Sentence examples for electoral allowance from inspiring English sources

Senior figures in the Coalition faced questions today over revelations that Liberal MPs pay $2,500 a year out of their electoral allowance to a company called Parakeelia – a licence fee for feedback software.

Julie Bishop – who was out campaigning in Banks, one of the Coalition's most marginal seats, with the Liberal MP David Coleman – rejected allegations that the party may be profiting on the ABC's AM, saying it was "entirely legitimate" for MPs to use their electoral allowance to pay for software.

After committing more than $200m to advertising in the last year, the federal government has moved to change regulations which would free taxpayer-funded electoral allowances to be used in radio and television advertisements.

But with an election due within three months and many MPs in close contests complaining of tight budgets, freeing the electoral office allowance for broadcast use is being viewed as a potential boon.

We are also going to test alternative relationships between political and electoral variables and allowance rates which allows us to explore the extent to which particular characteristics which affect the returns to increasing allowances and the costs if detected.

And now both the Conservatives and the Lib Dems have promised that if re-elected, they will remove those earning £12,500, roughly the amount earned by those on the minimum wage, out of paying income tax altogether.Although that is a powerful electoral message, boosting the allowance further will no longer benefit the lowest earners.

Indeed, we don't find evidence that allowance rates follow electoral cycles.

The government, already desperately short of cash and facing electoral wipeout, will be under huge pressure to increase winter fuel allowances to soften the blow.

He won a "pupil premium" to pump money into schools in disadvantaged areas, a referendum on electoral reform - which he lost - and an increase in the tax-free allowance to £10,000.

He pointed to his early successes where he won a "pupil premium" to pump money into schools in disadvantaged areas, a referendum on electoral reform - which he lost - and an increase in the tax-free allowance to £10,000.

Electoral Experience.