Last week the Chancellor George Osborne and Chief Secretary David Laws announced that they would set out plans to cut £6.2 billion of Government spending this financial year. Today they set out the details of these savings.
1.2bn cut for Local Government
Local government will be charged with making £1.2bn in in-year cuts with the Department for Communities and Local Government hit by a further £780m. Mr Laws said as part of £6.25bn in cuts from public spending in 2010-11, DCLG would come up with £780m in cuts and local government would be asked to contribute £1.165bn in savings.
Local government will be charged with making £1.2bn in in-year cuts with the Department for Communities and Local Government hit by a further £780m. Mr Laws said as part of £6.25bn in cuts from public spending in 2010-11, DCLG would come up with £780m in cuts and local government would be asked to contribute £1.165bn in savings.
He added that rather than simply asking departments to find savings, the Treasury had actually “cut the departments budgets”, so there was no question of whether the savings would actually be delivered or not.
Mr Laws added that the aim was to send a “shockwave” through departments to ensure a “step change” in behaviour across Whitehall.
In other headline measures, Mr Laws said the Child Trust Fund programme would be scrapped as would the Future Jobs Fund, a £1bn council-led job creation fund for the youth unemployed, which laws said provided “low value for money”.
Along with the cuts to DCLG and local government, other departmental cuts were also announced along with news that the Cabinet Office and Treasury will join forces to reduce waste. The savings will be driven by the Efficiency and Reform Group
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