The granting of independence to the Bank of England in 1997 was, in fact, the granting of operational independence ; the inflation target continued to be announced in the Chancellor's annual budget speech to Parliament.

In his June 2009, budget speech, Chief Minister Peter Caruana noted that Gibraltar's economy remains in good shape and Government finances remain healthy, solid, stable and robust, despite global economic and financial turmoil.

An October 1998 referendum approved constitutional changes, including increasing the number of deputies in the lower house, reducing the number of deputies in the upper house, providing for 25 % of lower house deputies to be elected by party lists, rolling back parliamentary immunity, introducing private property, prohibiting adoption of laws restricting freedom of speech and mass media, and reforming the state budget.

Despite Edward Heath claiming it was a ' hard, cold budget, without any glimmer of warmth ' Jenkins ' first budget broadly received a warm reception, with Harold Wilson remarking that ' it was widely acclaimed as a speech of surpassing quality and elegance ' and Barbara Castle that it ' took everyone's breath away '.

He had informed the house that he would bring a full Budget to the House when he made his ' little budget ' speech prior to the election.

Traditionally the budget speech was delivered on Budget Day, a Tuesday ( although not always ) in March, as Britain's tax year follows the Julian Calendar.

On December 16, 2010 Werner Kogler of the Austrian Green Party held his speech before the budget committee, criticizing the failings of the budget and the governing parties ( Social Democratic Party and Austrian People's Party ) in the last years.

He was later promoted to the shadow Finance portfolio, making a particular effective speech in the Dáil in response to the budget of 1980.

This decision was announced in the budget speech of 6 April 1965.

His first campaign speech, which he dryly read verbatim from his notes, included the candid admission that it might be necessary to re-institute the state sales tax to balance the budget.

As more countries joined, this produced a combinatorial explosion in the number of language pairs involved, and the need to translate every paper, speech and even set of meeting minutes produced by the EU into the other eight languages meant that translation rapidly became the overwhelming component in the administrative budget.

In the spring session of the legislature, Graham attempted to pass a snap motion of no confidence on during his speech on the budget.

There was brief excitement on Liberal benches as less than half of the government caucus was present for Graham's speech, however the speaker ruled that the vote would be held along with the main budget motion at the end of the following week.

Subsequent to the findings of the Augustine Committee that the Constellation Program could not be executed without very substantial increases in funding, on February 1, 2010, President Barack Obama announced a proposal to cancel the program, effective with the U. S. 2011 fiscal year budget, but later announced changes to the proposal in a major space policy speech at Kennedy Space Center on April 15, 2010.

However Defence Minister Mosiuoa Lekota in his 2007 budget speech to the National Assembly indicated there currently are roughly 11, 000 reserve force members in the army regular reserve.

Lee's first speech was an attack on the budget proposals of Winston Churchill and met even with his approval, with him offering his congratulations after their exchange in the Commons.

Walking into the House of Commons to give the autumn 1947 Budget speech, he made an off-the-cuff remark to a journalist, telling him of some of the tax changes in the budget, which was printed in the early edition of the evening papers before he had completed his speech, and whilst the stock market was still open.

Despite Treasury Board rules requiring a bidding process for contracts of $ 25, 000 or more, Flaherty admitted his office broke government contracting rules in hiring MacPhie & Company to help write the 2007 budget speech and provide advice on how to sell the document.

The finance minister says he was unaware his former chief of staff broke government rules in handing a well-connected Tory an untendered contract to write the 2007 budget speech.

In his first Budget reply speech as Opposition Leader, Abbott sought to portray the Rudd Government's third budget as a " tax and spend " budget and promised to fight the election on the new mining " super-profits " tax proposed by Rudd.

His band also delivered several shorter anonymous performances for the label's " Little Wonder " line of 90-second-long budget releases.

Was cut due to budget restrictions, the capability being delivered using US assets.

Cowen delivered the Irish government budget for 2009 on 14 October 2008, brought forward from its usual December date due to the global financial crisis.

In a second emergency budget, delivered in April 2009, a fiscal deficit of 10. 75 percent of gross domestic product ( GDP ) was addressed.

Cowen's government's third budget within 14 months, delivered on 9 December 2009, saw the government facing the reality of the country nearly becoming insolvent.

It was estimated that ERAAM + could be delivered for less than half the budget allocated for BVRAAM with a 2007 ISD.

On May 11, 2005, the McGuinty Liberals delivered their second budget, built around the " Reaching Higher " plan for education.

He said later that he had taken up the finance portfolio with a plan for economic restructuring already in mind, and described the budget he delivered in November 1984 as ‘ an amalgam of what I had originally envisaged and fresh options presented in briefing papers and in debate with fellow ministers and Treasury officials .’

If the actual figures delivered through the budget period come close to the budget, this suggests that the managers understand their business and have been successfully driving it in the intended direction.

These connections were most famously exhibited when Progressive Conservative Premier Ernie Eves and Finance Minister Janet Ecker delivered the 2003 Ontario budget from a Magna plant.

Swan delivered his second budget on 12 May 2009.

On May 11, 2005, Sorbara delivered his second budget.

In 2003, Ecker delivered her provincial budget at an auto parts factory owned by Magna International, rather than in the legislature.

The King of Norway attended the official opening of this project, delivered on time and inside budget, on 6 October 2007, at the football stadium in Molde.

When he sent his first budget to Congress in late 1967, Representative John L. McMillan, chair of the House Committee on the District of Columbia, responded by having a truckload of watermelons delivered to Washington's office.

The system, delivered by Nokia Siemens Networks, was on time and on budget, and made Norway one of the first countries to fully implement the system throughout Europe.

Lyle greatly overspent his budget, but delivered a structure described in later years as " an Edwardian jewel-box.

However, in project management it's common to build a certain error margin into the predicted " resource cost " of a project to make predictions more realistic: there are many unforeseen factors that may delay a project or make it more costly, but very few factors that could result in it being delivered before time or under the calculated budget ... so to some degree, " unexpected " overruns are to be expected, even if their precise nature can't be predicted in advance.

Peckinpah delivered the film on time and on budget, submitting his director's cut to the producers.

Despite the big budget disaster Roop Ki Rani Choron Ka Raja in 1993, Sridevi continued to remain an in-demand star and delivered a skilled performance in Mahesh Bhatt's Gumrah.

In 2006, he delivered the opposition reply to the budget due to the absence of the finance critic for a family emergency.