31.   The government treats asset receipts not as a means of financing the budget deficit, but instead as negative public expenditure.

32.   The government, for example, emphasises physical renewal and the extent to which public expenditure has levered private sector investment.

33.   The hardest reforms will involve means-testing, challenging the assumptions of the welfare state, and cutting public expenditure.

34.   The median voter model can be applied directly to yield predictions about the determinants of public expenditure.

35.   The Opposition have made absolutely no commitment to provide free phones or to increase public expenditure on telecommunications infrastructure in any way.

36.   Their policies are designed to cut public expenditure.

37.   These exclusions have restricted the overall effectiveness of cash limits as a device for controlling public expenditure.

38.   This inevitably brings into focus the procedure for the planning, monitoring and control of public expenditure.

39.   This trend, moreover, has not been halted by the recent government cuts in public expenditure.