Sentences with phrase «cut public expenditure»

Chairman of the Bar, Chantal - Aimée Doerries QC says: «Today's Queen's Speech, delivered against the backdrop of continued economic austerity, highlighted the government's drive to cut public expenditure further and to reform public services.

How much of the change is driven by the need to cut public expenditure is the subject of another article, of course.

This is the same man who SAID that it was too early to cut public expenditure before the election but never told anyone that he changed his mind before the election.

Lord Forsyth, a former Conservative minister who headed the party's recent Tax Reform Commission, said: «I think we need to cut taxes, cut interest rates and cut public expenditure.

If history has taught anything, it is that you don't cut public expenditure during a period of sluggish growth.

Its priorities in government have been to cut public expenditure, make inroads into the deficit, tackle perceived welfare dependency and inject market forces into areas where they have previously been lacking.

Not exact matches

While the early days of Cameron's leadership were all about reaching out to new groups and voters beyond the traditional Tory core, since taking power his agenda has been very much in line with that of Conservative leaders and governments since 1979, being characterised by cuts to social expenditure and the privatisation of public services.

In the absence of reform, such countries will be forced to rely on tax increases or cuts to public expenditures to restore their public finances to good health.

«The difference between Len's position and Ed's is that Len believes a political party can win an election on a platform of promising no cuts, no job losses and continued levels of public expenditure.

I think to dismiss the possibility that further public expenditure savings can be made would be unjustifiable, although making further savings in the next parliament may most easily be achieved by targeting the Tory sacred cows that have so far been protected at the cost of greater cuts elsewhere.

For a start, the next Labour leader will have only 13 days to agree a policy on spending cuts: the new shadow cabinet won't be announced until 7 October, while the forthcoming Comprehensive Spending Review, which will reveal the biggest cuts to public expenditure since the 1930s, is scheduled for 20 October.

The public may not like the cuts but if it believes that cuts were inevitable and the deficit was the consequence of too much public sector expenditure then we really are fucked.

Before the general election, Labour pledged to not begin necessary public expenditure cuts until the economic recovery was secure so the pain would be reduced.

Cantor singled out three NY Republicans — Reps. Ann Marie Buerkle (NY - 25), Michael Grimm (NY - 13) and Nan Hayworth (NY - 19)-- calling them «right - wing ideologues who would allow the United States to default on its financial obligations and cut all sorts of sensible public expenditures before asking corporations to pay their fair share.:

Members opposite are cheering the deepest cuts in public expenditure that have taken place in living memory.

«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.

Welfare benefits reduced to 2006 levels, social welfare bill cut by equivalent to 1.5 % of public expenditure

Lord Falconer, the lord chancellor, acknowledged there were «considerable constraints on public expenditure» but said efficiency savings meant there should be no cuts to services.

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.

It widened the divide between Labour and the Tories further by raising inheritance tax to 60 per cent for estates worth more than # 1m, in order to balance out extensive public expenditure cuts.

In the latest ConservativeHome survey of Tory members, no fewer than 94 % took the view that significant cuts in public expenditure would be necessary to restore order to the public finances.

«What's happened is people have said they have had quite enough of austerity politics, they have had quite enough of cuts in public expenditure, underfunding our health service, underfunding our schools and our education service and not giving our young people the chance they deserve in our society.»

With so many targets to be met, energy prices rising and public sector spending under constant pressure, it is vital that schools particularly are made as efficient as possible to cut expenditure on energy bills.

California's public school system — whose per - pupil expenditures were already below the national average — is getting hit with some nasty cuts, thanks in large part to the state's $ 24 billion budget gap, says Brian Edwards, senior policy analyst at EdSource, a nonprofit education and research group in Mountain View, Calif..

Unfortunately, the civil justice process is likely to be a victim of further cuts in public expenditure.

They concluded that the cuts were justified as the cuts were «still felt to be a proportionate means of achieving the legitimate aim of reducing public expenditure».

This brought cuts to public hospital funding and a proposal for a GP co-payment: hallmarks of policy measures geared around reducing health expenditure rather than impacts on people and what was best for the sustainability and effectiveness of the health system overall.