Streeting’s Department Hikes Staff Spending by £2.5 Million Despite Promised Efficiency Savings

Despite promising efficiency savings when it came into power Labour has failed to stop the health department’s payroll spending ballooning. Wes…

Labour magnanimously promised wide cuts across all departments back in August of last year. Those include:

• Savings in departments to fund pay pressures – £3.15 billion
• of which: reduce administration budgets by 2% – £225 million
• of which: stop all non-essential spending on communications – £50 million
• of which: stop all non-essential spending on consultancy in 2024-25 – £550 million

DHSC was set to see its budget fall by £30 million too by cancelling adult social care charging reforms.[…] Read the rest