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public spending
noun
- expenditure by central government, local authorities, and public enterprises
Example Sentences
However, it is facing a difficult economic backdrop, with Chancellor Rachel Reeves setting out sweeping benefit cuts last month amid pressures on public spending.
We have analysed the council's public spending data and discovered it's spent at least £30m on hotels in the past year.
More than half of job centres are reducing support for people claiming Universal Credit due to a shortage of work coaches, according to a report from the public spending watchdog.
But the OBR - which was set up in 2010 to evaluate the government's figures - said Reeves will only manage to avoid breaking her fiscal rules through billions in public spending cuts.
These rules are not to borrow to fund day-to-day public spending, and to get government debt falling as a share of national income by the end of this parliament.
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