Download or read book The 2007 comprehensive spending review written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Treasury Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2007-12-03 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report is in five main sections: overall spending issues; efficiency and value for money; the new performance management framework; child poverty; and individual spending settlements. The planned rate of growth of public spending is set to be considerably slower than the rate of growth of recent years. This could lead to cost pressures on departmental spending as there will be a greater proportional growth in the Annual Managed Expenditure. There will also be cost pressures from public sector wage settlements, population growth and needs in particular sectors. The efficiency programmes are highly ambitious but the Committee recommends that savings should only be recorded if it could be shown that service standards have been maintained. There is a welcome for the decision not to impose explicit targets for reduction in Civil Service numbers. On child poverty the Committee note a possible tension between the target to halve child poverty by 2010-11 and that of eliminating child poverty by 2020. There is a concern that the Government has drawn back from a whole-hearted commitment to meet the 2010 target. They want the Government to either initiate a debate on the trade-off between the two targets or rededicate itself to the 2010-11 target, making it clear that the resources are available within the Comprehensive Spending Review.
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Download or read book The 2007 Comprehensive Spending Review written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Treasury Committee and published by Stationery Office. This book was released on 2007-06-25 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decisions on the allocation of public money to government departments and to priority areas for public spending are central to the political process. The Committee's report has three main objectives: to set the 2007 Comprehensive Spending Review in context, particularly in relation to past Reviews and the fiscal prospects for the period up to 2010-11; to analyse the shape of the forthcoming spending settlement, including the role of efficiency objectives and the performance management framework; and to make proposals about the continuing debate up to the announcement of the final outcome of the Review, including the role of the House of Commons and public involvement in that debate, and about the reporting requirements. Amongst its 24 conclusions and recommendations, the report notes that public spending is projected to rise in real terms during the period from 2008-11 at half the rate of growth provided for during the period covered by the four preceding Reviews taken together. It also finds that all of the departments which have so far agreed settlements have done so at levels significantly below rates of growth provided for in the 2004 spending review settlements.
Download or read book 2007 pre budget report and comprehensive spending review written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Meeting the aspirations of the British people written by Great Britain. Treasury and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2007-10-09 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Government's objective is to build a strong economy and a fair society, in which there is opportunity and security for all. The 2007 Pre-Budget Report and Comprehensive Spending Review, 'Meeting the aspirations of the British People' (Cm 7227), presents updated assessments and forecasts of the economy and public finances, describes reforms that the Government is making and sets out the Government's priorities and spending plans for the years 2008-09, 2009-10 and 2010-11, including: maintaining macroeconomic stability; investing in the future with total public spending rising from £589bn in 2007-08 to £678bn in 2010-11 including an additional £2bn for capital investment in public services; continuing the sustained investment in the NHS, with resources rising from £90bn in 2007-08 to £110bn by 2010-11 and with value for money savings of at least £8.2bn contributing to the funding of the conclusions of the Darzi Review 'Our NHS, our future'; further sustained increases in resources for education, science, transport, housing, child poverty, security and international poverty reduction and the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games; simplifying the tax system to make it fairer, simpler and more efficient; modernising the tax system through major reforms to inheritance tax and capital gains tax; steps to protect the environment, including reforms of the tax regime for aviation and a new Environmental Taxation Fund to support the demonstration and deployment of new energy and efficiency technologies. For related publications, see 9780102944556 (2007 Budget Statement), 9780101698429 (2006 Pre-Budget), and for the Darzi Review see (http://www.ournhs.nhs.uk/files/283411_OurNHS_v3acc.pdf)
Download or read book The 2007 pre Budget report and comprehensive spending review written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Environmental Audit Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2008-03-05 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Vol. 1, the report, see (ISBN 9780215513915)
Download or read book The Alternative Comprehensive Spending Review written by Colin Talbot and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2008-12-15 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Gordon Brown launches the fifth Comprehensive Spending Review since New Labour came to power in 1997, we might ask ourselves why all the debate about priorities and policies has remained firmly under wraps in the Whitehall village. It was, after all, Brown himself who announced that the Comprehensive Spending Review would be carried out through "national debate" rather than the secretive process which has come to decide our national priorities. In this, the first "alternative" spending review to be published through the Herbert Simon Institute at the University of Manchester, the editors aim to draw back the veil of secrecy and let the real debate on the long-term trends and challenges that will shape the next decade begin. Identifying the reforms and investments needed to meet long-term challenges across government departments, a team of distinguished academics examine the spending issues and constraints facing public services, the policy and delivery challenges across government and look at how public spending reforms have fared so far. A vital source for those wishing to make the spending review process more open, the Alternative Comprehensive Spending Review 2007 is essential reading for anyone interested in public administration and public policy.
