Sentences with phrase «ensure public spending»

He says voters will only trust Labour in 2015 if the party can show how it will bring public sector finances into balance over time and ensure public spending is efficient and effective.

Impact assessments may not make for great sound bites or lurid tabloid headlines, but they do result in better policy, and at a time of severe cuts, there is a pressing need to ensure all public spending is as effective as possible.

Then there's a build - up to something on tax cuts, but he again says «responsibility» is needed to ensure public spending can not change immediately.

More specifically, it is time to consider reforms that ensure public spending delivers results in the longer term.

Not exact matches

- and how can we ensure preventative spending — early years spending, support for troubled families, public and mental health services, scientific research into new cures and treatments — areas where spending now saves billions in the future - is given a high priority.

QE for People would ensure at least some new money would be spent through the government and used in the public interest.

To ensure that taxpayers and the vulnerable populations served by these agencies receive the maximum value for the funds paid, Governor Cuomo is proposing the following reforms beginning in 2012 - 13: • At least 85 percent of every public dollar will be spent on direct services, not administration.

«The Board of Elections was just ensuring that everyone that spends money on our elections, whether it's a super PAC, a 501 (c) 4 or a wealthy individual, discloses information about its donors to public,» said David Earley of N.Y.U.'s Brennan Center for Justice.

«Today's charges demonstrate our vigilance in ensuring that every taxpayer dollar is spent properly, and that corrupt individuals who betray the public trust to line their own pockets will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.»

Taking Success's argument «to its logical conclusion,» Ms. Elia wrote, «would mean that D.O.E. would be required to provide charter schools» prekindergarten programs with public funding without any mechanism to ensure» that they were meeting quality requirements, and that «public funds are being spent in accordance with the requirements.»

He says the public deserves to know how the MTA is spending its money and that the new rule ensures the agency won't be able to leave the public in the dark.

Millions of pounds could be saved by scrapping new road building projects around the country to increase spending on road safety, cycle routes and ensuring decent, affordable public transport - but the government is not getting its priorities right.

«Australians are entitled to expect that politicians spend taxpayers» money carefully, ensuring at all times that their work expenditure represents an efficient, effective and ethical use of public resources,» he said.

Common sense reforms to ensure a competitive bidding process, allow the Comptroller to review contracts, and create a database of deals will ensure that the public's tax dollars are being spent appropriately.

By ensuring that no additional public funds are spent to complete the Memorial and Museum, today's agreement puts in place a critical and long overdue safeguard to finally protect toll payers and taxpayers from bearing further costs, and, at the same time, put the project on a path for completion.»

«By reining in excessive property tax costs and building on accomplishments achieved over the past six years, our efforts to reduce wasteful spending and increase public involvement in local government with these shared services plans will lessen the tax burden for residents and ensure New York remains the greatest state in the nation.»

«The public financing system was designed to ensure equal and fair access for all candidates who seek elected office in New York City by limiting the amount of money candidates can raise and spend during an election cycle.

As evidenced in the agency's formal audit response, SIDA spends a considerable amount of time and resources to ensure the valuable public benefits requested are actually needed.

«We've changed the way we work to ensure that we achieve more affordable housing for every public dollar spent, and that our housing reaches the New Yorkers who need it most,» Been said.

Despite being hampered by slowing economic growth and weaker tax receipts, the former chancellor George Osborne planned to trim spending to ensure he could bring the public finances back into the black by 2020.

Senator Tom Coburn (R - OK) is holding up Senate consideration of the 2010 spending bill that funds the Department of Energy, concerned that the bill ensures public access to various reports that lawmakers require agencies to make.

These powerful companies spend billions to ensure you will be buying their products by using dishonest business practices, rigged clinical studies showing their products in a favorable light, public relations campaigns (like the fraudulent Breast Cancer Awareness Month — started by the manufacturer of mammogram machines), articles from paid «experts» on the internet and news clips to make you believe their products are healthy and safe, and lobbying Washington to enact laws ensuring you don't have healthy alternatives to their products.

g. Clearer commitments are needed to ensure all public money (including aid money raised from taxpayers) is spent on public education and is not supporting or subsidising for - profit provision in any way.

