They uncovered flaws in the budget-setting process, with spending plans based on historic and unreliable information.
Spending plans include investment in next generation broadband and a new public square at Forthside.
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"The greater challenge will be to keep spending plans affordable in the longer term, " he added.
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The finance minister insisted that the way the government had presented its spending plans were consistent.
European leaders are meeting in Brussels on Thursday to discuss spending plans from 2014 onwards.
Last summer the government set out its spending plans for 1999-2000 and the two following years.
Financial planners can also help people devise rational spending plans, starting with cutting up credit cards.
It drops some past spending plans: Labour no longer proposes public ownership of the railways.
In principle, the pre-budget report will not discuss the overall spending plans of individual departments.
The spending plans come even as fewer owners expect the economy to continue growing through the summer.
Last November Ms Williams brokered a deal with Mr Jones to pass his minority administration's spending plans.
The minister and departmental officials are due to brief the committee next week on health spending plans.
Ten percent were unsure and 8 percent said the economic climate had no impact on capital spending plans.
As I pointed out in a post yesterday, Intel has ratcheted up its capital spending plans for 2011.
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Disappointing growth and lower-than-expected tax revenues, coupled with Mr Brown's ambitious government spending plans, are largely to blame.
Initial spending plans and priorities for the EU in 2014-2020 were published by the European Commission in June.
Panorama examines the Chancellor's fiscal arithmetic - how taxes may need to rise to finance government spending plans.
The spending plans were written to exclude new IMF money, just in case the government's hopes prove unfounded.
The study is part of the authority's efforts to agree future spending plans.
Uncertainty of what shape regulation will take has led numerous companies to delay final decisions on big capital-spending plans.
And the paper highlights an astonishing figure on capital spending plans set out in the Treasury's last autumn statement.
The reluctance to spell out the party's tax and spending plans in advance of an election may be understandable.
While spending plans become ever more ambitious, tax collection has virtually dried up.
But firm spending plans cannot be finalised until the regular budget is agreed.
For its budget, Falkirk Council voted to focus its spending plans on housing, local infrastructure and investing in the economy.
Without an overall majority in the Senedd, Labour needs help from the opposition benches to get its spending plans approved.
With such a massive overrun in pay, the only way to meet the cash spending plans was to cut numbers instead.
Labour have bagged 5 votes and the certainty that their spending plans will now go through virtually unchanged on December 6th.
The move was announced by Police and Crime Commissioner Tony Lloyd as part of his budget spending plans for GMP.
In the parliamentary debate last week on the government programme, he repeatedly declined opposition invitations to elaborate on the spending plans.
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