Download or read book The 2007 budget written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Treasury Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2007-04-23 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report is in four main sections: the first looks at the state of the economy, the second examines public finances, the third covers tax measure s, and the fourth miscellaneous issues such as the Girshon programme of efficiency savings and the Comprehensive Spending Review. It is based on evidence sessions: from outside experts, Treasury officials, and the Chancellor as well as written submissions and is published before the Second Reading of the Finance Bill..
Download or read book The 2007 Comprehensive Spending Review written by Great Britain. Parliament House of Commons. Treasury Committee and published by . This book was released on 2008-03-25 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Government response to HC 55, session 2007-08 (ISBN 9780215037589)
Download or read book The 2007 pre Budget report and comprehensive spending review written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Environmental Audit Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2008-03-05 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environmental taxes as a proportion of all taxation peaked at 9.7 per cent in 1999 and have declined ever since, falling to 7.3 per cent in 2006. This report sets out a number of conclusions and recommendations covering different areas of environmental policy. (1) Aviation: the reform of Air Passenger Duty into a levy per flight rather than per passenger is welcome, but tax on aviation must be significantly increased so as to stabilise demand and resulting emissions. (2) Motoring: road transport emissions in England increased by 12 per cent between 1997 and 2006, and are forecast to increase, so it is important for the Budget to put in place rises in fuel duty. (3) Carbon capture and storage: the Treasury must provide more assistance for the development of this technology in the UK. (4) Shadow price of carbon: this should be increased to discourage the approval of carbon-intensive policies and projects, and so improve the prospects of achieving the reduction in global emission targets. (5) Environmental transformation fund: the Pre-Budget report (Cm. 7227, ISBN 9780101722728) announced funding for such a fund, with £370 million to be spent over three years, but only £170 million was new money. (6) Emissions trading: it must be clear when reported emissions figures incorporate the purchase of carbon credits, otherwise they will give a false picture of the decarbonisation progress within the UK. (7) Public service agreements: the new PSA is too diffuse, with no clear departmental targets for reducing emissions; the Government should consider setting emissions reduction targets for specific sectors of the economy. The Treasury has not responded on the scale or with the urgency recommended by the Stern Review (ISBN 9780102944204) and the 2008 Pre-Budget report needs to establish a coherent set of measures to help deliver the UK's 2020 domestic and EU targets on emissions and renewable energy.
Download or read book Comprehensive Spending Review Submission 2007 written by Local Government Association (England and Wales) and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The 2007 Pre Budget Report and Comprehensive Spending Review written by Great Britain. Parliament House of Commons. Environmental Audit Committee and published by . This book was released on 2008-05-22 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Government response to the third report, HCP 149-I, II session 2007-08 (ISBNs 9780215513915, 9780215513939). The Pre-Budget report 2007 published as Cm. 7227 (ISBN 9780101722728) and the report also refers to the Stern Review (ISBN 9780102944204)
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Download or read book The 2007 pre budget report written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Treasury Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2007-11-26 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report, from the Treasury Committee, considers the state of the United Kingdom economy, the public finances and individual tax measures in the 2007 Pre-Budget Report (Cm. 7227, ISBN 0101722729). The Committee examines the Pre-Budget Report under the following areas: the real economy; the public finances; taxation issues and the role of the Pre-budget report. The Committee has set out 21 conclusions and recommendations, including: that the risk remains that the credit crunch will have greater macroeconomic effect than expected; that the Treasury needs to recast the way in which it presents the risks to the economic forecasts in both Pre-budget and Budget reports; the Committee reiterates an earlier recommendation, that the Government review the golden rule such that it becomes more forward-looking and less dependent upon the dating of the economic cycle; the Committee expressed concern about the reform of the capital gains tax regime and the possible detrimental effects that the withdrawal of taper relief could have on small businesses, employee shareholders and longer-term investment; that it is important that the Pre-Budget retains a focus on consultation on fiscal measures that may be included in the forthcoming budget.
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Download or read book The 2007 Comprehensive Spending Review written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Treasury Committee and published by . This book was released on 2007-10-15 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Government response to HCP 279, session 2006-07 (ISBN 9780215034731)
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