Should the government make cuts to public spending in order to reduce the national debt?

No, drastically cut welfare spending and end Net Zero expenditure instead

No we should try other routes to decreasing the national debt like increasing taxes on multinational corporations, extremely wealthy individuals we should also end tax loopholes and decrease the number of government officials if possible

Yes but protect nhs and fire and police

No but focus on tax evasion, increase taxes on the wealthy and increase taxes on large multinational corporations instead

No they shouldnt. They should lower taxes to increase our tax base

Yes, Cuts to state pensions, no triple lock

No, cut military spending, end tax evasion, tax the wealthy, increase taxes on large multinational corporations.

Yes, INCLUDING by drastically reducing the benefits and salaries of government officials.

No, unless that would improve debt to GDP ratio

Yes, but only slightly, and increase taxes on large multinational corporations, the super wealthy, and focus on ending tax evasion.

They should cut public spending on areas, that are currently not means tested

No. Reduce military spending, government subsidies to large multinational corporations, end tax evasion, and increase taxes on the wealthy and on large multinational corporations. And abolish the monarchy

No, but do reduce loopholes for companies and the ultra-wealthy.

Significantly cut benefits, people should be working and if this means moving home to where there are jobs then fine do this

No, reduce military spending, tax evasion, government officials and increase tax on corporations and the wealthy.

No, but make it more transparent and streamline. Reassess what being spent on and ensure spending used for vulnerable health, social work, community.

Yes, we should regularly audit spending as well as push to eliminate wasteful spending and unneeded bureaucracies and agencies

No but increase taxes for the rich. Corporations and both domestic and offshore. Tax evasion if in UK commonwealth countries of jurisdiction

No, instead we should reduce military spending, tax the rich more, end tax evasion, lower politician salaries, and increase taxes on multinational corporations.

The government should invest in digitalising its bureaucracy as a method of increasing government efficiency; efficient government does not exist without government-workers, and the task should be to make them more able to do their jobs rather than burying them in paper-based bureaucratic struggles and then firing them for not being fast enough while offloading their work at higher cost to private groups.

Taxation should be made more progressive, with land value taxes replacing sales taxes, taxes being raised on dividends and assets of higher wealth and higher earning individuals, the closure of loopholes for those individuals as well as companies and corporations. This can raise enough money to slowly be buying down the national debt as well as ensuring a balanced budget that fully funds public services.

Yes. Increase taxes but also focus on ensuring the correct people are being supported with benefits.

no, and they should reduce both military spending and go after tax evasion in multinational corporations

Yes, by drastically reducing the number of personnel on the public payroll, eliminating quangos, reducing the benefits and salaries of government officials. This must be paired with economic growth policies.

No, focus on ending tax evasion instead, increase taxes on large multinational corporations but also drastically reduce the benefits and salaries of government officials

Reduce benefits and salaries of government officials, reduce the number of government officials and end tax evasion.

We must make massive up front investments in infrastructure and education informed by a logical industrial policy to produce growth. We will have to accept the great expense of further borrowing because otherwise we will continue to get poorer

Increase public spending and cut taxes during downturns and cut public spending and increase taxes during booms

No, this will negatively affect the economy. We should focus on ending tax evasion, and taxing the rich and large corporations more instead.

No, increase increase taxes for large multinational corporations, introduce tougher laws on tax evasion, deceptive tax avoidance, reduce the number of government officials,

Obscene capitalism has caused more issues than anything. Corrupt contracts, obscene profiteering. Clamp down on that and fund the country.

No, along with all of the above stances, reduce the benefits and salaries of highly paid government officials (e.g. those earning £150k or more, the continuous salary of previous serving PMs).

This is based on false economic understanding. There is nothing intrinsically problematic in the National debt - it is government spending which has not been taxed out of circulation I.e. it is the money in our pockets, bank account and savings. It has existed for over 300 years and somehow we have survived. What is relevant is does the spending improve the sustainability of the economy and its ability to maintain the well-being of citizens. Cutting public services impoverishes us all including businesses who need functioning infrastructure and thriving people to work and spend.

