Sentences with phrase «in public spending»

The coalition government was right to announce cuts in public spending in 2010 to show the financial markets and the public that the government was serious about cutting the deficit.

The manifesto also proposed a large increase in public spending on education, which would allow for the school leaving age to be increased to 18 and reduce average class sizes to 19 pupils.

The second gang of policy makers admits debt is a problem, but it insists any reduction in public spending today will only make matters worse.

We have got to find huge savings in public spending.

You had European, French, German and English investment in public spending.

We think it's because the barriers run deep — embedded in our public spending system and our institutions.

Not because I don't believe in public spending: far from it.

Historic trends in public spending help to explain this.

The expansion in public spending resulted in an economy distorted towards sectors driven by debt or by public expenditure.

This might be the most progressive, most sustainable and cheapest option in the long run, but it would also expose universities to the short - term risks of cuts in public spending.

If you look at the facts rather than the allegations: what we are doing in the fiscal plan is slowing down the increase in public spending.

He added: «It would not be right to turn the remarkable and necessary period of catch - up in public service provision over which Labour has presided into some kind of eternal doctrine: that social democracy is about high growth in public spending for its own sake, against which everything else we do is secondary.

Liberal Democrat insiders point to the fact that Kennedy and his supporters emerged from the SDP, the old Social Democratic breakaway party, but that in seeking to «break the mould» of British politics and merging with the Liberal to become the Liberal Democrats in the 1980s, never in their wildest dreams expected to end up supporting a minority Conservative Government intent on the most swingeing cuts in public spending since the Second World War.

It is now forecast to be # 96bn — that's # 78bn higher, even with the further deep cuts in public spending which the Chancellor has programmed in for 2015 - 16.

Despite the government's long professed love for mediation as a way to divert family disputes away from the courts, there has been a steep decline in public spending on mediation.

Vincent Cable, the Liberal Democrats» Treasury spokesman, today warned that the black hole in public spending meant all areas of government spending would have to be reviewed.

In contrast, Conservative spending would have resulted in a fall in public spending as a proportion for GDP and the difference between the two, # 35 billion in 2011 - 12 prices, constitutes a «cut».

Specifically, the manifesto argues for an end to austerity: the SNP proposal is for a 0.5 % annual increase in public spending over the course of the next parliament, rather than the reductions in spending which George Osborne laid out in his March 2015 budget.

Well, this is half - true — the public agreed on the need to rein in public spending, but more voters now blame the UK government than the eurozone crisis for the lack of economic growth.

(It seems likely that the main rise in public spending and reduction of tax revenue over the 2008 - present period has been due to economic contraction rather than policy change - unemployed people claim benefits, don't pay tax on wages and pay much less VAT on purchases.

Vince Cable warned before the election that «the danger of drastic cuts in public spending right now is that it would make the recession worse and it would make the deficit worse» — but he signed up to them.

She added: «With serious cuts in public spending now agreed, it is imperative that the rail industry become more efficient - or the passenger will pay.»

«Open The Books» has become a national rallying cry for transparency in public spending.

In response to the debt crisis structural adjustment programmes were imposed by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund as a means to «create macroeconomic stability» through privatisation, the lowering of trade barriers and massive decreases in public spending, particularly on services and civil salaries.

He said in doing this, Nigerians must continue to strengthen accountability, significantly limit discretion in public spending and promote greater openness.

Using his wealth of business experience, he had previously done sterling work on the shadow Treasury team and organised the James Review to cut out waste in public spending.

He added: «They have stuck at it but deficit reduction has come at the cost of an unprecedented squeeze in public spending.»

«The subject was, ostensibly, another - the experiment in public spending that the Labour Government has conducted since the turn of the century.

But it is increasingly clear that these traditions are being abandoned by Clegg as he goes along with damaging cuts in public spending undermining economic growth, tax rises hitting the poorest hardest, and a clear threat to the universal welfare state.

Conservatives should not be pledging to continue the biggest ever peacetime increase in public spending when ordinary Britons are having to cut their own budgets.

David Cameron and senior Tory sources have already made it clear they oppose giving Holyrood greater powers over taxation given the UK's vast deficit and the crisis in public spending.

Mr Osborne has given an interview to the FT (of which there is more inside the paper here) in which he asserts that Labour's projected 1.1 % annual increase in public spending between 2011 and 2014 is «unsustainable» and that it will be spending cuts rather than tax rises which account for reducing the the fiscal deficit:

In his first speech to the CBI as Prime Minister, David Cameron promises to boost the economy and replace jobs lost in public spending cuts — but businesses remain anxious, Cathy Newman finds out.

By 2009, it is difficult to see that there will be a war chest but a General Election will be fought in the context of restraint in public spending and possible tax rises.

As a proportion of this country's wealth, this government will be spending more in public spending at the end of this parliament after all these cuts, than Tony Blair and Gordon Brown were when they came into power.

A report by the Labour MP Margaret Hodge, commissioned by Khan, said the final total in public spending, with cancellation costs, was likely to reach # 46.4 m.

Many experts chalk up such declines, as well as regional teacher shortages, to the Great Recession and ensuing cutbacks in public spending.

The LA Times reported earlier this week that California has slipped another notch in public spending on K - 12 education — from 23rd in 2008 to 35th in 2011 — part of a nationwide dip in spending reported by the Census Bureau.

They drive hundreds of billions in public spending.

His ideas spark multibillion - dollar shifts in public spending.

An updated IBO report confirms that not only do NYC charter schools receive less in public spending than their district counterparts, but this funding disparity continues to grow.

Analyses shows increased ambition would save billions of Euros in public spending, create local green jobs, lift millions out of energy poverty, and would replace fossil fuel infrastructure.

The Attorney General has stated that a counsel rate of $ 250 per hour is unsustainable, in an apparent move to reign in public spending on legal fees.

Labour was no friend of legal aid — on the Today programme during the election campaign the only cut in public spending Ed Miliband could identify as one which Labour would make and the public would notice was legal aid.

«We need to let people know that reductions in public spending in Wales are lower than the average in the rest of the UK and a lot lower than England,» he said.

That is now changing, with the longest period of low or no - growth in public spending since the Second World War.

Cameron made a point of saying that the Tories would not introduce «swingeing» cuts as the party said it would make modest reductions in public spending of about # 1.5 bn in its first year in office.