Brown warned of cash threat to services
13 April 2012
Plans to pump extra billions into Britain's schools and hospitals are being threatened by soaring increases in Whitehall spending.
Figures today showed that central government spending, including salaries, rose by 10 per cent between April and August to £165.8billion.
The statistics provide ammunition for the Tories, who have already warned that tax rises imposed by Gordon Brown to boost the NHS are being swallowed by extra staff and higher pay in the public sector.
The Chancellor's critics warn that the only ways of filling the holes beginning to appear in his budget are more borrowing or an increase in taxation.
