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Interior Minister Yvette Cooper was asked by the Ministry of Finance to find savings in other parts of her budget in order to protect the expenses for the police when haggling over the multi -year Whitehall expenditure assessment finally ended.
The Downing Street said that the issue of expenses, which was announced by Chancellor Rachel Reeves on Wednesday, had been “included” after months of negotiations between the ministers and the Ministry of Finance.
Cooper, who was pushing for more funds for the police and border security, was the last minister who kept more money.
An official near the discussions said that the Ministry of Finance can “decide that the negotiations are over.” Another said: “At some point the negotiations have to end so that documents are printed and the speeches are written.”
Reeves had insisted that police expenditure should be protected over the three -year period of the expenditure check, according to those who were informed about the discussions.
One person who was informed about the talks said that the police budgets would increase by a fixed set of 2 percent a year – the inflation goal of the Bank of England. Another official said that some smaller details were still working out.
Police chiefs, including Sir Mark Rowley of the Metropolitan Police, have worked publicly for more money and should be relieved that the final settlement is no worse.
A high -ranking police officer said: “We will live with it. I don’t think people will say that this is outrageous. It will be a challenge, but we will do our best to deliver.”
Labor fought the choice that promised “safer streets”, including an increase in neighborhood police and an approach to razor crime and violence against women and girls.
A government official said the Ministry of the Interior would spend the coming weeks to find out how additional investments in the department are best used and existing budgets are used to “meet the government priorities”.
Angela Rayner, the deputy prime minister, let her apartment and local budget household to be accepted on Sunday, so Cooper had to accept what was on the table from the three-year “issue of spending”.
As a result, department expenditure for daily services in the next three years can increase by an average of 1.2 percent over inflation every year.
The Ministry of Health and Social Affairs – a Leviathan from Whitehall that finances the NHS – receives annual real terms of 2.8 percent, so that some departments are faced with real cuts.
The situation was “not inappropriate,” said a finance officer. “There is nothing that says that every department should automatically determine that the budget increases real increase.”
Reeves’ expenditure on Wednesday will be the over -fictional amount for each department, but individual cabinet ministers like Cooper will then find out how they can best assign their main priorities.
Although the daily expenditure is limited, Reeves focuses on the 113 billion GBP of additional capital expenditure that will assign it to the rest of the parliament.
The expenses for infrastructure – including streets, rails, apartments and green energy – enabled Reeves to loosen their loan rules in their first household in order to enable more capital investments.
In the meantime, Torsten Bell, Minister of Pensions, made a clear indication on Monday that Reeves could also announce measures to combat child poverty in their explanation on Wednesday.
“We have to move on to child poverty,” Bell told MP. “We will soon develop a child poverty strategy. We clearly said that all levers are on the table to reduce child poverty.”
Sir Keir Starrer, Prime Minister, stated that he would like to end the two-child beefiz band that is inherited by the last conservative government, but a decision on this policy is expected to be made in the autumn budget of Reeves.
