Ministers would remain responsible for the total amount of money spent on the health service, as well as the scope of what it covers.

ECONOMIST: National Health Service

"Over the whole period of the scope of the review, the Probation Service had considerable involvement with Child B's mother and sister, who both had chronic involvement in criminal activity and drug dependence, " it said.

BBC: Apologies over deaths of three teenagers

But, as the central bank has recognised, there is also scope for cutting the debt-service burden by improving the management of debt issues, and by increasing the liquidity of government-bond markets.

ECONOMIST: Brazil��s government debt

The Internal Revenue Service, working with the Department of Justice, continues to have confidence in the scope of its authority to administer this program.

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Perhaps more than domestic politics, it was the expanding scope of American foreign policy after the second world war that brought on the need for greater diversity in the foreign service.

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