Sentences with phrase «spending by government departments»

But Michael Meacher, the Labour spokesman on science, questioned the commitment of a government whose own figures show that its overall spending on research — including spending by government departments, universities and research councils — will fall from # 5.6 billion in 1992 to # 5.2 billion in 1995.

Official figures show almost half a million pounds has been spent by government departments on Christmas festivities in the last five years.

Not exact matches

The document reallocates more than $ 54 billion from government entities like the Environmental Protection Agency, the State Department and even NASA to boost defense spending by the same amount.

If passed by the Senate, the spending bill would fund all government agencies through September 2015, except for the Department of Homeland Security, which would get an extension only through Feb. 27.

The GDP release also delivered an unwelcome surprise on government spending: budget trimming by federal agencies, especially the defence department, shaved an estimated eight percentage points off growth.

We'll likely see a lid clamped on government spending, with some department budgets cut by as much as 10 %.

In other words, the deficit is being eliminated: first, by simply assuming a rebound in economic growth by ignoring economic and political uncertainties; and second, by simply assuming that government departments will not meet their approved spending levels.

The Estimates provide a breakdown by department and agency of proposed government spending for the upcoming fiscal year.

The PBO suggested that since the Government lapsed $ 10.1 billion in 2012 - 13, Parliamentarians should seek clarification as to why departments and agencies under spent by this amount and whether, given this, all of the $ 5.4 billion in Supplementary Estimates (B) is actually required.

Since the President of the Treasury Board tables the Estimates on behalf of the departments and agencies and is responsible for the overall management of government spending, he should be in a position to provide a detailed and credible explanation as to the difference between what was approved by Parliament and what was actually spent by the individual departments and agencies.

Assuming the coalition continues its austerity drive at the same pace as that seen in the period covered by the 2010 comprehensive spending review, all government departments will have to make cuts of 1.6 %.

Local government and the department of culture, media and sport are some of the biggest losers from the spending review, with 33 % and 24 % respectively by 2015.

It reverses the process by which a government department has to justify its spending on a project.

The Department for Culture, Media and Sport, like all other government departments, must submit its plans to the Treasury on how it proposes to make further spending cuts of ten per cent by the end of the month.

Just a few short months have passed since the chancellor presented the comprehensive spending review to parliament, slashing government departments» budgets by an average of 19 %.

Not many Lib Dems went into politics to slash the size of the state, yet that's exactly what the coalition government will do on October 20th when it unleashes details of a comprehensive spending review set to cut most government departments» budgets by at least 25 %.

The Star Chamber was re-established by David Cameron this summer to decide on cases where government departments can't agree with the Treasury on what cuts they should make as part of next week's big Spending Review.

Short - Term Fiscal 2018 Continuing Appropriations — Vote Passed (235 - 193, 5 Not Voting) The House passed the joint resolution that would provide funding for federal government operations and services at current levels through Dec. 22, 2017, at an annualized rate of $ 1.23 trillion for federal departments and agencies covered by the 12 unfinished fiscal 2018 spending bills.

A March 2013 report by the state Spending and Government Efficiency Commission said the two authorities could be grouped under the umbrella of the state Department of Transportation.

BY PAUL SCHINDLER The city health department and leading AIDS advocacy groups are scrambling to convince Governor Andrew Cuomo to reverse a proposal in his new executive budget that would reduce reimbursements for local government public health spending in six core areas from 36 percent of the total to 29 percent.

In his budget last month, Chancellor George Osborne said departments would face average cuts of 25 % when the government's public spending review is completed in October - potentially bigger than anything attempted by a previous UK government.

By Rockland County Executive Ed Day I have a simple rule to guide the departments that make up Rockland County government: Remember who you serve and whose money you spend.

At a glance: main spending cuts - # 1.15 bn to go in «discretionary» spending areas across Whitehall - # 1.7 bn saved by stopping projects undertaken by the last government - # 836m to be cut from the government's business department - # 120m savings from a recruitment freeze in the civil service - # 600m cut from quangos - # 320m cut from the Child Trust Fund

The state Spending and Government Efficiency Commission is considering placing the Belleayre Mountain Ski Center, located in the Catskills and managed by the state Department of Environmental Conservation, under the Olympic Regional Development Authority, which runs the Adirondack resorts Whiteface and Gore and other facilities in and around Lake Placid.

Last year, while in the shadow cabinet, he embarrassed the Tory party by declaring that a Conservative government would cut 10 % from all Whitehall departments — at a time when the party had not revealed its spending plans.

Approved in 2007, the original COMPETES legislation committed the government to providing healthy funding for the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and the Department of Energy's Office of Science, while also setting government - wide spending priorities to be coordinated by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

The government, for example, pledged that R&D spending by the Department of Health (not part of the science budget) would increase in real terms.

Officially, the results will be used by the OST to decide how it shares out its Science Budget to the research councils, to «inform» spending decisions in other government departments, and to encourage industry to exploit foresight more than it does now.

The Synthetic Biology Project found that the U.S. government has spent around $ 430 million on research related to synthetic biology since 2005, funded in large part by the Department of Energy.

A new analysis by the Synthetic Biology Project at the Woodrow Wilson Center found that the U.S. government has spent around $ 430 million on research related to synthetic biology since 2005, with the Department of Energy funding a majority of the research.

Total spending by all levels of government on education will hit a record $ 493.3 billion this school year, a 50 percent increase over the past decade after adjustment for inflation, according to the U.S. Education Department's annual back - to - school forecast.

The U.S. Department of Education has identified four states that are at «high risk» for economic - stimulus spending problems, according to a report issued last week by the Government Accountability Office.

Districts must decide how they plan to spend that funding, called «impact aid,» by July 31, or give it back to the federal government, said Chad Colby, a spokesman for the U.S. Department of Education.

States must submit school spending and attendance calculations to the federal government by Sept. 2, the Department of Education announced this month.

A Department for Education spokesman said: «We are giving local authorities # 5bn to spend on new school places over this Parliament - double the amount allocated by the previous government over an equivalent period.

The Department for Education says it is giving schools # 5bn to spend on new school places over this Parliament, which it says is double the amount allocated by the previous government over an equivalent period.

Puzzlingly, lack of research evidence has not stimulated rigorous research (funded by the federal government or the nation's many foundations, for example) into why so little if any progress occurred and how federal money was actually used by the schools or departments of education that spent it.

Concern about the preferential treatment given to the nuclear industry by successive governments is likely to be heightened by the decision last month to abolish the parallel Renewables Energy Board, which met every quarter at the department and once a year outside, as part of spending cuts.

According to a new white paper by DeSmog Canada, TransCanada Corporation, the company behind the Keystone XL pipeline proposal, has spent more than $ 4 million lobbying U.S. federal lawmakers and government department staff since 2010.

The call by Senator Scullion, Opposition spokesman for Indigenous Affairs, for an across - the - board audit of Indigenous spending by all commonwealth government departments ignores the Report's explicit statement that it does not provide any breakdown by individual departments and that only 45 per cent of the estimate can be sheeted home to the Commonwealth.