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Government Spending Review

Summary: The Government Spending Review was announced on 20 October 2010, here are links to responses from government bodies and organisations.

The Government Equalities Office (GEO) issued a statement clarifying that ‘over the course of the Spending Review period, the GEO will reduce overall spending by 38%’.

Click here for announcement from the Prime Minister’s office

Click here for link to transcript of the Spending Review 2010 statement by Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne to the House of Commons on 20 October 2010

Click here for information about the GEO Spending Review allocation

Click here for response from the Equality and Human Rights Commission

Click here for information about the Department for Communities and Local Government Spending Review allocation

Click here for letter from Eric Pickles, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, to all local authority leaders in England, setting out the implications of the Spending Review announcement for local government

Click here for information about the Ministry of Justice Spending Review allocation

Click here for letter from the Director General of Social Care, Local Government and Care Partnerships laying out the implications of the Spending Review settlement for social care

Click here for ‘One stop for the Spending Review 2010’ provided by info4local

Click here for Spending Review briefing and analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies

Click here for response from Yvette Cooper MP, Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities

 

Below is a selection of responses to the Spending Review announcement from EDF members, observers and other organisations.

Click here for response from trade unionists, policy experts and economists including Sandra Kerr, National Director, Race for Opportunity campaign, Business in The Community (published in the Guardian on 21 October)

Click here for response from Carers UK

Click here for response from the CBI

Click here for response from Citizens Advice

Click here for response from Fawcett

Click here for response from Hear, the London equalities and human rights network (pdf)

Click here for response from Inclusion London

Click here for response from NCVO

Click here for response from RADAR

Click here for response from RNIB

Click here for RNIB press release (word)

Click here for response from Scope

Click here for response from the TUC

Click here for response from UNISON (pdf)

Click here for response from the Women’s Budget Group

Click here for response from Working Families


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