The Lords select committee inquiry into the Foreign Office found the government has no five-year plan to implement its sexual violence in conflict initiative, no coherent list of the countries being prioritised and no adequate means for diplomats to measure whether pledges made are being implemented.
Foremost among them is how to implement his pledge to trim the country's disastrous fuel subsidies.
As a firm believer in tackling climate change, her appointment is no victory for the Tory right, who will be expecting Cameron to implement his pledge to stop the march of onshore windfarms.
Hague was speaking after David Cameron hosted a meeting of Tory MPs at Chequers to discuss how to implement his pledge, delivered in Downing Street in the early hours of Friday morning after the result of the Scottish referendum, to answer the so-called West Lothian question.
The company admitted that its policy had been both poorly communicated and badly implemented and it pledged to learn from the experience.
Because tax changes are customarily announced in advance and take effect from the start of the tax year in April, a Scottish administration elected in the spring might have to wait a full year before it could implement a manifesto pledge to use its tax power.The obvious solution would be to move to the autumn the date of the first elections, due in 1999.
It has failed to implement a pledge to create a genuine customs union, with a common external tariff and free trade within the block.
Osborne confirmed that the government would meet the 0.7% target when he was asked by the former Labour minister Tom Clarke when a bill to implement the pledge would be introduced.
The success of the Syrian refugee commitment was in part due to the fact that a dedicated minister for settling Syrian refugees was appointed – Richard Harrington – who set up a team to implement the pledge, and worked closely with councils to establish how best to help.
Consumer companies like Unilever, Nestlé, McDonalds and major agricultural commodity traders like Wilmar, Cargill and Archer Daniels Midland, have committed to implement that pledge.
