Search results for ‘spending cuts’
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FactCheck: Youth services have seen big cuts over the last decade
The YMCA found that spending on youth services has been cut by 71 per cent in real terms since 2010/11 – or almost a billion pounds.
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FactCheck: extra funding for CPS comes after long-term cuts
We can see the scale of the cuts by looking at the budget allocations made by government to the CPS over the last decade.
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MPs fail to force vote on overseas aid budget cuts
Backbench MPs have failed in their attempt to force a vote on the government’s plan to cut the international aid budget.
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‘It’s not right morally, it’s not right politically, it’s against the law,’ says Andrew Mitchell MP on UK aid cuts
We were joined by Andrew Mitchell, who is the former International Development Secretary and is behind the Commons amendment on Monday, which seeks to force the government to make up any deficit in foreign aid spending below the 0.7 percent target.
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Foreign aid cuts could undermine UK’s global credibility say charities
As the Prime Minister urges global co-operation at the G7 summit, Boris Johnson faces condemnation from charities and some of his own MPs for breaking a manifesto commitment to spend 0.7% of national income on foreign aid.
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Sunak to carry out major review of public spending
The government is continuing to borrow tens of billions of pounds – another 35 billion in June alone – as the coronavirus lockdown plays havoc with our public finances.
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Sunak warns ‘tough choices ahead’ for economy, over taxes and spending
‘Tough choices’ lie ahead, the Chancellor Rishi Sunak has warned, as the economy continues to count the cost of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Johnson and Hunt provoke Hammond with spending increases pledge
Jeremy Hunt boosted his pro-Brexit credentials with a pledge to call off negotiations with the EU at the end of September if a Brexit deal was not looking realistic by then.
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FactCheck: government Brexit fund pledges £1.6bn for councils after £15bn cuts since 2010
Theresa May’s Stronger Towns Fund represents a tenth of what councils lost from central government under austerity.
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Chancellor cuts taxes as he pledges austerity is ending
A giveaway for some and a promise that austerity is finally coming to an end. Philip Hammond produced his final scheduled budget before Brexit with a flourish of income tax cuts for millions of workers and a series of one-off pledges for the “little extras”.
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John McDonnell: ‘reverse tax cuts for the rich’
The Government should reverse some of the tax cuts for the rich and big businesses, the Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell has declared. McDonnell is also calling on the Conservatives to admit their anti-austerity measures ‘had failed’.
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FactCheck: Liz Truss said the government are not making cuts to councils. Here’s the truth.
The main public spending watchdogs say the government is still cutting the money it gives to councils. And figures from the Treasury suggest real-terms reductions in councils’ overall spending power will continue until 2020.
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Sixth forms and colleges hit by government cuts
Fewer courses, less spending on students and reduced teaching hours: the result of a squeeze on spending over the last eight years in school sixth forms and colleges across England.
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Somerset councillors vote to slash spending
Fifteen million pounds in cuts to public services, from youth services to gritting the roads. Amid noisy protests outside, councillors in Somerset have voted to slash spending over the next two years, declaring the authority had “a duty to live within our means”. Councillors blamed cuts in government funding and warned if they didn’t make the sweeping cuts…
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Northamptonshire Council backs ‘radical’ service cuts
A Conservative-run council has voted to bring in drastic cuts – which will leave its services running at the bare legal minimum.