cash limit

The next paper is cash limits, and I believe you're going to take this on.

The first and most important change was the general introduction of cash limits.

"If there's a cash limit on the amount we must spend to find the kid, then let me know."

Cash limits for hospital and community health services were introduced by a Labour government.

Altogether about 40 per cent of public spending was directly cash limited.

Thus, directly and indirectly, over half of public spending was covered by cash limits.

The main shift as he sees it is that the service has become cash limited overnight.

Otherwise the Committee services are containing their budgets within original cash limits.

He sanctioned the use of cash limits as a means of control.

In other words, cash limits were not expected to be adjusted during the subsequent year to take account of inflation.

In general these cash limits were tighter than the losses industries had previously been making.

It set separate cash limits for each central government department for pay and allied costs.

Not all departments' spending could be cash limited.

Central government generally has cash limits imposed on clearly defined blocks of expenditure.

Moreover, instead of these cash limits being set one year ahead they are now to cover the whole planning period; that is, three years ahead.

Cash limits will in future apply to fundholders and non-fundholders alike.

By 1990-1 about 46 per cent of planned public expenditure was covered by cash limits.

In the mid-1980s, many local councils substantially overspent their cash limits.

This contrasts with the cash limits imposed on public sector housing subsidies and other government expenditure.

Thus these funds immediately become cash limited.

Cash limiting of expenditure is used to control the expansion of budgets through inflation.

From 1982 the two separate sets of targets used by the Labour government - volume and cash limit - were abolished.

It applied its new cash limits to approvals of local capital spending and to local grants.

A cash limit is also applied to nationalized industries to restrict their ability to borrow from sources other than the government.

But the Conservatives argue that the Council should stay with the Government's cash limits.