Sentences with phrase «election spending commitments»
Labour reacted furiously yesterday to documents produced by George Osborne and the Treasury outlining the supposed costs of Ed Miliband's general election spending commitments.
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The President of the Treasury Board has recently released a four - pillar strategy (a 2015 election commitment) for Estimates Reform aimed at improving the ability of Parliament to properly scrutinize government spending.
Cameron's commitment to spending more on health than the rate of inflation every year of the next election will still leave the NHS under significant cost pressure as it tries to deal with the soaring demands of an elderly society.
And the lawmakers want Cuomo to put some spending commitments on the table as well, especially for election reform, seeking $ 3.1 million for aiding local governments to adopt early voting and ease the transition process.
Instead, it's spent its years in opposition generally opposing the coalition's cuts as a matter of course, making its commitment to fiscal rectitude just as the election approaches feel like a late conversion indeed.
They will be duty bound to push for their manifesto commitments and although the Liberal Democrats argue that they would help reign in Labour profligacy, it is hard to imagine they would force a second election because public spending cuts are not deep enough.
«There's a lot we'd like to help the Board of Elections do, but we must see commitment to reform and modernization, or we're not going to spend the taxpayers» dollars.»
The spending returns filed by the 191 candidates who stood in the elections also show that the financial commitment of the Liberal Democrats to these elections was less than wholehearted.
Of course a shadow Chancellor can not, more than 3 years from the next election, make any detailed spending commitments — nor would he be expected to — but, if pressed, he could certainly make clear his intention to redress the worst of the cuts as soon as the economic situation allowed.