While MPs Stephen Hammond, Theresa May, Owen Paterson and Vince Cable refuse to accept the spending review budget cuts, George Osborne defends the Whitehall cuts.
Watch the Chancellor announcing that seven Government departments have provisionally agreed to reduce their budgets:
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