Sentences with phrase «pound of taxpayer»

But it is the duty of government to make difficult choices about priorities and to get maximum value for every pound of taxpayer money it spends.

«Millions of pounds of taxpayers» money is being poured into a handful of free schools.

Still, this week it has emerged that under existing parliamentary rules they can spend hundreds of pounds of taxpayers» money simply by tabling an increasingly obscure bit of parliamentary procedure.

Lawrence added: «Untold millions of pounds of taxpayers» money has gone into that and, save for a few pockets, you would have to say that it's manifestly failed.

«People struggling to get to work yesterday morning will be appalled to see that under Labour union barons were being given thousands of pounds of taxpayers» money in expenses while spending millions more in secret,» Ms Patel said.

A source close to the mayor said: «It is impossible to justify spending hundreds of thousands of pounds of taxpayers money on pensions at a time of severe public sector cuts and wage freezes.

Speaking at a fringe event at the Conservative Party conference, Fallon said he was «appalled» at the way human rights law was being used against the British military, with the result that millions of pounds of taxpayers» money were being spent on fighting «fairly spurious cases» rather than on kit and personnel.

«It is deeply concerning that the Government is spending millions of pounds of taxpayers» money to push the Conservative political agenda ahead of the local elections.

«Governors are well meaning volunteers who now have control over millions of pounds of taxpayers» money and public assets, the school workforce and the life chances of children and young people.

Worse still, the union coffers that their pay comes from are boosted by millions of pounds of taxpayers» money, which makes it easier for them to offer these generous pay packets.»

Tens of millions of pounds of taxpayers» money is being paid out to under - performing firms delivering the government's work programme, Whitehall's spending watchdog has warned.

Richard Watts, chair of the LGA's children and young people board, said: «We are told that academies and free schools are subject to more financial scrutiny than council - maintained schools, yet we keep hearing that millions of pounds of taxpayers» money, which has been earmarked to make sure our children get a good education, is disappearing into the back pockets of those in charge.

Prisoners across the country are being supplied with computer games consoles costing thousands of pounds of taxpayers» money.

In passing it should be said that I agree with the gathering voices who are demanding an explanation as to why the CPS, in the face of all this, considered that it was worth expending very many hours and thousands of pounds of taxpayers money upon taking this man through the whole panoply of criminal courts that this country has to offer.

Not exact matches

«Instead of spending # 250million of Scots taxpayers» cash a year on nuclear weapons, we can invest in a transformational increase in free childcare, to save hard - pressed families tens of thousands of pounds and give our children a better start in life.»

But simply pouring billions upon billions of pounds on endlessly widening our motorways has proven again and again to be a monumental waste of taxpayers» money.

«Our report shows how alcohol takes up a disproportionate share of emergency service time, costing taxpayers billions of pounds each year.

He described the move as extraordinary and indefensible, saying that it would cost taxpayers «hundreds of millions of pounds, possibly billions».

Fast forward five years and the line is now making hundreds of millions of pounds for the taxpayer.

This is the regime Mitchell went out of his way to hand millions of pounds of British taxpayers» money to, while waxing lyrical about the need for spending cuts at home on TV and radio broadcasts.

The Welsh Liberal Democrats have revealed through a Freedom of Information request that the new North - South air link will cost Welsh taxpayers # 3.94 million pounds over a period of four years.

These measures would save the taxpayer hundreds of millions of pounds.

Chancellor George Osborne said in September: «This commission has tackled that big question that we face in Britain, which is how can we be a home to successful banks that compete around the world, but lend to British families and British businesses, but at the same time protecting us as taxpayers from the cost of them going wrong, and not ending up with a multi-billion pound bill when the bank collapses.»

Its work on proposals saving the taxpayer millions of pounds - from tackling smoking to introducing rumble bars on motorways - is in demand from the private sector and foreign governments.

«David Cameron and Iain Duncan Smith are presiding over a complete mess and it is taxpayers who are picking up the bill with at least one hundred million pounds of their money written off.

We'd be hazarding our precious low interest rates on a change of course that would put those rates up in the full knowledge that any extra billion pounds of public spending would be wiped out by billions of pounds more in higher interest costs for families, businesses, and taxpayers.

To those who say that we should continue in Labour's vein, simply patting ourselves on the back for getting money out of the door, I say this: Our commitment to reaching 0.7 % of national income on aid by 2013, and enshrining this in law, imposes an even greater duty on us, more than any other department in Whitehall to get value for money, to bear down on waste, and to ensure that aid secures 100 pence of value for every hard - earned British taxpayer's pound we spend.

For the Liberal Democrats, Nick Clegg said people were «a little baffled by all the various solutions» being proposed to clean up MPs» expenses because «they all fail to deal with the biggest loophole: MPs making hundreds of thousands of pounds on second homes funded by the taxpayer».

John Gummer The former Tory cabinet minister claimed # 9,000 a year for gardening, charging the taxpayer hundreds of pounds for treating insect «infestations» and removing moles and jackdaw nests from his Suffolk property, and for an annual «rodent service».

Last night the Coalition pointed out that school buildings are now being constructed for about a third less, saving the taxpayer millions of pounds.

PRISM potentially represents a profit in the tens of billions of pounds for UK taxpayers, which can be used to recover past costs of plutonium storage or to accelerate other nuclear remediation efforts.

In response to this decision, Khan has commented that it was his «duty to ensure taxpayers» money was spent responsibly» and that he was «very angry that London taxpayers have now lost tens of millions of pounds — committed by the previous mayor on a project that has amounted to nothing».

At a time of poverty and inequality, it seems obscene that tens of millions of pounds can be accumulated by anyone from taxpayer funded subsidies.

First, a switch to palm oil would be extremely expensive, costing an additional 16.5 million pounds (US$ 21.4 million) over the next decade, which is not seen as achieving «value for money for taxpayers,» who would bear the burden of the expense.

R3 president, Giles Frampton says: «Insolvency litigation brings back millions of pounds every year to small businesses and taxpayers owed money by negligent or fraudulent directors.

A central plank of the Leave campaign in the referendum was the claim that EU membership cost UK taxpayers 350 million pounds a week.

Experienced in advising and acting for the Commissioners and the taxpayer in various VAT related disputes including in an appeal by a major British company for the repayment of millions of pounds of input tax [2010 - 2011].