public spending

noun

1. expenditure by central government, local authorities, and public enterprises

Example Sentences

"Public spending, school and infrastructure, railway infrastructure and road construction, those kinds of things," says Andreas, who is father to a small child, about what he considers the key issues.

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In that report, the OBR did put the overall "fiscal cost" of the net zero transition at an average of £30bn a year - though it attributed around two third of this figure to lost fuel duty receipts, as people choose to switch to electric vehicles, not additional public spending.

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With Reform UK claiming a prominent Conservative scalp in Dorries overnight, Tice was asked whether he agreed with her support for "drastically" cutting public spending.

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She acknowledged that she and her new leader would not agree on everything but were united on "the issues of law and order, immigration, the need to drastically cut public spending and boost growth and to support Ukraine".

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The government is unable to calculate the total cost of a secret relocation plan it set up following the Afghan data leak, the public spending watchdog has said.

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