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Armed Forces and police to face further spending cuts, Danny Alexander warns
The Armed Forces and the police will face further spending cuts because the
Coalition will not sanction any more reductions to welfare payments,
senior Treasury minister Danny Alexander has warned.
Danny Alexander told The Telegraph that the Armed Forces and the police will face further spending cuts
In an interview with The Telegraph, Danny Alexander, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury,
said that the Ministry of Defence and the Home Office would share the pain of the
£11.5 billion of cuts due in 2015-16.
Mr Alexander also warned ministers in the affected departments that public
protests against cuts would not influence the outcome of forthcoming
Cabinet talks over the reductions.
Earlier this month, Philip Hammond, the Defence Secretary, said that
further cuts in military spending could not be made without jeopardising the
country's security plans and without requiring more military redundancies.
He called for new reductions in the welfare budget, a position that is also understood
to be shared by Theresa May, the Home Secretary, and Chris Grayling, the Justice Secretary.
