Sentences with phrase «rises over the parliament»

The Institute for Fiscal Studies have already calculated that a faster programme of deficit reduction would require # 8bn of extra spending cuts or tax rises over the parliament.

She did not rule out the possibility of a national insurance rise over the parliament but denied MPs had been consulted about any specific changes to national insurance contributions to fund the NHS.

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However, cotton, like almonds, is highly reliant on irrigated water, making the sector vulnerable to drought and rising water prices as well as political stoushes, as is occurring currently in the Federal parliament over the next stage of the Murray Darling Basin irrigation plan.

His claim that unemployment will fall rather than rise in the course of this Parliament is based on the OBR assessment, rapidly rushed out to give ammunition to contest the anticipated Harman attack (incidentally providing the first suspicions about the OBR's objectivity), that whilst 600,000 public sector jobs will be lost by 2015 - 6 and a similar figure (though unspecified) in the private sector as a result of the public spending cuts, some 2.5 m jobs will be created over the same period in the private sector.

Increased security measures for MPs have seen costs rise 18-fold and show the alarm felt by members of Parliament over threats.

To do this, it sounds like he had good Whitehall source, who was able to provide him with true information about the employment of thousands of illegal immigrants in Whitehall and one in parliament, an internal ministerial letter about the dangers of rising crime caused by the recession and a list of potential Labour rebel MPs over the anti terror laws.

Defence spending did not rise over the last Parliament — indeed, it is scarcely higher now than it was in 1981 and only marginally up on its 1967 level.

The Institute of Fiscal Studies estimates that schools in the UK will face up to 12 per cent real term cuts over the next Parliament while forecasts suggest pupil numbers will increase by seven per cent, a result of rising immigration and higher birth rates over the next five years.

The government says it put # 5bn into creating new places in the last parliament and would spend another # 7bn over the next six years in response to the steep rise in pupil numbers now affecting both primary and secondary school.

According to the Institute for Fiscal Studies (ISF), schools face average cuts of 6.5 per cent over the course of this parliament as a result of rising cost pressures and frozen per - pupil funding.

The election in Germany over the weekend saw the rise of the country's nationalist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, the first time in decades that a far - right group has won seats in German parliament.