Sentences with phrase «over this parliament»
Government have taken in their first week their immediate opportunity to use their control over parliament to weaken its ability to hold them to account.
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With the shadow of the Scottish independence referendum hanging over parliament, this was never going to be an ordinary prime minister's questions.
She did not rule out the possibility of a national insurance rise over the parliament but denied MPs had been consulted about any specific changes to national insurance contributions to fund the NHS.
There will be a «significantly accelerated reduction» in the structural element of the deficit over the parliament.
«However, their reported # 30bn increase over the parliament is in reality a one - off boost of # 6bn counted five times.
Since 2010, there have been 3,500 academies, 180 free schools, 250,000 fewer pupils in failing schools and # 18bn being spent on school buildings over the parliament.
Sir Hayden Phillips secured outline agreement to ban donations of more than # 50,000, limit spending to # 100m over a parliament and shake up union contributions.
The full Coalition Agreement last May said: «We will fund 200 all - postal primaries over this Parliament, targetted at seats which have not changed hands for many years.»
But the DfE has said secondary postgraduate recruitment is «at its highest since 2011», and the government would be investing more than # 1.3 billion in recruitment over this parliament.
Train an extra 17,500 maths and physics teachers over the parliament In 2015 - 16 and 2016 - 17, the government only recruited 92 per cent of the teachers needed if it was to make this by equally recruiting people over the five years.
A Department for Education spokesman said: «We are giving local authorities # 5bn to spend on new school places over this Parliament - double the amount allocated by the previous government over an equivalent period.
'' [T] he superiority of Congress over Parliament pales beside a comparison of the executive branches in our systems.
And while the Ministry of Defence is included in these measures, they will be given flexibility on their multi-year budget to ensure that this will not lead to reductions in military manpower or the core defence equipment programme over the Parliament.
It is clear that HMRC are getting increasingly tough in their determination to reach their target of bringing in an extra # 7 billion over the Parliament through initiatives to tackle tax avoidance, evasion and fraud.
Tax receipts over this parliament are now set to be # 274 billion lower than forecast in 2010.
They remain unbroken, the bonuses are back and they're slowly regaining the influence over Parliament they once held.
In fact, Miliband had simply forgotten the brief passage about the deficit — the one addressing the issue that had hung over parliament like an ominous cloud for the previous four years.
The Treasury puts this down to erroneous press reports which inflated an extra # 26 billion available due to projected reductions in fiscal borrowing over the parliament.
12.08 Cameron promises says it will be uprated by RPI, and that # 1 billion will be put into pensions over the Parliament.
Conservative rebels inflicted a humiliating defeat on Theresa May in the House of Commons as they backed an amendment to her flagship European Union withdrawal bill over parliament's right to a meaningful vote on the Brexit deal.
The government's grip over parliament is slipping, the data on the economic impact of Brexit is being prised from its grip, questions are being raised about the legitimacy of the referendum campaign, and ministers are starting to admit that they have been misleading the public.
Police helicopters circled over the parliament building and all mobile phone lines from inside were disconnected.
S / he is appointed to that position by the head of state, but if unable to maintain the control over parliament someone else is appointed and / or new elections to the Parliament held.
The prospect of John Prescott's maiden speech in the Lords hung menacingly over parliament today, like the raincloud which finally broke over Westminster in late afternoon.
The offer is part of a wider productivity plan, which would also require large firms hiring skilled workers from outside the EU to create 100,000 apprenticeships over the parliament, a move that would inevitably increase the cost of hiring foreign workers.
Taken altogether, the further steps in this Budget to stop tax evasion, prevent tax avoidance and tackle imbalances in the system will raise # 12 billion for our country over this Parliament.
«As the Labour party begins to look back over this parliament, the route map of its own destruction laid behind it will become clear, like the vapour trail from a jumbo jet.
David Cameron will escape the cold by taking his family to Thailand over Parliament's three - week Christmas break.
The Liberal Democrats did not promise to increase health expenditure over the Parliament or ring fence health expenditure from cuts.
The value could fall in real terms over the Parliament, but it will continue to provide additional funding in areas with more children from low income families.
If implemented, Labour's proposals would increase 16 to 18 spending per pupil to # 5,800, equivalent to 8 per cent over the parliament, but this would still leave sixth form spending «about 11 per cent below» the # 6,500 per pupil amount the party would give to secondary schools.
Swift (1667 - 1745) is best known for his book, Gulliver's Travels, but during his lifetime he was renowned as a prolific political satirist who wrote and published pamphlets supporting England's Tory party (which championed the primacy of the British monarchy over its Parliament) and targeting the opposing Whig faction, which advocated the reverse.
Given the control that governments are able to exert over Parliament — it was not for nothing that the former lord chancellor, Lord Hailsham, referred to the UK's system of government as an «elective dictatorship» — the content of the Queen's Speech takes on an added significance in that it enlightens us about the laws which are likely to be enacted during the forthcoming Parliamentary session.
The flag flew at half - mast over Parliament.
If the Supreme Court were to act thus it would be asserting an authority over Parliament that is flatly ruled out by our constitutional tradition: an assertion of judicial supremacy of this kind would be a coup not a judgment.
Although the intended effect was to lessen the control of the prime minister over Parliament and the timing of a general election, it is clear that the convention would only be capable of doing this where a government's majority was small.
After the opposition won control over parliament, the government created a parallel site of political power in the Constitutional Assembly.
The Institute for Fiscal Studies have already calculated that a faster programme of deficit reduction would require # 8bn of extra spending cuts or tax rises over the parliament.
a) A reformed system of party funding, including a ban on individual donations of more than # 50,000, with party spending limited to # 100m over a parliament and a «shake up» of union contributions.
«We will fund 200 all - postal primaries over this Parliament, targeted at seats which have not changed hands for many years.
«We are investing more than # 1.3 bn in recruitment over this Parliament and have recruited more trainees in key subjects like physics and maths than last year.»
«We have also pledged up to # 67m to improve the skills of 15,000 existing non-specialist teachers and to recruit an additional 2,500 specialist maths and physics teachers over this parliament.»
The Department for Education says it is giving schools # 5bn to spend on new school places over this Parliament, which it says is double the amount allocated by the previous government over an equivalent period.
Like Iain, I noted the role of ideas, but for me, the key ones were Manchester School Liberalism (as propagated by the pamphlets, letters and speeches of the Anti-Corn Law League); the appeals to class conflict and religiosity (again, as exploited by the League); and Peel's own redefinition of Conservative ideology as a means to preserve traditional aristocratic control over Parliament.
«The trade unions, over this Parliament, under a Conservative - led Government, will still receive more than # 500 million pounds of taxpayers» money.»
Darling accused him of being «irresponsible» and «taking a terrible risk with the economy», saying: «You are spending nearly # 30 billion over a Parliament and you can't identify the credible way with which you can pay for that.»
This would reduce government spending by # 3 billion a year by the end of the next parliament, or by more than # 7 billion over the parliament, Tories say.
Critics argue the Lords has become too big — it has 783 active members, a number that could swell to more than 1,000 over this parliament — and that it is an affront to democracy that the vast majority of its members are appointed, not elected.
The party will then seek, over a parliament, to increase the Welsh block grant to an equitable level.