Posts Tagged budget
That’s not a growth plan, this is a growth plan!
Posted by David Merlin-Jones in Economics, Foreign Affairs, Politics, Press Release, Social Cohesion, Tax and Spend on 16/03/2011
‘Rebalancing the economy’ and ‘promoting growth’ have been flagship phrases for the new Government. On Budget Day its strategy for growth will be announced, but a report by independent think tank Civitas shows that current plans do not go far enough. In Economic Growth – Could the Government do more?, David Green and David Merlin-Jones argue that some of the Government’s own policies are major obstacles to recovery.
The full press release is available here
Economic Growth – Could the Government do more? is available here
‘Reform our libel laws, but not our NHS’?
Posted by James Gubb in Health on 25/03/2010
The budget has set the challenge. By 2013-14, the NHS will be expected to deliver annual efficiency savings of £15 to 20 billion. The financial year 2010-11 will be the last year until at least 2013-14 (if not further) when the NHS will receive real terms increases in funding. Whatever they say currently, it will not be very different under a Tory government.
Money matters
Posted by Pete Quentin in European Union on 15/09/2008
The EU is eager to prove itself as a geo-political force, most recently by leading negotiations to appease the troubles between Russia and Georgia. (That is if you discount the genius of the original peace deal constructed to enable Russia to legally continue its military force…)
But there is certainly a new, closer-to-home, battle which the EU still has to negotiate its way out of – it’s the economy stupid!
Budget and the Beast
Posted by David Conway in European Union on 01/09/2008
Chris Heaton-Harris, Conservative MEP and member of the Audit Committee of the European Parliament, has published a ‘rough guide to the EU budget’. The brief guide tries to make sense of the draft budgets for both the European Commission and European Parliament in 2009 and queries how MEPs can be expected to ‘tame the beast’, writes Laura Kelleher.