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Treasury earmarks billions in spending cuts ahead of Spring Statement

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Treasury earmarks several billion pounds in draft spending cuts to welfare and other government departments.

The department will put the proposed cuts to the Office of Budget Responsibility (OBR) on Wednesday ahead of the Spring Statement later this month .

The OBR indicated Chancellor Rachel Reeves had 9.9bn in headroom against her self-imposed borrowing targets.

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