The Chancellor said: «The disability budget will still rise by more than # 1billion, and we'll be spending more in real terms supporting disabled people than at any
point under the last government.»
We saw
under the last government what happened when a Chancellor of the Exchequer revised up the trend growth rate, spent money the country didn't have, and left it to the next generation to pick up the bill.
Although, like most Conservatives, I certainly believe that immigration was too
high under the last Government, I stressed that we mustn't lose sight of the benefits immigration has brought over the years.
The original commitment in the 1907 Probation Act to «advise, assist and befriend» was
removed under the last government in favour of a managerial model characterised by closer monitoring and enforcement.
But these very high numbers for the end of the last government's term of office are
why under the last government, we saw a worrying collapse in public confidence in our ability to control inward migration.
The link is now under attack from the Con - Dem coalition which has picked up on proposals made by Sir Hayden
Philips under the last government, allegedly to clean up party funding.
Let me confirm that this means the disability budget will still rise by more than # 1 billion, and we'll be spending more in real terms supporting disabled people than at any
point under the last government.
But
under the last Government, it became the norm, with the renewal of 28 days repeatedly brought before the House, despite the power rarely being used.
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Under the last Government, the immigration service was at best neglected by Ministers, but at worst it was treated with contempt.
Under the last Government the currency of apprenticeships was devalued alongside every other qualification.
Cutting Tax Credits when child poverty rose by half a million
under the last Government to over four million.
Under the last government, not only did they give everything the police and security services ever asked for, they gave them more than they needed.»
The government is just doing enough to keep the overall contribution from the banks to the Treasury's coffers at # 2.5 billion a year; a politically motivated amount, purely driven by oneupmanship against the # 2.3 billion the banks paid up
under the last government.
But David Cameron said 429,000 people across England were seen by in casualty departments, working out at 3,000 more patients every day than
under the last government.
It is a way of effectively adding liquidity to a market that seized up
under the last government.
«As a consequence, the rebuild cost of these schools will be 30 % cheaper per school than it would have been
under the last government's programme - and that's really important.»
Mr Gove said: «
Under the last government, thousands of great people left the teaching profession because behaviour was out of control and they were forced to spend far too much time on paperwork.