Defra faces £162m budget cut

The cuts are part more than £6 billion in savings across Government unveiled by Mr Osborne and Chief secretary to the Treasury David Laws this morning (Monday, May 24).

No details have been released as to where the cuts are likely to fall but Ministers were stressing in the run up to the announcement that ‘frontline services’ would not be affected.

The cuts across government will focus on areas like spending on quangos, IT, property and travel costs, advertising and consultancy budgets and recruitment.

More details when we get it.

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