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...He added that the crisis in British schools caused by last year’s crumbling concrete scandal had highlighted a systemic failure in Whitehall to properly weigh up the benefits of spending on maintenance against...
...It can be laid squarely at the door of the decision to raid budgets reserved for maintenance and investment in favour of day-to-day spending.”...
...More recently, maintenance of the public estate has suffered during the past decade of Conservative government....
...Since then, the budget for rebuilding schools has been squeezed further....
...Sunak said the government had recently increased funding for school maintenance and rebuilding, which would average £2.6bn a year — a 20 per cent rise — over this parliament....
...Yo-yoing spending makes long-term planning harder so, paradoxically, departments often did not spend all of their already diminished budgets....
...The chronic delays, court closures and maintenance problems that bedevil publicly funded legal work have largely not troubled high-end commercial cases....
...The consequences of a very tight budget we’ve had for, you know, the last 13 years were inevitably going to have some maintenance backlog issues, right? So they can’t fix the kind of policy problem....
...The crumbling concrete in UK schools highlights a lack of spending on buildings and maintenance going back decades....
...has raided its capital budget to pay for day-to-day spending....
...The long-drop caliper brakes allow for mudguards with greater clearance and maintenance is much simpler and cheaper than disc brake alternatives....
...“We could not find enough business potential to resume development,” he said, adding that MHI would focus on the regional jet maintenance service it acquired from Bombardier....
...He said often the phone calls were about “concrete issues” such as prisoner exchanges, Ukrainian grain exports and the fate of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station....
...But sustainability advocates say the proposals, while a step in the right direction, are too vague and not underpinned by concrete measures....
...Particularly hard hit were concrete reinforcing bars, up a jaw-dropping 58 per cent, and structural steel, up 46 per cent....
...Sophie, a wealthy Silicon Valley wife whose hobbies include looking at drawers full of her jewellery and attending champagne galas, proved surprisingly low-maintenance as a role for Gugu Mbatha-Raw....
...It predicted that growth will moderate this year, but exploration budgets will still be 5 to 15 per cent higher than last year....
...Those measures are expected to be part of next year’s budget....
...He could also have restored maintenance grants to those attending university from low-income homes....
...“We’ve got a budget and there are pressures on it. [But] we will make it work.”...
...The NHS in England is facing a £9.2bn maintenance backlog, ratcheting up pressure on chancellor Rishi Sunak to deliver more money to repair the health service’s dilapidated buildings in the Budget later...
...“This year, everything has become concrete.”...
...“Governments must back their net zero commitments with clear, credible, and concrete policies.” What about the benefits?...
...President Joe Biden’s fiscal 2022 budget includes incentives for EV purchases, infrastructure and federal EV purchases totalling $4bn, with funding peaking at nearly $34bn in fiscal 2026, before tailing...
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on October 30 2021. ©2021 Nikkei Inc....
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