Sentences with phrase «own budget statement»

Treasury chief Philip Hammond outlined the new provisions in his annual budget statement to the House of Commons Wednesday, and said he would allocate «more if necessary.»

He said following the embarrassing display by the president on Tuesday spin doctors of the government had been quick to seek refuge in the yet to be presented budget statement.

While we have substantial doubt that the President would not have loved to be the one indicating in clear terms where money will come from to fund this herculean promise if indeed a credible source has been as, we will eagerly await the said budget statement to find out this and many more.

Spin doctors of the government have been quick to seek refuge in the yet to be presented budget statement.

We note that the President and his spokespersons have sought refuge in the budget statement to be presented by the Finance Minister next week.

His reading of his carefully prepared Budget statement was no better.

This claim seeks to place the budget statement ahead of the SONA, which is by far the most important statement presented by any President of Ghana.

«They claim that the budget statement will shed light on the details of the programme of the Akufo Addo / Bawumia government.

This seems to be the case with the chancellor of the exchequer's autumn Budget statement.

According to detail policy document from government to the BNI and copied to all regional and district offices of the security outfit and sighted by thenewsplatforms.com directs officers to secretly test the reactions from the public before its announcement in March during the budget statement.

In his Budget statement of March 2012, Chancellor George Osborne, confirmed that there would be no changes to the duty rates set out by his predecessor; therefore rates would continue to rise by two per cent above the rate of inflation.

However, George Osborne's budget statement foreshadowed several pieces of legislation for the next session.

Since Gordon Brown's budget statement made no concessions at all to the lone parent lobby, pressure on the government grew in the period up to the bill's decisive Third Reading in the House of Commons.

Chancellor George Osborne's budget statement announced that the Pensions Regulator would be given a new objective to support scheme funding arrangements «that are compatible with sustainable growth for the sponsoring employer and fully consistent with the 2004 funding legislation».

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo, had revealed that the 2018 budget statement and fiscal policy will focus largely on job creation and also announce a downward review of electricity tariff.

But two years have passed since the shuddering horrors of 2012, when virtually everything that could have gone wrong with his Budget statement duly did so.

The incoming New Patriotic Party (NPP) government's maiden budget statement will be ready in March 2017.

«Ghanaians expect a reduction in the corporate income tax rate from 25 percent to 20 % to be included in the 2018 budget statement.

As we realised soon after the Budget statement was delivered, the spending bits of his tax - neutral package were being financed by the chancellor stealing from (a) baddies or (b) the future.

The gambit, unveiled by George Osborne in today's Budget statement, will mean Ed Miliband and Ed Balls will have no choice but to reveal their position on future austerity.

This Budget statement is not different from the previous Budgets presented by the Finance Minister.

When the President was heavily criticized for leaving out most of his campaign promises in his maiden State of the Nation Address in late February, Minister of Information, Mustapha Hamid and government spokespersons said those pledges would be addressed in the budget statement.

Ghanaians awaited this Budget statement in FEAR, ANTICIPATION and HOPE.

The Minority leader also accused the Finance Minister of hiding behind «rigidities» to launch an aggressive raid on statutory funds by proposing in the budget statement to cap statutory fund payments at just 25 % of revenue in order to remove «rigidities» in their allocation.

New Labour might not be dead, as Gordon Brown insisted yesterday, but you might have thought his 350 - odd MPs had at least entered some sort of coma given the amount of noise they made during Darling's Budget statement.

This was disclosed by the Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori - Atta, when he presented the 2018 budget statement to Parliament on Wednesday.

Each district to get Ghc2m for 1 district, 1 factory The Ministry of Finance while reading the 2018 budget statement said government will allocate at least GhC2 million to each metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies for the implementation of the one district, one factory programme.

However, Dr John Philpott, chief economic adviser at the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, said: «The Chancellor has introduced what must surely rank as the most astonishing UK budget statement in modern times.

The Akufo - Addo government's maiden budget statement delivered by Finance Minister, Ken Ofori Atta, was met with jeers of «419 budget» from the Minority in Parliament, and the NDC MP for Ketu South, Fifi Kwetey, has justified the minority's description of the budget.

The former Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana, who was addressing the press in response to government's 2016 budget statement and its record in the last seven years,...

Addressing journalists at the New Patriotic Party (NPP) headquarters in Accra from a statement titled «The NPP's response to the 2016 budget statement, the seven - year record of the NDC and the alternative vision under an NPP...

Parliament is expected to start debating the 2018 budget statement on Tuesday, November 21, after the Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori - Atta presented the document to the House last Wednesday.

The Deputy Minister of Communications, Felix Ofosu Kwakye has described Dr Mahamadu Bawumia's analysis on government's 2016 budget statement, as «hackneyed and pedestrian propaganda.»

Chris Keates: «A significant proportion of the Chancellor's Budget statement was re-announcements of measures already in progress and promises made but not yet delivered».

Campaigners are reeling after George Osborne raised the prospect of an extra # 10 billion of welfare cuts in his Budget statement yesterday.

The Minority has called on government to withdraw the 2018 budget statement presented to the House by the Finance Minister Ken Ofori - Atta.

The first budget statement delivered by the government since its inception was presented to Parliament by the Finance Minister on March 2, 2017.

Parliament will be hosting the Minister of Finance on Monday for the presentation of the mid-year review of the 2017 budget statement, and therefore the house would sit and eventually rise on Wednesday, August 2.

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo, has revealed that the 2018 budget statement and fiscal policy to be delivered on Wednesday November 15, 2017, will focus largely on job creation.

Presenting the 2017 Budget statement before Parliament on Thursday, the Minister said to successively achieve the aim of reducing...

The Finance Minister, Ken Ofori Atta, delivering the budget statement in Parliament, explained...

Data sources for the assessment included, the 2016 Manifesto, 2017 and 2018 Budget Statements, the Coordinated Programmes for Economic and Social Development, and project and news reports.

This ambition was also evident in George Osborne's budget statement in March, in which he confirmed plans for the new high speed train - link between Manchester and Leeds, as part of the Government's commitment to «rebalancing our country».

Any Labour announcement on tuition will not happen until after the chancellor's budget statement in December.

«Given that the term «fuel poverty» does not seem to have been used once in yesterday's Budget statement, can the Secretary of State confirm that Warm Front will be sufficient to address Age Concern's assessment of the Budget that its failure to tackle fuel poverty will continue to leave more pensioners out in the cold?

Speaking on Eyewitness News ahead of the government's first budget statement, Mr. Avedzi argued that, a likely downward review of allocations as they have gathered, would negatively impact development.

This is in spite of the fact that, about one billion of the 1.5 billion is going to be used for several of the government's special projects announced in the budget statement.

Former Minister of Trade and Industry, Dr Ekwow Spio - Garbrah, has described the 2018 budget statement as «Ahokyere» budget, to wit, a budget of difficulty.

Following today's Budget statement by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers» union, said: «This budget will continue to divide society.

The party's Westminster leader, Angus Robertson, said: «This announcement must be the first example of a prime minister trying to overshadow his government's own Budget statement.