Tag Archives: public spending

Osborne let off the hook on spending cuts

By Will Straw | Published: August 17, 2010

George Osborne admitted today that his cuts would be 40% greater than Labour’s plans. But he was let off the hook by Evan Davies on his use of Budget numbers and “fairness” claims.

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Green’s appointment as ‘cuts Tsar’ drives Cable closer to resignation

By Ben Fox | Published: August 14, 2010

One could be forgiven for checking that yesterday wasn’t April 1st after waking up to the news that private equity tycoon and asset-stripper extraordinaire Philip Green has been appointed by David Cameron to head a Whitehall spending review.

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Cuts Watch: The consequences of Mr Osborne

By Guest | Published: August 6, 2010

George Osborne used his emergency Budget to cut public spending by an additional £32 billion by 2014-15. The growing list of cuts underway makes for painful reading.

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BMA: Cuts to Scotland’s health budget will be a “seismic shock”

By Ed Jacobs | Published: August 3, 2010

The British Medical Association in Scotland has told finance secretary, John Swinney to stop being naive and admit that cuts will have to be made to the NHS north of the border.

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The economic madness of abolishing the UK Film Council

By Guest | Published: July 29, 2010

The abolition of the UK Film Council a curious decision; indeed, the government’s decision to scrap the UKFC is not just an act of artistic philistinism – it’s a case of economic vandalism too.

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The false economy of the Coalition’s short sighted cuts

By Neil Foster | Published: July 20, 2010

We heard the shriek of ‘Noooooooooo!’ in the North East. The Government’s ideological decision to renege on support for Forgemasters in Sheffield triggered anger but also bewilderment among people I know in Yorkshire.

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How will vulnerable children fare under the Coalition’s cuts?

By Guest | Published: July 11, 2010

About one in ten children in the UK suffer abuse or neglect, according to figures by charity Kids Company, who work to protect the capital’s homeless, abused, and vulnerable children.

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The paradoxical stability of welfare expenditure (and why we should be spending more)

By Declan Gaffney | Published: July 10, 2010

Whether they express their views in the élite language of economic or fiscal ‘unsustainability’ or the demotic of ‘welfare scoungers’, everyone apart from a handful of unreconstructed egalitarians seems to agree that welfare spending is too high.

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Legal aid training scheme cuts will hit the poor hardest

By Guest | Published: July 9, 2010

The Junior Lawyers Division, Young Legal Aid Lawyers and the shadow legal aid minister Lord William Bach joined forces yesterday to condemn the Government for scrapping the legal aid training contract grants scheme.

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Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland facing more cuts

By Ed Jacobs | Published: July 8, 2010

The Scottish Government’s Chief Economic Adviser, Andrew Goudie, has warned that following the UK government’s emergency budget, the funding squeeze facing Scotland is now much larger than was previously thought. In April, Dr Goudie reported that Scottish expenditure would be expected to fall by £25-35 billion in real terms by 2024/25, as well as warning [...]

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