Sentences with phrase «parliament over government spending»

Less information is now provided to the public in budgets than under previous Liberal and Conservative governments; the authority of Parliament over government spending has been weakened; the understanding of Canadians as to what the government is actually planning to do in the budget has been eroded.

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She argues that accrual - based appropriations would provide Parliament with a consistent basis for control and approval over voted spending that is the same as the overall government financial plan».

It is important because it is critical in determining whether Parliament can adequately exercise its authority over government spending.

According to the Auditor General, accrual appropriations would provide Parliament with the same basis and approval over voted spending as the government's overall financial plan and summary financial statements.

-- Member of Parliament David Yurdiga «The federal government thinks that it is acceptable to run a $ 30 billion deficit and spending billions on foreign aid and international climate change projects, as well as on newcomer settlement programs all the while cutting over $ 100 million from the three northern territories over the course of the next five years.

But where it starts getting very dangerous indeed is over the size of government debt, which stood at under # 500bn in 2006, but which, even after all the pain of the spending cuts, will stand at the end of this Parliament at a whopping # 1.5 tn.

The Member of Parliament (MP) for Ayawaso West Wuogon, Emmanuel Boakye Agyarko, said former President John Mahama's government broke the Appropriation Act 2016 when it spent over GH cents 51 billion instead of the approved GH cents 43 billion.

Mr Osborne's estimates suggest this will reduce government spending by # 3.2 billion a year from 2011 onwards, or more than # 12 billion over the next parliament - equivalent to protecting more than 100,000 public sector jobs.

The CBI and Aecom have called for Government to reaffirm spending plans and press ahead with implementing policy decisions to ensure projects are delivered in full over the course of this Parliament.

The government says it put # 5bn into creating new places in the last parliament and would spend another # 7bn over the next six years in response to the steep rise in pupil numbers now affecting both primary and secondary school.

It's the latest in a series of reforms after stinging criticism from the National Audit Office at the government's failure over several years to provide parliament with a clear view of academy trusts» spending.

A Department for Education spokesman said: «We are giving local authorities # 5bn to spend on new school places over this Parliament - double the amount allocated by the previous government over an equivalent period.

The Department for Education says it is giving schools # 5bn to spend on new school places over this Parliament, which it says is double the amount allocated by the previous government over an equivalent period.

The government now says it will end up spending more than # 24 billion over the course of the parliament on school capital funding.