Instead of looking for ways to replace that waning activity, federal bureaucrats are busy drafting plans for departmental spending cuts of five or 10 per cent, demanded under the Conservatives» so - called Strategic and Operating Review. (macleans.ca)
Alistair Darling himself planned departmental spending cuts of # 50 bn. (liberalconspiracy.org)
Its Budget submission points out that in Canada, where decisive departmental spending cuts quickly reduced a large structural deficit in the 1990s, health and aid budgets were cut like all others. (politics.co.uk)