The Labour MP criticised the government's "shabby" decision to inform peers late last Friday about a delay in spending the cash allocated to support patients infected with hepatitis C and HIV during the 1970s and 1980s.
Benefits for thousands of asylum seekers have been cut after a shake-up by the Home Office, including a £16 weekly cut in the cash allocated for looking after a child.
But there are fears the budget cuts could make future PB superficial by not involving actual money, since most cash allocated to PB in the past came from "discretionary spend" – cash surplus to core services – which councils are now unlikely to have.
The cash allocated to planetary science specifically has remained at about $1.3 billion since it was slashed in 2012.Some of NASA's cash has been shifted to other projects, especially the Space Launch System, a big new rocket, and the Orion spacecraft that will sit atop it.
For the second year running, government departments have succeeded in spending none of the extra cash allocated to them, so that a £5 billion underspend in the last financial year has been followed by a similar underspend this year; cumulatively a £10bn capital investment that should have been made but has not.
In the wake of 2007, there was another surge of spending that brought cash allocated up to a high point of £670m in 2010-11.
Plan ahead, don't get stuck short for cash -- allocate enough funds so that when it is time to move, you have enough for the upfront fees for your new place, as well as enough to cover your current obligations.
A spokesperson said the cash was allocated to enable parties to improve computer systems and accounting records and for training of staff.
At the root of the rupture in Cosla is a row over the way government cash is allocated to councils.
I have assumed that when the purchaser pays all cash, she allocates to monthly savings an amount equal to the monthly mortgage payment that she would have made had she borrowed.
It is management's job, he said, to allocate cash in ways that create shareholder value -- in research and development, acquisitions or share buybacks.
