Liz Truss calls for spending cuts in 'many areas' of public services

Prime Minister Liz Truss has confirmed she is looking for funding cuts to public services, saying there are "many areas" where taxpayers' money could be saved.

Ms Truss's comments come after the Treasury wrote to chiefs of all departments in Whitehall to tell them to deliver "efficiency savings" proposals in budgets, with neither health nor any other area of ​​public spending exempt.

This decision sparked warnings to Ms Truss and Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng not to engage in an 'act of national vandalism' by demanding cuts to services such as the NHS which s have already shrunk to the bone after a decade of austerity.

Asked about the possibilities for efficiency, Ms. Truss did not respond to give examples of wasteful spending.

< p>But she told Sky News: "There are many areas where government can become more efficient. We continually re-examine to ensure that we are getting value for money and I believe that is what taxpayers expect. ' silver. Every pound we take from someone is a pound they could spend on their future or on what they need to support themselves.

"So it's normal that we have some for our money, and I always make sure we deliver that.

“There are always ways to organize things more efficiently. But what I want to make sure is [that] taxpayers' money is focused on frontline services, getting our GP appointments, getting people to seeing a doctor, about getting our road projects done - all those things that people are counting on us to."

Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng said he would present a medium-term budget plan on November 23 for explain how he will balance the nation's finances after an energy bill bailout costing £60billion in the first six months and a £45billion-a-year tax giveaway disproportionately benefiting the wealthy.

Treasury letters fueled expectations of an austerity program to curb the civil service, with Paul Johnson of the Institute for Fiscal Studies predicting a five-year spending freeze.

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But NHS providers have declined lamented that such a move would represent a 'huge setback' for a service already stretched by a decade of austerity, warning it would risk stifling desired growth by making it harder for patients stuck in long backlo gs to get back to work.

The British Medical Association said it was 'vital' the Chancellor delivers on his promises made last week to keep health spending down after the health tax was scrapped health and care.

And TUC leader Frances O'Grady told The Independent that any decision to limit resources to health, education and other public services in Mr. Kwarteng's budget plan would amount to an "act of national vandalism".