Search results for ‘spending cuts’
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FactCheck: Cameron set to break promise on NHS cuts
“There is no cut in the National Health Service – we’re actually putting £10.6bn extra into the NHS during this parliament.” David Cameron MP, Prime Minister’s Questions, 2 February 2011
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Sports study centre cuts could hit key skills
Funding for Playing for Success, an initiative aimed at improving children’s literacy, numeracy and ICT grades through sport, will end this year. Channel 4 News investigates the potential impact.
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CutsCheck: police cuts worse than expected
CutsCheck analyses whether police cuts announced this week by the Home Office are worse than individual force had been expecting.
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Coalition cuts put nearly a million more into poverty
The number of people living in poverty in Britain is set to rise by almost a million by 2014. This includes 100,000 more children despite Government pledges to bring child poverty down.
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How will NHS cuts affect my area?
As the Government pushes ahead with NHS reforms, Channel 4 News looks into where cuts are already being made as the NHS tries to achieve efficiency savings.
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Councils face 8.9 per cent funding cuts
No council will see a budget cut of more than 8.9 per cent, Communities and Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles announces – and writes for Channel 4 News of the “sea change” in local government.
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Councils face 8.9 per cent funding cuts
No council will see a budget cut of more than 8.9 per cent, Communities and Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles announces – and writes for Channel 4 News of the “sea change” in local government.
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CutsCheck: which police forces will be hit hardest?
CutsCheck analyses which police forces will be hit the hardest by government spending cuts.
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Cameron forces Gove to rethink school sports cuts
Following a public outcry over cuts to funding for school sports, the prime minister David Cameron says there will now be a review of the policy.
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Cuts and VAT rise leave UK economy ‘uncertain’
The budgetary watchdog sees an “uncertain” future for the UK economy – but predicts public sector job losses will be much lower than forecast. Chancellor George Osborne says “Britain is on the mend”.
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Thousands protest against Ireland austerity cuts
More than 50,000 people have taken to the streets of Dublin to protest against the spending cuts and tax increases the Irish government is planning to introduce.
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Ireland debt crisis: the planned cuts
As Ireland negotiates terms of the multi-billion pound bailout, details of the government’s austerity measures emerge with welfare, jobs and minimum wage facing heavy cuts, writes Faisal Islam.
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Has David Cameron protected transport capital spending?
Prime Minister David Cameron says the Coalition can claim to have protected capital spending on transport – is he right?
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CutsCheck: the cost of delaying Trident
Less than a month after David Cameron told the Commons the decision to delay replacing Trident would “save around £1.2bn”, the defence secretary appears to be arguing quite the opposite. What’s going on?
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FactCheck: will all regions be equally affected by cuts?
“I don’t accept that any particular regions should do worse out of the government’s economic policy.” Chancellor George Osborne, Evidence to the Treasury Select Committee, 4 November 2010 The background Today Chancellor George Osborne faced a grilling from MPs about the cuts announced in the Spending Review. The cuts are “credible and deliverable” he told…