The committee says: "While we recognise the importance of good preparation, we note that the scale of expenditure on high speed 2 before the high speed rail bill has been passed is unusually large".
After the 2010 general election Andrew Lansley, who was then health secretary, said he was "staggered by the scale of the expenditure" on consultants, and promised to cut the outlay from its level at the time of £313m.
In your report, Lansley claimed that he is "staggered by the scale of the expenditure on management consultants in the NHS".
Linden (2012), Page 135) indicates the scale of public expenditure in Indian Secondaryj Education.
John Prescott, the deputy prime minister, has an ambitious goal in mind: a reduction in the relentless increase in traffic congestion.The scale of the promised expenditure is certainly impressive.
Referring to the scaling of energy expenditure to body mass in mammals studied with DLW [17], [47], the average TEE in both lemurs is within the range of variation of predicted field metabolic rate, but fall close to the lower limit of the 95% confidence interval.
This is not the doom and gloom that one might expect, given the scale of reductions in managed expenditure that are under way.
"The figures are, of course very, very large but they represent just one to two per cent of the overall budgets, we need to keep it in proportion to the scale of the overall NHS expenditure".
The scale of cuts required in public expenditure will not be achieved by simply trimming budgets and deferring discretionary spending.
Like all sensible people, I hope that David Cameron and George Osborne know what they are doing when they set out to chill our collective spine as they do in all the newspapers this morning about the scale of the coming cuts to public expenditure.
