Sentences with phrase «coalition agreement promises»

The coalition agreement promises an increase of 3 % per year for research agencies such as the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres and the Max Planck Society as well as increasing research spending from 2.9 % of gross domestic product to 3.5 %.

Despite what some Liberal Democrats argue the deal was unrelated to delivering an elected Lords (just as it is unrelated to Coalition Agreement promises on Human Rights reform and answering the West Lothian Question (things, which if brought to a vote, would have been rejected by Lib Dem MPs).

«David Cameron's biggest mistake by far is his decision to break the coalition agreement promise of «no top - down re-organisation of the NHS»,» shadow health secretary Andy Burnham said.

The 2010 coalition agreement promised to: «Bring forward early legislation to introduce a power of recall, allowing voters to force a by - election where an MP is found to have engaged in serious wrongdoing and having had a petition calling for a by - election signed by 10 % of his or her constituents.»

The Coalition Agreement promised to «end the storage of internet and email records without good reason».

«It does not come from outside the schools budget as the Coalition Agreement promised - we find out today that it is to be recycled from within it, creating huge winners and losers among schools.»

Not exact matches

Political parties failed to form a coalition government after May 6 elections, triggering another contest between the pro-bailout New Democracy conservatives and left - wing Syriza party that has promised to cancel the terms of the country's rescue loan agreements.

In the 2010 election manifestos, the Liberal Democrats, Labour and the Conservatives each promised to legislate and the coalition agreement included it as a firm proposal.

We can compare this performance with Conservative aims to cut the cost of politics (as opposed to government) by reducing the numbers of members of both Houses of Parliament, and the Coalition's promise to «cut the perks and bureaucracy associated with Parliament» (Coalition Agreement, 2010, p. 27).

The Government has failed to keep the promise in the Coalition Agreement that this pledge — intended to spend more money on disadvantaged pupils — would be funded «from outside the schools budget».

In response to the alliance, reported by the Hebrew media Sunday, a senior Likud source involved in the coalition negotiations accused the national - religious Jewish Home party of «voter fraud,» for forming an agreement with Yesh Atid instead of allying with Likud - Beytenu, as it had promised it would in its elections campaign.

That promise became part of the coalition agreement in 2010 and was enacted into law.

The coalition has promised to reach «detailed agreement on limiting donations and reforming party funding in order to remove big money from politics».

Assuming he hasn't had a change of heart and decided to row back on promises set out in the Conservative manifesto and the Coalition Agreement, the detail in the Red Book will confirm that the UK will meet its promise to spend 0.7 % of our national income on aid from next year.

Furthermore, the rise in the state pension age to 66 explicitly contradicts the government's own programme in the coalition agreement, which promised not to begin to raise the qualifying age until at least 2016 for men and 2020 for women.

The Commission - fulfilling a promise contained within the Coalition Agreement to look into establishing a British Bill of Rights - never looked likely to work.

We must take radical steps and go further than the promising references to the environment in the Coalition Agreement.

A promise of «robust action to tackle unacceptable bonuses» featured prominently in the coalition agreement.

The party secured the right to abstain from votes on the issue in the coalition agreement, but higher education unions and students will be watching the behaviour of Dr Cable and Nick Clegg closely for signs they are preparing to break their promise.

We started with a limit on those who come here to work, as we promised to do in the Coalition Agreement.

«But of equal concern is that the plans follow promises made both before the election and in the coalition agreement that there would be no more top down reorganisations in the NHS - promises that have now been broken by a health secretary operating in isolation in Whitehall and running a rogue department.»

The Tories have been more than happy to go along with the former, raising the income tax threshold as promised in the Coalition Agreement.

Mr George said: «We both signed up to a Coalition Agreement which promised to stop the top - down reorganisations of the NHS that had got in the way of patient care.

A coalition of housing advocates said that «while we were delighted when the governor used his State of the State speech to promise to build 20,000 new units of supportive housing, funding for the first 6,000 of those units is being held up by the failure of our elected leaders in Albany to sign a simple (agreement).

Amid the rancorous back and forth, a coalition of transportation advocates put out a statement urging the governor and the mayor to «move expeditiously» towards an agreement, one that includes «significantly» more city funding, and significantly more details on how Cuomo plans to fund his own promised $ 8.3 billion contribution.

He said this was something that the Tories had promised before the election and that it was included in the coalition agreement.

One of the most significant features of this parliament has been the rise of a much more independent parliamentary party... The small number of frontbench jobs relative to the size of the 2010 intake... The difference between the Coalition Agreement and the manifesto promises that MPs were elected upon... The empowerment of backbenchers by Speaker Bercow... The IPSA factor... No10's party mismanagement... at least ten factors have created what I've called the supercharged backbencher.

Miliband asked a series of questions that didn't seem to hang together very well, claiming that promises in the Coalition Agreement were being broken.

Jim Pickard of the Financial Times (#) finds a further twelve promises from the Coalition Agreement that may not be kept.

Their problem is that, though both reforms were promised in the coalition agreement two years ago, they weren't linked.