Despite repeated Government claims to be cutting public expenditure, the study by the Centre for Policy Studies found that the Coalition has made just 6 per cent of its planned cuts to current expenditure for this Parliament.
The report by the centre-right think tank also revealed that although the overall deficit has dropped by 25 per cent, this was almost entirely down to punitive tax rises and cuts in investment spending – rather than cuts to public spending.
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