Before the Treasury closed for the evening, the key budgetary measures were to be decided by the end of Wednesday and submitted to the Office for Budget Responsibility.
It is thought that some of these letters have arrived in the past several days.
Normally, only minor adjustments can be made to the budget after Wednesday, usually including things worth tens or hundreds of millions instead of billions. Bloomberg was the first to reveal the letters’ existence.
The magnitude of the cuts being proposed in certain areas has several cabinet ministers quite alarmed.
Three government departments—the Ministry of Justice, the Department for Transportation, and the Ministry of Housing, Communities, and Local Government—have reportedly complained to Number 10.
Not every one of these grievances was submitted via letter.
It is believed that a tiny percentage of the cuts for some cabinet ministers’ ministries have been softer as a result of Number 10’s appeal for an intervention.
However, the budget’s overall structure, which was mostly finalized on Wednesday night, has not changed, nor have the anxieties surrounding its arrival in two weeks.
