The Treasury has told government departments to draft plans to slash their budgets for the next three years, beginning with a 5% cut in 2020 and 6% and 7% for the years thereafter.

The proposal is set out in the Treasury’s medium-term expenditure framework technical guidelines, which are distributed to departments to guide their preparation of their budget proposals...

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