Search results for ‘spending cuts’
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CutsCheck: funding shortfalls in university tuition
The cut “It is the case that a lot of the money received by Universities through the teaching grant and through HEFCE will in the future get to universities via students.” Universities Minister David Willetts, 3 November 2010 The background Today’s announcement to increase tuition fees was, said Universities Minister David Willetts, to deliver “a…
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Council spending reveals money mismanagement
Exclusive: As Channel 4 News reveals the true scale of local authority spending, Siobhan Kennedy asks whether instead of cutting councils loose, the government should be reining them in.
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Child benefit cuts could be “unenforceable”
A senior Treasury Minister has been challenged in the Commons over reports that the government’s plans to scrap child benefit for higher taxpayers could be “unenforceable”.
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Charities must ‘end competition’ to overcome £5bn cuts
As charities face a £5bn cut in funding, the founder of The Big Issue tells Channel 4 News that charities must end their “terrible competition” for money, and work together.
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Coalition cracks appear over housing benefits cuts
Simon Hughes, the deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats, signals cracks in the coalition as he tells Channel 4 News housing benefit cuts will not get through parliament.
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Spending review: Clegg attacks “nonsense” IFS warning
Nick Clegg has rejected a leading think tank’s claims that families would be hit hardest by the government’s “regressive” spending review.
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Spending Review: The cost to councils
Cathy Newman looks at how the Spending Review settlement will impact on council services – with local authority leaders warning of “real pain” for millions of people.
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Spending Review: the IFS verdict
A round-up of three of the claims the Chancellor made that the Institute for Fiscal Studies takes issue with.
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Spending review: will child poverty rise?
FactCheck analyses Chancellor George Osborne’s claim that measures in the spending review will not increase child poverty
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Spending review: the economists’ verdicts
A huge risk that’s hard to justify – or a viable strategy to restore balance to the economy? Two leading economists offer their views to Channel 4 News.
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Spending review: The Westminster theatre
We’ve had the numbers from the government’s spending review, but what about the theatre? Broadcaster Peter McHugh takes a less than serious look at George Osborne’s Westminster address.
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Cameron and Clegg grilled over spending review
David Cameron and Nick Clegg have defended the spending review’s deep cuts at a public grilling in Nottingham.
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Spending review: The age of austerity and uncertainty
In the wake of George Osborne’s deep spending cuts, “we are entering not just an age of austerity, but one of uncertainty”, writes Gaby Hinsliff.
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Spending Review: the price of the Pupil Premium
Have the Lib Dems, once again, been forced to water down one of their most cherished policies – the pupil premium? FactCheck finds out.
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Spending Review: fairness, child benefit and tax credits
There was a lot to check out in the Spending Review – and we’ll keep on it for the rest of the week. But here’s a taster of the claims that caught FactCheck’s eye.