They should eliminate waste, overlapping, and unecessary groups, teams, leaders, and most especially equality and diversity teams in all public bodies. A public sector expert should review the operational integrity and spending of each department and body and initiate mandatory efficiency changes, without reducing the public purse. This will bring back millions which can then be used to increase public spending in a sensible way.

No, the time is not right for cuts in spending, too many services are on the knees or failing completely, we need to agressively tackle waste, modernise, and save where we can do more with the same, and raise more if still needed

No, and instead implement measures to reduce military spending, end tax evasion, increase taxes on the rich and corporations to raise the funds

Yes, stop pay for immigrants and audit councils and NHS in real time finding the corrupt high rollers

This question is too vague. There's no guarantee that a cut to public spending reduces debt in the long term because of a knock-on effect on growth.

No, a whole reform package is required to reduce wasted spending with personal accountability for those who waste money, for example the NHS is well funded, but 100's of millions gets wasted on needless and stupid things

No, increase taxes on large corporations and on the wealthy, reduce military spending, and reduce benefits and salaries of government officials instead

No, review where public spending will positively influence the economy and invest appropriately, as well as reducing tax evasion

Focus on tax evasion. Reduce benefits and salaries of government officials and increase taxes on large multinational corporations

No, tax the mega rich, tax large multimillion earning corporations, tax big polluters, remove tax loopholes to avoid exploitation

Yes, by looking at the standard of contracts the government is entering into with preferred suppliers

No but money on public spending should be re-examined and re distributed to ensure that it is being properly allocated. This in turn will reduce the money needed for public spending.

Public spending must be justified and prioritised. Regulation on CEO pay at large corporations must be controlled. Pay for politicians and all civil servants should be reviewed, particularly pensions.

No, the government needs to go back and look at how it, the NHS and local councils are spending money. Remove middle management and posts that are not vital.

No but ensure that public spending is cost effective and that the services provided are efficiently and economically run.

No, focus on ending tax evasion and tax loopholes, increase taxes on the wealthy and increasing taxes on large multinationals instead

Yes, public spending should be reduced to exactly equal government revenue, and it should all be spent on the universal basic income programme

Yes, eventually all public services should become privatised, and all welfare should be replaced with a Universal Basic Income programme funded by a Land Value Tax and Pigouvian Taxes, with government officials having to accept lower wages to maximise the programme

No but reduce spending on parliament luxuries - like the £17m in 2022 - and redirect it to public spending.

This is such a complex issue. But I imagne that public funds could be more efficiently used. Don't reduce spending, but reduce bureaucracy and wastage. And stupidly high salaries for DEI officers in the NHS. I mean, seriously?!

Get public services running much more efficiently - like the NHS in which millions is wasted. My sister works for the NHS in procurement and sees the wastage and huge spending. My other sister is a senior manager for what was PHE (now UKHSA).

No, focus on ending tax evasion, increase tax on the wealthy and reduce the number of high position government officials instead

Public spending needs increasing, but should be complimented and suplimented by the reduction of tax evasion, benefit fraud, corp and wealthy taxes, fatcat payments and gross overpayment on wages

No and increase tax on wealthy and multinational companies and end tax evasion and non don status loopholes for the Uber wealthy

It doesn't feel like any money is being spent on public services... public organizations are the worst i've ever seen them!

Yes, on things like foreign assistance, but not education, NHS, public transport, military. Check benefit spending I'm sure there are loads of people who are exploiting the system.

No increase taxes on the rich and corporations eliminate loopholes, reduce corrupt foreign aid and reduce Mp salary and benefits in line with average or minimum wage.

yes, by reducing salaries of officials. also tax corporations and reduce military spending for a more mixed solution

debt for capital infrastructure is good. Not for anything else, so depends on what we're going in to debt for.

