Richard Exell
Senior management at the UK Film Council have been summonsed to a meeting with Ed Vaizey, where they will be told off for lobbying too effectively against their abolition.
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Richard Exell
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Richard Exell
In recent Cuts Watch postings we’ve reported on the rapid disappearance of road safety cameras. Figures out today reveal that the price in extra deaths and injuries will be more likely to be paid by the poor.
Philip Hammond, the Secretary of State for Transport has said that the decision to stop funding local authorities’ cameras is about more than saving cash. He says it is a good thing in itself: the government will “end the war on motorists.” This is despite the findings of independent research funded by his own Department, which found that, at camera sites, speeds were down and excessive speeding was substantially reduced and there were 100 fewer deaths a year. -
Richard Exell
Well, not the individuals, but their armed guards. According to yesterday’s News of the World, the government has decided on a £50 million cut from the £150 million p.a. cost of providing police guards for the royal family that would remove protection from less well-known members.
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Nicola Smith
We’ve been reviewing the cuts of the last few months, and have found a few that we should have featured that have not appeared on Cuts Watch. These include a 15 per cent budget cut at the Equalities and Human Rights Commission.
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Adam Lent
Is this Clegg’s “green shoots of recovery” moment? I’m sure he will not be allowed now to forget Norman Lamont’s infamous phrase nor the fact that the Conservatives laid in to Shriti Vadera when she used the phrase herself. It does look rather odd following so closely on the heels of a very worrying Nationwide Confidence Index (PDF) not to mention all the other weak confidence surveys.
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Philip Pearson
Green show homes, Eco towns and energy efficiency initiatives are among the £19.5m in green cuts announced by Communities Minister Eric Pickles, as part of £32million savings in 2010-2011 (see also Cuts Watch 200). Each decision will mean reductions in future CO2 savings, green jobs and new low carbon prodcut markets.
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Anjum Klair
The Government argues that cuts can be made in spending without damaging the quality of public services (as there is apparently so much waste that can be eliminated). They also stress that these cuts will be fair and progressive and maintain that the most vulnerable will be protected.
However, our analysis of spending cuts announced so far (as reported in the Sunday Mirror) shows an emerging pattern of decisions that have been especially harmful for children and young people - this group of people have been disproportionally affected by the cuts agenda.
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Richard Exell
It looks as though cuts in the Comprehensive Spending Review will hit the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs particularly hard, threatening key conservation agencies and the public stake in nature reserves. Dozens of conservation charities and campaigns have united to write to DEFRA to demand “Don’t cut the Countryside”!
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Richard Exell
The Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) has called for massive reductions in police pay to achieve the cuts demanded by the government. In a move that proves that no-one is safe from the monstering facing any group of public sector workers whose pay and conditions are being cut, the call was accompanied by pay figures showing that a tiny group of police officers had earned £50,000 in overtime during the previous year.
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Richard Exell
Stephen Spielberg’s production company DreamWorks is the latest name to join the campaign save the UK Film Council.
