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Rob Merrick

Schools and hospitals ‘must find £11bn of cuts’ after Kwarteng spending freeze

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Schools and hospitals must find a whopping £11bn of cuts after the chancellor refused to protect their budgets from rampant inflation, experts say.

Kwasi Kwarteng is being warned that his decision to stick to 2021 spending allocations – despite prices now rising by 10 per cent – spells bad news “for stretched public services”.

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