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The role of now regular surveillance, screening and monitoring processes as recorded by the Health Protection Agency has also contributed greatly to a significant reduction in key infection rates of MRSA bacteraemia, a 75 per cent reduction since 2003/04, when more patients were dying from what are largely avoidable infections.

In terms of debt reduction, we are very encouraged to see that B.C.'s direct operating debt is forecast to be $ 1.1 billion by the end of the current fiscal plan period, which marks a 90 per cent reduction since 2013 - 14.

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This would represent a reduction of 1 per cent in potential output growth since the year 2000.

In Latin America, Brazil reduced its policy rate by a further 2.5 percentage points to 16.5 per cent over November and December, taking the cumulative reduction since June 2003 to 10 percentage points.

In total, at least 11 per cent of IFAD expenditure approved since 2013 has been allocated to post-harvest infrastructure and equipment, accompanied by training for farmers, farmer groups and value chain operators on post-harvest techniques and the operation, maintenance and management of equipment to ensure sustainable food loss reduction.

The 17.5 per cent rate of VAT has been in place since 1991, except for the temporary reduction to 15 per cent introduced by Alistair Darling as the last Labour government sought to tackle the recession.

John Curtice, professor of politics at Strathclyde University, points out that the number of people who think taxes should be cut, even if it means a reduction in services such as health, education and welfare, has risen from 20 to 27 per cent since 2005, while the number who want to extend services has dropped from 40 to 29 per cent.

«The Speaker is committed to cutting costs wherever possible, and the overall expenditure of the Speaker's Office has fallen during his tenure from # 626,029 in 2009 - 10 to # 504,737 in 2014 - 15, representing a reduction of 19.4 per cent since he was elected to the role.»

The biotech companies claim a 30-fold reduction since 2000, from about $ 5.60 per gallon of ethanol to at most 18 cents; NREL puts the cost at 32 cents.

Overall, the report said that there had been real reductions in the education budget of almost 3.8 per cent since 2010 - 11 across Scotland's 32 local authorities.

«Compared to what the car industry has achieved — about 30 per cent reduction in CO2 since 2000 — the oil industry hasn't really played its part yet in reducing emissions.

With the International Monetary Fund warning of the possibility of the global economy shrinking for the first time since World War 11, the chance of the US agreeing to a 25 per cent reduction in 2000 emissions by 2020 seems remote.

Senator Alan Ferguson used a variant of this argument when arguing in Parliament against the adoption of the Rudd Government's Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme; he said that Australia is «responsible for less than 1 1/2 per cent of the world's emissions» and implied that since our contribution was so small there was no point in risking our economic well - being by reducing our greenhouse gas production.

«Since 2013 there has been a 70 per cent reduction in employment tribunal claims and I have experienced first - hand situations where clients have, for example, not been paid their correct final salary payment from a former employer and have not been able to pursue a claim as they can not afford the fees.»

Since then rates have decreased overall, but the road to achieving a 15 per cent reduction in rates is long and the final destination is still off in the distance.

On average, insurance rates have dropped 5.44 per cent since the Auto Insurance Cost and Rate Reduction Strategy was put in place last year, with about a dozen companies ahead of the curve with rate reductions of over 10 per cent.

For example, death rates among Aboriginal people from pneumonia have dropped by 40 per cent since 1996, following the roll - out of pneumococcal vaccinations, The «Strong Babies, Strong Culture» maternal health program has shown that significant reductions in the number of low birth weight babies can occur within a matter of years.