Sentences with phrase «make public spending cuts»

He also partially distanced himself from the policy of Alistair Darling, the previous Labour Chancellor, to make public spending cuts sufficient to halve the government deficit in four years, by calling it a starting point.

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Despite our tough plans for cuts in public spending, we have stuck to the previous Government's commitments on capital investment, apart from some small savings made in May.

Where the big society is seen by many as a cover for spending cuts, some of the provisions of the Localism Bill aim to make local authorities more accountable for the way public money is spent.

'' «I think we have made the biggest cuts in public spending that any democratically elected government has tried to do in modern times,» said Mr Clarke.

But I bet you that, when all those people are deciding which name to put a cross by on 2 May, ultimately they'll be asking themselves the same question: «While cuts are being made to public spending, who can I rely on to spend the money that is available on the right things?»

Following the 2008 financial crash, the need to find additional public resources to reduce or obviate the need for painful spending cuts and fund growing long - term demand for public services makes wealth an attractive potential tax base.

The former makes wild claims that Labour is irrelevant, becoming toxic and losing out to UKIP; whilst the Tories won in 2015 because they promised public spending cuts.

When the Labour governments elected in those years squandered their political support by wave after wave of pay restraint and finally IMF - inspired cuts in public spending, Margaret Thatcher came to power in 1979 and made a last ditch attempt to stem the Tory decline.

Nick Clegg acknowledged Northern Ireland's reliance on public sector jobs makes it especially vulnerable to spending cuts in a speech in the province last night.

The last week has seen frenzied activity from the party, with Treasury spokesman Vince Cable publishing the cuts the party would make to public spending if they attained power and leader Nick Clegg trying to reclaim the mantle of «progressives» from the Tories.

Meanwhile, the BBC reported that a poll for Newsnight suggested more people believed David Cameron would make the right cuts in public spending than Brown.

Remarks he had made at a private meeting of Conservative Way Forward - in which he suggested that the party could make greater public spending cuts than those to which it had publicly committed itself - were leaked to the media and his resignation as a party deputy chairman was not enough for Michael Howard.

The sheer magnitude of continued «unspecified» spending cuts forced by the two percent spending cap — $ 1.7 billion in fiscal year 2017, $ 3.3 billion in 2018, and $ 4.8 billion in 2019 — will inevitably starve our schools and public universities and prevent our state from making the investments needed to expand opportunities for those struggling to lift themselves out of poverty.

The government has made commitments to crack down on tax avoidance in order to ease the impact of public spending cuts, though the # 2 billion figure suggested by Mr Gauke was dismissed as insufficient by unions.

The BRC's warning will make uncomfortable reading for ministers, as the coalition has staked its economic policy of cutting spending on the projection that the private sector will be able to soak up a great deal of the job losses from public services, which will result from the spending review revealed on October 20th.

Impact assessments may not make for great sound bites or lurid tabloid headlines, but they do result in better policy, and at a time of severe cuts, there is a pressing need to ensure all public spending is as effective as possible.

It's a first salvo in what's expected to be a protracted budget battle as Gov. Andrew Cuomo gears up to fulfill his pledge to make deep spending cuts — most likely by goring the ox of some heretofore sacred cows, including the public employee unions and education aid.

The localism thinktank highlighted a funding gap brought about by public spending cuts and the savings councils are currently making through shared services.

Alexander confirmed that the Treasury would make plans to cut welfare spending, pointing out that at # 220 billion it represents one - third of all public spending.

The government is keen to foster the impression that its aggressive programme of spending cuts can be made without seriously damaging the «frontline» of public services.

The Chancellor has embarked on a programme to slash # 81bn from public spending to bring «stability to the economy» and Mr Cameron has made clear he believes the cuts should be permanent.

Conceding once again that public spending would have to be reined in, Brown said the government would raise tax «at the very top, cut costs... and make savings where we know we can» to protect frontline services.

