The Reality of austerity

Was there a pay freeze on public serves workers.

Yes or no.will do.

Socal care workers etc.

Have you read my post at all especially the Government Budget statement what from the Government site.

I remember once you told meread document aboutb Brexit from a Government source and said it was more Reliable then more Sauce .

Ain't Government Sauces Reliable no more ?

Have you read the official Govenment documents like i said.
According to you there very realable

what do you think I am quoting from?...

Let's see
Official. GOVERNMENT SITE
Punlic sector pay and pensions
2.18 A two year pay freeze will be introduced from 2011-12 for public sector
workforces, except for those earning £21,000 or less, who will receive an
increase of at least £250 a year. This will save £3.3 billion a year by 2014-15.
2.19 Pay will also be frozen in 2010-11 for civil servants who are yet to agree
a legally binding pay deal, except for those earning £21,000 or less, who will
receive at least £250 a year. These civil servants will then exit the freeze ahead
of other group
Big issue published
Metropolitan districts – primarily local authorities in cities – and London local authorities have seen the biggest reductions in spending power since 2010 because government grants made up a larger share of their funding. They have also had to deal with rising demand for social care, which they must provide and therefore makes up more and more of their spending.


Education
Between 2010 and 2019, total public spending on education across the UK fell by £10bn, or 8 per cent in real terms, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies.

The IFS also found deprived schools have seen larger cuts. It found the most deprived secondary schools saw a 14 per cent real-terms fall in spending per pupil between 2009/10 and 2019/20, compared with a 9 per cent drop for the least deprived schools.

Homelessness
Homelessness services are largely funded by councils. Homeless Link says that funding restraints have contributed to 39 per cent fewer accommodation providers and 26 per cent fewer bed spaces for people experiencing homelessness than in 2010.

NHS
Data from The King’s Fund shows the Department for Health and Social Care budget increased annually between 2009/10 and 2018/19, from £116.8bn to £132.9bn in real terms by 2019/20 prices.

The reason the NHS is struggling is because its funding growth has slowed. A lot. In its first 70 years, the NHS’s average annual budget rise was 3.7 per cent. Between 2009/10 and 2018/19 it was just 1.5 per cent.

Ahead of his Autumn Statement, Hunt acknowledged “massive pressures in the NHS” but said it received a lot of money, adding: “We need to do everything we can to find efficiencies.”

Social care
As council budgets were gutted, spending on social care bore the brunt. Between 2009/10 and 2017/18, average per-person spending on social care for the over 65s fell by 31 per cent, according to the IFS. These cuts went hand-in-hand with a reduction in the number of people receiving government-funded social care.

Age UK says since 2010 the state has cut its spending on adult social care by £86m, despite a rapidly increasing demand because of the ageing population.

Big Issue


he new analysis highlights that for eight of the ten benefit level changes between 2013 and 2022, the basic rate of unemployment benefits has lost value, leaving it at a 35-year low in real terms. From 2013-2019, ministers chose to reduce benefits in real terms by freezing their value or increasing them by a lower rate than inflation (at the same time as introducing other cuts).

While there is historical precedent for benefit levels not keeping pace with real inflation due to volatility in inflation, this tends to cancel out over time. However this year marks the first time that benefit levels will fall significantly in real terms due to this volatility following a sustained period of loss in

Actually there was NO such thing as austerity because govt spending continued to rise overall throughout the period that Cameron and Osborne talked about austerity. They just had to talk about austerity to calm the markets. In fact the funding of the NHS continued to rise above inflation throughout austerity. The police budget git cut but that was their fault - they fiddled the crime figures so much that they got their staff numbers cut. Serves 'em right.