Sentences with phrase «aid budget has»

«Millions of pounds of the DfID aid budget has been granted to the Trades Union Congress Main If Labour had told the truth in 1997»

The government's plans to protect health and aid budgets have been attacked as unjustified by the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC).

Mr Osborne said savings made in the health and overseas aid budgets would be recycled back to services.

Critics of the UK aid budget have long complained that India is an emerging superpower which is investing heavily in its own space programme and military.

He said any decision to make further cuts to the foreign aid budget would not require parliamentary approval.

An amendment to next year's school aid budget would require schools to give the MEAP exam next year.

The school aid budgets have increased 7.4 percent from $ 10.8 billion to $ 11.6 billion from fiscal year 2011 to fiscal year 2014.

Although changes to the criminal legal aid budget have been widely documented in the media, the same can not be said for public funding for family issues.

Dramatically rising fees at Canadian law schools with equally dramatic reductions in provincial legal aid budgets have created the perfect storm for young talent in the criminal defence bar.

He observed in his announcement that the legal aid budget had reduced from # 2.4 bn in the last Parliament to # 1.6 bn.

Legal aid budgets have been slashed in recent years.

Not exact matches

The investment in military hardware in Trump's budget would come at an expense of foreign aid and democracy promotion programs that have been a hallmark of U.S. foreign policy for decades.

«Multiple politicians have told us that in order for them to support measures like increased foreign aid budgets, they need to see the constituency first.»

President Donald Trump has released his «America First» budget proposal that revealed heavy cuts to foreign aid.

Just a day earlier, the White House released a preliminary budget for 2010 that would boost the SBA's appropriation to $ 700 million, about 45 percent more than what the Bush Administration had sought for 2009, excluding disaster aid.

Meadows also said that he did not expect a major fight over whether the Harvey aid package would be offset with cuts elsewhere in the federal budget.

A senior Democratic aide said the party's position is that emergency spending need not be offset by cuts elsewhere in the federal budget, making Pelosi's statement a challenge to Republicans who have insisted that previous aid packages not add to the federal budget deficit.

Having already extended some aid to the ailing auto and financial sectors, the federal government has hinted it may toss miners a lifeline as well when it tables its next budget on Jan. 27.

A defense official said that US aid did not meet all the requirements, and that the Ministry of Defense will have to make up one third of the expenditure from its shekel budget.

 The Harper government's decision last year to write off every penny of the auto aid and thus build it all into last year's deficit calculation (which I questioned at the time as curious and even misleading) has already been proven wrong. Since the money was already «written off» by Ottawa as a loss (on grounds that they had little confidence it would be repaid — contradicting their own assurances at the same time that it was an «investment,» not a bail - out), any repayment will come as a gain that can be recorded in the budget on the revenue side. Jim Flaherty has learned from past Finance Ministers (especially Paul Martin) that it's always politically better to make the budget situation look worse than it is (even when the bottom has fallen out of the balance), thus positioning yourself to triumphantly announce «surprising good news» (due, no doubt, to «careful fiscal management») down the road. The auto package could thus generate as much as $ 10 billion in «surprising good news» for Ottawa in the years to come (depending on the ultimate worth of the public equity share).

The budget increase, which has been praised by many non-governmental organizations working in overseas aid, squares with another seemingly competing Canadian opinion, however.

Christian aid agencies have praised George Osborne's budget announcement which confirmed the UK will spend 0.7 % of its national income on aid this yea... More

Lib Dem candidate for Mitcham and Morden, Claire Mathys says her party would use the foreign aid budget carefully, explaining: «It needs to be for aid.

Remedial action on this front will require extreme vigilance over foreign aid budgets, and careful attention will have to be paid to the Clinton Administration as it tries to square its adherence to an international agreement that flatly rejects abortion as a means of family planning with its commitment to huge increases in U.S. aid funding to organizations that actively promote precisely that evil.

8 One does not need a medical degree to recognize that admitting homosexuals into the military would bring about an increase in the number of AIDS cases and would put additional financial and personnel strains on military medicine, which must contend with a declining military budget and the challenge of recruiting and retaining sufficient medical personnel.

The findings of the ComRes study commissioned by Christian Aid have been published ahead of the Budget on Wednesday, which is expected to include new measures against tax avoidance following further revelations made in the Paradise Papers.

