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» Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR)

Asked about the BBC Licence fee, the PMS said that the BBC had recently announced that it would be frozen for the next year. Asked about BBC Licence fees for older people, the PMS advised people to wait until tomorrow.

Asked when the CSR document would be going to the printers, the PMS said that it would be this afternoon. Put that there were reports of a fair bit of wrangling’, the PMS replied that the Treasury had agreed budgets with departments. That process was completed on Sunday.

When asked if departments would still be discussing internally what they would be doing with their budgets, the PMS said that departments would have four year budgets. It was unlikely that they would have allocated every last pound for the next four years. The Treasury was setting limits within which those departments would have to live.

Asked about a report on ending council houses for life, the PMS said that the Prime Minister had spoken about this in August; we needed to look at the system, review the way it was operating and make sure council housing was allocated according to need.

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