The Committee to Save New York has made public, under state lobbying disclosure rules, that they've spent over $ 12 million dollars on advertising and other promotions of Governor Cuomo's policy agenda, including a property tax cap and budget cuts.

The sheer magnitude of continued spending cuts forced by the two percent spending cap — $ 1.7 billion in FY2017, $ 3.3 in FY2018, and $ 4.8 in FY2019 — although particular program areas are unspecified today, will inevitably starve our schools and public universities and prevent our state from making the investments needed to expand opportunities for those struggling to lift themselves out of poverty.

Much progress has been made in the NHS and public services over the past few years, it would be self - defeating to throw all that away by cutting spending now.

He makes the point that with spending cuts at home, it would be unacceptable for the UK to actually increase the amount of public money it is shelling out for the EU's budget.

«I believed that if we made a principled case for ruling out a VAT rise, as well as against premature cuts in public spending, it would change the course of the election,» said Mr Balls.

The Chancellor had unveiled plans to hike and taxes and make swinging public spending cuts to fill a # 30billion «black hole» he said would open up if we voted for Brexit.

The prime minister made no mention of chancellor George Osborne's pledge on Monday to freeze working age benefits for two years, but said the plan to eradicate the deficit by 2017 - 18 through a further # 25bn of public spending cuts was doable, adding it represents only 3 % of government annual spend.

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.

Of that total he wants roughly # 12 billion to be made up of welfare cuts, in an effort to halt the ever - increasing proportion of public spending taken up with benefits.

I cited yesterday on this site some of the big spending decisions that government will have to make sooner rather than later if it wants seriously to cut the rate of public spending.

It's interesting to note they reacted somewhat favourably to overtures two days ago from Gordon Brown, who promised to maintain the size of this year's block grant to Northern Ireland - and they accused the Tories of planning to make savage cuts to the province's public spending.

Since 2009, the board has made major cuts to the public schools, eliminating over 400 positions and reducing kindergarten to a half day while increasing spending on special education and transportation for private school students.

In YouGov's polling for Uncut, 49 % of the public agreed with making some cuts to schools and NHS budgets to protect spending in other departments with 37 % opposed.

Contending with sharp internal splits about how far to go in cutting spending and a reluctance to show their hand, Senate Democrats have not made public any specifics on their ideas for cuts, frustrating Republicans who see themselves as making hard, substantive proposals with no corresponding effort in the Senate.

Shortly before being moved in last month's ministerial reshuffle, Edward Leigh, the technology minister, told journalists that the move to close Warren Spring was prompted by the need to make cuts in public spending.

His aggressive, bare - knuckle style, cuts to public spending, and well - publicized clashes with the New Jersey Education Association have made the governor a media sensation and shoved his education reform ideas — which include expanding school choice options for students and overhauling teacher tenure, compensation, and pensions — into the national spotlight.

At a time when pressure on school places and buildings is increasing, and the public sector is being asked to make more cuts on spending, it is critical that school providers understand current issues on planning if they are to make best use of their built assets, according to Karen Cooksley and Lindsay Garratt from law firm Winckworth Sherwood

With so many targets to be met, energy prices rising and public sector spending under constant pressure, it is vital that schools particularly are made as efficient as possible to cut expenditure on energy bills.

Tomorrow — February 24, 2016 — the Connecticut General Assembly's Education Committee will be holding a public hearing on legislation that Governor Malloy and Lt. Governor Wyman submitted as part of their destructive proposed state budget, a spending plan that that coddles the rich while making massive cuts to vital health, human service and education programs.

According to an article in The Bookseller, the library system in Lincolnshire has mounted a legal campaign with the help of public interest attorneys to overturn their council's decision to make sweeping cuts to library spending, a decision that the campaign founders state was made without attempting to look for alternatives and is in violation of UK law regarding library access.

«If people knew they were killing animals this way because they wanted to make budget cuts, I'm sure there would be a public outcry to spend the money for a more humane method of euthanasia.»

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.