Monday, April 29, 2013

Health and schools cash for defence


Philip Hammond, the Defence Secretary, is in talks with the Treasury about transferring money earmarked for the Department of Health and the Department for Education and using it to ease the impact of cuts on the Ministry of Defence.

The Daily Telegraph understands that the plan could see as much as £500  million from the two protected departments’ budgets reallocated to defence .... http://www.telegraph.co.uk