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HMT:  Spending Review & Autumn Statement 2015: key announcements

HMT:  Chancellor George Osborne's speech

HMT:  Unprecedented investment in the NHS

DH’s settlement

DH:  Government commits to public health science centre of excellence

HO's settlement

MoD’s settlement

FCO’s settlement

DfE’s settlement

HEFCE:  Introduction of loans for masters students from 2016-17

BIS’s settlement

DWP’s settlement

DCMS’s settlement

HMT:  Local government funding

CLG:  The New Enterprise Zones

HMRC’s settlement

DIFD’s settlement

Defra’ settlement

DECC's settlement

DfT’s settlement

DfT:  Future of rail

TfL:  Spending Review confirms continued transport investment

Cabinet Office’s settlement

MoJ’s settlement

M0J:  Prisons announcement

UKTI’s settlement

HMT:  Help to Buy: new announcements

Charity Commission funding frozen until 2020

Attorney General's Office :  Law Officer Departments’ settlement

IFS:  Spending Review and Autumn Statement 2015 ~ IEA - Spending Review - Real government spending up over this Parliament ~ IEA:  All government spending should come under the microscope

ACE receives cash terms increase in Spending Review ~ CIPD:  Chancellor commits to building new capital but does the UK have the skills to deliver it? ~ FDA questions how Government can ‘cut resources so dramatically while ensuring quality public services are maintained’ ~ FDA cautiously welcomes Chancellor’s £2.1bn reinvestment package in HMRC while voicing concern over 15% departmental budget cut ~ CBI Response to Autumn Statement ~ Despite ‘spectacular’ tax credit u-turn, working people need more on industry, jobs & public services, says TUC ~ techUK CEO responds to 2015 AS&SR ~ RoSPA:  Local authorities asked to “make road safety count” in the face of cuts ~ Homeless Link:  Awaiting the Spending Review ~ HL responds to the Spending Review ~ HEFCE response to AS&SR ~ WWF:  Response to the reductions to DECC & Defra funding ~ techUK:  How will the Spending Review affect members in Justice & Emergency Services? ~ Citizens Advice response to the AS&SR ~ Chancellor welcomes massive housing boost from Persimmon ~ SOCITM:  Disappointment that Spending Review digital boost ignores need & opportunity to join up services across place

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MoD’s settlement at the Spending Review 2015

MoD:  PM pledges £178bn investment in defence kit

10DS:  PM statement on National Security Strategy and Strategic Defence & Security Review 2015

10DS:  PM statement responding to FAC report on military operations in Syria

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Defending the UK from the ‘Dark Side’ of an e-World

Unfortunately, isolationism will not provide a ‘safe & secure future for the UK

No pilot in the cockpit doesn’t mean there is no pilot

The Russian Bear has stopped hibernating & is ‘hungry’

It might have stopped raining for now, but it still a ‘dangerous’ world

Editorial comment; Points to ponder on the Syrian migration crisis

The HoL Economic Affairs Committee in its report "A Fracturing Union?" has strongly recommended that the Scotland Bill does not proceed to Committee Stage until the devolution fiscal framework is published.  The Committee states that the fiscal framework will be central to future financial devolution arrangements and Parliament cannot be expected to scrutinise the Bill without seeing the details.

Comments include:

• The Committee do not believe a 'no bail out' rule between the UK and devolved governments would be believed by the markets.  Instead the UK and Scottish Government’s should agree simple & clear borrowing rules and a maximum ceiling on Scottish Government debt.

• The Smith Commission suggested that there should be ‘no-detriment’ as a result of Scottish or UK Government policy decisions post devolution.  The Committee agreed with many of the witnesses that this is unworkable & a recipe for continuing conflict.

• The Barnett Formula is not a sustainable method to calculate funding.  This is particularly true in the context of further devolution of tax powers.  It should be modernised & replaced with a needs based funding formula for distributing funds to devolved administrations, which should reflect the additional needs of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

PC&PE:  Economic Affairs Committee calls for halt to the Scotland Bill

IFS:  Fiscal Framework is key to Scottish tax and welfare devolution

ScotGov:  Swinney calls for alternative to austerity

ScotGov:  Austerity continues as Chancellor imposes 6% cut

Daily Telegraph:  George Osborne - Independent Scotland would have faced 'catastrophic cuts'

DT:  George Osborne warns SNP ministers they face 'hard' choices

IPPR Scotland:  'Enormous challenge’ for Holyrood following larger than expected cut in Scotland grant

IFS:  Full fiscal autonomy delayed? The SNP's plans for further devolution to Scotland

ScotGov:  Greater gains from more fiscal control

IFS:  Scotland’s fiscal position improves in 2013–14 but this is set to stall as oil price falls bite

Well which is it; ‘austerity’ or ‘robust growth’ – it’s time for the SNP to stop ‘whining’ and spend the Barnett formula’s ‘+20%’ funding on ‘essentials’ not ‘freebies’ which England doesn’t get!

IFS - Spending cuts or tax increases would be needed to pay for Independence White Paper giveaways

ScotGov:  Taking care of young people

Getting it Right for Looked After Children and Young People

Looked After Children data strategy

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National Ombudsmen:  Kent care provider refuses to refund bereaved family, despite independent investigation

NICE:  Consultation now open on plans to reform Cancer Drugs Fund

CSFS:  Early Diversity Internship Programme application window extended

 More contributions to the UK constitutional debate

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PC&PE:  Economic Affairs Committee calls for halt to the Scotland Bill

WAG:  Welsh Government moves to block UK Trade Union Bill

IFS:  Fiscal Framework is key to Scottish tax and welfare devolution

It's 15% for environment, 20% for culture, 29% for communities and 37% for transport. For the full, much more nuanced, list of cuts to Whitehall department budgets check out Jane Dudman's explainer on what you need to know about civil service spending.
Before the spending review was announced last week (25 November), the LGA chairman Lord Porter warned that "further cuts will push councils to the edge of collapse". He now has some even starker words, included in our roundup of views from the local government sector:
"Even if councils stopped filling in potholes, maintaining parks, closed all children’s centres, libraries, museums, leisure centres and turned off every street light they will not have saved enough money to plug the financial black hole they face by 2020."

Views from local government on George Osborne's spending review
The chancellor’s measures do not ensure long term sustainability, experts say

Expect more teenage pregnancies and STIs as public health cuts kick in
Slicing money out of local prevention services is ‘economically nonsensical’

It's every Whitehall department for itself in spending review scuffle
Spending decisions ignore evidence in favour of politics: just look to the horsetrading over science budgets

The professionals paying the price of public sector wage restraint
‘Even people with steady jobs are struggling to make ends meet’. Staff speak out after years of pay freeze

I thought I was blazing a trail for minorities in Whitehall. I was wrong
Three decades after I entered the civil service, the fight against racial discrimination is far from won

These streets are made for walking: how Oklahoma City overturned car culture
Most cities don’t prioritise pedestrians, but one US city has shown it's possible to kick the car habit

Digital and financial inclusion: two sides of the same coin
More than 12 million UK adults lack basic digital skills, missing ways to save money and stay connected