Sentences with phrase «on public spending»

The condition of the economy has forced the Government to take some tough decisions on public spending (though many voters believe that these have been tougher than necessary).

The government is very clear that there are obviously tough choices to be made on public spending over the coming years.

That is bad enough, but rules on public spending make matters even worse.

Cut any of the spending and be seen as the nasty party as they will be held responsible by those who are newly reliant on public spending.

But constraints on public spending ruled this out, the minister said.

With pressure mounting on public spending, legal aid is a likely victim of significant cuts.

He pleaded with Chancellor George Osborne, who will deliver his spending review later this month, not to impose further cuts on public spending in Wales.

On Monday former chancellor Norman Lamont defended Hammond's stance, saying on BBC Radio 4's Today programme that «it is unavoidable that we have restraint on public spending,» adding: «it is not right for cabinet ministers to gang up on the chancellor in this way.

«Now they have rolled over for Andrew Cuomo, the latest son seeking to inherit his father's former office, who refuses to make Wall Street and the rich pay their fair share of taxes, who intends to make war with the public employees union, supports expanding the financial waste of charter schools and wants to impose caps on public spending.

It is even more inexcusable given the Brexit squeeze on public spending.

Balls and Miliband have binned a strategic position on public spending that didn't add up, but what do they do now?

If that is true, it should surprise nobody who took part in debate on public spending at the 2008 Liberal Democrat conference.

Juliet Lyon, director of the Prison Reform Trust said: «Pressure on public spending means that ministers can no longer afford to be complacent about prison overcrowding or the high reconviction rates it leads to.

d. Resisting pressures to agree to curbs on public spending beyond the lifetime of this parliament when this Coalition Government will be over

«The economy is «turning the corner», George Osborne will declare on Monday as he claims a «decisive» victory over Labour on public spending policy.

The pay deals can have a long - lasting impact on public spending in a state like Massachusetts, where pension payments are based, in part, on an employee's last three years of pay.

The first concerted attempt to map out a new agenda for Labour urges greater economic credibility on public spending cuts.

In recent years, for the sake of electoral advancement, the Labour Party has compromised on public spending, welfare, private sector involvement in public services, nationalisation, and so on.

This is despite the catch - all language of «cuts» used by political opponents, as well as by governments themselves when it suited to portray themselves as bearing down hard on public spending.

The fact that all the major political parties have already made extensive and frequently conflicting promises on public spending, taxes and benefits means that such negotiations are likely to be more complex and take much longer than the 22 days of May 2010.

The problem with this for chancellor Alasdair Darling is that this would retrospectively justify shadow chancellor George Osborne's comments on public spending.

When Shadow Chancellor George Osborne MP set out his party's pledges on public spending in The Times last September, his promise to match Labour's fiscal plans for three years caught the most attention.

According to Labour strategists, the row over Howard Flight's remarks on public spending shows that «the Tories are two parties» - unreconstructed Thatcherites such as Mr Flight who want deep spending cuts and the New Tories trying to show that the party has moved on.

Ed Balls is accused of cynicism for an about turn on public spending but the shadow chancellor might just have saved Labour from being branded the party of the public sector.

I wrote yesterday that Labour had not solved its problems around trust on public spending and leadership, while immigration could return as an issue depending on how Brexit goes.

Similarly on public spending.

Edward Miliband: I disagree with the hon. Gentleman — and, of course, the Conservative party can not support any of the measures that we took on public spending, because as we know it is completely opposed to increasing public spending at this time.

Accordingly, a majority in all seats — reaching two thirds in the Conservative - Liberal Democrat battleground — agreed that «it is right to start cutting back on public spending now because the longer we put off dealing with the deficit the greater the cost of sorting it out».

As Labour starts its leadership contest, the opposition's stance on public spending and deficit reduction remains unclear.

During his Radio 4 interview Mr Cameron declined to add to existing Tory commitments on public spending restraint but he did say that the public have a «right to know» how the Conservatives will fix the deficit problem.

George Pascoe Watson of The Sun asked about ConservativeHome's campaign on public spending.

During the interview he declined to toughen his rhetoric on public spending.

From 22nd to 28th December 1,816 Tory members told us their highest and lowest priorities for twelve calls on public spending identified by ConservativeHome.

The attempt to draw a sharp distinction between the two main parties on public spending coincided with a fresh warning on the drastically widening hole in the public finances.

«We are told by the Tory leadership that it's too early to say what a Conservative government will do on public spending but it's not — apparently — too early to say we'll accept increases in taxation.

Amid reports that Tory Right - wingers may demand that Mr Osborne is sacked, Mr Montgomery said: «It is very disappointing to hear him close to surrender on the 45p tax band at the same time as being so cautious on public spending.

... Alistair Darling, the former Chancellor, tells the party leadership that it needs urgently to spell out policies and be honest with voters about limits on public spending.»

Osborne confirmed that the government anticipates almost half a million job losses in the public sector by 2015 as a result of the measures to tighten the reins on public spending.

Gordon Brown and Tory leader David Cameron clashed on public spending week after week in prime minister's questions earlier this year, before parliament rose for the summer recess.

Tight restrictions on public spending have starved the railways of new equipment for years, even before the drive to cut costs in the run up to privatisation.

«We became interested in studying the effects of economic downturns on public spending during the Great Recession of the late 2000s, when media outlets were filled with stories about states cutting optional Medicaid benefits, increasing school class sizes and reducing course offerings,» said Ho, who is also a professor of economics at Rice and a professor of medicine at Baylor College of Medicine.

These rules are incorporated in a «Directive» which, converted into legal obligations in the UK through Regulations, place particular duties and responsibilities on all public spending contracting authorities which the UK courts can enforce.

Perhaps the most important consequence of the debate on public spending priorities is that when the state intends to introduce retrogressive norms or public policies, the burden of proof is inverted; it is the state's responsibility to prove the need for the proposed measures and that they are justified within the totality of rights recognized in the ICESCR.

Of course the issue, partially caused by right - wing attacks on public spending and progressive taxation, allows the same right / tea party elements to start attacking the unions (what else?).

And the government will worry that if they crack over schools, it would start a feeding frenzy of other demands on public spending.