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How Jersey's States will save £145 million

Jersey’s government have voted though major plans to fill the island’s financial black hole.

They include a package of cutting public sector jobs, freezing pay and scrapping bonuses to find £145m each year until 2019.

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Chief Minister admits approved plan will be 'a challenge'

Jersey's Chief Minister has admitted delivering cost saving plans of £145 million will be a challenge.

Politicians voted through a package of cuts and new charges last night.

Senator Ian Gorst said although civil servants have resisted change in the past, they must now live within their means.

The fact that the States have now approved the plan that means we've got to deliver those changes. That money will not go into departmental budgets, so they will not be able to spend more than we allocate in their budgets.

– Senator Ian Gorst, Chief Minister

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