Sentences with phrase «money spent on»

They made this know yesterday while opposing a suit requesting them to provide information on the money spent on President Buhari's treatment in London, United Kingdom.

According to Dr Bawumia, «President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo's government will continue to work to ensure a Cash - Lite Economy to bring about efficiency and also save Ghana a lot of money spent on maintaining currency notes in Ghana.».

Mr Cameron said: «In the last 48 hours the SNP have said «no money spent on defence projects unless you get rid of Trident».

He offers humorous and incisive takes on all aspects of political life: from the build - up to Iraq, to the scandalous sums of tax - payers» money spent on ministerial cars he didn't want to use.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee spent about $ 7 million in more than three dozen districts this week, catching up to the National Republican Congressional Committee in the total amount of money spent on ads thus far.

Siena pollster Steve Greenberg said one reason for the shift is the amount of money spent on the race by not only the campaigns, but by political party committees and outside groups, which spend millions to try and influence voters.

The violations involved a host of things, including money he spent on his wife, Chirlane McCray, and his kids, Dante and Chiara.

More than half the money spent on Medicaid in this state goes toward long term care.

The PAC, called Jobs for New York, represented the trade group's first foray into independent expenditure in city races — money spent on a campaign without any involvement of the candidate.

Since political speech deserves the highest First Amendment protection, money spent on political speech does, too.

The comptroller's office has also criticized advertising money spent on the governor's Start - Up New York Program.

The Access to Justice in Lending Act, sponsored by Lancman and passed by the Assembly several weeks ago, would allow individuals to potentially recuperate money spent on legal representation in foreclosure proceedings.

DeMarco's support added up to $ 197,000; that includes cash contributions and money spent on his behalf by state Republican leaders.

The Democrat benefited from about a total of $ 742,000 in campaign contributions and money spent on Stirpe's behalf by Albany leaders.

Let me point to 10 things that I sketched out this morning: too much money spent on administration and bureaucracy and not enough on front - line patient care; too little patient - centric information to inform decision making; too little innovation; too little clinical input into decision making; too much inertia and hostility to reform, as we have seen today; too much process - driven target culture distorting clinical decision making; falling productivity; poor outcomes across a range of clinical indicators; too often, weak commissioning of servicing; and widening health inequalities in the past 10 years, in addition to the scandals that occurred in Staffordshire and Kent.

«I want my local tax money spent on actual threats to public safety, and not being part of an ICE initiative to do sweeps.»

Tories hope that axeing foreign - language versions of documents explaining how to claim benefits would make it harder for immigrants such as newly arrived Romanians and Bulgarians to cash in on the UK's benefits system, encourage others already here to learn English — and save money spent on translators.

Stringer said he believes the city can cut the money spent on claims by implementing a system that identifies problem areas.

FES broke state records for money spent on lobbying last year, and spent $ 9.7 million total on a blizzard of largely anti-de Blasio advertising in 2014.

At the same time, DeFrancisco, a Syracuse lawmaker in the Senate, said the Empire State Development Corp. should reimburse the Department of Transportation, the Thruway Authority and the Port Authority for the money spent on the signs.

«Because [immigrants] are more likely to be working age, they're more likely to be paying taxes and less likely to have relatively large sums of money spent on them for education, for long - term care, for healthcare, for pension expenditure,» OBR chairman Robert Chote told MPs.

Current SSNIT Director - General, Dr John Kojo Ofori Tenkorang told Joy News in August, the entire software is not functioning despite the huge money spent on it.

The work and pensions secretary insisted the money spent on the system, which is intended to manage the implementation of universal credit, was roughly in line with what the private sector would expect to lose on a major IT project.

Dogara stated that the period PDP held sway, the more money spent on the Power sector the more darkness Nigerians experienced.

They are not targeting it to wrongdoers and they are not increasing the money spent on opioid treatment.»

And the money spent on issue ads that could sway an election — such as gun control — is not even counted by the feds as political contributions.

The money it spent on behalf of these candidates represented only a small percentage of the contributions it had received at the time, it had a history of getting involved in Senate races, and it helped Senate hopefuls through independent expenditures, rather than direct transfers.

A study released Thursday by Environmental Advocates of New York found that the vast majority of the money spent on each project goes toward redevelopment instead of cleanup.

«By making these critical investments in our aging NYCHA buildings, we are both protecting our residents — many of whom are children — and saving money spent on repairing these buildings.»

And once you strip away all of these categories, the amount of money spent on what most people would label «welfare» - unemployment benefit - is vanishingly small at less than one per cent of all government spending.

The federal Office of Compliance turned down Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine's request to provide the number of sexual harassment claims made against senators and the money spent on settlements.

«They're more likely to be working age, they're more likely to be paying taxes and less likely to have relatively large sums of money spent on them for education, for long - term care, for healthcare, for pension expenditure.»

He also criticised the government's policies, arguing the money spent on building more prison places would be better spent on pre-natal care and education.

They lose all the money they spent on the course, often running to several thousand pounds.

Arguing the cuts to school building projects were unavoidable, the department claimed: «The government was absolutely right to look at the amount of money spent on school buildings.

And the amount of money it spent on convincing voters is staggering for an otherwise quiet year of local, off - cycle elections.

A report being released Friday by the Public Accountability Initiative examines the money spent on the consulting and lobbying firm Mercury Public Affairs by Competitive Power Ventures as the trial of a former close aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo loomed.

Besides, Anenih was said to have indicated in the letter that, on the instruction of the former President, the BoT of the PDP then, under his chair, embarked on a nationwide reconciliation tour and that the money he spent on hiring private jet during the tour, among other responses, was also not refunded to him.

Faulkner's comments came during a news conference announcing a Manhattan Supreme Court suit — first reported by The Post — over the $ 13.6 million in city money spent on lawyers who represented de Blasio and several «underlings» in connection with investigations by federal and city prosecutors.

Government unions account for about 6 percent of the money spent on Democratic candidates in federal elections — and that doesn't include significant in - kind contributions like phone banks and canvassing.

With $ 10 million of county money spent on caring for residents suffering from tobacco - related illnesses, Legislator Mark Farrell, D - Brutus, said the harm caused by tobacco can not be ignored.

County Executive Scott Walker wants the money spent on a new rapid bus line from the UW - Milwaukee campus in Milwaukee to the new campus in Wauwatosa, said Fran McLaughlin, Walker's director of communications.

Last election cycle, the amount of money spent on the race for the 40th Senate District in the Hudson Valley shattered previously known records.

This the same company whose owner is under Federal indictment for defrauding local and federal taxpayers of money spent on alleged fraudulent repairs made to Rockland County BOCES School buses.

Unlike in Senate races where American Crossroads — the leading conservative - aligned outside group — spent heavily to make up the difference with Democrats, there was far less third party money spent on the GOP side in House contests in the month.

All senators should be recalled & the money spent on orhpans & other less privileged people.

Democratic candidate Kenan Baldridge agreed, arguing much of the money spent on the district was unspecified.

its a pretty appalling bill, but Yvette Coopers just said, that we should have money spent on state schools, in areas where there's no free schools, is this a concession that there'll be here to stay under her if she wins and we win the election?

Here's where it gets nasty — PIP's main purpose is to reduce the money spent on people with disabilities; PIP will have a reduced budget (20 %) compared to DLA, and will be harder to qualify for meaning many of those currency on DLA will not qualify for PIP.

Other state legislators on both sides of the aisle were surprised by the amount of public money spent on the settlements.