What ideal combination of outcome and process measures should we use to ensure that students have a great virtual learning experience and public funds are well spent?

Civil society has a critical role to play in social mobilization, raising public awareness, bringing marginalized voices to the centre, holding governments to account for their commitments, by scrutinizing spending, ensuring transparency in governance and budgeting, and developing innovative approaches to help advance the right to education, especially for the most disadvantaged.

He said: «If, in the autumn, the public finances continue to reflect the improvements that today's report hints at, then, in accordance with our balanced approach — and using the flexibility provided by the fiscal rules — I would have the capacity to enable further increases in public spending and investment in the years ahead while continuing to drive value for money to ensure that not a single penny of precious taxpayers» money is wasted.»

Trac objectives In response to these concerns, the «Transparency Review» was established by the government following the 1998 comprehensive spending review in order to develop a better understanding of the shortfall in funding across all university activities, and to ensure a greater level of accountability for public funds.

She explained that some kind of accountability seems necessary, if only to ensure that public money will be well - spent.

Later, Jewell groused that achievement school districts represent little more than a «new layer of bureaucracy that lacks the accountability to ensure public dollars are being spent effectively.»

The N.C. Department of Public Instruction's three - person charter school office and a newly created commission meeting a dozen times a year would be the only entities responsible for ensure taxpayer money is being spent wisely and that state laws are followed at the existing and new schools.

Authorizers ensure schools have the freedom to adapt and meet the needs of their students, while ensuring each school meets performance expectations, treats all students fairly, and spends public tax dollars appropriately.

In the late 19th century at the peak of anti-Catholic bigotry in the United States, Sen. James Blaine proposed a change to the United States Constitution that would ensure public money would not be spent on «sectarian schools.»

The role of the legislature is to establish a high - bar for academic excellence and ensure that the public can see where the money is spent.

The means advocating for labor and public assistance laws that ensure poor parents can spend time with their children.

Funds are the control structures that ensure that public monies are spent only for those purposes authorized and within the amounts appropriated.

We follow the Department for Education's Academies Financial Handbook to ensure that the public money we are entrusted with is spent as fairly and efficiently as possible, and to the maximum benefit of our students.

(Calif.) Three years ago as Gov. Jerry Brown was close to securing support from legislative leaders for his sweeping restructuring of the system for funding public schools, advocates for disadvantaged students brought the process to a standstill until protections were built into the program to ensure the money would be spent on target populations.

Neither would increase the regulatory burden on voucher - receiving private schools, but they could help ensure that families better understand their options and assure policymakers and the wider public that tax dollars are wisely spent.

At the shelter, Missy spends her time communicating with the public, ensuring that all animals are healthy and happy here, and working very hard to keep improving our shelter in any way she can.

To dispel such a notion, I implore you to ensure that the HSUS immediately spend a relatively insignificant amount of its annual revenue, that is approaching $ 150 Million Dollars a year, on a Nationwide Campaign that highlights and educates the American Public, and especially the new owners of puppies, on how best to protect healthy puppies from contracting Parvo.

In celebration of the wonders of the national parks, the SF Public Library is positioning its annual summer reading program, Summer Stride: Read, Create, Explore to ensure that youth and families spend time reading and learning as well as exploring national parks.

The state will continue to closely monitor Entergy to ensure public safety and mitigate safety risks associated with the plant, including for storage of spent nuclear fuel.

Importantly, states were required to spend at least three - quarters of the federal funds on home visiting models that met federal standards of evidence - based effectiveness.1 As many policy scholars have noted, that a national initiative brought the importance of evidence - based practice to the forefront of public policy is a triumph for social science and demonstrates the importance of rigorous program evaluation.2 With that triumph, however, comes a responsibility to ensure that the public's expectations for success of these programs are consistent with what researchers understand about the empirical evidence — will the same positive outcomes found in programs» randomized controlled trials emerge when those programs are taken to scale?

As a public - private partnership, it leverages state, federal and private dollars and helps ensure those funds are spent on the early learning programs and experiences that will make the biggest difference for Washington state's youngest children and their families.

However, in communities where incomes are quarantined and welfare recipients are required to spend a significant proportion of their income on food and other essentials, good public policy dictates that governments must also ensure that a healthy food supply is actually available and affordable in those communities.