Sentences with phrase «by coalition cuts»

Ian Mearns, a Labour member of the Commons education select committee, said the minister was clearly «on a different planet» to the families and youngsters hit by coalition cuts.

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According to the WSJ, the ads that don't make the cut would be from a list of ad types as defined by the Coalition for Better Ads, which it helped create.

In October, the Latvian people voted in a coalition headed by the incumbent prime minister Valdis Dombrovskis, whose government had savaged social benefits, cut pay and inflated unemployment in 2009.

The report, aptly named The Business Case for Reducing Food Loss and Waste, was released on behalf of Champions 12.3, a coalition of nearly 40 leaders across business, government and civil society who are dedicated to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals» Target 12.3 to halve food waste and cut food loss by 2030.

The Commons» agenda is dominated by the coalition's cuts to legal aid, while in the Lords the health and social care bill continues to receive scrutiny from peers.

Departments not protected by ringfencing will face total cuts of over 30 % since 2010 by the end of the coalition's eight - year austerity programme, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said.

A coalition led by the New York State United Teachers and the Alliance for Quality Education is launching a direct mail campaign today slamming Democratic senators who voted «yes» on a budget resolution that included Gov. David Paterson's proposed education spending cuts.

The Coalition has already announced plans to radically slash health and safety laws, cut safety inspections and make it much harder for teachers and other workers to get justice and compensation for injuries and illnesses caused by their work.

Assuming the coalition continues its austerity drive at the same pace as that seen in the period covered by the 2010 comprehensive spending review, all government departments will have to make cuts of 1.6 %.

The coalition will hold a one - off one - year spending review in the new year, which will reveal by the end of the first half of 2013 plans for the departmental cuts anticipated by Conservatives and Liberal Democrats in the 2015/16 financial year.

Spending cuts caused by the coalition's austerity drive are driving down ministers» ability to deal with this problem.

Public sector bodies and local councils in Britain are determining out how best to respond and adapt to the next wave of change driven by the cuts imposed by the Conservative - Liberal Democrat Coalition government.

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).

In those more recent fiscal squeezes, year - to - year cuts in public spending have been notably less deep than those imposed after both world wars or the «Geddes Axe» cuts initiated by the Conservative - Liberal coalition of the early 1920s.

Labour said the funding announced today by the chancellor was a «tiny proportion» of over # 2 billion of spending cuts to HMRC imposed by the coalition, however.

The coalition's economic policies were criticised by the IMF in 2013, with its chief economist warning the UK government that if it cut spending too quickly and too deeply, it would be «playing with fire».

His tenure as Labour leader was characterised by a leftward shift in his party's policies, and by opposition to the Conservative — Liberal Democrat coalition government's cuts to the public sector.

In the UK, a Conservative — Liberal Democrat coalition government elected in 2010 began a strong austerity drive by halting and reviewing all major IT contracts, squeezing IT suppliers for costs reductions, cutting back consultancy and instituting stringent requirements for the launching of any new government IT innovations.

His failure to mention it in his 2014 party conference speech was just one sign of a rather muddled approach to the problem; after the 2010 election, the party's initial strategy was to talk about the necessity of cuts in general while opposing some of the most high - profile cuts introduced by the coalition, particularly when it came to welfare.

But he has earned Cameron's gratitude by taking a hefty pay cut to enter No 10 on a special adviser's salary of # 140,000 a year, having helped with the negotiations that created the Coalition Government.

Critics of the idea have claimed it is a cover for the coalition's spending cuts agenda, by transferring responsibility from the state to unprepared members of the public.

For example, the fiscal squeeze that began with the «Geddes Axe» under the UK's last Liberal - Conservative coalition in 1921 - 2 (and implemented in the following three years under three different governments) was also based on spending cuts alone, and went far deeper even than the plans announced by George Osborne.

How is it that Labour can oppose many of the cuts being made by the Conservative - led coalition and promise to spend billions on new policies?

Plaid Cymru will stand in staunch opposition to the spending cuts planned by the UK coalition government, its leader Ieuan Wyn Jones will say in a speech at the party's conference on Friday.

The current coalition government has a target of cutting administration costs by 34 per cent between 2009 - 10 and 2014 - 15.

The Coalition Government pledged to cut waste by axing chauffeur driven ministerial cars.

As Britain's economy rolls on into 2013, facing new perils from inflation and further unpopularity as the spending cuts are increasingly felt by voters, the creaking coalition will find it harder and harder to win the political debate.

