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GOVERNMENT departments were ordered yesterday to prepare for cuts of up to 40 per cent, as Chancellor George Osborne fired the first shot in the latest Whitehall spending review.
Mr Osborne warned that ministers in unprotected departments would be expected to deliver “more for less” in the government’s drive to save £20 billion over the next four years.
Treasury Chief Secretary Greg Hands is writing to departments to set out plans to achieve savings of 25 per cent and 40 per cent by 2019-20 — in a repeat of what happened at the start of the last parliament in 2010.
