In a speech made on 9 November Chancellor George Osborne has outlined the plans for government savings where four departments (including DCLG) will make 30% savings.
Chancellor George Osborne said on 9 November:
I’ll spell out the full details of the savings we will make on November 25th.
But I can report to you that – with the support of my brilliant colleague Greg Hands, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury – we have reached provisional agreement on the spending plans of four government departments.
The Department for Transport, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, the Department for Communities and Local Government, and of course the Treasury.
The resource spending – that is the day to day spending of those four departments – will be cut on average 8% a year for the next four years, that’s by 30% in total.
These savings will be achieved by a combination of further efficiencies in departments, closing low value programmes, and focusing on our priorities as a country.
These provisional settlements apply to the day to day resource spending of the central departments – they are not the capital budgets of these departments.
View a LocalGov article on the savings proposed
