Sentence examples for spending department from inspiring English sources

The Department for Work and Pensions was by far the largest spending department – but not only had the government, via the "triple lock", pledged to increase spending on pensioners, but Iain Duncan Smith's "big idea" – rolling six benefits into one universal credit – meant more spending on low-paid working people, too.

Yet it was as head of a major spending department, Health, that he reached the cabinet.

But Mr Greenberg showed time and again that in pursuit of money scientists were as grasping as any spending department.

Let's try the one who would inherit the biggest spending department of all, the shadow work and pension secretary.

Osborne may genuinely believe that services can be improved with sweeping cuts, but he has never served in a "spending" department.

James Purnell, 37, replaced Peter Hain as head of work and pensions - Whitehall's biggest spending department - and Purnell's job as culture secretary was taken by Andy Burnham, 38.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), one of Whitehall's two biggest spending departments on software, is to trial the use of open source software next year.

Spending departments were fighting deep annual budget cuts.

Allocations to the spending departments that are responsible for key public services rise by 8%.

The Treasury agreed to release extra cash only if spending departments signed up to demanding goals.

"It's a more complicated politics, and the spending departments will resist like mad," says Stoker.