Sentences with phrase «of public spending»

Can the Conservative party have a mature discussion about what it considers to be necessary levels of public spending?

The VAT increase will be taking effect, and the construction sector will start to feel the pain of public spending cuts.

Labour will reverse benefit cuts in other areas, but offers little defence against these three big hits - choosing to focus on other areas of public spending.

It has to be more hard - headed about the proportion of public spending in the overall economy — and thus about the level of taxation — that it thinks is good.

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.

This involves # 4.4 bn worth of public spending.

For too long the state has lived far beyond its means, leading the nation in virtually every major category of public spending.

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.

With budgets set to be painfully tight over the next decade, every pound of public spending should be tested on whether it actually solves a problem rather than creates one.

Let us take the central electoral issue of public spending plans.

A full half of public spending doesn't even fall within those limits.

But at the same time, the contribution of public spending to growth in demand is likely to increase over the year ahead.

Of every form of public spending military spending is the least Labour productive.

There's no sign of public spending rising across the board, however.

Local governments now get about half of tax and other revenues, but are responsible for more than 80 percent of public spending.

The committee, which exist to evaluate the sectors of public spending, said that there were early signs that pupil premium funding was making a positive difference.

So far, this work has been on behalf of the private sector, so without the luxury of billions of public spending to support it.

Only 9 % think the current level of public spending should be maintained, with more than two thirds believing that less should be spent on administration in public services.

As in all areas of public spending, funds for the running of the courts are limited.

As Tony King points out in his commentary, support for Cameron must be largely image based, since the majority (61 %) of the public had little idea on what Cameron's views were in regard of levels of public spending on reform of public services.

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.

To the east is Columbus, growing so fast due to the growth of public spending in big state government and THE big university that Marysville is now almost a suburb.

On the the right of the party, assorted Blairites — and Ed Balls too — argue that Labour must demonstrate its «fiscal responsibility» and commit itself to very tight control of public spending.

The costs of retiree benefits for educators, including «legacy» costs from unfunded benefits for previous retirees, consume a large and growing share of public spending on K — 12 education.

The Tories have already committed themselves to publishing details of any public spending project over # 25,000 online.

This will enhance the efficiency of public spending,» Mr. Scheltsin added.

Since 2010, the UK has been subjected to one of the longest periods of public spending restraint over the last century.

This conclusion may not be apparent at first glance, with CSR 2007 appearing to show some degree of public spending restraint.

In 2010 he announced that the main priority of the coalition was to eliminate the public deficit by 2015 and that this would be achieved through a draconian programme of public spending cuts.

Cuts to bits of public spending we don't like?

In 1997, Gordon Brown launched a tax raid on private pensions to fund part of his public spending spree.

Luke Sibieta, Programme Director at the IFS and author of the report, commented: «School spending in England has been one of the most protected areas of public spending under the coalition government.

«Even with the Act, the welfare budget is set to rise to consume one third of all public spending,» he warned.

The Economics Editor of the FT wrote that the most plausible defence of regressive spending changes is that all spending changes on this scale are bound to be regressive, given the progressive pattern of public spending.

Labour's Treasury team has recently begun a «zero - based» spending review, one that will scrutinise every area of public spending for potential cuts.

Privately, the OST says the wording signifies that funding for the research councils will be «protected» from this year's round of public spending cuts.

Should Spitzer prevail, he would assume an office that has oversight of public spending in the city as well as the employee retirement fund.

The former chancellor said that the government had protected too many areas of public spending after the new work and pensions secretary, Stephen Crabb, appeared to indicate that ministers would rule out cuts to the welfare budget for the rest of the parliament.

Whereas academic participants and SMEs in an IMI project are funded by the 7th Research Framework Programme, the industrial partners - that have to be EFPIA members - contribute their own funds, matching the amount of public spending at at least a 100 %.

The Public Accounts Committee, which scrutinises the value of public spending, said there were early signs that pupil premium funding was making a positive difference.

Although the Lib Dems were braver than their new Conservative allies in specifying cuts in their manifesto they did not get anywhere near the quarter of public spending about to be slashed.

«Judged purely as a piece of political management, Osborne deserves plaudits, as does his deputy, Danny Alexander, chief secretary to the Treasury.But credit will also go to a less well - known figure — potentially the most powerful black woman in public life, Sharon White, the Treasury's director general of public spending.

The Social Progress Network for Paraguay, for example, has begun initiatives including one that monitors the effectiveness of public spending.

If Trump pursues a tax credit - driven infrastructure plan, Hanke believes it will turn into more of a public spending project than it seems.

«If this category of public spending declines during a strike and the metropolitan government either borrows less or collects fewer taxes or fees as a result of this decrease in spending, then additional money will remain in the pockets of private citizens,» they write.

The theme of public spending - related industries, such as healthcare and infrastructure, doing well was picked up by Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT) CFO Brad Halverson on the company's last earnings call:

J.P. Morgan agrees, saying that together with the RRR cuts, «the seeming start of a new cycle of public spending and consumer stimulus should help to boost loan demand in the economy.»

«Japan has succeeded, as China already has, in reducing its cost of living under these measures, restricting foreign ownership, limiting imports and forcing an internalization of public spending.