Cuts
One of the biggest challenges facing the Conservative/Lib Dem Coalition Government has been to tackle the UK's budget deficit. This has lead to a vast number of budget cuts to public sector spending across the country and the Merseyside area in particular, with education, transport and policing sectors all suffering mass cuts to their future budgets. Keep up to date with all the latest news stories from the Liverpool Daily Post about Government spending cuts right here.
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LOOMING multi-million pound budget cuts to Merseyside’s fire service will lead to the closure of five stations and loss of 150 firefighter jobs – at the very least.Read
AROUND two thirds of the city’s children’s centres are to be slimmed down as part of cost-cutting plans council chiefs said will ensure their long term future.Read
“CAMERON’S hourly ward round idea makes me laugh,” one senior Merseyside nurse told the Liverpool Post, “because the Government is imposing these cost savings that mean nursing staff are being cut.”Read
EACH health trust across the country has been given cost saving targets to help the NHS meet national efficiencies of £20bn by 2014/15.Read
COUNCIL bosses admitted it was heartbreaking to axe school uniform grants, but that more pain is yet to come for city residents.
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NO AREA of local government spending has escaped scrutiny over the past 12 months or so, as officials scour their budgets for appropriate places for any of their numerous axes to fall.Read
A RAFT of police station front counters across Merseyside will close on Sunday.Read
THE first £30m of cuts and savings from Liverpool council’s budget were approved unanimously last night.Read
LIVERPOOL councillors will today approve budget savings worth almost £31m.Read
MERSEYSIDE’S chief fire officer led a delegation to the House of Commons to lobby MPs about the dangers of making more cuts to the service.Read
