hi SW

Many thanks for the explaination of the breakdown of the allocation of Departmental Budget Cuts.

However my point really was that the message that the current Government appears to be getting across ( or not as the case may be) was that the NHS Frontline Services would be protected at all costs.

We know that is blatantly untrue by the many cases of such service cuts being made and planned to to made.

It appears to me that it is a case of "Creative Accounting" where duplicity and deliberate confusion occurs.

IMHO the Spending Review has been ill-conceived and they are making it up as they go along.

Having been in opposition for so long the Government is finding it difficult to understand that you can't just keep coming up with policies that you don't have to own and to live with.

Thanks

Mikel2