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"Ministers need to explain exactly what this was spent on and how it tallies with our commitments on overseas aid".

If this was spent on better buses and trains and increasing cycling and walking, the policy would achieve a double benefit, said Drummond.

Most of this was spent on more expensive oil and other carbon-based fuels that filled the gap in electricity supply.

More than two-fifths of this was spent on digital files.In this section Overview Output, prices and jobs The Economist commodity-price index The Economist poll of forecasters, May averages Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates Markets Digital music sales Reprints.

The bulk of this was spent on providing miserly welfare to asylum-seekers, who are forbidden from working until their cases are decided.A report by the parliamentary public-accounts committee on June 16th showed that officials are making progress with the old backlog, and shed light on the parlous state of the asylum database.

The Nuffield Trust says the state spends £140bn on "services and support" for older people but "just 6% of this was spent on social care" – this at a time when local authorities have systematically been reducing access to care, leaving a third of elderly people to manage on their own.

The end result of this was spending cuts and force reductions within the Marine Corps.

Much of this is spent on building schools to accommodate the rapidly growing population.

Half of this is spent on social programmes, from zinc roofs and livestock to subsidised bus travel.

About two-thirds of this is spent in class, and one-third on homework.

Little of this is spent on capacity development (2).