Sentence examples for scrutiny functions from inspiring English sources

Trust us, they said; we will really separate executive and scrutiny functions.

"Your refusal to disclose the information we have sought is unhelpful, unjustified and is impeding our ability to fulfil our scrutiny functions," they said.

If the bill goes through, the presence of councillors with knowledge of the NHS would be vital in view of local authority health scrutiny functions and the proposed roles for councillors on health and wellbeing boards.

"The scrutiny function of the committee is ongoing," said Ian Stewart, a Labour MP on the committee.

A good scrutiny function adds to that process, holds commissioners and providers to account and develops policy.

Amendment (C) to ensure that where the local authority overview and scrutiny function disputes a decision of a CCG the matter is referred to an elected person or body (eg the Secretary of State) for resolution and not a quango.

As African parliamentarians, we are also faced with an additional challenge, which is to be recognised as a key agent for change by some donors and international organisations, despite the important scrutiny function that parliaments perform.

This is not delivered via clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), but could be delivered if health and wellbeing boards (HWBs) were more democratic and they, and the local authority overview and scrutiny function, could hold CCGs to account democratically by … Amendment (A) to ensure that the voting members of HWBs are elected or that a majority of the HWB are elected representatives.

The report calls for a deputy chairman to be appointed from the lay commissioners "to enhance the influence of the lay majority and support an improved scrutiny function". The review panel recommend that editors should regard service on the PCC "as a duty" and that national newspaper editors should establish a rota system to guarantee that all of them serve on the PCC.

"We will be looking again to ensure that our scrutiny function - which also now has new political leadership - is as effective as possible".

However, there were other mechanisms that secured the scrutiny function.