Sentence examples for parliament cuts from inspiring English sources
Over the course of the last parliament, cuts to services and closures amounted to a 16% reduction in library funding – a whopping £180m less than in 2010.
In the final year of this parliament, cuts to disability benefits will be 40% more than the amount taken off banks".
Russell Hobby, the NAHT general secretary, added: "Regardless of the promise to protect education spending in the next parliament, cuts to other public services will come home to roost at the school gates.
Announcing his proposals, Mr Hague imagined a situation in which the Scottish Parliament cut air-passenger duty north of the border while Scottish MPs voted to raise it in England.
And in a bid to pave the way for the Tivat project, Parliament cut the VAT tax for port-related items to 7 percent from 17 percent -- a move that drew a rebuke from the European Commission as being anticompetitive.
The lower house of Parliament cut the initial budget for the reforms by two-thirds, settling on 829 billion rupiah, or $84 million, after the Education Ministry realized that fewer than one-tenth of Indonesian schools were ready to adopt the new curriculum, set to be rolled out in July, the Indonesian media reported.
To accept the previous parliament's cuts is just a necessary hitching post on the way.
The government in Greece pushed a reform package through parliament that cuts 15,000 civil-service jobs and overhauls the tax system.
Even if the long-term EU budget is approved, in one form or another, by the European parliament, the cuts achieved are economically insignificant in the wider picture.
The crunch will come over whether – and how far – Labour is prepared to break with the coalition's austerity programme for the next parliament, when cuts are planned to be the most savage.
The Conservative mayoral candidate asked questions in parliament about cuts in green grants that affected solar energy companies owned by his younger brother, but did not declare an indirect interest.
