Sentences with phrase «areas of government spending»

The amendment requires that the funds only be used for payment of medical malpractice claims, and bars state lawmakers from diverting any money in the fund to cover other areas of government spending.

«There is significant rhetorical support — but not when prioritized against other areas of government spending.

But at a time when the chancellor proposed keeping a lid on many areas of government spending, «science does better than just about anywhere,» notes Robert May, president of the Royal Society.

The IFS says the fact that all three parties have ringfenced certain public services from cuts, notably the NHS, will pile the pressure for savings onto other areas of government spending.

Vincent Cable, the Liberal Democrats» Treasury spokesman, today warned that the black hole in public spending meant all areas of government spending would have to be reviewed.

Similarly the # 20m or so that is involved in the MPs expenses is small change compared to other areas of government spending like, say, the PFI Army training project.

This is the area of government spending that has been subject to most of the restraint measures to date.

Not exact matches

If the federal government required projected climate conditions to be considered when spending on infrastructure in flood - prone areas, construction practices would change, he added, noting the same pressures would drive chemical plants or other industries to have a wider margin of safety.

Program expenses were up only 0.4 per cent, as the ending of most of the stimulus spending in the Economic Action Plan and lower employment insurance benefits nearly offset increases in transfers to other levels of governments (spending in this area is largely set in legislation) and in elderly benefits.

In response to these strains, state and local governments have cut infrastructure investment, slashed support for higher education, cut spending on K — 12 education, cut spending on social benefits other than Medicaid, reduced administrative staff and reduced most other areas of the budget.

It was not clear, however, how the government would justify increased premiums and the introduction of a deductible considering the government's own «It's Your Future» survey indicated Albertans would prefer increased spending by the government in the area of healthcare.

Municipal operating spending has also increased because of further downloading of responsibilities by federal and provincial governments onto municipalities. The biggest increases in spending by municipalities over the past two decades have been for housing, health, social services and environmentâ $» all areas where federal and provincial governments also have responsibility, as the FCM's recent State of Canadaâ $ ™ s Cities and Communities report demonstrated.

He said the government's efforts to boost spending by public sector companies - which still dominate large areas of the Indian economy - could help lift overall growth.

Given the sad state of our highways, public transportation systems and other material infrastructure, as well as the severe needs of our educational system, increased government spending in these areas could take up the slack in declining defense expenditures while contributing enormously to the potential productivity of the United States.

The governor was said to be returning from Takum where he spent his Christmas when the accident occurred at Garba Chede area of Gasol local government area of Taraba state

This structural deficiency of what government spends its resources on and who are the real beneficiaries thereof, is worsened by another structural problem - the structure of Nigeria's pseudo-federation with one overwhelmingly large and not surprisingly wasteful and inefficient federal governments; 36 handicapped states; and 774 almost utterly useless local governments which are now de facto area offices of the handicapped states and therefore doubly - disabled and dysfunctional.

If somehow all these big words are about the future of Northern England's society and economy, about its transport and education and health system, about power and control vis - à - vis Whitehall bureaucracy and the whims of national government, about jobs and infrastructure and other areas where we are spending and raise tax money, then we should be talking about something else.

I can not be alone in thinking that it would be more beneficial for the government to be spending their scarce pennies on recovering lost VAT and creating an education programme to make it easier for individuals - and businesses - to fill in their tax forms correctly, when a massive two - thirds (65.9 %) of the lost revenue comes from these areas.

If somehow all these big words are about the future of Northern England's society and economy, about its transport and education and health system, about power and control vis - à - vis Whitehall bureaucracy and the whims of national government, about jobs and infrastructure and other areas where we are spending and raise...

I've just written a piece for Comment is free arguing that in, at least, four areas of public spending the Government has not cut out the fat:

To bring spending down to that level, New York State needs to impose additional cost - controls in areas such as health care expenses and the size of state government.

Shadow defence minister Kevan Jones told parliament that the government's pledge to ringfence the equipment budget meant there would be larger cuts on other areas and that the Conservative party had restricted how much they could spend with the «straitjacket» of the autumn statement.

The government has imposed spending limits for each police area of England and Wales based on their relative size.

News of the shortfall emerges days after Eric Pickles, the communities secretary, named Barnet as a pilot for the government's «community budget» system to hand councils control of all spending in their area free of conditions from Whitehall.

Under the Ashdown formula, the Liberal Democrats have worked with Labour on areas of mutual interest, such as constitutional reform, but have opposed the Government in other areas such as spending on health and education and preparation for the euro.

