Sentences with phrase «public sector spending»

Further austerity measures agreed at the cabinet meeting include new consumer tax increases and fresh public sector spending cuts.

As the number of academies has increased and cuts in public sector spending have taken hold local authorities have struggled to maintain central services.

From tax increases, to public sector spending cuts, to an increase in VAT, this is a budget that will be felt by all: rich and poor, individuals and businesses.

It's a significant investment in a relatively small area, but it's one that is essential in providing a better quality of school in a region hit by public sector spending cuts in 2010.

Conservatives will accuse them at the next general election of having refused to back cuts in the number of politicians while supporting the coalition's broad range of public sector spending cuts.

1) Lower economic strength in light of the diminished medium - term growth outlook, constrained by foreign currency shortages, high inflation, lower public sector spending and a weak banking system.

Under the Barnett formula Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have always benefited from public sector spending allocations, at the cost of the English.

The IMF facility makes it mandatory for Ghana to restrain and prioritise public sector spending, increase tax collection and strengthen the effectiveness of the Bank of Ghana's monetary policy role.

«If we do not implement these changes it will be impossible to rally people behind public sector spending cuts and any serious attempt to cut the deficit will fail.»

That claim was reinforced by polling from YouGov released this morning, which showed 52 % of respondents claiming they backed the aim of the march against public sector spending cuts.

These are serious times that require radical thinking, so it is staggering that the government have chosen to turn a blind eye to the huge amounts of wasteful and unnecessary public sector spending.

This Tory party are unapologetic with their ambition to reduce public sector spending in order to reduce government debt.

With so many targets to be met, energy prices rising and public sector spending under constant pressure, it is vital that schools particularly are made as efficient as possible to cut expenditure on energy bills.

In 2010 alone, the provincial public sector spent C$ 18.2 million annually to offset 730,000 tonnes of greenhouse emissions.

The Justice system accounts for about 5 % of total public sector spending by the Government of Ontario, making it the fourth biggest sector after health, education, and social services.

Birmingham City Council is shedding 2,000 jobs this year and with the purge on public sector spending and the impact on supporting businesses, redundant senior managers or those at risk, have got something to cheer about at last.

Recently the scope of legal aid funding has shrunk substantially in line with reductions in public sector spending.

«Public sector spending cuts are now beginning to bite and with the exception of a steady recovery in the private housing market, where starts are forecast to increase by 5 % this year and 11 % next, the private sector is pretty subdued.

Earlier comments by international lenders that Greece must shrink its public sector spending to avoid running out of money within weeks did not dampen the sudden enthusiasm for stocks over here.

Public sector spending on violence containment spending accounts for 10.8 % of GDP while private sector spending is 4.2 % of GDP.

Then, unemployment and inflation were rising, and our public sector spending was out of control.

If the tax cuts are financed by cuts to public sector spending, their net economic effect might be less than if that spending was continued.

What the government has promised to do is cut the nation's structural deficit - the public sector spending deficit that exists even when the economy is operating at its full potential.

They believe it is partly due to the public sector spending cuts designed to cut the budget deficit.