Sentence examples for squeeze in spending from inspiring English sources

In the UK's case where the evidence has accumulated over a longer period wage earners have seen the biggest real squeeze in spending power for at least 100 years.

The prospect of a squeeze in spending has triggered two main responses: fear, that a "slash-and-burn" approach to public-service budgets would fuel social unrest, and optimism, that "clever cuts" could result in the development of more efficient, sustainable and user-responsive services.

The chancellor said a range of financial assistance for councils, including funding to help them to deliver integrated social care in partnership with the NHS, to encourage collaboration with neighbouring town halls, and to support the troubled families initiative, meant the actual squeeze in spending would be less than 3%.

The yawning gap in Britain between the pay of a top elite and the rest is put into sharp focus today by new figures that show a tight squeeze in workers' spending power this year.

It has been hit by the squeeze in consumer spending and the stagnant housing market.

His government has yet to arrive at a coherent and consistent view of the fundamental issue in British politics: the coming squeeze in public spending.

Everyone expects these to be only the beginning of a brutal squeeze in state spending on universities over the next few years.

Britain is facing the tightest squeeze in public spending since the 1970s, after leaked Treasury documents showed a major deterioration in the nation's public finances, the Institute for Fiscal Studies will warn tomorrow.

She told the Police Federation conference in Bournemouth that the Home Office in general, and the police service in particular, would "bear a fair share of the burden" of the coming squeeze in public spending.

George Osborne set out plans for a severe post-election squeeze in public spending while offering voters heading to the polling booths help for first-time buyers and a cut in the tax rate for savers.

Britain even recently contemplated outsourcing its entire military procurement, only to get cold feet about such a radical move.An earlier squeeze in military spending, in the 1990s, prompted a spate of mergers, as weapons-makers cut costs by joining forces.