More revelations about John Prescott are in Fleet Street's pipeline, Scotland Yard is still investigating loans - for - peerages and Labour MPs are not going to keep quiet when Tony Blair brings forward
further public service reforms.
Not exact matches
Finally, the report noted that state and local revenue gains from federal tax
reform will be
further offset by higher costs for state and local borrowing, resulting from tax
reform, and greater demand for
public services as charitable donations drop and federal budget cuts continue.
Take devolution
further, giving cities more ability to
reform and align
public services through a «place - based» approach.
«That will mean stepping up efficiency savings, it will mean accelerating
public service reforms, it will mean committing to
far - reaching asset sales and securing responsible pay deals and it will mean switching resources from lower to higher priority areas that better meet the new challenges.»
Tom Miers has written a pamphlet published today by Policy Exchange, The Devolution Distraction: How Scotland's constitutional obsession leads to bad government, which concludes that the not only has the Scottish Parliament not improved Scotland's economy or
public services, but that
further constitutional tinkering is a distraction from the real
reform that is required north of the border.
Chairman of the Bar, Chantal - Aimée Doerries QC says: «Today's Queen's Speech, delivered against the backdrop of continued economic austerity, highlighted the government's drive to cut
public expenditure
further and to
reform public services.
In both cases, this set the stage for legislative
reform that
further entrenched and legitimized non-lawyers providing
services to the
public that lawyers had wanted to reserve for themselves.