
Malcolm Osborne
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The Chair of the OBR has written to the @CommonsTreasury Select Committee on the OBR’s initiation of a review into the preparation of the Departmental Expenditure Limits forecast for the March 2024 EFO. obr.uk/obr-review-of-…


Need to see the detail, but I think Rachel Reeves has grounds to be cross. The in-year funding pressures do genuinely appear to be greater than could be discerned from outside. The £9bn contingency ‘reserve’ has seemingly been spent several times over. It’s a mess.


"It's high time that the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service were funded properly." @BrianLeishmanMP has raised concerns over the funding of the SFRS, after a recent report revealed that only two out of 14 on-call fire appliances were available in Clackmannanshire on July the 11th.








