1.   Additional government spending is particularly important in such areas as advanced wing design, air traffic management systems and low-cost manufacturing.

2.   Compulsive spending is often a symptom of deep unhappiness.

3.   Controlling spending is his top priority.

4.   Defence spending is also a target, to release funding for other proposed initiatives.

5.   The highest spending is amongst families with more members in paid employment, and lowest amongst pensioner families.

6.   United States defence spending has been a key driving force behind much of the electronics, telecommunications and computer industries.

7.   For some governments the vast military spending is so they can enforce their regimes and keep protests and activists well at bay.

8.   Teachers could lose their jobs and classes expand in Gloucestershire secondary schools if the County Council cuts education spending to avoid being poll taxed capped.

9.   National Health Service spending is to rise by three per cent and local council spending by slightly more than that.