With business rates relief and tax rises for the self-employed stealing the limelight in today’s budget, government documents also reveal deeper cuts to the Ministry of Justice (MoJ), with its spending slashed by 15% over the next three years.
Although not mentioned in the budget speech, the MoJ’s current £6.9bn allocation is set to fall to £6bn by 2019/2020. This will represent a fall of more than 30% over a decade, as it stood at £8.9bn in 2010/2011.
