How many families base their current spending on news about tax changes that won't take place for five years?

He said his program would cost $6.7 billion a year, a 70 percent increase over current spending.

Councils' current spending on all services next year should be 7.2 per cent.

But it said that current spending on health care, $800 billion, or 14 percent of gross domestic product, was enough for this year.

This policy will save over £1 billion in current spending by 2014-15.

When you sell the assets of the state, you'd better not use them for current spending.

Fair enough but then you cant use that money to fund current spending.

Yet current spending and acquisition patterns could change that picture by the end of the decade.

Osborne says current spending will rise to £693bn by 2014-15.

The present budget would include current spending on programs like social security and defense.