Sentences with phrase «per cent of the public»

Dix noted that over 70 per cent of the public favours phasing out cosmetic pesticides.

Christian Aid has taken a stand after a new ComRes poll found that 80 per cent of public agree it is morally wrong for banks to profit from investments that pollute the environment, while 77 per cent believe banks should be stopped from doing so.

The practice of a Christian school choosing to admit pupils based on the family's church attendance has been branded «unacceptable» by 56 per cent of the public.

Additionally, the Public Sector Pensions Commission recently estimated that a huge 94 per cent of public sector employees are still on unsustainable defined benefit schemes, compared to just 11 per cent in the private sector.

The British Social Attitudes Survey published earlier this year revealed that only 55 per cent of the public believed there was a democratic duty to vote.

Just six per cent of the public believe the government has made a compelling case for the communication data bill, better known as the snoopers» charter.

In terms of public debt one should not forget that Spain's situation is not significantly worse than that of other Eurozone members (69.3 per cent of public debt to GDP in 2011 in Spain, vs. 82 per cent in Germany, 86.5 per cent in France, 85.7 per cent in the UK, and 120.9 per cent in Italy).

Ninety four per cent of public spending cuts are yet to hit the UK, and the public sector is due to come under more pressure in the next few years.

Support for the use of force to eject Iraq from Kuwait in 1991 was more muted: in January 1991, ICM found 45 per cent of the public wanted either to do nothing or stop short of the use of force.

54 per cent of the public say they trust businesses more than politicians; just 8 per cent say they trust politicians more than business.

In a recent ComRes poll conducted exclusively for Total Politics, fully 50 per cent of the public said the Lib Dems «seem to have almost no influence over government policy» and only one - third disagreed.

In 2008, when Parliament last looked at the upper limit for abortion, 67 per cent of the public agreed that if the limit was not reduced, then Parliament «should tighten up the rules on early abortion to discourage so many from taking place each year».

It received 7 seats and 10.5 per cent of the public vote.

EVAW called for «Compulsory Sex and Relationships Education to ensure that all schools tackle harmful attitudes and behaviours amongst young people», and this was accompanied by a survey by YouGov which found that 86 per cent of the public thinking that «it should be compulsory for secondary schools to provide sex and relationships education which addresses sexual consent and respectful relationships» — with 48 per cent also thinking this for primary schools.

A survey yesterday saw 56 per cent of the public say they were not following the controversy closely enough to form a view.

Just 14 per cent of the public think the Tories have run the best campaign in the current election, a little behind Labour, on 17 %, and way behind the Scottish National Party on 26 %.

Concerns about the economy trumped all others by a significant margin; 52 per cent of the public thought it was one of the most important issues in today's Britain and 34 per cent put it in pole position among all their worries.

«57 per cent of the public agree with the principle that «the number of seats a party gets should broadly reflect its proportion of the total votes cast»

The research found that six in 10 people are dissatisfied with Osborne, including a third of Conservative supporters - compared with just 46 per cent of the public in the month before the Budget.

Seventy per cent of the public have an unfavourable view of energy firms, with just five per cent still having a favourable view, pollsters Comres found.

In the current situation both Labour and the Coalition would cut deeply and dramatically, the gap between them at around 1 per cent of public expenditure per year is smaller than either would like to acknowledge and since Labour privately admit they would have needed to increase the rate of cutback originally envisaged by Alistair Darling in pre-election phase, it is probably smaller yet.

Richard Barnbrook has won a seat on the Greater London Assembly after the British national party earned more than five per cent of the public vote.

«But it is important, as a matter of balance, to point out that the savings, rising to # 13 billion over 50 years, are the savings we set out to make; and crucially, that ten per cent of the public sector workforce is replaced each year.

«About 20 per cent of public sector investment is actually invested directly in the public sector and large proportions of public sector budgets go on employing public servants to deliver vital frontline services,» said Nicola Smith, senior policy officer at the TUC.

Just before the passing of the Race Relations Act in the UK in 1965, more than 75 per cent of the public backed Enoch Powell's infamous Rivers of Blood speech.

More than 40 per cent of workers in the US use a computer in their work, but they have to learn their computing skills outside formal education — only 0.2 per cent of public educational resources is spent on computers.

