LONDON: Chancellor George Osborne completed talks on Sunday with government departments aimed at securing spending cuts worth 11.5 billion pounds in 2015-16 to help reduce the country's budget deficit, the Treasury said.
The finance ministry said it had reached agreement with all departments, three days before Osborne is due to publish details of their spending limits on June 26.
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