Sentence examples for whether licences from inspiring English sources

MPs called for extra medical checks to prevent unstable people being allowed to possess firearms and for partners to be consulted over whether licences should be issued.

"While individual board members have been able to present their views, the board has been very clear that decisions about licensing - including the decisions on whether licences should be granted for an extended period of culling this year - should continue to reside with Natural England's executive, not with the board itself," said a spokesperson.

The MPs said the row over casino expansion at the time demonstrated that decisions over whether new licences should be approved should be taken by local authorities, not by "central diktat".

This works much like domestic cordless telephones, but on a larger scale; it is cheaper than connecting homes with copper wires, but the handsets work only within a limited area.So far, the Chinese government is prevaricating: when it will issue the 3G licences, whether it will mandate particular technologies and whether TD-SCDMA will be one of them, all remain unclear.

A decision will be made on whether the licence should be reviewed with conditions.

But Javid, who was culture secretary until the general election, refused to give his own view on whether the licence fee should be scrapped or reduced.

Asked whether the licence fee would be cut in future years, the Tory leader replied: "I'm a supporter of the BBC.

The city council will be checking to see whether any licence conditions were breached and will ask the club not to stage similar events involving juveniles.

Asked whether the licence fee should come to an end, Javid said: "It's time to have the charter review, it is a process that will take place over a number of months, it should be driven by the evidence.

"In terms of how we should pay for the BBC and whether the licence fee should be modernised, three fifths of responses felt that no changes to the current system were required".

How the BBC is funded will be one of the main questions addressed by the parliamentary inquiry, which will consider whether the licence fee should be replaced by advertising or subscription.