poor quality

One senior member of staff joked about the poor quality of the school's sensory room, saying: "We’ve got a doll's head on top of a freezer, a bean bag, and a lava lamp. This is the sensory room?"

Ministers are actively pointing to the existing budget rule where the national debt as a proportion of the economy had to fall in five years’ time, as the reason for poor quality UK public services.

The debt rule constrained, they argue, some necessary investment and did not prevent poor quality investment in failing projects.

“We just haven’t been able to narrow it down, even though we tried to use DNA, the DNA we extracted from those remains was of such poor quality, we weren’t able to use it to cross-match with any family.”

“They’re staying in temporary accommodation of poor quality, hotels for example. Yet the councils say they are not able to build houses because the money is going the wrong direction.”