72 per cent of the public are opposed to religious selection in schools, according to a new survey conducted by the British Humanist Association (BHA).

It shows that only one per cent of the public find education as an important issue in Britain and nearly half of those (46 per cent) quizzed last month said NHS was one of the most important issues.

This is particularly pertinent in relation to the recruitment of management level staff, as surveys have found that 93 per cent of public sector workers believe a lack of effective leaders is the biggest challenge that they face.

According to a US federal Department of Education survey released on Tuesday, 94 per cent of public school teachers in the United States reported paying for supplies without reimbursement in the school year that straddled 2014 and 2015.

While 70 per cent of public - sector workers enjoy the classic DB pensions that guarantee a set payout for life, only 10 per cent in the private sector do, Bezaire confirmed, «and it's trending even lower for private - sector pensions.»

Any comments or additional points made for the other 99 per cent of the public will be greatly appreciated!

As someone who works to communicate climate change to the public, I'm afraid over 99 per cent of the public wouldn't be able to make heads or tails of this — even some of your sophisticated readers say so in the comments above.

Increases in incarceration rates for robbery offences have been the most dramatic of recent years; Indigenous women comprise nearly 80 per cent of public drunkenness offences; and fine defaulting remains a significant factor in incarceration rates.

The dual agency ban was supported by 62.6 per cent of the public but just 34.7 per cent of licensees.

Not exact matches

Last year, ECU was listed as the first - preference choice for 34 per cent of Year 12, the highest of WA's public universities.

The results also showed that Uber cut its fourth - quarter net loss by 25 per cent from the third quarter as new CEO Dara Khosrowshahi moves to make the company profitable ahead of a planned initial public stock offering sometime next year.

Tang said the wealth gap was actually widening at a slower pace compared with a rise of 0.004 between 2006 and 2011, thanks to the government's increased efforts to help the impoverished, including an increase of over 40 per cent in welfare spending on public housing and medical benefits for the poor.

The price was above BlackBerry's recent value on public markets, following the company's announcement Friday that it will cut about 40 per cent of its global workforce, about 4,500 jobs, and record a writedown of nearly $ 1 billion.

The provincial Public Utilities Board has instead approved an average rate increase of 3.6 per cent as of June 1.

In San Francisco, premiums on apartments within a five - minute walk of public transit have dropped 5 per cent.

But Prime Minister Callaghan then urged that the government make further concessions to the unions, including «exemptions from the 5 per cent pay limit, tighter price controls and extension of the principle of «comparability,» under which public sector workers could expect more money.

The speech makes clear that the Bank's monetary policy frameworks centres around a flexible inflation target that aims to deliver an average rate of inflation of between 2 - 3 per cent over time and in a way that best serves the public interest.

Even assuming, as the Parliamentary Budget Office does, that Ottawa's debt will steadily shrink and disappear around 2040, provincial, territorial and local governments are on track to swell Canada's total public debt to the equivalent of 100 per cent of GDP by 2070.

In 1994 - 95, public debt charges as a percentage of revenues amounted to 33.8 per cent.

Public opinion is with this government when it heads abroad: Insights West's poll found that a staggering 67 per cent of Canadians rate the Liberals as «good» or «very good» at representing Canada internationally.

The Institute notes that federal public service employment, excluding military and RCMP uniformed personnel and federal government business enterprise employees, has increased by about 35 per cent between 1999 and 2009, (from 224,600 to 302,000), well in excess of overall growth in population of 11 per cent over that period.

Under the Canada Economic Action Plan the deficit will be eliminated by 2015 - 16; although total net public debt will have increased by $ 150 billion, the debt ratio will have declined to 33.0 per cent in 2015 - 16 and reach the government's target of 25 percent by 2019 - 20; program spending will fall to below 13 percent of GDP and will continue to fall thereafter; public sector jobs have been eliminated; and income and corporate taxes have been cut.

A case can be made that the first public exposition of the inflation target came in 1993 in a speech by then Governor Fraser (1993): «My own view is that if inflation could be held to an average of 2 — 3 per cent over a period of years, that would be a good outcome».

In 2002, an Ipsos - Reid poll found that 86 per cent of Canadians believed that the federal government should do something to alleviate public concerns about media concentration.