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