Cooper asked to find savings elsewhere to protect spending on the police

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The Ministry of Interior Minister Evit Cooper has told the finding of savings from other parts of its budget to protect the police spending, with the end of the spending review in the multi -year Whitehaoul.

Downed Street said that the spending review, announced by Chancellor Rachel Reeves on Wednesday, “settled”, after months of negotiations between the ministers and the treasury.

Cooper, who was paying for further financing for the police and border security, was the last minister to hold more money.

One of the officials close to the discussions said that the Treasury “could decide that the negotiations have ended.” Another said: “The negotiations must end at some point that the documents are printed and the speeches are printed.”

Reeves insisted that the police spending should be protected over a period of three years of spending, according to those that were informed of the discussions.

A person in the talks said that the police budgets will rise at a fixed rate of 2 percent annually – the goal of inflation in the Bank of England. Another official indicated that this may not be sufficient to cover wages and that simple details were still overwhelmed.

Police chiefs, including Sir Marc Roli, from the Metropolitan police, publicly pressed to get more money and was said to feel comfortable that the final settlement was not worse.

One of the senior police officials said: “We will live with this. I don’t think people will say this is a heavy. This will be difficult, but we will do our best to deliver.”

The Labor Party ran the elections promising “the safest streets”, including an increase in the police in the neighborhood, the suppression of knife crimes and violence against women and girls.

One of the government officials said that the Ministry of Interior will take the coming weeks to work in the best way to use an additional investment in the department as well as the use of current budgets “to deliver the priorities of the government.”

Angela Rainer, Deputy Prime Minister, settled the housing budget and the local government on Sunday, leaving Cooper to accept the remaining three -year “spending envelope” in the treasury.

This allows spending on departments on daily services, an increase of 1.2 percent of inflation every year over the next three years.

The Ministry of Health and Social Welfare – the Whitehall, who finances NHS – receives an increase in the annual real conditions by 2.8 percent, leaving some departments facing real discounts.

One of the treasury treasury said that the situation was not “unreasonable.” “There is nothing that every section should automatically see its budget to increase the real conditions.”

On Wednesday, spending on Reeves will determine the tales of each section, but the individual cabinet ministers, such as Cooper, will have to determine the best way to customize resources for their main priorities.

Although daily spending is restricted, Reeves will focus on 113 billion pounds of additional capital spending that you will allocate to the rest of Parliament.

Infrastructure spending – including roads, railways, housing and green energy – has become possible by Reeves decision to reduce borrowing bases in their first budget to allow more investment in capital.

Meanwhile, on Monday, Torstene Bell, Torstene Bell, gave a clear hint that Reeves could also announce measures to address children’s poverty in her statement on Wednesday.

“We must move more on children’s poverty,” Bell told MPS. “We will come up with a child’s poverty strategy soon. We have clearly said that all levers to reduce children’s poverty on the table.”

Sir Kerr Starmer, the Prime Minister, indicated that he wanted to end the bilateral benefit ceiling, inherited from the last conservative government, but a decision on this policy is expected to be taken in the Autumn of Rivers.