Irish ascendancy, and criticised him for comic distortions of the Irish tradition, an assessment echoed by other Irish critics. Bridget G. MacCarthy wrote a biographical paper that scrutinises Croker's habit of publishing writings by others under his own name.
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Throughout his working life he has been a strong advocate for good working relationships with the trade unions and regularly raises trade union issues in the Senedd. Rees is currently the Chair of the Health and Social Care Committee in the Senedd, which considers current health and social care issues, scrutinises government legislation and produces topical reports based on committee inquiries. He is also a member of the Children and Young People’s Committee, considering issues across multiple portfolios, particularly health and education, and playing an important role in advocating for the wellbeing of children and young people. Through his role as the Chair of the Cross Party Group on Industrial Communities, he is actively involved in campaigns to improve economic and social conditions in Wales’s Communities.
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The show's presenters have taken some pride in the vehemence of the criticism it attracts; at one point, the opening credits were made up of a montage of such criticisms, prominently featuring a description of original presenter Stuart Littlemore as a 'pompous git'. In 2002, the then-editor of The Daily Telegraph, Campbell Reid, sent host David Marr a dead fish; a replica of it is now awarded as the Campbell Reid Perpetual Trophy for the Brazen Recycling of Other People's Work. Known as "The Barra" and bearing the motto Carpe Verbatim, it is awarded annually for bad journalism and particularly plagiarism (a practice for which Reid was frequently criticised). Media Watch scrutinises all media outlets, and has criticised its own network, the ABC.
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Maiden Speech in Parliament] During his time in Parliament, Swales was an active member of many All Party Parliamentary Groups including Chair of the APPG for the Chemical Industry APPG Chemical Industry] and Vice-Chair of the APPG for Steel and Energy Intensive Industries. In May 2014 Swales was appointed to the taskforce group for electrification of rail in the north by the Secretary of State for Transport, Patrick McLoughlin, MP. Shortly after the 2010 election, Swales became an active member of the Public Accounts Committee, which sits twice a week and scrutinises all public expenditure. In June 2014 Swales resigned from the Committee citing frontbench commitments. Swales sat on the Welfare Reform and Finance Bill Committees, and campaigned against tax avoidance.
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The existence of this affidavit only came to light a year later on 17 July 1996, when Witness C spoke to broadcaster Paul Holmes in a prison telephone interview. He publicly admitted to lying at Tamihere's trial and confirmed that the affidavit he had signed in 1995, stating that he had lied and given false evidence, was the truth. He told Holmes that his original testimony against Tamihere had been "playing on his mind" and "they definitely have an innocent man inside".Witness C perjury trial scrutinises Sir Paul Holmes prison phone interview from 1996, NZ Herald, 30 August 2017 The publicity created immediate concerns about police conduct in the case, leading a Member of Parliament to request a ministerial inquiry.
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His poetry has been characterised by Jacques Alvarez-Pereyre as follows: > Totalitarian regimes have the citizens and poets they deserve, those who > accept the bayonets upon which order is based and who, by their silence or > useless chatter, make themselves the accomplices of those who rule. Peter > Horn' is not one of these: he has chosen to be on the side of the oppressed, > on the side of the future, of the dream of a multiracial society, in short, > on the side of freedom., Lionel Abrahams said that his poetry "is overwhelmingly the record of his responses to aspects of the South African system, which he scrutinises not in a nakedly personal way but, rather in the manner of his master Brecht, through the equipment of a revolutionary critique.".Rand Daily Mail. 1974.
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The Comptroller and Auditor General (C&AG;) in the United Kingdom is the government official responsible for supervising the quality of public accounting and financial reporting. The C&AG; is an officer of the House of Commons who is the head of the National Audit Office, the body that scrutinises central government expenditure. Under the Budget Responsibility and National Audit Act 2011, the C&AG; is appointed by the monarch by letters patent upon an address of the House of Commons presented by the prime minister with the agreement of the chairman of the Public Accounts Committee, and can only be removed from office by the monarch upon an address of both Houses of Parliament. The full title of the office is Comptroller General of the Receipt and Issue of Her Majesty's Exchequer and Auditor General of Public Accounts.
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