Sentences with phrase «defence budget would»

He said that reductions in benefit dependency must be at the heart of any budget cuts and that protecting the defence budget would be his first priority.

A nice dose of 8 % inflation and all of a sudden the taxes are flowing and the welfare and defence budget have been slashed.

[27] However, according to a Freedom of Information request, the only impact on the Defence budget has been # 20,000 per year to set up and run the settlement office in Kathmandu.

Defence correspondent Caroline Wyatt asks whether Britain's defence budget has been cut too far.

Defence correspondent Caroline Wyatt asks whether Britain's defence budget has been cut too far and whether it should re-examine its global ambitions.

Not exact matches

If Trump succeeds in getting more favourable terms of trade from his trading partners, along with perhaps relief on his defence budget, he will emerge as the winner in the noisiest trade quarrel the world has seen in the last couple of decades.

New Democrat defence critic Jack Harris accused the government of not only keeping the public in the dark, but watchdogs such as the parliamentary budget office, which had a tough time compiling its own estimate on the war earlier this winter.

A new report from Jane's Defence Budgets reported that arms and defense spending has reached $ 1.57 trillion, a notable increase from last year.

Yes, he may not play an exiting brand of football, but he'll sort out the defence, and he can work on a smaller budget than what Wenger has (for all those fans that say it's all about the money).

In his defence, there is plenty to support the argument that the Argentine deserves it more as he has done a stellar job at White Hart Lane for the second consecutive season, outperforming their rivals with a much smaller budget.

It's clear Mourinho has a busy summer planned as reports from the Sun earlier this week claimed he was set to be handed a mammoth transfer budget, mainly to target new signings in defence.

Carragher also suggested that, despite a sizable portion of club's transfer budget having gone toward defence in recent windows, the Etihad outfit should consider further recruitment.

The problem staring us in the face arose from the N13 billion shortfall we had in the 2016 budget estimate which the agency made strong request for its provision during budget defence.»

And it is why I have already raised with my fellow European leaders the need to deliver on their commitments to spend 2 % of their GDP on defence — and 20 % of their defence budgets on equipment.

We happen to have the biggest defence budget in Europe, we have the biggest navy in Europe.»

Turkey has a defence budget of $ 18.18 billion.

However it does seem that the Ministry of Defence has been plagued over the last few decades with commissioning large projects that end up running horrendously late and over budget.

Defence secretary Liam Fox «can not support» plans to increase the aid budget to 0.7 % of gross national income, he has said.

An official review, leaked to the Sunday Times, said «endemic» failures at the Ministry of Defence have led to projects being # 35 billion over budget and five years behind schedule.

But Mr Hammond insisted: «Criticism from Labour rings equally hollow — they are the cause of the problems we are now resolving, I am determined to get the defence budget back into balance so our armed forces have certainty and clarity about the future.»

«Every opportunity is being given for military personnel to retrain either for alternative roles in the armed forces or in civilian life, but the simple fact is we have to tackle the massive deficit we inherited from Labour and the huge black hole in the defence budget,» he explained.

The debate comes in a week when pressure has been growing on David Cameron to commit to protecting the defence budget beyond 2016.

Shadow defence minister Kevan Jones told parliament that the government's pledge to ringfence the equipment budget meant there would be larger cuts on other areas and that the Conservative party had restricted how much they could spend with the «straitjacket» of the autumn statement.

MPs have voted 37 to three in favour of keeping defence spending at 2 % of GDP which, although it carries no legal force, will pile more pressure on the prime minister to pledge to protect the defence budget.

Obviously, that has been funded from outside the defence budget through the reserve, so it will not impact on other defence spending.

Chancellor George Osborne stood firm in the face of public pressure from Dr Fox, who had hoped to persuade No 11 to finance Trident separately from the Ministry of Defence's (MoD) overall budget.

David Cameron gave away little in his speech to the Conservative conference yesterday, as he told delegates the state of the defence budget was «catastrophic», but insisted he would «not take risks with British security».

The defence experts did however agree that the SDSR was a good balance between the need for spending cuts and preserving the UK military, suggesting that many had feared far greater cuts to the budget than the 7.5 % which emerged.

«We continue to have the fourth largest military budget in the world and the SDSR has put defence back on a stable footing with highly capable armed forces and certainty for our personnel and their families.

After a year of coalition government, it would be fascinating to repeat the exercise, and perhaps focus on two big - budget departments, like the Foreign Office and Ministry of Defence.

The Conservatives would also not make cuts in ministry of defence budgets until a strategic defence review.

The new defence secretary said he «hoped» there would not be further cuts to his department's budget and praised his predecessor for «taking some very tough decisions» in order to get funding «under control».

Michael Fallon told Good Morning Britain the Ministry of Defence was able to «invest in the future» because Philip Hammond - the new Foreign Secretary - had «spent nearly four years» working on the department's budget.

Allowing defendants to use funds restrained under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 to fund their private defence in our view would also limit the strain on legal aid budgets.

Rejecting Conservative claims that Labour left office with a # 38bn black hole in its defence budget, he nevertheless conceded that cuts had to be made.

«Having already balanced the defence budget, we're now focusing on implementing lasting structural change in defence procurement.»

In a damaging critique of the prime minister, General Lord Guthrie said Gordon Brown had been the «most unsympathetic chancellor» to defence budgets and the only senior Cabinet minister who avoided coming to the MoD for briefings.

«It seems to me a tiny fraction of the aid budget, the welfare budget and of the NHS, so tiny it would hardly affect them, would make an immense difference to defence.

The Ministry of Defence (MOD) has been criticised for being over budget and late with major projects, in a report by the National Audit Office (NAO).

They need to know that the defence budget and the defence estate will be properly managed, that weapons and equipment will be delivered on time and on budget rather than late and with massive cost over-runs, and that they and their families will not have to pay the cost of incompetence higher up the line.

We have the biggest defence budget in Europe and the second largest in NATO.

«We have the fourth highest defence budget of any country in the world.

«The strategic defence and security review (SDSR) is unravelling and ministers must give the country confidence that they have a grip of the budget and equipment programme.»

We have the biggest defence budget in Europe, and one of the largest development budgets in the world.

Defence budgets will always be under pressure, but the situation has been made worse by the recent revelations that despite Hammond's efforts to plug the UK MoD's budget «black hole» — defence is still set to suffer deeDefence budgets will always be under pressure, but the situation has been made worse by the recent revelations that despite Hammond's efforts to plug the UK MoD's budget «black hole» — defence is still set to suffer deedefence is still set to suffer deep cuts.

Britain and France have signed treaties agreeing to pool their military capabilities, as they bid to cling on to their major global defence player status despite constrained budgets.

But we have just exposed them as committed to a massive # 53 billion of extra spending - more than the total defence budget.

But the new urgency on the government's part seemed to stem from the realisation last week that cuts in both defence and the schools budget would not be as great as the Treasury had hoped.

But he said: «I'd have to start cutting key budgets like defence.

Mr Osborne says the NHS would see cuts of # 2.5 billion, with the defence budget reduced by # 1.2 billion, and education spending down by # 1.15 billion, in his «illustrative examples» of what would be in an emergency Bbudget reduced by # 1.2 billion, and education spending down by # 1.15 billion, in his «illustrative examples» of what would be in an emergency BudgetBudget.