Sentences with phrase «cent of the public»

62 per cent of public sector workers, from areas such as health and transport, will be affected by the freeze.

54 per cent of the public say they trust businesses more than politicians; just 8 per cent say they trust politicians more than business.

71 per cent of the public believe the Government has a responsibility to address alcohol - related harm, while 52 per cent support minimum unit pricing.

In fact one poll this week found that just three per cent of the public think he is good in a crisis and just two per cent think he is a natural leader.

It received 7 seats and 10.5 per cent of the public vote.

A survey yesterday saw 56 per cent of the public say they were not following the controversy closely enough to form a view.

The practice of a Christian school choosing to admit pupils based on the family's church attendance has been branded «unacceptable» by 56 per cent of the public.

«57 per cent of the public agree with the principle that «the number of seats a party gets should broadly reflect its proportion of the total votes cast»

Sixty - five per cent of public sector workers are women who will, by definition, be harder hit by job losses and pay freezes in that area just as they will be harder hit by cuts in benefits and tax credits, said the organisation in its application.»

AC: I live in Toronto, Canada, where 90 per cent of public school kids bring a packed lunch to school.

Support for the use of force to eject Iraq from Kuwait in 1991 was more muted: in January 1991, ICM found 45 per cent of the public wanted either to do nothing or stop short of the use of force.

Only five per cent of the public support Rupert Murdoch's News Corp takeover of BSkyB, it has been revealed.

Ninety four per cent of public spending cuts are yet to hit the UK, and the public sector is due to come under more pressure in the next few years.

Dix noted that over 70 per cent of the public favours phasing out cosmetic pesticides.

In terms of public debt one should not forget that Spain's situation is not significantly worse than that of other Eurozone members (69.3 per cent of public debt to GDP in 2011 in Spain, vs. 82 per cent in Germany, 86.5 per cent in France, 85.7 per cent in the UK, and 120.9 per cent in Italy).

By that time too, 67per cent of the public believed the government should have done more to prevent a war over the Falklands.

The research found that six in 10 people are dissatisfied with Osborne, including a third of Conservative supporters - compared with just 46 per cent of the public in the month before the Budget.

In the current situation both Labour and the Coalition would cut deeply and dramatically, the gap between them at around 1 per cent of public expenditure per year is smaller than either would like to acknowledge and since Labour privately admit they would have needed to increase the rate of cutback originally envisaged by Alistair Darling in pre-election phase, it is probably smaller yet.

And it's not just the Ukip effect: a recent YouGov poll found that 23 per cent of the public trust what «leading Labour politicians» say, whereas for «leading Conservative politicians» the figure reduces to 19 per cent.

Just before the passing of the Race Relations Act in the UK in 1965, more than 75 per cent of the public backed Enoch Powell's infamous Rivers of Blood speech.

More than 40 per cent of workers in the US use a computer in their work, but they have to learn their computing skills outside formal education — only 0.2 per cent of public educational resources is spent on computers.

It shows that only one per cent of the public find education as an important issue in Britain and nearly half of those (46 per cent) quizzed last month said NHS was one of the most important issues.

Petition urges Hertfordshire Council to reconsider selling public art collection Some 900 people have signed a petition urging Hertfordshire Council to reconsider selling as much as 91 per cent of its public art collection, reports a-n.

She also made a strong economic case for investing in prevention, informing us that a recent shows that violence against women and their children costs Australia $ 21.7 billion a year, yet investment in prevention (which makes up just 1.7 per cent of public health spending) is lagging.

Increases in incarceration rates for robbery offences have been the most dramatic of recent years; Indigenous women comprise nearly 80 per cent of public drunkenness offences; and fine defaulting remains a significant factor in incarceration rates.

Look, when we go over our various packages of service, our six per cent commission deal is wanted by 65 per cent of the public when it's explained to them and we market more than 200 homes a year.

Christian Aid has taken a stand after a new ComRes poll found that 80 per cent of public agree it is morally wrong for banks to profit from investments that pollute the environment, while 77 per cent believe banks should be stopped from doing so.

Additionally, the Public Sector Pensions Commission recently estimated that a huge 94 per cent of public sector employees are still on unsustainable defined benefit schemes, compared to just 11 per cent in the private sector.

In a recent ComRes poll conducted exclusively for Total Politics, fully 50 per cent of the public said the Lib Dems «seem to have almost no influence over government policy» and only one - third disagreed.

The British Social Attitudes Survey published earlier this year revealed that only 55 per cent of the public believed there was a democratic duty to vote.

According to a US federal Department of Education survey released on Tuesday, 94 per cent of public school teachers in the United States reported paying for supplies without reimbursement in the school year that straddled 2014 and 2015.

Moreover, he rejected journalists» claims that they are representing public opinion when calling for harsher sentencing, arguing only six per cent of the public want to send more offenders to prison.

Richard Barnbrook has won a seat on the Greater London Assembly after the British national party earned more than five per cent of the public vote.

An ICM poll for The Guardian earlier this week revealed some improvement in the Lib Dems» fortunes - they climbed one point on last month to 21 per cent of public support - although they are still far behind the other two main parties.

Just 14 per cent of the public think the Tories have run the best campaign in the current election, a little behind Labour, on 17 %, and way behind the Scottish National Party on 26 %.

«I'm thankful for this reversal and pray for the day soon when abortion providers would not operate on any cent of public money,» Moore said in written comments for Baptist Press.

Just six per cent of the public believe the government has made a compelling case for the communication data bill, better known as the snoopers» charter.

In 2008, when Parliament last looked at the upper limit for abortion, 67 per cent of the public agreed that if the limit was not reduced, then Parliament «should tighten up the rules on early abortion to discourage so many from taking place each year».

Concerns about the economy trumped all others by a significant margin; 52 per cent of the public thought it was one of the most important issues in today's Britain and 34 per cent put it in pole position among all their worries.

Thirdly, the small number of the British public to actually see public information on the symptoms of RA (just one - in - ten) and the high level of dissatisfaction with existing approaches of governments to raising public awareness, with just 10 per cent of the public saying they were satisfied.

A survey published yesterday by the Hansard Society reveals that 42 per cent of the public would support a fully elected House of Lords, and 40 per cent want a mixture.

Fifty - three per cent of the public is now against HS2.

As he left office in July 2007, 69 per cent of the public said he would be remembered most for the Iraq conflict: one presumes they don't mean positively.

Seventy per cent of the public have an unfavourable view of energy firms, with just five per cent still having a favourable view, pollsters Comres found.

«But it is important, as a matter of balance, to point out that the savings, rising to # 13 billion over 50 years, are the savings we set out to make; and crucially, that ten per cent of the public sector workforce is replaced each year.

Some 49 per cent of the public say they do not like Mr Brown or the Labour Party.

«About 20 per cent of public sector investment is actually invested directly in the public sector and large proportions of public sector budgets go on employing public servants to deliver vital frontline services,» said Nicola Smith, senior policy officer at the TUC.

72 per cent of the public are opposed to religious selection in schools, according to a new survey conducted by the British Humanist Association (BHA).