However, over the past three years, as local authorities have been forced to make difficult expenditure decisions, relations with the local VCS have often become strained and sometimes completely broken down.
He added that it would be "very difficult" for expenditure to reduce "very much further" without having an effect on the royal household's work to support the Queen and the long-term health of the estate.
The mayor's communications director, William T. Cunningham, called the opposition "hydra-headed," its expenditures difficult to calculate.
French governments also traditionally find it legally and politically difficult to cut expenditures because of the size of the state and civil service.
The confluence of factors makes normal government spending difficult, let alone extraordinary expenditure, he said.
In some cases it is difficult to differentiate expenditure between intervention areas, such as treatment, prevention or care.
The financial accounting system prior to 2007 was maintained on a different system of ledgers making it difficult to reconcile expenditure categories.
These figures are from adult based studies, making it difficult to identify expenditure on children, but it could be hypothesised that as family spending on CAM increases a proportion of this will be for use by children and adolescents.
She said that Europe, with 7% of the world's population, 25% of world GDP and 50% of social security expenditure faced many difficult decisions over spending in the next 30 years.
The Times says that a detailed comparison of their spending is difficult because of the way expenditures are labelled, but they do say that, by their count, Clinton's camp has spent more than $35m so far on media, polling and consulting.
