Sentences with phrase «public spending under»

With public spending under ever tighter scrutiny, VisitBritain's new four - point strategy gives greater emphasis to developing further Britain - wide tourism platforms and share new media strategies.

Luke Sibieta, Programme Director at the IFS and author of the report, commented: «School spending in England has been one of the most protected areas of public spending under the coalition government.

If the opposition opposes the bill then, of course, ministers would attempt to say they alone have a plan to get public spending under control.

Asked about public spending under the last Labour government, 77 % think a lot or most of the extra money was wasted, only 47 % think that the extra money significantly improved public services.

Despite siren calls from disgruntled former spokesmen, getting public spending under control and not bequeathing crushing debt to future generations is a basic liberal principle.

A first - term Conservative government will then have the freedom to bring public spending under control, reduce borrowing and introduce economy - boosting tax relief during the remainder of the parliament.

We are taking 2.2 million people out of tax and getting public spending under control, in a way that helps the poorest into work.

Once there are more jobs created in the private sector as Britain recovers from the recession and the debilitating effect of astronomical public spending under Labour, this figure will drop significantly.

It's all very well acknowledging the need to get public spending under control, but it requires substantial reform.

To place this growth rate in context, it is half the average 4.0 % growth rate of public spending under Labour's spending reviews to date, and the same as the 2.1 % growth rate of public spending during the first Thatcher Government from 1979 to 1983.

These highly qualified caretakers were asked to accomplish in a very short period of time what traditional political leaders had failed to do in decades: keep public spending under control, and make their countries» economies more competitive.

We will be honest about the difficult choices needed to get public spending under control.

Not exact matches

«Public - sector spending — a strong, steady contributor to the economy over the past decade — is now being curtailed as federal and provincial governments try to bring deficits under control,» the Conference Board of Canada noted in a recent forecast.

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.

Less information is now provided to the public in budgets than under previous Liberal and Conservative governments; the authority of Parliament over government spending has been weakened; the understanding of Canadians as to what the government is actually planning to do in the budget has been eroded.

Under Finance Minister Nicolas Marceau's plan, the PQ seeks to create jobs, avoid tax hikes, further exploit Quebec's natural resources and rein in government spending, such as pushing for «fair» agreements with physicians and public - sector workers during upcoming contract negotiations.

Despite serious challenges facing British Columbia, the Liberal government under Premier Christy Clark has spent a significant portion of the past year campaigning instead of governing, spending valuable public resources on pre-election advertising and staging photo - ops instead of doing the hard work of actually governing.

«Japan has succeeded, as China already has, in reducing its cost of living under these measures, restricting foreign ownership, limiting imports and forcing an internalization of public spending.

Longman identifies the key fact by quoting a 1977 study by economists Spencer Spengler and Robert Clark: «Expenditures for the elderly at all levels of government exceed the amount spent on children, age seventeen and under, including the total amount spent on public education, by more than three to one.»

just reading around and all if not most rags are saying our net spend is # 46 million how can they tell that when they do nt even know what our real budget is if it was # 100 million then we are in profit by quite a bit i do nt really know what they base there assumptions on this is where you could do with swiss ramble to dissect what really was spent from what i could see most of our 5 transfers were covered by out goings and c / l monies earned debuchy - vela deal, chambers - vermalen deal, ospina - cesc and miquel deals sanchez c / l monies and other monies recovered from wages and old installment based deals this is the same with welbeck i would imagine if not then poldolski will be sold in jan to cover this as i think he was going to be sold and this would have covered welbecks transfer more or less also and people do nt always realize that arsenal have money coming in from more than one source to cover transfers not just puma and emirates deals we have property arm of the club which makes money for transfers also outstanding debts we are owed of old transfers we receive each year on song cesc maybe van persie and all other structured deals in installment payments sales we just flogged miquel as an example and all the monies from released wages and youths sold its a bit to complex to just say we have a net spend of xyz when arsenal do nt even make the budget public so they have no starting point from which to go from i bet you we have broke even or even made a slight profit as we are self sustaining it would make sense that we can break even or at least make the net spend under # 10 million each year at least screw then all we are the arsenal we do thing our way

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.

The quickest way to bring down the deficit would be to wage a war on waste in the public sector so that public spending is brought back under control once again.

Under Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour Party could start returning to a familiar model: the nationalisation of public utilities, tax - and - spend, defence retrenchment, unilateral nuclear disarmament.

