Chancellor tells government departments to set out plans for further cuts by September,on top of £17bn savings announced in July budgetGeorge Osborne has ordered government departments to plan ways to lop up to 40% from their budgets by 2019-20 in a tender to find an additional £20bn savings in public spending. Government must “take a step back and think approximately the shape of the state”, finding ways to “deliver more with less”, and the chancellor said.
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Source: theguardian.com