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Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR)

Asked if there would be more than 490,000 public sector redundancies in the Spending Review, the Prime Minister’s Spokesman (PMS) advised people to wait for the Chancellor’s statement tomorrow. The PMS said that at the time of the Budget the Office of Budget Responsibility (OBR) made an assessment of the number of public sector job losses.

Asked if the figure of 490,000 job loses would go up, the PMS said there would be an OBR assessment later on in the Autumn, when they would release their new forecasts.

Asked about the possibility of public sector workers reducing their hours in order to keep their jobs, the PMS replied that people would need to wait until tomorrow to find out what the Government would be saying on the public sector workforce.

When asked what contacts there were between the OBR and the Treasury, the PMS said that people should speak to the Treasury about their contacts with the OBR, but the OBR’s forecasts would be independent.

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