Sentences with phrase «deficit over the parliament»

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-- Member of Parliament David Yurdiga «The federal government thinks that it is acceptable to run a $ 30 billion deficit and spending billions on foreign aid and international climate change projects, as well as on newcomer settlement programs all the while cutting over $ 100 million from the three northern territories over the course of the next five years.

An emergency Budget in June 2010 set the parameters (and commitment of the Coalition) to eliminating the bulk of the structural deficit over one Parliament.

Concerned to yank back economic credibility from the Tories, he reaffirmed the Darling plan to halve the deficit over the course of the parliament, and made points around the need to develop a proper industrial strategy.

In fact, Miliband had simply forgotten the brief passage about the deficit — the one addressing the issue that had hung over parliament like an ominous cloud for the previous four years.

Those of you who were at the Q&A with Nick Clegg yesterday will know that I asked him whether the Lib Dem strategy is to try and reduce the deficit within one parliament or, more responsibly, over two or even three.

The Institute for Fiscal Studies have already calculated that a faster programme of deficit reduction would require # 8bn of extra spending cuts or tax rises over the parliament.

The IFS said that the Conservative plans to get rid of «the bulk» of the deficit over the course of the next parliament will involve the biggest spending cuts since the second world war, while Labour and Lib Dem plans will result in deeper cuts that at any time since the 1970s.

During a trip to south Wales, he said: «Our starting point would be to say to the other two parties «you know you have got to control the deficit and debt», and have a plan our creditors believe for getting rid of the structural deficit over the next parliament.

We have therefore agreed that there will need to be: - a significantly accelerated reduction in the structural deficit over the course of a Parliament, with the main burden of deficit reduction borne by reduced spending rather than increased taxes; - arrangements that will protect those on low incomes from the effect of public sector pay constraint and other spending constraints; and - protection of jobs by stopping Labour's proposed jobs tax.

In Autumn Statement 2011 Osborne abandoned his plan of eliminating the structural current deficit over one Parliament, and since then there has been no progress on the deficit whatever, except via accounting wheezes involving Royal Mail and QE.

Gordon Brown (18/4/10) Hung parliaments, campaign, the Queen - 12m 18s (48.5 %) Immigration - 5m 21s (21 %) Bankers - 3m 11s (12.5 %) Ash cloud - 2m 40s (10.5 %) Afghanistan - 1m 56s (7.5 %) Cuts, deficit - 0 m 0s (0 %) Nick Clegg (25/4/10) Hung parliaments, Clegg personally - 11m 7s (49.7 %) Immigration - 7m 32s (33.7 %) Trident - 3m 42s (16.6 %) Cuts, deficit - 0m os (0 %) David Cameron (2/5/10) Cuts, deficit - 15m 26s (67 %) Priorities - 3m 20s (14.5 %) Hung parliament, campaign - 3 m 0s (13 %) Living Wage - 1m 18s (5.5 %) Given that all three interviews lasted well over 20 minutes each, shouldn't some of that time (at least 5 minutes) have been given over to asking Mr Brown and Mr Clegg about cuts, taxes and the deficit?

We will significantly accelerate the reduction of the structural deficit over the course of a Parliament, with the main burden of deficit reduction born by reduced spending rather than increased taxes.

This country is important because it has been held up by David Cameron as his response to the Labour Party's proposals to halve the deficit over the course of this parliament, rather than try to eliminate it entirely.