Spending reviews

Deputies approve spending review

BBC News (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009

A five-year strategy, the fundamental spending review, to save the States of Guernsey up to £70m is approved by deputies.

Do not cut transport spending BCC urges

The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009

... Articles"Infrastructure cuts must not be allowed to become a politically convenient way to slash spending during the next Parliament - especially when there are huge savings to be made in far larger budgets, including health, education and welfare." The BCC said that under current plans, £63bn of capital expenditure planned for 2009/10 would fall to £56.9bn in 2010/11. Mr Frost said that...

Deputies look to take apart Policy Council spending list

This is Guernsey (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009

SPENDING on the planned British-Irish Council conference and the airport firefighter dispute inquiry would be scrapped in favour of social projects under proposed amendments to the Policy Council’s plans.

MPs to reveal spending plans

The Guardian (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009

• Department budgets will be set for next four years • Attempt to press Cameron on deficit-cutting moves Labour will try to flush out Conservative plans for spending cuts by setting out detailed departmental budgets to 2013-14, including what is expected to be a small real terms year-on-year increase in health spending. The details, more extensive than previously anticipated,...

Slow death of consensus ‘is in no-one’s interest’

This is Guernsey (Free subscription) | yesterday

‘In June, 27 members signed a letter opposing cabinet-style government,’ he said yesterday. ‘Four months later, 10 of the 27 have voted to strip political boards of departments of their policy-making function and hand the Policy Council wide-ranging cabinet-style powers in all areas covered by the Fundamental Spending Review.

The bloodless coup

This is Guernsey (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009

The Assembly voted in favour of supporting the Fundamental Spending Review report and, in doing so, gave the Policy Council executive authority to push ahead with projects that could save the island more than £70m. without further approval from members.

Burn baby, burn

Dogwood Tales (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009

Another reasonable night's sleep and having a snooze in until seven helped as well. The fireworks round these parts were not too bad last night and they were mostly over by ten. I suspect that things are going to a bit more lively tonight and on Saturday, with the pub down the road organising its annual health and safety ignore-a-thon. The animals, apart from Doris, don't seem to be too bothered, which...

A more technical side to our Google trip

T Jantunen.com (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009

When we visited Google the other week, the first half of the day was spent reviewing current relationships with our account managers and how we can work together to improve campaign performance. We had already provided Google with five campaigns prior to the visit, for them to review and make recommendations on. You will [...]

“What’s the delay'” - Redux

Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009

When I originally posted this there were few moved to comment. Perhaps today’s flurry of statements on the topic - and there’s a good iol roundup report here - will change that. Here’s Julia Paul’s BBC NI Hearts and Minds report from June - investigating the then-8 month delay in producing the final report from the Strategic Review on Parading in Northern Ireland. As...

States can deliver on £70m. efficiency programme

This is Guernsey (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009

TREASURY Minister Charles Parkinson is confident the States can deliver on the £70m. of savings outlined in the Fundamental Spending Review.

Dalton McSpendy

Full Comment (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009

The Ontario government wants to blame record deficits on recession, but their spending is the problem By Niels Veldhuis I f the first step to recovery is admitting you have a problem, Ontarians should be concerned that its government has yet to come clean. Updated budget numbers presented by Finance Minister Dwight Duncan last week peg this year’s provincial deficit at $24.7-billion,...

Keepin’ America safer

Undeniable Liberalism (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009

The patriots of the Bush misadministration only spent an hour kabulling together an Afghanistan report prior to handing it over to the Obama Administration The upside is that this was one more hour than was spent reviewing the "Bin Laden Determined To Attack Inside The U.S." memo. Oh, snap! From Air America : A "C" student move if ever there was one, this new information is shocking...

Keepin’ America safer

WTF Is It Now?? (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009

The patriots of the Bush misadministration only spent an hour kabulling together an Afghanistan report prior to handing it over to the Obama Administration The upside is that this was one more hour than was spent reviewing the "Bin Laden Determined To Attack Inside The U.S." memo. Oh, snap! From Air America : A "C" student move if ever there was one, this new information is shocking...

• Keepin’ America safer - Undeniable Liberalism

Ontario deficit hits $24-billion, but no exit plan

Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009

Spending will be reviewed, but minister rejects deep cuts to social programs

Fidessa slows

TechMarketView - Please go to www.TechMarketView.com... (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009

... return to the financial markets.” However, pressure on its smaller customers is leading to spending reviews and consolidation. So, while "resurgence continues" amongst larger customers, Fidessa’s overall growth has continued to fall and, as suggested at its H1 results ( Fidessa tempers expectations ), growth for the year will be below the H1 levels. Also, headline...