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UK Coalition Government Comprehensive Spending Review - Oct 20th 2010

Blacklight
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Coverage starts in about 50 minutes. I thought we'd have a thread about it.

Live BBC Coverage
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Remember - all figures stated will be real term cuts over four years not the actual amounts budgets will be reduced by.


SPENDING REVIEW 2010 (complete document 106 pages)
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  • Blacklight
    Blacklight Posts: 1,565 Forumite
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    Standing room only in the house. Lets see what happens.
  • welfare mentioned twice already ! !
  • Heyman_2
    Heyman_2 Posts: 1,819 Forumite
    He's just asked all the MPs to empty out their pockets!
  • michaels
    michaels Posts: 29,223 Forumite
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    What level of detail will be announced - is it just annual departmental totals or will we know which programs are to be cut?
    I think....
  • 120 million a DAY!!!!!!!!!

    interest on debt payments oooooooooeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrr!
    "You can measure a man's character by the choices he makes under pressure"
    Sir Winston Churchill
  • Heyman_2
    Heyman_2 Posts: 1,819 Forumite
    Is it me or has the PMQ text commentary on the BBC really gone downhill in recent times? Hardly any detail now as to what's actually going on - seems to be the same with this Spending Review.....
  • Whitehall admin saving 6bn
    490,000 public sector jobs going over 4 years
    cabinet office budget reduced by 55million by 2014/15
    "You can measure a man's character by the choices he makes under pressure"
    Sir Winston Churchill
  • royal household spending down 14%
    "You can measure a man's character by the choices he makes under pressure"
    Sir Winston Churchill
  • local council savings of 7.4% a year for 4 years
    "You can measure a man's character by the choices he makes under pressure"
    Sir Winston Churchill
  • grant funding for social care up by 2bn in total
    "You can measure a man's character by the choices he makes under pressure"
    Sir Winston Churchill
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