Sentences with phrase «over welfare cuts»

It was not immediately clear if the Education Secretary - who has no say over welfare cuts - was authorised to make her comments by the Chancellor or Prime Minister.

Mr Osborne faced fresh criticism over welfare cuts after it emerged he wanted to slash at least # 2.5 bn from the budget for long - term sickness benefits.

The two sides have been arguing for some time over welfare cuts and have failed to agree on a budget as a result.

Not exact matches

I warn you not to be young... not to fall ill... not to get old», playing upon the fears over public welfare cuts.

Barely a week passes these days in the UK without a new story and controversy over the Coalition government's changes and cuts to welfare.

Charities have warned over and over again that the cuts to local authority budgets and welfare reforms would have an impact on society's most vulnerable people, but they have been ignored.

If the Tories do rear their «true» head & claim that the cuts will (& should) be permanent, then the debate will be between amputation vs cure in how to deal with the deficit, breaking what patina of consensus still remains between political parties over the necessity of the welfare state.

The party's influence over coalition policies is practically invisible, though it is undeniable that it has restrained the Conservatives in areas such as welfare cuts and repatriating powers from Brussels.

The discussions over further welfare cuts took place before last Wednesday's suspected terror attack in Woolwich, which is expected to lead to renewed pressure on the Treasury to protect security spending.»

«Over three million children in the UK live in poverty, a key inhibitor to educational progress, and experience every day the harsh realities of cuts to welfare, specialist services and support, education grants and the wider effects of the recession.

There were # 15 billion of cuts to the welfare budget over the five years between 2010 and 2015, during which time Duncan Smith was work and pensions secretary.

As Tory election strategist he is keen to make political ground over Labour's inclusion of the pension in the welfare cut, because it allows the party to highlight how the opposition plans to cut the basic state pension in real terms.

Cuomo for the last several weeks had raised the possibility of a special session over the cut to public welfare hospitals, resulting in a heated back - and - forth between his administration and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's office over payments to the hospitals.

He had never made any compromises with either the Blair or Brown governments, had consistently voted against the Iraq War and welfare cuts and was untouched over the parliamentary expenses scandal.

«Nick Clegg signalled a fresh battle over budget cuts with George Osborne on Sunday after warning that it would be «wholly unrealistic» for the coalition to pursue further reductions in welfare spending without increasing taxes on Britain's richest 10 %.»

He added: «And if once the fine print has been scoured over it proves to be a «Robin Hood» budget, it's surely «Robin Hood lite» with less for those not in work and the promise of perhaps an extra # 10 billion of welfare cuts to come.»

The Trump administration is proposing to cut $ 1.7 trillion in welfare programs like food stamps, Medicaid and other benefit programs over the next 10 years.

The government is also under pressure over the possible impact on family budgets of changes to welfare, following reports that Iain Duncan Smith, the work and pensions secretary, is looking at plans to cut child benefit.

Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne introduces a raft of cuts to welfare spending in yesterday's emergency budget, including the capping of housing allowances and freezing of child benefits, in a bid to save # 11bn over the next four years.

It points to five million low - paid workers, a housing market where home ownership rates have halved over the last 20 years, public spending cuts and a brutal welfare squeeze as evidence that the gulf between the well - off and the underprivileged will become permanent.

Factor in on top of that the serious pressure on the DWP to come up with big additional cuts in welfare payments to reduce the pain on other departmental budgets and keeping things «progressive», living up to the boasts, making the graphs much pointed to by Lib Dem MPs a reality in a five - year retrenchment that leans heavily on cuts over tax hikes... and you see how difficult it will be to secure and hold the progressive mantle through this saga ahead.

Osborne said that extra cuts to welfare meant that departmental budgets would be cut by 19 % over the next four years.

Public anger over cuts to tax credits, disability benefits, and changes to national insurance contributions for self - employed workers have driven the most significant government welfare policy U-turns in recent years.

At a time when public spending is to be cut, how vital is it to retain universal welfare benefits, such as child benefit, winter fuel allowances and free bus passes for the over 60s?

Without the funding piece, any law wil fail, because given our government financial woes right now, there is no way animal welfare will get prioritized over other social programs that are being significantly cut.

For example, last week Senator Penny Wong relentlessly pursued a line of inquiry on the cuts to Indigenous health services — revealing that despite the significantly poorer status of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, services to them were being cut by over half a billion dollars with the future of a broad range of health, social welfare and education programmes still in budgetary limbo.