Next years budget cuts to central government departments

I've crunched the numbers and extracted the % change in central gov departmental budgets, as sourced from the Treasury (page 83).

So, there will be cuts for 15 of the 25 central government departments next financial year. This represents an average of -5.75% across all departments. Factor in inflation and that figure looks even worse.

Everyone knows that whoever is in government next year will have to make cuts - but Brown insists that under Labour there will be no cuts. The Treasury doesn't agree.

[Hat tip to Guido Fawkes]