Under the merger proposals, both councils would retain their "democratic independence as two sovereign local authorities" and remain responsible for the government of their own area.
Later on, the committee took evidence from Transport ministers Mike Penning and Norman Baker, who are responsible for the government's policies on road safety and cycling.
One such is Lord Richard, who until being replaced last summer by Baroness Jay was Labour leader in the Lords and the cabinet member responsible for the government's reform of it.
On the spending side, a continuing resolution responsible for funding the government is scheduled to expire Friday.
And Israel's also blaming the Lebanese government, saying that it holds the Lebanese government responsible for the Hezbollah attack.
The man responsible for setting up the government's Tech City initiative supporting start-ups in east London is to step down.
The body is responsible for administering funds from the Welsh Assembly Government for higher education institutions.
They are also hired and fired by the Lord Advocate who, apart from being a member of the Scottish government responsible for the legal system, is also head of the Scottish prosecution service.
The census, which was responsible for a number of the government jobs that are created on a monthly basis in order to take that census, were not part of the recovery.
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Mr Capriles said the government was responsible for the violence as it sought to avoid a recount.
Tadeusz Szkarmruk works for the government agency responsible for leasing and selling land.
Rejecting accusations that the government was responsible for the attacks, President Mahinda Rajapaksa has accused "internal and international forces" of trying to undermine army victories on the battlefield.
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Ash Pawade, the leading consultant for the United Bristol Healthcare Trust, which includes the hospital responsible for the deaths of the 29 children, welcomed the government's new strategy.
John Whiting, from the Chartered Institute of Taxation, welcomed the idea, saying that while HMRC and the government were responsible for running the tax system, people needed to take some responsibility in their own tax position.
Another problem for High Streets is that landlords must adhere to a law in the U.K. that makes them responsible for paying special business taxes to the government if their stores remain empty for longer than three months, Mr. Manning said.
The group held Mugabe's government responsible for the cholera epidemic that broke out early last month in the capital city and has since spread to other parts of the country.
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Radical measures often turn out to mean tinkering with the current arrangements, and the government is responsible for plenty of the red tape and the targets it now wants to banish.
He says circumstances, not the government, are responsible for the delay in rebuilding.
The Full Employment Act of 1946 made the federal government responsible for job creation and accepted the crude Keynesian idea that aggregate demand management could be used to achieve maximum employment.
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It is the Executive Branch of the Federal government that is responsible for the classification of information.
Hurricanes are covered by the private market but, since 1968, the federal government has been responsible for the provision of flood insurance.
He is responsible for checking the accounts of government bodies and Stormont departments, ensuring that they are providing value for money through their expenditure.
Shaikh Abdul Mannan, a senior official at Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha, the government agency responsible for building safety in Dhaka, said the building didn't conform to the national building code.
Sheikh Abdul Mannan, a senior official at Rajdhani Unnayan Kartipakkha, the government agency responsible for building safety in Dhaka, said the building didn't conform to the national building code.
Mr Cameron also said it was important the UK maintained its system of funding and support for elite sports and praised the "very tough" conditions set by UK Sport - the organisation responsible for investing government money in Britain's top performers.
House GOP leaders have said they would insist on a bill that makes the federal government responsible for security but allows privately contracted employees to do the actual screening.
Now, with Saudi soccer fans focused as ever on the European game, the Saudi government body responsible for sport is looking to revitalize the national game with a radical plan to fully privatize the country's top soccer league.
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Among those believed by the U.S. government to be responsible for the embassy bombings was Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, a native of the Indian Ocean island nation of Comoros who had moved to Kenya in the mid-1990s and married a local woman.
On Sunday, PTI's Mr. Khan said that he held the leader of the MQM, Altaf Hussain, who lives in self-imposed exile in London, responsible for the killing of Ms. Hussain, as well as the British government, for providing him shelter.
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