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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WIRRAL Hospitals nurses have welcomed a consultant vote on the Trust's cost-cutting policies.Read
THREE psychiatric hospitals in Liverpool are set to close.Read
A DAMNING report has criticised health officials in Warrington for refusing to provide IVF treatment on the NHS.Read
LIVERPOOL is to have its community crime fighting budget slashed by more than £8m as the government moves forward with its plans to bring in an elected police commissioner.Read
The result of this move, Liverpool council fears, will be that spending on crime fighting and community safety programmes will not be prioritised according to what are the most pressing needs.Read
SECRET negotiations over the next round of Liverpool council cuts are to be thrown open to the public.Read
LIVERPOOL city council leader Cllr Joe Anderson started the ball rolling with a more open approach to the vexed issue of local government cuts when he brought other parties into Cabinet discussions last year.Read
MERSEYSIDE’S rank-and-file police officers said they have no faith left in the Government after the Home Secretary received a stony silence at a union conference.Read
THE chairman of a Liverpool hospital was today set to take part in a Government meeting about controversial NHS plans.Read
LIVERPOOL Council has demanded an apology from Communities Secretary Eric Pickles, after he claimed the city was “glorying in making cuts to the most vulnerable”.Read
