According to the most recent Metropolitan police figures, £11.3m has been spent, excluding legal fees, on its Operation Elveden investigation into alleged unlawful payments to public officials.
It reported a primary surplus of 1.64 billion euros for January — meaning that the government was bringing in more revenue than it was spending, excluding interest payments.
Participants reported "hours per day usually spent (excluding working hours) on an average workday/non-workday in the past four weeks: 1) viewing television, DVDs and other videos; 2) using a computer, a tablet, and playing inactive video games; 3) sitting for reading, writing, sewing, knitting etc".
According to the results in Table 5, a 10% reduction of the spectacle incidence rate in France (discounting = 0%) results in a saving of €452 (time spent excluded).
Is government spending — excluding inflation — liberal or conservative if it doubles since 1980?
The amount spent online accounted for 13.4% of all retail spending, excluding automotive fuel, up from 12.4% in April 2015.
Nonmilitary capital spending excluding aircraft was revised higher to 3.9 percent, indicating that many businesses expected the economy to keep growing.
Of the savings, $400 billion would come from freezing for five years the level of discretionary spending, excluding security.
Verdict Research, a retail consultancy, is forecasting a 4.2% decline in the value of retail spending, excluding food and internet sales, in 2009.
By 2019, he argued on his blog, America's primary deficit (the difference between revenue and spending excluding interest payments) would be only 0.6% of GDP.
