Sentences with phrase «introduced under the coalition»

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They rocketed under the coalition and peaked at around 90,000 in October 2013, as the government introduced sanctions of up to three years in the supposedly most extreme cases.

The cost of going to university could double under the coalition government's plans to introduce a graduate «contribution», a union has warned.

Although the coalition has made much of its action to levy # 2 billion from the banks, the one - off «bonus tax» introduced under the last government was cancelled.

The alcohol duty escalator - introduced in 2008, but maintained under the coalition - automatically increases duty by inflation plus 2 %.

At present schools can receive # 488 for each pupil who is eligible for free school meals, under a measure introduced by the coalition government last year.

But the measure was opposed by Liberal Democrats, who secured the freedom under the Coalition Agreement to abstain in any vote on the issue, and Mr Clarke indicated today in an interview with the Daily Telegraph that tough economic conditions made it unlikely to be introduced before 2015.

The story referred to a Bill introduced into the Commons by Lib Dem MP Andrew George to water down government legislation (known in Whitehall as the under - occupancy penalty) which had represented a collective decision of the coalition government.

A # 50m fund to ease the pressure of migration on public services was introduced by Gordon Brown in 2008 and scrapped two years later by David Cameron under the coalition in summer 2010.

First introduced under Labour and then extended under the Coalition, the «50 % cap» on religious selection in free schools was seen as a significant, though not sufficient, step towards improving integration and inclusion in what has long been a segregated education system.

The rate of entrants with ATARs under 50 has nearly doubled since 2013, rising from 7.2 per cent to 14.3 per cent, which the AEU says indicates a failure by the Coalition to introduce means of addressing falling standards or an oversupply of graduates.

For example, well before Labor promised no school would lose a dollar, the Coalition did exactly the same thing in 2001 when it introduced its socioeconomic status (SES) model under Prime Minister John Howard.

On the first sitting day of Parliament under a Coalition Government, I will introduce legislation to repeal the Carbon Tax.

It was the Tory - led Coalition government that introduced the mean spirited regime under Legal Aid Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act (LASPO) when it scrapped all forms of private family law from the legal aid scheme.