Sentences with phrase «say over welfare»

It was not immediately clear if the Education Secretary - who has no say over welfare cuts - was authorised to make her comments by the Chancellor or Prime Minister.

Not exact matches

Tang said the wealth gap was actually widening at a slower pace compared with a rise of 0.004 between 2006 and 2011, thanks to the government's increased efforts to help the impoverished, including an increase of over 40 per cent in welfare spending on public housing and medical benefits for the poor.

As the state has taken over social welfare from the Church in the past two centuries, so Christians concerned for the poor have increasingly said that we must be political.

What he does and says while he is here will not move the needle even one degree on the struggles over the death penalty, abortion and Planned Parenthood funding, the marriage and religious freedom issues, immigration policy, the international arms trade, or economic policy and social welfare programs.

«As such, we have invested more than $ 10 million over 10 years in research and development into better welfare for hens and this investment will continue,» Mr Kellaway said.

«Wendy's is working with its U.S. and Canadian pork suppliers to eliminate the use of sow gestation stalls over time,» said Dennis Hecker, head of Wendy's animal welfare committee and senior vice president of quality assurance.

Christian Porter said Australia's welfare system «was costing over 100 % of all income tax raised» under Labor after the GFC, and that it's «around 80 %» under the Coalition.

But RSPCA Queensland chief executive Mark Townend said the animal welfare group was never «formally consulted» over the 567 per cent increase.

«I get tired of all this nonsense in our country over Vietnam and welfare and things like that,» he said.

The Tories — Cameron included — are straining at the leash over Europe, the Human Rights act, immigration and welfare, said one minister.

Labour's manifesto says that it will implement Smith and «go further, with a Home Rule Bill to give extra powers to Scotland over tax, welfare and jobs».

The new commissioner of the city's child welfare agency expressed «significant concerns» about a NYC Council legislation package aimed at tightening scrutiny over his embattled department — saying it could «inhibit our efforts toward reform.»

Hubbard said Cuomo also expressed an openness to addressing over the next two years of his four - year term the «paucity» of the welfare grant, education and job training for prisoners and low - income New Yorkers, and access to transportation for rural communities.

Meanwhile, Mr Cameron said a timetable for giving Scotland a new range of powers over tax, spending and welfare would be met, after Alex Salmond accused Westminster of «tricking» No voters.

But the Conservatives said Ms Abbott had «floundered» when pressed over how the policy would be paid for and accused Labour of already pledging to spend the capital gains tax money on schools, welfare and the arts.

New York City's child - welfare agency has opened an investigation into former Rep. Anthony Weiner after he allegedly sent a lewd photo of himself lying next to his son over the internet, a city official said

In a speech arguing for major reform to the welfare system, the Prime Minister said the current system encouraged «papering over the cracks», instead of making the «fundamental reforms» needed.

With the debate over welfare savings likely to form one of the central political battlegrounds of 2013, the deputy prime minister, speaking at a joint press conference with David Cameron at Downing Street, said: «I don't think it helps at all to try and portray that decision as one that divides one set of people against another, the deserving and the undeserving poor, people in work and out of work.»

Mr Shapps said: «One of the cruelest things about this welfare system, which had developed over decades... is that it traps people who want to work hard and get on in life with no other option but to be trapped into a life on welfare.

As I indicated yesterday, it will be said that the speech was in part an exercise in «reverse differentiation» - doing to the Liberal Democrats on welfare what they've done to the Conservatives over the NHS, Beecroft, the ECHR, and now GCSEs.

Ministers will hit back in the row over welfare this week by publishing a raft of figures which they say show that tough measures - or the threat of them - are already «changing behaviour» by seeing people drop their claims.

Murphy said he believes Scotland should have more powers over tax, welfare and other social issues, but he stands by Labour's central position.

«Britain's welfare reforms have been undermined by a series of «missteps» with officials in denial over emerging problems, says the man overseeing the introduction of Universal Credit.

Osborne said that extra cuts to welfare meant that departmental budgets would be cut by 19 % over the next four years.

Liam Byrne is said to be particularly aggrieved — sources familiar with his thinking say that in over two years as shadow secretary of state for work and pensions, the number of times he was able to sit down with the leader and discuss the issues around welfare, can be counted on the fingers of one hand.

«Ironically, as people seek to take control over the way their food is grown, most ordinances fail to ensure basic health and welfare for birds and humans,» said Catherine Brinkley, assistant professor of community and regional development, in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.

One solution to concern over how animals are killed for our plates is labelling that makes this welfare distinction plain on all meat, says Danny Chambers

Media release from Cats Protection 100,000 cats and kittens at risk from decline in legacy giving, says feline charity A decline in legacy giving could affect welfare services for over 100,000 unwanted cats and kittens, says Cats Protection.

The UK's leading feline welfare charity says that two in three cats taken into its care are not microchipped, costing the organisation over # 190,000 to microchip them.

The move comes the day after the RSPCA said it was pulling out of Crufts over concerns about the welfare of pedigree dogs.

«If PIJAC is truly sincere in their efforts to support common sense rules and regulations for the welfare of animals,» said Baker, who as director of the Missouri Alliance for Animal Legislation battled with PIJAC over new puppy mill regulations in his state.

«Currently in India, 213 million people are food insecure and over 100 million are reliant on the national food welfare system, which uses huge quantities of wheat,» he said.

Machiavelli said that the world was ruined because rulers put the fate of their souls over the welfare of their nations — and that a better world required greater attention to worldly matters than eternal ones.

«Wind is a source of energy which from a financial point of view can be competitive and it's clean and entirely renewable so you don't want to smudge the reputation of an excellent source of energy by over zealously pursuing it and ignoring the welfare of birds,» Scherer said.

He says that any path to justice will require talking about residential schools; the Sixties Scoop; contemporary child welfare policies executed by organizations like Child and Family Serivces; racial profiling by police and other ways in which Indigenous people are criminalized by the so - called justice system; the ongoing tragedy of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls; all of the forms of oppressive regulation of Indigenous peoples by the Indian Act over the last 150 years.

Good Shepherd's Kathy Landvogt said highly discriminatory proposals such as where people will no longer be able to qualify for the Disability Support Pension on the basis of their substance abuse alone (estimated by Whiteford to affect fewer than 450 people each year, saving about A$ 22 million over five years) ignore the connection between mental illness and drug addiction, and threaten to breach basic human rights and that drug testing welfare recipients «comes dangerously close to criminalising poverty.»