Sentences with phrase «taxpayers get value for money»

The bureaucrats sell their role as ensuring that taxpayers get value for money from the science they fund, when in fact their role is to expand their role and push their own agendas (preferably via innumerable conferences in nice locations).

Shadow education secretary Stephen Twigg called for greater scrutiny, oversight and local accountability «to ensure school standards improve and the taxpayer gets value for money».

Not exact matches

But it is the duty of government to make difficult choices about priorities and to get maximum value for every pound of taxpayer money it spends.

In his latest statement on getting better value for money from taxpayers» spending on politics David Cameron has written for the Belfast Telegraph about politicians sitting in two legislatures:

In terms of getting better value for taxpayers» money the most important next step for David Cameron is to strengthen his commitment to reduce the number of MPs.

Responding to the Rich List, the Local Government Association criticised the Taxpayers» Alliance for singling out individuals and pointed out the taxpayer «gets very good value for money» when compared with comparable salaries in the private sector.

«I think it's a really important committee and I think it can play a significant role in improving the effectiveness of government and the value for money that we get for taxpayers.

Children minister Kevin Brennan agreed the government has a responsibility to the taxpayer to get the best value for money and insisted it would earn lessons from these early stages.

To those who say that we should continue in Labour's vein, simply patting ourselves on the back for getting money out of the door, I say this: Our commitment to reaching 0.7 % of national income on aid by 2013, and enshrining this in law, imposes an even greater duty on us, more than any other department in Whitehall to get value for money, to bear down on waste, and to ensure that aid secures 100 pence of value for every hard - earned British taxpayer's pound we spend.

The prospect of the DOE «selling» the loan to an investor group is reportedly unprecedented, but even at the much lower price than its original value, represents the best chance for U.S. taxpayers to get at least part of their money back.

So what that money represents is just part of the difference between the value for money which the taxpayer would have got had it been publicly financed and the value for money that we are getting as a result of the private financing.