"They have got debt to refinance; they have got the choice of doing the deals" to raise money, Mr. Scruton said, or risking downgrades in their credit ratings, which will increase the interest rate burden.
Taking many market observers by surprise, however, bond yields have risen in recent days, fanning worries about a rising interest rate burden for the government.
He added that he would like to see the business rate burden on childcare providers eased and that there was a problem regarding the generous state funding given to local authorities for childcare provision being passed in full to childcare providers, and not kept by local councils.
And while Greece will benefit from a debt revamping that reduces its interest rate burden in the years ahead, it is unclear how a country that has always depended on a state sector to help spur demand will be able to grow with its main economic engine effectively shackled by the budget cuts Athens is now promising.
Mr Attwood said: "The consequence of convergence is that the rate burden will change within the new council areas.
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38 Both masters' demands for labour and parish officials' desire to be rid of rate burdens encouraged the apprenticing of young children.
Certainly, this transfer or exchange of children from one London parish to another undermines the emphasis placed on the need to move potential rate burdens on.
This suggests either that poor law officials were not able to prevent this inward traffic (although other requests may have been refused), or that parish apprentices were not seen as potential rate burdens, but rather as productive units of labour.
The system of parish relief demanded that children, like other potential paupers, belong somewhere, and parish officials used apprenticeship as a means to safeguard settlements, move on potential rate burdens, and ensure a degree of training.
In the health sector, this high turnover rate burdens junior staff and hospitals, so top colleges and hospitals now implement a two-year contract to prevent Filipinos from leaving for abroad without serving their country first.
