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Joint Committee On Human Rights
The Joint Committee on Human Rights is a joint committee of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The remit of the committee is to consider human rights issues in the United Kingdom. Membership , the members of the committee are as follows: See also *Joint Committee of the Parliament of the United Kingdom *Parliamentary Committees of the United Kingdom References External links *The records of the Joint Committee on Human Rights are held by the Parliamentary Archives {{DEFAULTSORT:Joint Committee on Human Rights Joint Committees of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, Human Rights Select Committees of the British House of Commons Human rights in the United Kingdom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joint Committee Of The Parliament Of The United Kingdom
A joint committee of the Parliament of the United Kingdom is a Joint committee (legislative), legislative joint committee formed to examine a particular issue, whose members are drawn from both the House of Commons and House of Lords of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It is a type of Parliamentary committees of the United Kingdom, Parliamentary committee of the United Kingdom. Permanent joint select committees Three permanent joint Select committee (United Kingdom), select committees meet regularly: *Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy *Joint Committee on Human Rights *Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments Two committees meet as required to scrutinize bills that seek to consolidate existing statutes or to simplify the language of tax laws: *Joint Committee on Consolidation Bills *Joint Committee on Tax Law Rewrite Bills Temporary joint select committees Temporary Joint Select committees are formed to consider either a specific topic or a proposed la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Murray, Baron Murray Of Blidworth
Simon Peregrine Gauvain Murray, Baron Murray of Blidworth (born 2 August 1974), is a British barrister and Conservative member of the House of Lords. He served as a minister for the Home Office (2022–2023). Early life and education The only son of Dr Nigel Ormiston Gauvain Murray (1944–2002) and his wife Shirley ''née'' Arbuthnot (born 1949), elder daughter and co-heiress of Commander Bernard Arbuthnot DSC, scion of the Arbuthnot baronets, his matrilineal great-great-grandfather, Sir Henry Blake GCMG, was a British colonial administrator and Governor of Hong Kong who hailed from the Anglo-Irish gentry being seated at Myrtle Grove, County Cork. Of Scots patrilineal descent, his grandfather was Dr Ronald Murray MBE FRCPE, a kinsman of the Duke of Atholl. After graduating from the University of St Andrews with an undergraduate Master of Arts (MA Hons), Murray was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple in 2000. Lord Murray practises public law at 39 Essex Chambers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joint Committees Of The Parliament Of The United Kingdom
A joint committee of the Parliament of the United Kingdom is a legislative joint committee formed to examine a particular issue, whose members are drawn from both the House of Commons and House of Lords of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It is a type of Parliamentary committee of the United Kingdom. Permanent joint select committees Three permanent joint select committees meet regularly: * Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy *Joint Committee on Human Rights * Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments Two committees meet as required to scrutinize bills that seek to consolidate existing statutes or to simplify the language of tax laws: * Joint Committee on Consolidation Bills * Joint Committee on Tax Law Rewrite Bills Temporary joint select committees Temporary Joint Select committees are formed to consider either a specific topic or a proposed law ( Bill) that requires particular scrutiny. Former committees have considered the following specific topi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joint Committee Of The Parliament Of The United Kingdom
A joint committee of the Parliament of the United Kingdom is a Joint committee (legislative), legislative joint committee formed to examine a particular issue, whose members are drawn from both the House of Commons and House of Lords of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It is a type of Parliamentary committees of the United Kingdom, Parliamentary committee of the United Kingdom. Permanent joint select committees Three permanent joint Select committee (United Kingdom), select committees meet regularly: *Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy *Joint Committee on Human Rights *Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments Two committees meet as required to scrutinize bills that seek to consolidate existing statutes or to simplify the language of tax laws: *Joint Committee on Consolidation Bills *Joint Committee on Tax Law Rewrite Bills Temporary joint select committees Temporary Joint Select committees are formed to consider either a specific topic or a proposed la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Forest West (UK Parliament Constituency)
New Forest West is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 1997 by Desmond Swayne, a Conservative. Constituency profile This constituency covers the part of the New Forest which is not covered by New Forest East, and southern coastal settlements just outside its boundaries. The largest settlements are Fordingbridge and Ringwood which are inland and coastal New Milton and Lymington. For all areas the relevant local authority has a higher than average proportion of retired people, and a lower than national average extent of social housing and rented housing. Housing types include far above average detached and semi-detached properties. Coast and forest are contained in this area. Boundaries 1997–2010: The District of New Forest wards of Barton, Bashley, Becton, Bransgore and Sopley, Downlands, Fordingbridge, Forest North West, Forest West, Hordle, Lymington Town, Milford, Milton, Pennington, Ringwood North, Ringwood South, and Sway. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Desmond Swayne
