Sentences with phrase «flagship policy of»

Schools with 150 or fewer pupils were this year given # 2,300 to help deliver the government's flagship policy of free meals for all children in their first three years at school, although the grant had already fallen from the minimum # 3,000 handed out the previous year.

The Conservatives» flagship policy of bringing back grammar schools was abandoned in the wake of the election.

This was a flagship policy of the Labour government - setting a legal upper limit of 30 pupils for infant classes in primary school.

They were the flagship policy of the then shadow education secretary, Michael Gove.

A total of 24 new free schools are now preparing to open this September under the government's flagship policy of allowing parents, teachers and other groups to set up schools in England.

He could have gone on to say that in the early 2000s, Conservative councils were anything but covert in their open destruction of the party's free schools policy, which was a logical progression of the grant - maintained concept and a flagship policy of then leader William Hague and (before there are cries of «lurch to the right!»)

David Cameron and George Osborne's flagship policy of progressively lowering Corporation Tax to 20 % has been very important in showing the UK is open for business.

Scotland's flagship policy of free personal care for older people has been criticised after an annual # 63 million funding gap was revealed.

«Look at the massive expansion in apprenticeships pioneered by the Liberal Democrats since then, look at the huge cash increase for everybody on the state pension because of Steve Webb's Liberal Democrat reforms on pensioners, look at the way toddlers in schools now get a healthy meal at lunchtime because of what the Liberal Democrats have done and look at the way in which millions of working people in this country have received because of the Liberal Democrat flagship policy of raising the point at which you start paying income tax.

Brown today was concentrating his attacks on the Conservatives, while the Tory leader, David Cameron, promoted his party's flagship policy of creating a new generation of state schools run by parents and local communities.

The proposal - a flagship policy of the Liberal Democrats - emerged following a two - and - a-half month consultation of members of the public who generally agreed that council tax levels were «not acceptable» and «should be seriously reformed or abolished».

The coalition government wanted a fixed five - year run in order that it could meet its flagship policy of eradicating the fiscal deficit in one parliamentary term.

Empowering local people to help out in their communities is a flagship policy of the «Big Society».

Empowering local people to help out in their communities is one of the flagship policies of the coalition government's «Big Society».

One of the flagship policies of the last few months of the coalition government was the introduction of an additional compulsory one year supervision by the private companies for anyone sentenced to prison for a short period.

Ross R. McKitrick and Kenneth P. Green — Toronto Sun — April 27, 2013 Earlier this month the Fraser Institute published a report sharply critical of one of the flagship policies of the Ontario government, the Green Energy Act (GEA).

Not exact matches

The report claims the emissions cap included in Alberta government's climate change plan will cost Canada's oil sands industry $ 250 billion and is the latest in a concerted effort by conservative opponents of the NDP to undermine its flagship policy.

Couple of days ago, Senior Minister Yaw Osafo Maafo was reported to have said government would champion a review of the Heritage Fund component in the Petroleum Management Act (Act 815) in order to fund its flagship policy.

The NDC, which like in the case of the Free SHS policy, did the donkey work of building all the school infrastructures that had enabled Akufo - Addo to start his government's flagship policy, did all the background work for the National ID project.

A former minister for welfare reform has criticised one of Gordon Brown's flagship policies on unemployment.

«These figures show in the starkest possible terms that Gordon Brown's flagship policy on pensioner poverty is failing to help many of the most vulnerable older people,» said spokeswoman Anna Pearson.

In 2001, he was made its chair and was widely understood to be one of Blair's key aides, credited as the mastermind behind many of the government's flagship education policies.

She has held on to the position despite differences with Theresa May over the Prime Minister's flagship policy to expand the number of grammar schools in England.

Nick Clegg's speech attempts to commit the Lib Dems to a «flagship policy» of increasing the tax threshold which the IFS is uncomfortable with, as well as much of the party; but it is uncosted and its affordability is questionable.

The new year started with the Green party announcing a universal, non-means tested weekly payment of # 72 to every British adult as its flagship economic policy, only to drop it this week from the party election manifesto after the programme's costing failed to withstand rigorous scrutiny.

Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude told her the implementation of Iain Duncan Smith's flagship policy had been «pretty lamentable» and that it was «very regrettable» so much money — # 34m, to be precise — had been wasted in the process.

[139] While the party acknowledges that it would not be democratically reasonable to campaign for the June referendum to be rerun, campaigning for a second referendum regarding the exact goals of Brexit negotiation is currently one of the party's flagship policies.

As I'm a newcomer to this forum, please tell me what has become of the old Liberal flagship policy: Co-partnership in Industry?

But the «hard work» of MPs and peers on the proposals, which were a flagship Liberal Democrat policy, had «inched us forward».

National Organiser of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Kofi Adams says the Akufo - Addo - led government's flagship program, the free Senior High School policy is comparable to his party's progressively free education policy.

Clegg's comments — seen by many as a hint that he might even work with the Tories rather than Labour in the event of a hung parliament — came as the Conservatives outlined their flagship education policy.

They might budge on some tax and spend policies, though flagships of anti-terror and defence might be a step too far.

The story gives us a fantastic amount of free publicity and overshadows Cherie Blair's visit to a Sure Start centre on an estate that has been devastated by her husband's flagship housing stock transfer policy.

If Labour can avoid an inevitable Tory backlash over the tax, it could be one of the flagship policies for the One Nation manifesto.

By stealing a Liberal Democrat flagship policy to partially fund the return of the 10p tax rate, Labour may have just pulled off a political coup.

How do you distract the public from a brutal no - confidence vote and a full spectrum attack on one of your flagship policies?

The government's flagship Free Schools are under greater scrutiny than most because their very existence is part of a huge political debate about the direction of education policy.

Favours sweeping tax cuts and abolition of Gordon Brown's flagship tax credits, which is not official Tory policy.

The same is true of the Coalition's flagship policy — to eliminate the deficit by 2015 - 16.

Shadow Welfare minister Chris Bryant MP said: «Iain Duncan Smith's flagship policy has been plagued with delay after delay from the outset and millions of pounds have been wasted.

New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament for Effutu, Alex Afenyo Markin, has said that government could consider taxing Ghanaians in order to accrue funds to finance its flagship free Senior High School (SHS) policy.

Nonetheless, the burden of compromise fell heaviest on the Liberal Democrats; and within the Programme for Government coalition agreement a significant number of their flagship policies were diluted (e.g. electoral reform), forestalled (e.g. House of Lords reform) or disregarded entirely (e.g. UK - wide federalism).

It criticised the flagship Conservative policy of extending the right - to - buy scheme to housing association tenants.

He said the Planting for Food and Jobs policy was a flagship programme of the government to increase food production and ensure food security.

But he has now secured the «historic» unanimous approval of his flagship policy by the Labour conference, in a development which will make it harder for Ed Miliband to set him aside this autumn.

Analysis by the charity Care and the Centre for Social Justice has shown that a transferable tax allowance is more pro-poor than the Coalition's flagship tax policy of raising the starting threshold for paying income tax.

The One - Village - One - Dam policy is one of the Akufo - Addo administration's flagship programmes aimed at ensuring all year - round agriculture in the three regions of the north, through the construction of irrigation dams in every village in that part of the country.

As the start of the Free Senior High School policy beckons, President Nana Akufo - Addo has appealed to critics to avoid pessimism borne out of partisanship, and consider the long - term benefits of the government's flagship policies.

On his part, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, expressed his outfit's appreciation to Hon. Adwoa Safo's visit and noted that the government's flagship free SHS policy would be implemented with due regards to the laws of the land.

Even his flagship policy, the scrapping of our near - compulsory -LSB-...]