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public spending

noun

  1. expenditure by central government, local authorities, and public enterprises
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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However, it is facing a difficult economic backdrop, with Chancellor Rachel Reeves setting out sweeping benefit cuts last month amid pressures on public spending.

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We have analysed the council's public spending data and discovered it's spent at least £30m on hotels in the past year.

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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.

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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.

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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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