Sentence examples for exchequer a from inspiring English sources

Mr Callaghan was a conspicuously bad chancellor of the exchequer, a plodding home secretary and an undistinguished foreign secretary.

Chief among these is the chancellor of the exchequer, "a monument to fossilised ability", as the PM describes him.

But consider his decision from the perspective of his successor, Gordon Brown, then chancellor of the Exchequer, a onetime close ally and ultimately bitter rival of Mr. Blair.

They added that higher claimant count unemployment in the old industrial areas was costing the exchequer a further £1bn-£1.5bn a year.

It would cost the Exchequer a fortune [in tax breaks] to take the stuff away and mean oil left in the ground".

The tax was included in a budget released by the chancellor of the Exchequer, a Conservative, and is expected to pass with support from the Labour Party and take effect in 2018.

It went up last year and now the industry is braced for it to rise annually in line with inflation, bringing the Exchequer an extra £150m a year.

The new rate, which comes into effect in April 2015, will cost the exchequer an extra £400m in 2015-16, rising to £800m from 2016 onwards.

The chief economic consequences of corruption are the loss to the exchequer, an unhealthy climate for investment and an increase in the cost of government-subsidised services.

As a result, the 11m households now stand to lose £390 a year, saving the exchequer £4.2bn a year.

BAT, for example, had a British Chancellor of the Exchequer as a non-executive director [ 8] and had 'close relationships with successive Kenyan presidents' [ 9].