Spending cuts: £15m is added to target
Friday 24th September 2010, 3:00PM BST.
Senator Ozouf (fourth from left) with fellow panel members. Picture: Jon Guegan (01058423)
MINISTERS want to slash an extra £15m from States budgets by 2013, bringing the total amount of proposed cuts to £65m, the Treasury Minister confirmed last night.
Speaking at the Institute of Directors annual debate, Senator Philip Ozouf said that the move would help keep tax rises to a minimum if passed by the States in December. Taxes would still be going up, but he said that the increases would be ‘manageable’.
The news confirms claims made earlier in the week that ministers were rethinking their strategy after coming close to an embarrassing defeat in last week’s Business Plan.
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I heard a rumour they are going to stop free nursery places.
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That’s the States Members parking subsidy gone then….
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Good news but they should have gone for the £80 million cuts they must not put up taxes
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Wanting to slash is not the same as have slashed!
Measure by output not intent. On past form I expect little more than HOT AIR.
No pay rise for States Members until they deliver effective spending cuts. Performance related pay for States Members?
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15M if we assume a population of 90,000 that is £166 per person less spend in the budget.
It will impact everyone.
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If these cuts can be made with no singnificent effects to our life – who is responsible for the overspend in previous years?
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“Ministers want to slash an extra £15m”??? Not at all, they’ve been dragged into doing it by the vote on the proposal to cut by £80m. If the COM really wants to “get real” they should listen to all the comments here and elsewhere by taxpayers. We have heard it all before from the States but, to date, it’s just been a load of hot air. The electorate should take note next time when, once again, there are wholesale overspends. And I hope that the electorate will also remember the insane “we should borrow in the markets and spend, spend, spend” philosophy of Deputy Southern.
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