UK Budget 2004 - Public spending
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Doubts over education targets
Charles Clarke, the education secretary, said the Budget would deliver a “major and stable advance at every level of education” but crtics questioned this.
Spending review will result in shrinking budgets
The spending review that will conclude in the summer will lead to most departmental budgets shrinking as a share of national income, the Institute for Fiscal Studies...
Hoon digs in to save defence programmes
New weapons programmes were unlikely to be cancelled despite intense budget pressures, Geoff Hoon, defence secretary, said yesterday. The minister conceded, however,...
Don't be fooled by lollipops: the outlook is tight
To hear Mr Brown talk yesterday you would have thought he had money to burn. There were generous-sounding commitments to spending on defence, law and order, transport...
New measure widens margin of error
Gordon Brown again changed the way he presents his margin for error for meeting his "golden rule", adding a £3bn cushion to appear further from breaching his...
