Sentences with phrase «spending on public services»

In addition, there will be increased spending on public services, the NHS, education and so on, financed by increasing taxes on big businesses and the rich.

Develop participatory budgeting to involve people and communities in decisions on spending on public services.

Areas up for review include, for the first time, social security benefits, tax credits and public sector pensions, as well as departmental spending on public services.

Once the likely costs of benefit payments and increased debt interest were taken off the spending total, the amount left to spend on public services faced an inevitable squeeze.

It also suggested raising the proportion of government spending on public services and social protection.

Other qualities are important too: given the current restraint on spending on public services, commercial awareness is important, as is a focus on delivering services as efficiently as possible.

He promised # 30bn in extra in spending on public services in Scotland and # 40bn on infrastructure over the next decade, financed by heavier taxes and borrowing.

The decision - though good as you credit - to hold the inquiry in public is allowing too much space for Cameron to manoeuvre, just like the public spending divide in the party has allowed space for George Osborne to appear on top of things, despite his expenses claims - which news of just disappeared into thin air - and his party's plans to cut spending on public services anyway.

It was not the kind of budget that Gordon Brown would have given — full of spending on public services aimed at propitiating the public sector unions... Alistair Darling may have delivered the budget but Lord Mandelson is its co-owner.»

His remarks come a day after Ed Balls, the shadow chancellor, argued that George Osborne's autumn statement had given Labour the chance to become the party of the centre ground, resisting extremist and ideological plans to reduce spending on public services to the level of the 1930s.

Anti-austerity and leadership dominated the 2017 campaign, with Labour's manifesto tapping into a widely felt desire for change, promising more spending on public services, the NHS, and education.

New Labour's successes all took place during periods of economic growth and confidence, which allowed increased spending on public services without greatly increasing the tax burden.

Take this to its logical conclusion and government should be providing broadcasters with the # 400m that they used to spend on public service genres back in 2004.

The Tory leader said the move was part of the government's «pattern of deception» in the recent row over future spending on public services.

First, voters have apparently come to the view that the increase in spending on public services under Labour should come to a halt.

Once we factor in spending on the likes of debt interest and benefits, the government's figures show spending on public services will have to be cut between 2011 and 2014.

I do n`t think there are many people who actually use the NHS believe that clinical care is as bad today as it was when the Tories were kicked out of office largely because they cut spending on public services like the NHS back to the bone.

Commuters have spoken, through actions, that the use of public money is better spent on public services than on private industries.

«Far from freeing up money to spend on public services as the Leave campaign would like you to believe, quitting the EU would mean less money.

Yes, they have blamed Labour for excessive levels of debt and the poor state of the economy, but they have blamed Labour for «waste» and unnecessary spending rather than for high levels of spending on public services (which they support).

• The party's treasury spokesman Malcolm Bruce demanded increased spending on public services.

Meanwhile, the party supports the idea that the Scottish Parliament should use its new income tax powers to raise rates in order to have more money to spend on public services (a far cry from their Westminster colleagues» advocacy of lower income tax when they were in coalition with the Conservatives).

If the effect of these is a fall in the volume of property transactions with a consequential reduction in revenue, there is then less money to spend on public services and it is then hard to see the changes as especially progressive.

The public is divided, split down the middle, on the merits of deficit reduction if it means cuts to spending on public services.

The opposition wants to spend the cash from the City on tax credits, cutting the deficit, spending on public services, the bits of the regional growth fund Miliband likes, and even turning empty shops into cultural community centres.

«Far from having more to spend on public services - the giant con trick at the heart of the Leave campaign - we'd have tens of billions of pounds less.»

Studies show that there is a hugely positive redistributive effect of spending on public services — two thirds of the impact of taxes and benefits.

You don't have to like Tony Blair, or what he did to Iraq to concede that he achieved more for ordinary people — increased spending on public services, the minimum wage, a reduction in child poverty, peace in Northern Ireland — than Foot, Kinnock, Miliband or Corbyn combined, by virtue of actually getting elected.

And when we're done with these cuts, spending on public services will actually still be at the same level as it was in 2006.