Sentences with phrase «cost to the public purse»

«The Funding Package of # 9.3 billion allocated to the Olympics does not cover the totality of the costs to the public purse of delivering the Games and their legacy, which are already heading for around # 11 billion,» said the U.K. government's public accounts committee.

The New Politics of Sex: The Sexual Revolution, Civil Liberties, and the Growth of Governmental Powerby stephen baskervilleangelico, 408 pages, $ 30 Divorce cases in the U.S. now account for 35 to 50 percent of civil litigation, at a cost to the public purse of billions of dollars per year.

Divorce cases in the U.S. now account for 35 to 50 percent of civil litigation, at a cost to the public purse of billions of dollars per year.

This is especially odd as we know that such neglect of this client groups needs quickly results in massive costs to the public purse in emergency interventions and hospital admissions.

Not to mention the cost to the public purse of leaving medical problems to worsen until a trip to A&E is the only option.

As she appeared on LBC, shadow home secretary Diane Abbott initially suggested the cost to the public purse would be only # 300,000.

The Cabinet Office said Mr Gray was being kept on temporarily for «contractual reasons» and there would be no additional cost to the public purse.

«These are bold, but practical proposals that will reduce crime, the cost to the public purse and the terrible harm caused by drugs,» Jamieson explained.

The oft touted solution of increased judicial appointments obviously comes at an increased cost to the public purse, and so the government has... [more]

If the High Court decision stands — and it is consistent with legal views expressed in Parliament and beyond — then after further litigation incurring further court time and cost to the public purse, it is highly likely that another bench will declare the Order ultra vires.

They also argued that, in making that calculation, they were entitled to take into account only education costs and not overall costs to the public purse.

Accordingly both the Government and Parliament may care to look again at section 58C (2)--(5) and to consider an obvious alternative means of achieving the same objective at much less cost to the public purse.

«The tax credit and welfare reforms are potentially disastrous for kinship carer households and will deter many potential kinship carers from coming forward, resulting in more children ending up in the care system, at significant cost to the public purse.

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And Raitt says there will be changes to insurance rules so that, in the event of an accident, there will be enough to cover compensation and cleanup costs without tapping the public purse.

The consultation on the change was published yesterday, alongside financial figures which have previously never been shown to the public showing that failed asylum seekers cost the public purse # 73 million.

Moreover, recent cuts to alcohol taxes will cost the public purse # 2.9 billion.

Those found culpable are to face the appropriate penalties and sanctions for their respective roles in causing the public purse to lose more than 1.9 million Ghana cedis to Smarttys in a deal that should not have cost the national kitty more than 1.7 million Ghana cedis.

Over 160,000 asylum seekers have been given leave to remain in the UK at «considerable cost» to the public purse, MPs have said.

This added premium will be for the taxpayers» benefit, to prevent unexpected increases in costs exposing the public purse unnecessarily.

Liberal Democrat sources predicted the move would save families # 400 a year per child, at a cost of approximately # 600 million to the public purse.

This type of basic functionality would allow sponsors to undertake their compliance obligations more easily and reduce the high number of calls that have to be made, at some cost to the sponsor and to the public purse, to clarify these and other issues.

That return underlines what incredible value the Foundation delivers for the tax payer, all the more remarkable when compared to other countries where all the costs of improving school sports facilities have to come from the public purse.

For non-levy-paying employers, they will be required to contribute 10 % of the cost of the apprenticeship, with the remaining 90 % funded by the public purse.

«If you consider the whole public purse cost, there is generally far less difference to the cost of an independent special school than people think.»

The ninety - nine cent price of a fast - food hamburger simply doesn't take account of that meal's true cost — to soil, oil, public health, the public purse, etc., costs which are never charged directly to the consumer but, indirectly and invisibly, to the taxpayer (in the form of subsidies), the health care system (in the form of food - borne illnesses and obesity), and the environment (in the form of pollution), not to mention the welfare of the workers in the feedlot and the slaughterhouse and the welfare of the animals themselves.

A representative from TravelWatch (a transport watchdog organization) said: «the scheme has been broadly privately funded, it remains to be seen whether the fares can cover all the costs or if the public purse would be left to pick up the pieces.»

If these costs were not recovered as part of a clinical negligence settlement, claimants would become dependent upon the social care system and the burden would again fall back to the public purse and ultimately the NHS.

When a choice must be made between doing nothing, paying from the public purse, or imposing the costs on the innocent, regulators are increasingly turning to picking the pockets of the innocent.

They reason they do that is because they, short - sightedly, do not want to pay for more judges, court rooms and court staff out of the public purse (especially if doing so would cost the current members of the government a slice of their future income increases).

Group calls for implementation of Arthurs» recommendations; discusses cost - shifting from employer to the individual and the public purse; permanent disability and injured worker poverty and unemployment.

In a sense it is the other driver to the public purse cost saving one.

Cost - shifting for payment of injured worker benefits from the employer funded WSIB to the public purse, with increased funding pressure on ODSP

They're a complete disaster and it's costing either the public purse or the nonprofit community much more to try to resolve this one case than being able to move things through quickly because of the level of complexity.

How costs are being offloaded from a system funded through employer payroll costs to the individual and the public purse; cost shifting must stop as must the move to a more private, corporate model.

Letter also addresses the cost - shifting to the public purse that occurs when workers in a non-insured workplace get injured.

If Labour or a coalition are returned we might expect that the whole reform programme, at least that pulling on the public purse and its cost will be abandoned in the short term or at the very least pushed to the back burner.

Description: «A jaw - dropping account of how one company came to own every poker machine in Tasmania — and the cost to democracy, the public purse and problem gamblers and their families.»

We fear, that unless Ministers address such concerns, more children could end up at suffering abuse or in the care system, at greater cost to the child's wellbeing and the public purse.