After an Era of Austerity, What is Left to Cut?

Sian Norris digs into the data on a decade of cuts, assessing its impact on people and public services, as Chancellor Jeremy Hunt lines up Austerity 2.0.

The Government had pledged that by the next election (due in 2024) it would restore school funding to its 2010 level in real terms. That should be enough to tell you the scale of real-terms spending cuts over the past 12 years, but here’s another figure: school spending per pupil fell 9% between 2009-10 and 2019-20, adjusted for inflation.

Grants to local governments from the central government were cut by an average of 49% in England between 2010 and 2017. This has had a huge impact on local services, which in turn have had an impact on people’s health and wellbeing.

Sian Norris @BylineTimes

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