Later this morning Corbyn gave a speech in Dagenham where he unveiled wide - ranging policy that will form the basis of a Labour manifesto for government under his leadership, including # 500bn of public spending.

The point is, they are bills to provide for public spending for public purposes under the Article VII powers laid out in the NYS Constitution.

His focus in a speech to City folk this morning was on winning over the wider public - a «hearts and minds» approach to public spending which, he said, had worked terribly well under Canada's Liberal government of the 1990s.

It does sadden me that, excited as he is, under a Conservative government there will be extensive cuts to public spending of the Arts.

She spent a year as parliamentary under secretary of state for public health and innovation before losing her Oxford West and Abingdon seat in the 2017 general election.

Most recently, this focus on secrecy was shown in the extraordinary efforts of the governor's aides to shield some of his records from public scrutiny in the State Archives, where a top Cuomo lieutenant spent nearly eight hours screening documents from Cuomo's years as attorney general that were sought by the Times Union under the Freedom of Information Law.

Under the nominal spending trick, public sector workers have been getting pay rises fthe whole time.

«This governor has spent his entire career in public service fighting homelessness and building affordable housing and it's under his leadership that New York is implementing an unprecedented $ 20 billion anti-homelessness and housing problem, twice strengthened rent protections with Assembly Democrats and created a tenant protection unit that placed more than 6,000 buildings and 61,000 units back under rent stabilization,» said spokesman Rich Azzopardi.

This is a plan that keeps spending under two percent, reforms New York's education bureaucracy, implements the nation's strongest and most comprehensive disclosure laws for public officials and makes the largest investment in the Upstate economy in a generation.

If so, the CFB could count those against the $ 182,000 spending cap for the Democratic primary, should Abbate participate in the city's public matching funds program, a program which effectively lets candidates multiply sevenfold every donation under $ 175 they receive from a resident of the five boroughs.

Mr Darling is planning to cut Britain's debts by levying more tax and cutting public spending, though less than under Conservative plans.

«ConHome's expert panel previews the Comprehensive Spending Review Main Mark Littlewood: The Government is rightly getting the public finances under control - but the Spending Review could have been far more radical»

Among the numerous other entrants, a civil society organisation submitted a list under the leadership of former president of the Slovenian Court of Audit, the country's highest court for supervising state public spending.

Under the Citizens Election Program, the state's voluntary public financing system, gubernatorial candidates who raise $ 250,000 by collecting donations of $ 100 or less are eligible for a $ 6.5 million grant to spend in the general election.

The public spending cuts will wound a sector bolstered by injections of funding under Labour from the mid-90s when money was redirected away from universities to early years learning and further education.

Public officials in New York would be prohibited from spending political campaign funds on personal expenses like clothing and country club dues under the two - way ethics reform deal, but paying for criminal defense attorneys and meals with political cash would still be allowed.

The Public Accounts committee gave its verdict today on the 2007 spending review today, arguing that if lessons in getting value for money are not learned from that process then frontline services are at «serious risk» under the new government's austerity drive.

The result of adopting these spending totals is that under a Conservative Government there will be real increases in spending on public services, year after year.»

The change comes as members of the British Parliament are under fire for spending huge sums of taxpayer money through their public accounts on such expenses as cleaning a moat and having light bulbs installed in their homes.

Donovan's office is special prosecutor in a case involving an associate of Lopez, the Brooklyn Democratic chairman who is under investigation for questionable spending at non-profits he founded and which rake in millions in public dollars.

The Committee to Save New York has made public, under state lobbying disclosure rules, that they've spent over $ 12 million dollars on advertising and other promotions of Governor Cuomo's policy agenda, including a property tax cap and budget cuts.

Under the deficit reduction plans that Ed Miliband put in Labour's manifesto last year, the biggest reductions in public spending would come this year — so much for the «wrong time».

«Millions of public sector workers would (in the short term) face redundancy and the dole queue or massive reductions in real spending at a time when their homes would be under threat.»

Under Theresa May's leadership, the Conservative party has turned its back on urban and suburban areas by pursuing policies and public spending decisions that discriminate against our cities and towns.

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At a time when the public purse is under pressure, these funds could be better spent on «diversion» programmes where offenders are helped to access community support programmes rather than locked up in overcrowded prisons.

In their campaign to sway state lawmakers, DraftKings and FanDuel and their related trade associations spent just under $ 800,000 on lobbying expenses since last autumn, according to records filed with the state's Joint Commission on Public Ethics.