Sentences with phrase «reduction after the government»

The dozen Conservative MPs who fought for changes to the system were delighted with the one - week reduction after the government had initially refused to reduce the wait.

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That's actually a reduction from his original 60 years sentence (the Thai government took half off after he pleaded guilty — how kind!).

The head of a crime reduction charity has welcomed the government's proposed crackdown on online knife sales after UK police forces registered a rise in knife crime last year.

The government should establish a national food waste reduction target, with retailers forced to publish figures on their food waste, after a voluntary approach has proved «inadequate», says Parliament's EFRA Committee.

The previous government had planned to increase employer national insurance contributions by one per cent as part of its deficit reduction strategy (Alistair Darling, the then chancellor, has subsequently stated that he would have preferred to have increased VAT instead), and after taking office the coalition government only partially reversed this decision.

Talking of reduction or complete removal of taxes, as Akufo - Addo is promising Ghanaians, I remember how when in 1995 Jerry Rawlings wanted to introduce the Value Added Tax (VAT) on goods and services into our taxation system to increase the tax net and by that the tax revenue, Nana Akufo - Addo led massive «KUM PR3KOO» demonstrations against government in which some unfortunate demonstrators died, compelling government to withdraw the VAT, barely four months after its introduction.

The Minister of Transportation, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, who signed on behalf of the Federal Government, had said the cost reduction for the projects was achieved after the contract was renegotiated by both parties.

However, critics have asked how the persistent freezes in fuel duty fit with the government's deficit reduction priority — a question most famously posed by Jeremy Paxman to Treasury minister Chloe Smith on Newsnight after the duty U-turn in August.

Last autumn's Spending Review delivers a reduction in government consumption that is judged by the OBR to be the most sustained undertaken in the last hundred years of British history — barring the periods of demobilisation after the first and second world wars.

But pointing to the fact that the announcement came just a day after the transport secretary, Justine Greening, publicly defended the fuel duty rise as an important part of the government's deficit reduction strategy, Miliband said: «So it was all part of a seamless political strategy?»

The publication of the data comes after last year's spending was released under the Freedom of Information Act, revealing # 25m of previously secret spending by Whitehall officials in the year that the government implemented its deficit reduction programme.

* Why has the Government failed to meet it's deficit reduction targets throughout the parliament & why is the economy not generating jobs - even after all these cuts - in which case Labour will take office because Cons will lose the economic competency test.

A cross-sectional analysis of state government employees from Sally Coleman Selden and Donald P. Moynihan found that states with higher pay for state employees experience lower turnover.26 This reduction in turnover from increased compensation helps to explain the common finding that employees» productivity can increase when they are paid higher wages.27 Furthermore, Selden and Moynihan found that states with a higher percentage of state employees covered by collective bargaining agreements have lower voluntary turnover, even after taking into account the effect of unionization on pay increases.28

Here in Australian, the federal government is spending tens of billions of dollars on stimulus package after stimulus package, and tiny fractions of that (mainly at the instigation of Greens senators who are using their balance of power for leverage) are going towards emissions reduction.

It is hardly surprising that such reductions in subsidies would lead to «protests» and «outrage» from the solar industry; an earlier Washington Post article by Faiola in November 2009 took note of the fact that even with subsidies in place, average German families had a hard time adopting solar on a household level since they «can't afford the initial cost, which runs between $ 8,000 to $ 20,000 even after generous government rebates.

What particularly interested me was the number of scientists who had been pushed out of CSIRO, or had left of their own volition, after being tightly censored in what they could say about global warming, and the emissions reductions that would be needed to stabilise the climate (the latter point is particularly sensitive since any actual number implies a target and government policy is opposed to targets).

After the UK general election in May 2010, the Global Warming Policy Foundation began lobbying the Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government to stop subsidies for alternatives fuels and encouraged the government to abandon the UK's emissions reductions targets.

After you take out the occasional embarrassment like the citizens assembly on delaying action against climate change as long as electorally convenient, the climate achievements of those governments come down to remarkably low proposed emission reductions, increases in MRET, a series of on again off again focus group - driven programs like Green Loans and the solar feed - in tariff, and shovelling as much coal as possible out of the ground and exporting it.

The 2.7 °C comes from the International Energy Agency and essentially assumes that if governments do little in Paris and then right after 2030 embark on incredibly ambitious climate reductions, we could get to 2.7 °C.