Sentences with phrase «for public spending»

Voters showed a preference for public spending cuts rather than tax rises.

We have abandoned many of our plans for public spending.

There are calls from some Conservatives for public spending to be cut further and for the savings to be used to fund tax cuts.

There should be a good reason for public spending that comes out of the pockets of hard - working people.

And all three are particularly vague on their plans for public spending.

Mr Davis also hinted that he was also planning to speak out on other issues in future, such as the need for public spending cuts.

In the London - centric world of the UK - wide and English media, too little consideration has yet been given to what Brexit means for public spending (almost all of it bad), and for UK - devolved government relations.

But in tough economic times we have to make difficult choices about priorities for public spending and what the right balance is between universal and targeted support.

The scandal is a hit parade of corruption issues involving money, politics and bribes in exchange for public spending.

The point is, they are bills to provide for public spending for public purposes under the Article VII powers laid out in the NYS Constitution.

As the Institute for Fiscal Studies has recently described, the Conservatives» plans for public spending from this year onwards would make it the «tightest five - year period since (at least) World War Two» whilst Liberal Democrat and Labour plans would see the «tightest four - year period since April 1976».

These spending plans imply that spending will fall as a percentage of GDP over the next three years, with a real terms growth rate for public spending of 2.1 %, well below the 2.75 % trend growth rate of the economy.

The Labour Party has stepped up efforts to discredit Conservative proposals for public spending, focusing on claims of savings identified by the James Review.

At the beginning of March he made it clear that «no policy proposals with implications for public spending are Conservative Party policy until they have been approved by me and by David Cameron, passed by the Shadow Cabinet, and appear in our draft manifesto.»

The government clung to power only by negotiating a «confidence and supply» agreement with the 10 MPs from the Northern Ireland Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), at a reputed minimum cost of a # 1bn «bung» for public spending there.

The communities secretary, Eric Pickles, attacked what he called the «doom mongers» and said mainstream political consensus around the need for public spending restraint meant councils would have to «make extra effort» to find savings well into the future.

By 36 - 24 %, voters still blame the last Labour government more than the present coalition government for the public spending cuts.

For the first time since Lord Hailsham's Ministry for Science was disbanded in 1964, science will have a Cabinet minister to speak for it in negotiations for public spending.

Inadequate financial controls The PAC is the body appointed by the House of Commons specifically to examine the accounts for public spending — so their comments and recommendations certainly carry weight.

Where two years ago Cameron the «liberal Conservative» seemed to be Nick Clegg's kind of guy, they are now at odds over the need for public spending cuts.

More people still blame Labour (36 %) than the coalition (27 %) for public spending cuts — figures which gave barely shifted throughout this parliament.

Yes, Labour needs to present a credible plan for public spending in the context of deficit reduction.

If anyone doubted how much the coalition government had it in for public spending, doubt no more, writes Channel 4 News's Carl Dinnen.