No, increase tax on large corporations, close tax loops and increase tax slightly across all brackets bit significantly for richer brackets.

I believe there is a nuance to where money is spent, military spending would be good to be upped in the modern day, but there should be less spending on departments that benefits a certain group.

Generally no, the government needs to spend more in R&D to increase productivity and increasing rates of entrepreneurship to increase tax revenues.

No, increase taxes on the rich, end tax evasion and increase taxes on large multinational corporations.

no. end tax evasion, increase tax on the wealthy, increase tax on corporations. Increase public spending, its the bedrock of a stable economy.

No focus on cutting Foreign aid and military spending first before cutting essential public services that Citizens need to use daily

Reduce Government salaries, reduce military spending, tax the rich, increase taxes on multinationals

No, the government should create nationalised services to compete with private companies with the profit supplementing government budgets.

Yes but focus on cutting welfare before all other services

Revise foreign spending to countries that don't require funding

No, focus on eradicating the corruption and the loopholes

I think an increase to military spending and a reduction in bureaucratic operation is need. Government officials should take massive pay cuts and their staff should be slashed

No, consistent with the Modern Monetary Theory framework

Depends on the severity of the national debt

No debts so big nothing we can do can pay it off

No, reduce military spending, end tax evasion, and increase taxation on large multinational corporations.

No in general (NHS, police, military, etc.) but yes to other stuff, especially foreign aid, DEI, etc.

Yes, drastically reduce number of government departments and workers and their salaries and benefits. Cut waste, fraud and abuse through contract reviews across all departments.

No, reduce militarty spending, end tax evasion by the richest citizens, increase taxes on wealthy, increase taxes on multinational companies. Not mainting public infrastructure is a detriment to the economy.

Yes, male led governments have allowed the national debt to grow out of control and establish an all-female expert committee on budgetary management

Remove useless Government Agencies and Jobs, remove funding from woke schools, remove the immigration benefits, abolish the welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish assemblies, 40% of all local councils, end all of the climate change policies, remove the minimum wage and maternity pay.

Reduce the salaries of government officials while also abolishsing tax evasion for the rich and decrease military spending

No cuts to public spending. Review inefficiencies in government spending. Raising taxes could improve services for all.

No, reduce military funding and increase the tax on large multinational corporations while focusing on ending tax evasion.

No, benefits on people who are not working, but are able to, should be cut and that could go to the national debt.

Decrease the wages of politicians (as they have given themselves massive payrises) and increase tax on large multinational corporations and by increasing tax for the top 1% of earners

No, taxes should be increased for corporations and citizens earning above a certain amount. Foreign spending should be cut

No, improve efficiency within the public sector by improving procurement processes and refine job roles

Public spending should be less wasteful / current level is fine if delivering good value and good outcomes

No, reform the welfare state and reduce foreign aid to only help less fortunate countries suffering from a natural disaster. No funding space programs or suchlike.

No, but it's about priorities - things, we as a nation, spend money on can be questionable. We should have a non-political body that is paid for by a fixed income from the nation and who's remit is to decide on the nations interests. Strong rules on money, composition, terms, etc. would be needed but largely, it should be free from political interference.

Stop money being wasted, stop big business tax evasion, abolish house of lords, try to end political corruption

No, focus on tax evasion, invest for growth and stop paying public officials 30% pensions. Having that would save millions if not billions, and it would still be 150% better than the private sector.

There needs to be a mixture of finding tax avoiders and increasing taxes on the wealthy/ corporations etc and finding savings.

No, and taxes should be broadly increased including reform of council tax rates and the introduction of a carbon tax.

No, ex-prime ministers should not be given large pay checks, there should be fewer government officials and tax evasion should be investigated too

Government needs to cut unnecessary spending and allocate more funds to increase wages for NHS staff.

By reducing public spending it will inevitably make situations worse for the emergency services, NHS etc... We need to focus on issues such as financial crime and fraud whereby massive amounts of funds are being left in the hands of criminal which could be recovered and used towards the debt