What we have said is we will raise public expenditure by 0.8% per annum after 2011.
If this trend continues, this could lead to higher public expenditure, for example on education.
Total public expenditure in 2012 is forecast to be 5% below its 2009 peak.
Health Secretary Andrew Lansley will be cross-examined about public expenditure on health at the Health Committee.
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The main share of public expenditure on education in most countries goes to primary education.
So it's a balance between efficiencies, borrowing, the tax changes we're making, and economies in public expenditure.
He also said that you have to "keep bearing down on public expenditure".
So the test of the government's commitment to medium-term planning of public expenditure will come in the budget in March.
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Sir Malcolm asked you to note that the whole House would continue to exercise control over tax and public expenditure.
"The problem that we've got is we know there is worse to come in terms of public expenditure cuts, " he said.
New Labour insists that it is alive to this problem, and would not allow regional assemblies to add to public expenditure.
What we are going to continue to do is raise public expenditure this year because we believe the recovery is not assured.
The share of public expenditure in national income was 66% in 1985.
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The government insists that it has not lost control of public expenditure: except for wages, it says, this year's spending is within budget.
Mr Brown argues that the causality worked the other way round: that New Labour created the benign circumstances which made the public expenditure possible.
Capital spending financed by asset sales will not add to public borrowing, nor, under the conventions, to the official control total for public expenditure.
Switching the risks of litigation from taxpayers to lawyers also offers some hope of staunching what has become the fastest-growing area of public expenditure.
Mr Johnson said the government was planning to rein in public expenditure before there was a "momentum" for private sector spending to fill the gap.
In the past four years, public expenditure has risen by 4.4% a year in real terms nearly double the rate of economic growth over the period.
Steve Thomas, chief executive of the WLGA, said with cuts in public expenditure councils could not afford to spend huge amounts of money on "unnecessary" FoIs.
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The overall effect is to push up the real growth of total public expenditure in 2000-01 from the 5% expected in the budget to almost 7%.
But he said the government "despite being committed to making savage cuts in public expenditure is in denial" about the increased costs incurred by creating more ministers.
If you think of Gordon Brown's public expenditure review this year, it's much more like a proper Labour public expenditure review than anything we've had in four years.
Altogether it has around 200 people to supervise public expenditure.
Welfare spending, which consumes a third of public funds, is 11% higher than in England and is rising faster as a share of public expenditure than any other category.
In the 2011 Budget, the government committed to using public expenditure to support households who face problems paying for their water, and households in areas with particularly high water charges.
But legal aid has been one of the fastest growing areas of public expenditure, so it makes sense to restrict state resources to cases which cannot be pursued by other means.
They know that it will have to grow more slowly if the economy is to absorb the big boost in public expenditure that is on its way without stoking up inflation.
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