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The market was keen to see if the government pressed ahead with the deep spending cuts outlined in the budget or pushed back cuts to appease the general [...]

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Can the spending cuts and austerity measures undertaken by the government derail the UK recovery, despite the BOE's best efforts? Such a development would [...]

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LONDON (MNI) - By significantly softening the planned spending cuts facing government departments and putting more of the strain of austerity on welfare and [...]

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18 Oct 2010 Government spending cuts will put pressure on UK advertising next year with just 2.5pc of growth expected, said media buyer ZenithOptimedia. [...]

20 Oct 2010 News At One: Mike Smith, Head of Economics at University of Ulster, examines UK Chancellor George Osborne's massive cuts to public spending [...]

20 Oct 2010 FACTBOX-How UK's spending cuts will impact on departments. Top Articles. Will The Bank of England Minutes Take The Market A Step . [...]

20 Oct 2010 Britain will cut half a million jobs, sharply reduce welfare payments and raise the retirement age as part of an unprecedented cost-cutting [...]

Spending Review puts Waterloo Station expansion plans under threat [Telegraph.co.uk] Oct. 12. Plans to ease overcrowding on Britain's busiest railway station are under threat because of public spending cuts. [...]

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On the eve of the financial crisis, the UK's structural budget deficit stood at 2.5% of GDP – about £40bn. The deficit was increased by some modest tax cuts and spending rises, but it was the length and severity of the recession that [...]

Parties' spending cuts don't add up. The three main parties all UK bank balance sheets were very weak because the UK regulatory framework let them run [...]

With an estimated £120 billion in tax uncollected, avoided or evaded every year in the UK, the government should not just stop but reverse the job cuts programme in HMRC. After staff costs each compliance officer annually Spending cuts at the Maritime and Coastguard Agency mean volunteers' work supporting the service has been cut back but Peter, 56, a coastguard since 1981, is most concerned about the possibility of coastguard stations being merged to save money. [...]

Spending cuts: UK plc waits for the axe to fall. All sectors of the economy are assessing what the impact of the cuts to be announced by the Chancellor [...]

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Today, I'm addressing a rally at a TUC-backed mass lobby of Parliament. Hundreds of consituents from across the UK will be visiting their MPs to register their. [...]

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"In spelling out the detail of the planned cuts in public spending, today's spending review underlined the challenge the government faces to sort out the [...]

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Today the Comprehensive Spending Review will be published, and we will discover the true extent of the cuts we are facing. It remains to be seen whether the community groups and volunteers championed by the government will be able to [...]

The move will leave two million families worse off and comes as the Chancellor squeezes Britain's welfare budget in the most painful spending cuts since World War Two. - Karameloo News UK - Latest World News and UK News Headlines. [...]

“Spending cuts and tax hikes are likely to crimp economic activity for the foreseeable future and suggest that the UK's impressive rate of growth will not be sustained over the second half of 2010. This climate will make it extremely [...]

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When George Osborne, the British chancellor, stands up on October 20 to announce his long awaited “cuts”, we must at least insist on some essential clarifications. Are they cuts compared with public spending in the past fiscal year or [...]

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Buried in the detail of the UK Government's Spending Review is the confirmation that the new national pension scheme for low earners - estimated to grow to [...]

Britain's government may succeed in pushing through only half its planned public spending cuts, and will be forced to raise taxes to keep its deficit reduction strategy on track, a leading think tank says. [...]

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The spending cuts in the UK government are expected to eliminate at least 25% of staff and programs from many departments for a projected total of 490,0000 public sector jobs and £83-billion. However, it appears that some areas will not [...]

£5 billion of immediate cuts  £89 billion of cuts by 2014-15  Capital spending will rise to £47 billion by 2014/15  UK expenditure will be £693 billion by 2014-15, increasing in cash terms year on year. Public Sector [...]

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We are in difficult times, and I appreciate that spending cuts have to be made, but the long term impact of this could be terrible for the UK's road users, particularly those in rural areas where roads are a lifeline. [...]

Responding to George Osborne's spending review, Unite's joint general secretary, Derek Simpson said: "This is not a spending review - it's a massacre. It's totally perverse to claim that cutting half a million jobs and razing our public services to the ground is good for this country. No matter how [...]