Grayling has accelerated the original timetable set down by his predecessor, Kenneth Clarke, to ensure his probation reforms are in place before the 2015 general election.
According to a timetable laid down last year by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) and endorsed by the UN security council, about 1,300 tons of chemical weapons and their precursors were supposed to have been taken off Syrian territory in January and put on two Scandinavian freighters anchored at the Syrian port of Latakia.
Yet he has declined to set a target for decarbonising the UK electricity industry and scrapping old coal-fired power stations - a necessary step if the government is to stick with the timetable laid down by the Climate Change Committee under the Climate Change Act.
The timetable suggests Downing Street will wait to see who is elected Labour leader on 12 September at the earliest before making any specific proposal to the Labour party.
They were not impressed by his offer of a nine-month timetable to wind down parliament, in which Mr Abhisit's Democrat Party heads a six-party ruling coalition.
And, you know, to this day there may be, I think, controversy about us imposing a timetable for winding down our combat participation in Afghanistan.
Investors, traders and ordinary citizens listened with rapt attention as Mr. Bernanke, the Fed chairman, spoke of his timetable for scaling down stimulative bond purchases.
"We're just going to have to negotiate a new agreement with a new timetable to pay down the debt," Mr. Mendoza said.
WASHINGTON — Seeking to project a united front on Afghanistan after a spate of bloody setbacks on the battlefield, President Obama and Prime Minister David Cameron of Britain pledged on Wednesday that their countries would stick to the timetable for winding down the war by the end of 2014.
Does any of this mean that the broad timetable for winding down quantitative easing is now seriously off track?
