article_snippet: The Shadow Chancellor launched a Labour dossier suggesting three Government departments – the Foreign Office, Department for Work and Pensions and Department for Transport – would ‘disappear’ if Tories Tories kept cutting spending at the current rate.
article_snippet: Because what The 31-page Labour document says is if a Conservative Government was to do those spending cuts, which are bigger in the next parliament than in this parliament, on the same basis as in this parliament, that would mean closing the Foreign Office and the DWP.
article_snippet: We don’t think they’ll do that.
article_snippet: Public spending as a share of the entire economy will fall to just 35.2 per cent by 2018-19, according to the Office for Budget Responsibility's forecasts of spending cuts .
article_snippet: There is a real risk that this Chancellor will be forced to break this Chancellor promise to ring-fence the NHS.
article_snippet: If Tories were to abandon the ring-fence, this could lead to £10billion being cut from the NHS budget.
article_snippet: The Conservative-led Coalition has repeatedly protected NHS spending from cuts – despite complaints that this has meant more painful reductions elsewhere – and repeated a pledge to ensure real-terms increases until 2020.
article_snippet: If cuts fell on government departments on the same basis as government departments did in this parliament, three of government departments – the Foreign Office, Department for Work and Pensions and Department for Transport –
article_snippet: think they’re going to abolish the Department for Transport.
article_snippet: Like Labour, the Tories have not guaranteed the Tories will maintain defence spending at the Nato target of 2 per cent of national income, currently met by UK and only four other Nato countries.
article_snippet: Labour has suggested there will be no extra money for social care provided by local authorities under Labour plans.
article_snippet: ‘There will be no additional funding for local government unless we can find money from somewhere else, but we have not been able to do that in the case of local government.