Government made savings totalling £5.5bn in past year

THE Government has made savings of £5.5 billion from departmental expenditure over the past year.

Minister for the Cabinet Office Francis Maude said the Coalition was determined to go even further in its aim to cut the cost of Government.

The cash savings, he stressed, had been independently audited and were the equivalent this year alone to around £500 for each working household in Britain, the salaries of 250,000 junior nurses or the cost of 1.6 million primary school places.

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