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NEW: Prime Minister and Chancellor write to cabinet ministers to demand savings ahead of the next Comprehensive Spending Review in the Autumn. They want hard commitments by March 2

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Letter to cabinet 2/

Chx & PM demand breakdown on dept budgets & how they support “priority outcomes”: NHS, crime & levelling up

“We expect the SoS to do a line by line audit of their budgets and to identify those areas of spend that are ineffective or represent lowest VFM”
Letter to cabinet 3/

The Treasury want *TEN* options of things to stop entirely

constituting 5% of their budget

>> significant
Sky News understands that the government wants to overhaul or abolish programmes, projects and quangos associated with previous governments including Theresa May’s administration rather than looking to squeeze salaries or welfare cuts.
Departments with protected departments including Health and the Ministry of Defence have not be exempted.
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