Although the amounts given by churches are tiny compared to the aid budgets of governments, the money has usually been well spent.

In his recent FY2011 budget request, President Obama requested significant funding increases for two of the main programs we have in the fight against malaria: the President's Malaria Initiative (PMI) and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

If the food security budget were to double by 2016, and the aid program increased to 50 cents in every 100 dollars of government income as both major parties had committed to do, food security would be around 11 % of the aid budget.

That's thanks largely to House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, who was the first to suggest additional disaster aid — remember that FEMA only has about $ 800 million on hand, which is less than even New York's estimated storm bill of $ 1 billion — be offset by other budget cuts.

Local governments had raised concerns with the program as proposed by Cuomo's initial budget presentation, pointing to the costs they've managed to contain over the years as well as the lack of increased state aid over the years.

To go back to Keynsianism, you don't cut spending when you're just barely struggling out of a recession, unless you've drunk the Hoover Kool Aid (go look at his policies in» 30 - ’31 if you think budget - cutting's a good idea right now — utterly disastrous).

Only weeks ago the Tories had pledged that, although they intended to cut public spending if elected, they would protect overall health and international aid budgets.

State aid in recent years has actually increased in state spending plans, while the budget this year closed the gap elimination adjustment.

Kaminsky has in recent weeks been archly critical of the controversial Common Core standards and raised questions after Republicans successfully pushed for a boost in charter school aid the budget and then received campaign support from the pro-charter organization.

The money raised by the taxes in part would go toward a potential boost in education spending, an apparent sticking point in the talks as lawmakers and Cuomo fight over what's known as foundation aid in the budget.

Significant cuts to bilateral aid budgets due to the consolidation of public finances have reduced member states» willingness to pool further resources and competences in Brussels.

The Cuomo administration has quietly resolved a problem created by a single line in the state's budget that would have held up $ 20 million in federal aid to the state's Conservation Fund.

The governor's proposed budget hasn't been good news for Utica College and many other private colleges in New York — or for their students who rely on state funding for some of their financial aid.

Kate Osamor, the shadow international development secretary, said: «The Tories have been cutting the aid budget by stealth for years, and they are now arguing over whether to go even further by abandoning the international definition of aid.

Cuomo has insisted that extending high rates on wealthy earners is a key piece of his budget, which also includes a $ 961 million spending increase for education aid and a $ 163 million plan to phase out college tuition costs at state and city universities for those who earn less than $ 125,000.

The Business Council of New York State strongly opposes the Executive Budget proposal which would eliminate all $ 35.1 million in funding for the Direct Institutional «Bundy» Aid program (Bundy Aid).

The weekly budget extenders that have kept our state afloat for the past 45 days are only a temporary band - aid and do nothing to move our state forward.

The Governor prioritized education spending in his budget proposal, including growth that is twice what would be allowed under the cap.9 To truly prioritize education the State should reform the Foundation Aid formula to ensure the highest needs districts are properly funded without unnecessarily sending aid to the wealthiest districAid formula to ensure the highest needs districts are properly funded without unnecessarily sending aid to the wealthiest districaid to the wealthiest districts.

Even though the cap has been overridden by the Legislature every year since it was adopted, this is the first time Governor Andrew Cuomo has proposed a budget that exceeds the school aid cap.

And three, as state budget negotiations continues, we need to have a more honest dialog about where our property taxes go, and how reform at the state level, whether it's mandate relief or targeted local aid, we can finally actually reduce the property tax burden on New York's homeowners and businesses.»

Cuomo and the state Legislature have not yet nailed down a budget deal that could include an extension of a tax on millionaires, more tuition aid for middle - class college students and more spending on clean water infrastructure.

British Prime Minister David Cameron has warned that countries which persecute gay people will find their foreign aid budget cut.

But the state Assembly has not included similar funding in its budget bills, and the owner of the FitzPatrick plant has not promised it will keep the facility operating even if the aid is approved.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo introduced a five - pronged package in January that included these reforms as part of his 2018 State of the State agenda, and the organizations were led to believe they would be part of the state's finalized budget after months of discussions with elected officials, a spokesman for the Legal Aid Society said.