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IF the various signs of economic recovery have left anyone feeling a little light-headed, the perfect antidote is at hand.
It comes in the form of the latest Centre for Public Policy for Regions (CPPR) budget briefing which shows just how deeply public spending will be cut between now and 2017/18.
It's a thoroughly depressing read. The Glasgow University think tank calculates that by next financial year, only 40% of the planned cuts to Scotland's resource budget - which provides day-to-day spending on the health service, transport, police, council services and so on - will have been imposed.
So far ?1.8 billion has been cut in real terms; a further ?2.7bn has yet to be wiped off the budget. We're only halfway through George Osborne's eight-year austerity programme and the deepest cuts are still to come in 2016/17 and 2017/18.
http://www.heraldscotland.com/comment/columnists/can-the-nhs-really-be-spared-from-cuts.21817978
It comes in the form of the latest Centre for Public Policy for Regions (CPPR) budget briefing which shows just how deeply public spending will be cut between now and 2017/18.
It's a thoroughly depressing read. The Glasgow University think tank calculates that by next financial year, only 40% of the planned cuts to Scotland's resource budget - which provides day-to-day spending on the health service, transport, police, council services and so on - will have been imposed.
So far ?1.8 billion has been cut in real terms; a further ?2.7bn has yet to be wiped off the budget. We're only halfway through George Osborne's eight-year austerity programme and the deepest cuts are still to come in 2016/17 and 2017/18.
http://www.heraldscotland.com/comment/columnists/can-the-nhs-really-be-spared-from-cuts.21817978