So here we have it. Note where largest numeric reduction falls
"Total departmental spending -0.72% (£371.9bn)
Total UK education spending -0.1% (£85bn)*
Winners (ie with a real spending increase)
International Development 12.58% (£7.4bn)
Culture, Media and Sport 8.80% (£2.1bn)
Work and Pensions 7.93% (£9.4bn)
Cabinet Office 2.65% (£2.3bn)
Health 1.47% (£102.6bn)
of which: NHS England 1.44% (£100.8bn)
Wales 1.43% (£14.7bn)
Northern Ireland Executive 1.26% (£9.1bn)
CLG Local Government 1.05% (£25.1bn)
Children, Schools and Families 0.83% (£55.2bn)
Losers
Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform -24.58% (£1.5bn)
Foreign and Commonwealth Office -21.66% (£1.6bn)
CLG Communities -19.41% (£10.2bn)
Chancellorâs Departments -18.27% (£4.3bn)
Defence -7.92% (£35.1bn)
Transport -7.64% (£12.9bn)
Energy and Climate Change -6.61% (£2.8bn)
Law Officersâ Departments -5.61% (£673m)
Northern Ireland Office -5.59% (£1.1bn)
Environment, Food and Rural Affairs -3.87% (£2,9bn)
Justice -2.86% (£9.2bn)
Innovation, Universities and Skills -2.40% (£18.6bn)
Scotland -1.06% (£27.5bn)
Home Office -0.32% (£9,6bn)
*According to the Treasury bumf, âThis presents education spending against the UN Classification Of the Functions Of Governemnt (COFOG) for the whole of the public sector. It therefore includes spending by local government, not just by the above departmental groups.â
The Treasury has been insisting this morning that the reduction slated above should not be considered a cut in spending, largely because the large increase in this yearâs spending represented money brought forward from next yearâs budget. They also mutter about how the biggest chunk of the spending cuts are due to âefficiency savingsâ, partly from higher education.
This is disingenuous in the extreme. The net result is still that the amount the Government is planning to spend next year on education is going to be lower than last year. There it is, in black and white, on the Treasuryâs own document. The more we hear Government ministers claiming these are not cuts, the more pathetic they sound"
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/financ...ng-will-be-cut-here-it-is-in-black-and-white/
"Total departmental spending -0.72% (£371.9bn)
Total UK education spending -0.1% (£85bn)*
Winners (ie with a real spending increase)
International Development 12.58% (£7.4bn)
Culture, Media and Sport 8.80% (£2.1bn)
Work and Pensions 7.93% (£9.4bn)
Cabinet Office 2.65% (£2.3bn)
Health 1.47% (£102.6bn)
of which: NHS England 1.44% (£100.8bn)
Wales 1.43% (£14.7bn)
Northern Ireland Executive 1.26% (£9.1bn)
CLG Local Government 1.05% (£25.1bn)
Children, Schools and Families 0.83% (£55.2bn)
Losers
Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform -24.58% (£1.5bn)
Foreign and Commonwealth Office -21.66% (£1.6bn)
CLG Communities -19.41% (£10.2bn)
Chancellorâs Departments -18.27% (£4.3bn)
Defence -7.92% (£35.1bn)
Transport -7.64% (£12.9bn)
Energy and Climate Change -6.61% (£2.8bn)
Law Officersâ Departments -5.61% (£673m)
Northern Ireland Office -5.59% (£1.1bn)
Environment, Food and Rural Affairs -3.87% (£2,9bn)
Justice -2.86% (£9.2bn)
Innovation, Universities and Skills -2.40% (£18.6bn)
Scotland -1.06% (£27.5bn)
Home Office -0.32% (£9,6bn)
*According to the Treasury bumf, âThis presents education spending against the UN Classification Of the Functions Of Governemnt (COFOG) for the whole of the public sector. It therefore includes spending by local government, not just by the above departmental groups.â
The Treasury has been insisting this morning that the reduction slated above should not be considered a cut in spending, largely because the large increase in this yearâs spending represented money brought forward from next yearâs budget. They also mutter about how the biggest chunk of the spending cuts are due to âefficiency savingsâ, partly from higher education.
This is disingenuous in the extreme. The net result is still that the amount the Government is planning to spend next year on education is going to be lower than last year. There it is, in black and white, on the Treasuryâs own document. The more we hear Government ministers claiming these are not cuts, the more pathetic they sound"
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/financ...ng-will-be-cut-here-it-is-in-black-and-white/
