Sentences with phrase «fences around their budgets»

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The chancellor warned in his emergency Budget last month that departments faced cuts of around 25 per cent over the next four years on average - apart from health and overseas aid, whose budgets were ring - fenced.

The reductions in Ph.D. s funded, which will also hit the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council in lesser numbers, come despite a protective «ring - fence» put around the United Kingdom's # 4.6 billion science budget last year.