Sentences with phrase «out of the defence budget»

Liam Fox, the defence secretary, is now embroiled in a row with the Treasury, which wants the capital costs of a new Trident system to come out of the defence budget and not from a separate account as the government, like its predecessor, promised.

Not exact matches

Yes, he may not play an exiting brand of football, but he'll sort out the defence, and he can work on a smaller budget than what Wenger has (for all those fans that say it's all about the money).

Given the depth of concern over the MoD budget it now finally must be time for ministers think again and genuinely reconsider the out of date, Treasury - led defence review.

He said: «In terms of defence and other budgets, we have made some commitments on defence and the defence equipment programme, but greater details obviously will be set out at the next election.»

He said, «Go and do your investigation; go and find out how many of the MDAs appeared for budget defence and how many budget defence (sessions) had been scheduled but cancelled because the chief executive refused to come but sends somebody (as representative).

The problem areas of the legal aid budget — crown court defence work and child care proceedings — should be addressed swiftly, but the committee said it failed to see the need for «potentially short - sighted transitional arrangements for legal aid remuneration in anticipation of the roll out of competitive tendering from October 2008, where there are already mechanisms for controlling unit costs or where the costs of cases appears to be under control».