The coalition has already announced measures to limit tax credits, scrap the Child Trust Fund, for the part - privatisation of Royal Mail, to scrap National Insurance increases for employers but maintain them for employees, cut by 10,000 the planned extra university places, provide for a greater role for the private sector in «free schools» and a «review» of all employment law to «maximise flexibility» amongst other measures.

The highlights of the alternative coalition agreement I'd like to see are green investment paid for by green taxes, an end to public service cuts, full proportional representation and more devolution to regional and local government including full fiscal autonomy.

In 2010 he announced that the main priority of the coalition was to eliminate the public deficit by 2015 and that this would be achieved through a draconian programme of public spending cuts.

This consensus on cutting spending needs to be opposed by the widest possible coalition.

If the state of the economy leaves the Coalition with a choice between investing in future growth by easing the deficit reduction programme and cutting support to the most vulnerable people in society, it can only choose the former.

Beginning the long campaign against the government's # 81 billion spending cuts, the shadow chancellor said his party would not have implemented the «slash - and - burn» approach taken by the coalition government.

A coalition of business interests, many of which are members or partners of the pro-Cuomo Committee to Save New York, are lobbying legislative leaders to reject a key element of the cost - cutting and reform plan put forward by the Medicaid Redesign Team and embraced by the governor in his 30 - day amendments.

Meanwhile, students, parents and community members organized by the Alliance for Quality Education, Citizen Action of New York and the New York City Coalition for Educational Justice delivered valentines to state lawmakers» local offices in the Capital District Buffalo, Syracuse, Binghamton, Queens, the Bronx, Brooklyn and Long Island asking them to reject Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposed education aid cuts.

Cutting bureaucracy has been a key theme of the coalition government so far, though a report by PwC earlier this week suggested those public sector job losses could have disastrous knock - on effects in the private sector - which the coalition hopes will lead the recovery.

As well as house building, the Labour leader will today pledge to slash business rates for small firms and pay for the move by cancelling the coalition's corporation tax cuts in 2015 and 2016.

«There is mounting evidence that the public expenditure cuts by the Coalition Government are now translating into fewer university places, and fewer apprenticeships and job opportunities throughout the public and private sectors.

Writing in a pamphlet published today and quoted by the Observer newspaper, Reeves stated: «For what it is worth, I think the coalition tightened a little more than necessary in the first two years; relied a bit too much on spending cuts rather than tax rises to fill the hole; and above all has taken a myopically conservative approach to borrowing for investment.»

«However the looming cuts to children's services, proposed by the coalition government, will drastically affect the ability of children with SEN to receive the support they are entitled to.

Wales has already taken more pain than other parts of the country, with real wages falling # 1600 since 2010, and the further cut announced today will mean that the Welsh Government's budget is down by more than 10 per cent since the coalition came to power.

The coalition's plans include capping housing benefit at around # 400 - a-week for a four - bedroom home, and cutting the benefit for anyone on jobseeker's allowance for more than a year by 10 %.

[71][87] Support for Labour slumped during the recession, and the general election of 2010 resulted in a coalition government being formed by the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats, which made deep spending cuts in order to ease the budget deficit.

The cuts, which began under the coalition government, have led some forces to share services while many have also reduced costs by closing police stations, reducing procurement costs and reorganising the workforce.

There are a number of local Liberal Democrats less than enamoured by the cuts agenda of the Coalition, and already there is talk of finding a high profile candidate to carry the banner for a more recognisable Liberal candidate, who local supporters with their long non conformist tradition might buy into.

I still believe we will be hammered in the forthcoming local elections, which makes me sorry for the hard working diligent councillor being affected not by local issues but by a simmering hatred the press and Labour have been keenly espousing since the coalition deal, and a hatred for the Lib Dems for being the face of the cuts.

Last year I wrote about Labour's thoughtful commentariat - the sensible lefties willing to accept the fact that cuts do need to be made, and willing to engage with the real political debate - as opposed to those irresponsible voices on the left who would condemn anything the Coalition does as «out of touch» «Tory cuts» made by a «Cabinet of millionaires», and so on.

The Commons may be about to be cut by about 10 % but the Lords has never been larger as the Coalition seeks to increase its representation relative to the swollen Labour benches.

Teachers at the Annual Conference of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, have condemned the Coalition Government's attacks on the pay of public sector workers, which has seen teachers» pay cut by almost 15 %.

Chris Keates: «Teachers have had their pay cut by thousands of pounds over the last four and half years under this Coalition Government».