Sentences with phrase «public sector cuts»

«We wanted to see proposals that created jobs in the private sector, in areas of deprivation and that is at risk of suffering from public sector cuts,» he explained.

Small businesses are more likely than big firms to take on people that have been unemployed in the past 12 months, which could prove vital as public sector cuts really start to bite.

Continuing public sector cuts will affect the employment of graduates, particularly women and those outside the south east.

Hopkins also described the impact of public sector cuts, «particularly in the north».

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.

«This further exposes the shameful way Labour and trade unions, who now complain about public sector cuts, blew taxpayers» money feathering their own nests.»

In this climate of austerity and the need for public sector cuts, when so many are worried about the possibility that nurses, teachers and other such essential workers will be forced out of work as government tightens its belt, it is worth noting that # 2.8 billion of taxpayers» money was spent on consultancy fees in 2005 - 06 alone.

The fluffy community campaigners can not hide from the fact they form a government presiding over public sector cuts three times the scale of Thatcher's.

Over the next decade the price of the financial / economic mess we are in will be paid in public sector cuts — better to cut the non-productive audit and bureaucratic command and control regimes (and I include the quangos, central government departments and the consequent costs in local government) than front line services.

Criticising the government's decision to tackle the deficit through cutting back on public spending, Mr Barber's alternative Plan B would tax higher earners more rather than targeting «the poorest and most vulnerable,» which, he argues, is what the current public sector cuts are doing.

«The shadow chancellor has wrapped up public sector cuts, public sector pay freezes, a rise in retirement age and reduced pension rights in warm words that will ring hollow with Britain's army of public sector workers.»

Or perhaps Andy Burnham will liven things up with a call to resist public sector cuts by arming the workers... you never know.

Unless confidence and lending improves significantly, private sector construction will remain subdued and the effects of further public sector cuts are likely to ensure that construction has a negative impact on the wider economy over the next 12 months.»

«Labour's next leader needs to support public sector cuts and embrace the Big Society agenda if they are to be heard by the public.

In other words (according to the BBC website) it «will be the least resilient to such public sector cuts.»

The British Retail Consortium (BRC) argued that retailers will suffer a «double hit» in increasing business rates, warning that the private sector can not tackle the unemployment from public sector cuts if current policies are followed.

None of them query public sector cuts.

Surely Ed Balls is pretty tough on public sector cuts, I suggest.

However ministers face a tough battle to achieve this, particularly in an atmosphere of swingeing public sector cuts.

She said that if there were strikes once the government's public sector cuts begin, the question would be: «What is causing this?

Trade unions have been making their presence felt on the British political agenda today, as Peter Mandelson took the first steps to outline public sector cuts under Labour.

In this microcosm for the disenfranchisement of «Late Great Britain», with no decent effort to rebuild the community here, set alongside public sector cuts and increasing immigration, you can see how the latter became an easy target for discontent.

A new framework in the West Midlands is helping to deliver high quality schools against a backdrop of severe public sector cuts.

Joblessness went up by 35,000 in the three months to October, raising concern about the readiness of the market for public sector cuts.

Cameron has been reassured by the government's success in the battle over public sector cuts.

«The Federation is not opposed to change and accept that policing must play its part in public sector cuts,» Mr McKeever said, commenting on the survey.

(iv) the reversal of public sector cuts and austerity programmes which are putting at risk the lives of pupils and teachers.

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Whether it's immigration, welfare or public sector cuts, the Tories are increasingly setting the agenda, while Labour increasingly look like they have little to say, and little idea how to say it.

At a time when the Government are cutting back on public services and relying on the private sector to meet the challenges of providing services to the Community in many of those areas where the public sector cut backs have reduced services, the National Association of Retired Police Officers (NARPO) believes, the news that G4S have failed to meet their target for security personnel at the Olympic Games must leave us all concerned about the future.

Moreover, the whole article is founded on the premise that public sector cuts are avoidable, and that only the Tories will make them because they are «wolves in sheeps clothing».

Hence my view we should actually focus on unemployment and the state of the economy than public sector cuts

Commenting on these latest figures, Noble Francis, Economics Director at the Construction Products Association said: «The construction industry is now firmly back in recession and, although there are some areas of growth, such as private housing, the overall picture shows an industry clearly suffering from the effects of public sector cuts.

It takes a braver person still to do it with a microphone in one hand and a set list full of segments on the merits of privatisation in the NHS and arguments in favour of public sector cuts.

By 2015, Mr Osborne announced that welfare spending will be cut by a total of about # 18 billion a year — accounting for almost a quarter of all the public sector cuts.

Public sector cuts will prove especially unpopular in the least resilient areas - the northern urban heartlands where the main struggle is typically a battle between Labour and the Lib Dems.

As the economy grows, Tory plans to stick rigidly to public sector cuts, while cutting taxes for high - earners and corporations, may start to turn public opinion against them.

Stephen Robertson, director general of the BRC, said: «We're only weeks away from hearing the details of public sector cuts.

A drawback for Cameron would be that he would have to tread carefully on issues such as welfare and public sector cuts, which are key to Tory plans for cutting the deficit.

The survey's findings come as both the Tories and Labour have hinted that public sector cuts are on the table in future.

The TUC — the umbrella body for trade unions — has been lobbying vigorously against the threat of public sector cuts to reduce the deficit as mainstream political parties compete to get it down.

«Very worried» «There's a pay freeze, less benefits, and public sector cuts,» teaching assistant Joanne Morgan, from Torfaen, told Channel 4 News.

Cameron says there are going to be difficult decisions in the budget and public sector cuts but he will help areas of need through tax changes and the regional development grant.

Just as schools get back to work after the summer break, the news comes that the public sector cuts first introduced in October last year are beginning to take their toll on public sector building.

Proboscis is today launching the first series of Material Conditions, a set of eight eBooks created with our self - publishing platform bookleteer, asking professional creative practitioners to reflect on what the material conditions for their own practice are, especially now in relation to the climate of change and uncertainty brought about by the recession and public sector cuts.

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