Sentences with phrase «assessment on public finances»

Andrew Goodwin, senior economic adviser to the Ernst and Young Item Club, said the independent watchdog had reached a more upbeat assessment on public finances than many had expected and that these forecasts need further scrutiny.

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The Office for Budget Responsibility will issue independent assessments of the public finances: this is an institution specifically intended to improve long - term financial planning, and which will help not only this Government but future governments to remain on the fiscal straight and narrow.

In a submission to the House of Lords Constitution Committee's inquiry into the passage of legislation through Parliament, the CIOT proposes: · The Finance Bill Public Bill Committee takes oral evidence from tax experts and others; · More effective liaison between select committees and the Finance Bill committee; · Increasing the resources available to Parliament for scrutinising tax matters; · Using technology to make it easier for those outside Parliament to comment on Bills, e.g. an online facility to input comments by clause numbers, so MPs can see who says what against each clause; · Asking the Office of Tax Simplification to publish simplification assessments of new tax proposals.

The first secretary attacked shadow chancellor George Osborne's own assessment of the public finances, calling his Mais lecture «longer on assertion than specific proposals».

Determining whether any new funding policy hurts any child will be the basis for our assessment of the legislature's upcoming action on public school finance.