These fees provide funding for increased review staff, training and development for staff members, and for refining business processes and developing policies targeted at more efficient review.

Most "have been used to evaluate policies targeted at disadvantaged population groups".

Tapping the reserve "is really a short-term policy targeted at home heating oil," said Laura D'Andrea Tyson, a former chief economic adviser in the Clinton White House who is now the dean of the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley.

The Pennines: policies targeted at London and the south east have caused the housing crisis to bite in the north of England.

As with the closure of the Warmfront scheme the UK no longer has any policies specifically targeted at lowering fuel poverty.

After he became the prefect of Zagreb in 1861, he was loyal to Vienna, implementing policies targeted against Croatians and the South Slavs and hounding his former friends who remained faithful to their Illyrian ideals.

"It is a dramatic change in policy, targeted at the big oil companies," said Senator Ron Wyden, Democrat of Oregon.

However, the rapporteur, Mrs Jędrzejewska, promised us that she would be ambitious and fight to achieve a budget which will protect Parliament's policy priorities, especially policies targeted at young people.

The European Union's external social policy, targeted at countries not wishing to join the EU, should, first and foremost, be coherent, pragmatic and uniform.