Sentences with phrase «year of this parliament»

Now we're in the middle year of this parliament the bigger picture is becoming clear.

There are signs, from recent local by - elections, that Labour's vote share has started to recover slightly, and, typically, local election results in the third year of a Parliament are the worst for the incumbent government.

Total spending will fall in that final year of this Parliament at the same rate as through the current spending review.

The former foreign secretary said his brother Ed had «done well» since winning their battle for control and it was a «very difficult job being leader of the opposition, especially in the first year of a parliament».

«Those first few years of parliament were disastrous for us in terms of economic credibility,» another of Miliband's top advisers said.

In every single year of this Parliament the rich will pay a greater share of our nation's tax revenues than in any one year of the last government.

There will be further changes to the way the House does business when the Backbench Business Committee is able to look at both Government legislation and Back - Bench business, and we are told that that will not start until the third year of this Parliament — another recipe for delay.

(Tsebelis 1995, 316) The House of Lords can act to block change from the status quo during the final year of a parliament, but it husbands its powers carefully, as it did when members withdrew their support for amendments last week.

He says there's an increase in every year of this parliament.

And it is why the Government I lead will increase spending on defence in every year of this Parliament.

He added that «all those on benefits will still see cash increases in every year of this Parliament».

Osborne also said he would slash general departmental spending by a further # 13bn in the first two years of the parliament — enough, alongside growth, to put the overall budget in surplus by 2018.

Several years will have passed since the British public declared it did not want a single political party to control the reins of power on its own, but it will only be in the final two years of the parliament that that verdict has its greatest effect.

There will be campaigns in the remaining four years of this parliament that we can and must win — and you can only spend each pound once.

12:08 - If Brown's so confident why doesn't he do «what Margaret Thatcher did, and Tony Blair did, after four years of a parliament, and call a general election?»

... and with us, the rich will pay a greater share of tax in every year of this Parliament than in any one of the thirteen years under Labour.

So we will extend the Free Schools programme for a new generation of young people - building 100 new Free Schools in every year of this Parliament.

The Department of Health's funding was ringfenced in chancellor George Osborne's emergency Budget, leaving funding increasing in every year of this parliament.

The parties will bring forward the proposals of the Wright Committee for reform to the House of Commons in full - starting with the proposed committee for management of programmed business and including government business within its scope by the third year of the Parliament.

The parties agree that funding for the NHS should increase in real terms in each year of the Parliament, while recognising the impact this decision would have on other departments.

«We are already in the third year of the Parliament, so if a House business committee is not established before the next Queen's Speech, the coalition agreement will not have been complied with.

«There have been references to a House business committee, to consider Government business, being established by the third year of this Parliament.

No sovereign had refused a request for dissolution since the beginning of the 20th century, and the practice had evolved that a prime minister would typically call a general election to be held at a tactically convenient time within the final two years of a Parliament's lifespan, to maximise the chance of an electoral victory for his or her party.

On the NHS, the Tory manifesto says: «We will increase NHS spending by a minimum of # 8 billion in real terms over the next five years, delivering an increase in real funding per head of the population for every year of the parliament.»

The Coalition Agreement said in 2010 that the Committee would be established by the third year of this parliament.

We inherited a fuel duty escalator that would have seen above inflation increases in every year of this parliament.

Afflicted by 59 government defeats in the Lords, he blamed the Lib Dems, adding: «I think all members of the government, whether Conservative or Liberal Democrat, will be judged on the record of this government, and not how people have voted in individual divisions over the course of the five years of this parliament.»

During the five years of this parliament the government will borrow more than Gordon Brown managed in 13 years.

There had been an expectation that the # 7bn tax cuts Cameron announced in Birmingham on Wednesday, including raising the 40p threshold to # 50,000, might not occur until there is no longer a budget deficit, or even until the final year of the parliament.

Even in 1997 when Labour won an «historic landslide», the Conservative won back 16.5 % of the electorate in the final two years of the parliament.

On a domestic level, the Conservatives set a «goal» of insulating one million more homes over the five years of this parliament in an effort to cut fuel poverty, pollution and wastage.

How much is it estimated the new measures will raise in each year of this parliament and the next parliament?

Indeed, the OBR reckons that Labour plans would have seen a faster rate of job loss in the first two years of this parliament.

«Through our commitment to investing # 1bn every year of this parliament into the National Institute for Health Research, we're funding world class medical breakthroughs which can improve NHS patient outcomes and help avoid unnecessary NHS treatment costs.»

Schools minister Nick Gibb said: «The government is investing billions of pounds creating new schools and new school places and through our free schools programme we want to open 500 more new schools during the five years of this parliament.»

The funding pledge involves adding # 4 billion to the overall schools budget by 2022, which they claim represents «more than a real - terms increase for every year of the parliament» when compared to current spending plans.

In this year's general election, the Conservatives pledged to open 100 free schools each year of the parliament but this only amounts to 17 extra free schools given those already in the pipeline.