top-slicing

David Cameron 'sceptical' about top-slicing BBC licence fee

BBC World Service to 'cut up to 650 jobs' 2011

The government's council tax freeze £650m subsidy allows council tax to be frozen, 24 March has been achieved by top-slicing the grant that would otherwise have gone to maintain council services.

Letters: Drip-feed budget at the pumps 2011

Spending cuts are still often reduced to 'top-slicing' of all programmes or delaying delivery, rather than eliminating costs in a structured way, it says.

Whitehall riddled with financial mismanagement, says watchdog 2011

Geoff Coyle proves himself a timely guide to the sheer scale and variety of ways in which Britain has been "wounded", to use Naomi Klein's description of the BP well this month, by every kind of shaft, top-slicing and explosion which human inventiveness has been able to devise.

The Riches Beneath Our Feet: How Mining Shaped Britain by Geoff Coyle 2010

The radical plan to fund schools directly, and prevent local education authorities from top-slicing grants, was in late drafts of the white paper, but has also been dropped on the grounds that it runs against the government's decentralisation plans.

Michael Gove to swap modules for single-exam GCSEs Patrick Wintour 2010

Which, incidentally, leaves the trust's previous "red line" – that top-slicing would break the critical line of accountability between licence payers and the BBC – in shreds.

The new chair of the BBC Trust urgently needs to find a new consensus Steve Hewlett 2010

"They hope that a public consultation would delay the implementation of any top-slicing of the licence fee up to the next general election, when a Tory victory could take the process back to square one."

PAYING THE PRICE FOR STATIST BROADCASTING... 2009

It's not the top-slicing of it that matters much to me, it is the very existence of it.

PAYING THE PRICE FOR STATIST BROADCASTING... 2009

'Telegraph'article: "Mark Thompson accuses 'clique' of undermining BBC by 'top-slicing' licence fee "

Open thread 2009

You're right that that argument against "top-slicing" is a slippery slope fallacy, but I am still against this top slicing nonetheless, for a different reason than the fallacious one.

The BBC is its own worst enemy Mark Reckons 2009