Sentences with phrase «cent of national income on»

The EU12 group of recent entrants to the EU including Cyprus and Malta as well as Eastern European countries - has promised to spend 0.17 per cent of national income on aid by 2010 and 0.33 per cent by 2015.

It now stands behind Luxemburg, Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, Ireland, Belgium and Finland, spending 0.41 per cent of national income on overseas aid.

In a policy described as «hard - headed - but not hard - hearted», the Tories reiterated their commitment to spending 0.7 per cent of national income on international development, meeting the target set by the United Nations.

In the coming Budget, we will become the first G8 country to realise the historic promise to spend 0.7 per cent of national income on aid.

The last Conservative manifesto contained a commitment not just to spend 0.7 per cent of national income on overseas aid, but also to «legislate in the first session of a new Parliament to lock in this level of spending for every year from 2013.»

Not exact matches

Close to one - in - five Canadians (17 %) believe that Canada spends more than the UN target of 0.7 per cent of gross national income on overseas development assistance.

Unite has warned of a debt disease as National incomes fell by more than 13 per cent this year compared to the start of the recession four years ago, according the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

The Conservative party has committed itself to spending 0.7 per cent of Gross National Income on development by 2013.

Among the party's other policies: a # 50bn a year cut in spending, a 31 per cent flat rate of income tax, the abolition of national insurance, a five - year freeze on new immigrants settling in Britain, a ban on wearing the burka in public - and in some private — buildings, and boot camps for young offenders.

Mr Osborne announced an increase in the threshold before workers start paying income tax to # 8,105, financial support for first - time home buyers, a two per cent cut to corporation tax this year, a tax on private jets, a clampdown on non-doms, the introduction of # 140 flat - rate state pension, a review into a merger of national insurance and income tax and a fair fuel stabiliser, including a 1p cut on fuel duty.

Mr Evans insisted that he was keen on encouraging Britain's political parties to commit to international development issues - including their goal of providing 0.7 per cent of gross national income to aid projects by 2015.

The # 43,888 - a-year ceiling on national insurance contributions (NICs) would be abolished, so people earning more would pay NICs at 11 per cent on all their income above that level, instead of the current 1 per cent.

Last week, I wrote that the Government is currently on track to haul back the State's share of the economy from the ruinous 47.7 per cent of national income it reached under Labour to 39.5 per cent within five years.

«This Coalition Government will be the first British government in history, and the first major country in the world, to honour the United Nations» commitment on international aid... Overseas development will reach 0.7 per cent of national income in 2013.»

In the summer a National Audit Office (NAO) report showed money was being wasted because civil servants were struggling to hit the legal requirement of spending 0.7 per cent of the nation's income on overseas aid.

He used the cover of the Lib Dems to press ahead with bold reforms at the heart of his modernising project: making gay marriage legal, introducing Free Schools, overhauling Britain's something - for - nothing benefits culture and — controversially — committing to spend 0.7 per cent of UK national income on foreign aid.