Sir Desmond Angus Swayne (born 20 August 1956) is a British Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament for New Forest West since 1997 United Kingdom general election, 1997. Before going into politics, Swayne was a teacher, and then a manager at the Royal Bank of Scotland. He was Parliamentary Private Secretary to David Cameron, both during his time as Leader of the Opposition (United Kingdom), Leader of the Opposition, 2005–10, and then for two years while Cameron was Prime Minister. In September 2012 he was appointed as Lord of the Treasury, Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury and in July 2014 as Secretary of State for International Development, Minister for International Development. Swayne was Knight Bachelor, knighted in the 2016 Birthday Honours for political and parliamentary services. He was a supporter of the Eurosceptic pressure group Leave Means Leave. He is also a prominent critic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bracknell (UK Parliament Constituency)
Bracknell is a Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, constituency in Berkshire represented in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, UK Parliament since 2024 United Kingdom general election, 2024 by Peter Swallow, from the Labour Party (UK), Labour Party. It was created for the 1997 United Kingdom general election, 1997 general election, largely replacing the abolished county constituency of East Berkshire (UK Parliament constituency), East Berkshire. Constituency profile The seat covers the entirety of the town of Bracknell, as well as Sandhurst and Crowthorne - although some of the Crowthorne urban area is in Wokingham (UK Parliament constituency), Wokingham. Additionally, it includes Quelm Park, Martins Heron, The Warren, Bracknell Forest, The Warren, Forest Park, Bracknell Forest, Forest Park, and Whitegrove. History From its creation in 1997 until 2010, Bracknell's Member of Parliament (United ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Swallow
Peter Swallow (born 1993) is a British classicist, academic and politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bracknell since 2024. Before his election, he was a postdoctoral researcher specialising in the study of Aristotle. He is the first Labour Party MP for Bracknell. Early life and education Swallow was born in Wokingham and grew up in Crowthorne. He studied classics at university, graduating with an undergraduate Master of Arts (MA Hons) degree from the University of St Andrews and a Master of Studies (MSt) degree from St Hilda's College, Oxford. He undertook a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree at King's College London, which he completed in 2020 with a doctoral thesis titled "The reception of Aristophanes in Britain during the long-Nineteenth century". He is the author of ''Aristophanes in Britain: Old Comedy in the Nineteenth Century'' (Oxford University Press, 2023). He co-edited ''Aristophanic Humour: Theory and Practice'' ( Bloomsbury Academic, 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leeds Central And Headingley (UK Parliament Constituency)
Leeds Central and Headingley is a constituency of the House of Commons in the UK Parliament. Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, it was first contested in the 2024 general election. The seat is currently represented by Alex Sobel of the Labour Party, who served as MP for Leeds North West from 2017 to 2024. Boundaries The constituency is composed of the following electoral wards of the City of Leeds: * Headingley & Hyde Park, Kirkstall, Little London & Woodhouse, and Weetwood. It comprises the following areas of the City of Leeds: * Headingley and Weetwood, transferred from Leeds North West * Hyde Park, Little London and Woodhouse from Leeds Central (abolished and largely replaced by Leeds South) * Kirkstall from Leeds West (abolished) Members of Parliament '' Leeds Central and Leeds North West Leeds North West is a constituency in the City of Leeds which has been represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Sobel
Alexander David Sobel (born 26 April 1975) is a British Labour and Co-operative politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Leeds Central and Headingley, previously Leeds North West, since 2017. He served as Shadow Minister for Nature Recovery and the Domestic Environment from 2021 to 2023. Early life and career Alexander Sobel was born on 26 April 1975 in Hyde Park, Leeds, to parents who came to England from Israel in 1971. He grew up in Beaconsfield, attending Holtspur Middle School and John Hampden Grammar School. As a teenager, he joined anti-fascist and environmental protests in Leeds. After graduating in information systems at the University of Leeds in 1997, Sobel worked with social enterprises, and ran the regional body Social Enterprise Yorkshire and the Humber from 2009 until 2017. Political career Sobel joined the Labour Party in 1997. After standing unsuccessfully in four Leeds City Council elections between 2002 and 2007, he was elected ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doreen Lawrence
Doreen Delceita Lawrence, Baroness Lawrence of Clarendon, (; born 1952 in Jamaica), is a British Jamaican campaigner and the mother of Stephen Lawrence, a black British teenager who was murdered in a racist attack in South East London in 1993. She promoted reforms of the police service and founded the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust. Lawrence was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to community relations in 2003, and was created a life peer in 2013. On the first national Stephen Lawrence Day on 22 April 2019, she described how she had worked for 26 years hoping for "an inclusive society for everyone to live their best life, regardless of gender, race, sexuality, religion, disability or background". Early and personal life Lawrence was born in Clarendon, Jamaica, in 1952. At the age of nine, she emigrated to the United Kingdom. She completed her education in south-east London, before becoming a bank worker. In 1972, she married Neville La ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
