In his Budget speech, Chancellor George Osborne said the increase would come into effect from 2015.
Chancellor George Osborne said in his first Budget speech there would be a two-year public sector pay freeze.
After the state lost the resulting court battle, Gov. Angus King sounded a contrite note in a budget speech.
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In his budget speech, Mr Chidambaram described a recent meeting of finance ministers.
All eyes are on Treasury chief George Osborne's 2013 budget speech later Wednesday.
In his budget speech, Gordon Brown, the chancellor of the exchequer, made passing reference to reviewing the whole system.
Mr Leung had aroused controversy by buying a luxury car shortly before announcing a new vehicle tax in his budget speech in March.
In his budget speech, Mr Teare called for a curb to benefits which, in some cases, he said, paid more than the minimum wage.
"Let me repeat, " Chidambaram told Parliament in his budget speech, making sure no one thought he had misspoken, "only 42, 800" people say they earn that much.
Labour leader Ed Miliband mocked the chancellor's failure to make any reference to Britain's loss of its Triple A rating with credit agencies during his hour long budget speech.
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In his Budget speech, Mr Darling said Labour had been "right about the recovery" and urged voters not to put it at risk by deserting the party.
The finance minister said in his budget speech that the government would deliberate on allowing foreign investment in retail and that it may be a way to counter food inflation.
In his budget speech, he will remind voters that the economy has carried on growing, quarter on quarter, year on year, while he has been at the helm.
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In his budget speech last year, treasury minister Eddie Teare called for a curb to benefits which, in some cases, he said, paid more than the minimum wage.
India's stockmarkets slid in the days after his budget speech.
In his Budget speech on Wednesday, Gordon Brown announced the "premium package coolers" would no longer taxed like wine but would now be classed at the higher, spirits rate.
In his budget speech, Mr Shanmugaratnam said that while the foreign worker inflow had been "too high" last year, a sharp reduction was not the best way to go.
In his Budget speech, Gordon Brown tried to hide the fact that he was giving with one hand much, much less than he had already taken with the other.
He told the BBC that he believed the Budget speech would provide a "very good foundation on which to build" as Labour attempt to seek a fourth term in government.
In his own budget speech, India's finance minister, Jaswant Singh, proposed a modest dent in the subsidies poured into both food and agriculture by announcing an increase in the price of fertiliser.
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In his budget speech last month, Mr Chidambaram unveiled new taxes on the super rich as well as large businesses, which he said would help offset increased spending by the government needed to spur economic growth.
There is no prospect of the chancellor adopting this policy in the Budget, but this speech is part of the battle being waged increasingly in public about the pitch the Conservatives should make at the next election if they are to avoid defeat.
The chancellor has since asked the permanent secretary to conduct a review of the practice of releasing embargoed Budget information in advance of the speech.
The new House Budget Committee chairman, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), gave a very public endorsement of the embattled head of the Congressional Budget Office during his first major speech as committee head Wednesday night.
They were expressed instead in rhetorical terms more suitable to a campaign speech than to a serious budget plan.
Bush will use his speech in Independence to say his budget plans protect Medicare and Social Security and that his tax cut will boost economic growth.
President Cavaco Silva made the surprise announcement in his New Year's speech, the day after signing the budget into law.
He gave a speech in response to the original Ryan budget that was very clear about why he felt that it was not the right answer to our challenges economically.
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