The government recently announced a re-targeting of the UK overseas aid budget, which will see more money spent in conflict areas.

Fiscal conservatives (who want lower taxes and lower government spending) are the face of the party, to some extent, but the Christian Conservatives are a significant block (the former Southern Democrats); they were added in the late 1960s through the 1980s slowly over time as the Democratic Party shed some of its ties to the area in favor of stronger ties to the urban centers.

«A local tourism tax, or so - called «bed tax», is one of many areas being looked into by the independent Lyons inquiry into local government funding, which will report... ahead of next year's comprehensive spending review.

Welfare reform has been on of the areas that the Lib Dems have found particularly hard in in Government, trying to walk the tightrope between economic credibility in reducing spending and social justice.

Spending # 20bn a year on housing benefit, 40 % of which goes straight to private landlords, is wasteful, but government cuts are pernicious, forcing an exodus into cheap areas with no jobs.

The City of New York's participation will increase the usefulness of the spending data for all governments in the New York Metropolitan area.

The other key area is the post hoc scrutiny of government spending achieved by the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), acting on the reports of the independent National Audit Office, the UK's «supreme audit institution» (or SAI).

Ministers have always run an eye over the distribution and impacts of government spending to check where the winners and losers are and have even been known to ensure that the areas which their party represents get a fair share, but the distribution of this # 300m seems a bit skewed to say the least.

Eric Pickles, the local government secretary, has enthusiastically trimmed many areas of his department's budget - so much so that he is allowed to sit on the «star chamber» finalising the spending review.

Visiting Bristol yesterday as part of Labour's city conversation, to help elect Marvin Rees as city mayor, shadow education secretary Stephen Twigg highlighted the government's swingeing cuts with new build funding for schools slashed by a massive 57 %, against a general 30 % cut in most other spending areas.

BY PAUL SCHINDLER The city health department and leading AIDS advocacy groups are scrambling to convince Governor Andrew Cuomo to reverse a proposal in his new executive budget that would reduce reimbursements for local government public health spending in six core areas from 36 percent of the total to 29 percent.

The board would also spend N15.1 million on the construction of Early Child Care Development Education games village in nine primary schools in nine local government areas.

«While the so called progressive Governor spent over N276 million on improvement of his office infrastructure in 2016, only a sum of N1.18 m was spent on the improvement of infrastructure in the hospitals in the 30 local government areas and the Ife East area office.

Pat McFadden MP, the shadow business secretary, said the Experian research into the differing effect of spending cuts across English regions showed that the government's policies would «hit the poorest areas hardest.»

The former chancellor said that the government had protected too many areas of public spending after the new work and pensions secretary, Stephen Crabb, appeared to indicate that ministers would rule out cuts to the welfare budget for the rest of the parliament.

The Campaign for Science and Engineering (CaSE) said government spending in these areas made up less than one per cent of its total budget and had proven benefits.

Government sources said that ministers were demonstrating the importance they attach to helping businesses in such areas by making the announcement four months ahead of the autumn spending review.

This suggests that the expansion in federal investment in R&D over the past several decades has resulted not only from a commitment to the «endless frontier» of science and technology, but perhaps as importantly from the general growth of discretionary spending which allowed greater government investments to be made in a variety of areas including S&T.

The extent of both government and private - sector spending will also depend on how much of Puerto Rico can be rebuilt, and whether some areas — such as the capital, San Juan — should be given priority while more rural areas are left to be rebuilt using local resources.

«Let's say that, at a minimum, there are two areas of behavior in which our government spends an enormous amount of money.

On Wednesday, May 16, I spent several hours on a hot bus in a neon desert called Las Vegas with a merry band of British conspiracists during their journey around the Southwest in search of UFOs, aliens, Area 51 and government cover - ups, all for a BBC documentary.

Additionally, the Nigerian government is spending a huge amount of money on private security forces of their own in the area, and there are rumors of security agents going rogue to increase demand for their contracts from the government.

Luke Sibieta, Programme Director at the IFS and author of the report, commented: «School spending in England has been one of the most protected areas of public spending under the coalition government.

The Federal Government has released its budget for the year ahead, announcing a total spend in education of $ 33.7 billion, yet not all areas of education are set to benefit.

«Instead of focusing on the need for more primary school places, David Cameron's government has spent # 241m on free schools in areas that already have enough school places,» said shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt.