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

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

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, 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 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

Increase military spending due to the threat faced by our nation at the present moment from Russia, Iran, China and North Korea.

No, but increase tax on the wealthy, large multinational corporations and cut the pay of government officials

A balance of a reduction of spending and focus on ending tax evasion should help to reduce the national debt, once it is a manageable level increase spending again

No, but inefficiencies in schools, national and local civil service and NHS should be removed, e.g Royal Mail should not be used for sending out hospital appointments

Plug loopholes, no hiding in Ireland like Amazon and others. We do have too many government officials

No, focus on tax evasion, increase tax on the wealthy and increase taxes on multinational corporations as well.

Yes, but by cutting subsidies, especially those that are environmentally harmful or economically useless or harmful.

no cuts to public spending, reduce national depts by looking at government inefficiencies across all government offices as well as the NHS

It is crucial how money from the government is spent. If debt level is high, cutting public spending doesn't necessarily help reducing debt to GDP. Public spending must target mission-oriented policies that benefit the collectivity (i.e. tackle climate change, etc.)

I favour increases in taxes for a set period with the revenue ring-fenced for the reduction of the national debt and an aim to get it to between 33-50% of GDP.

Yes but focus on tax evasion

Yes, and increase taxes on the rich as well

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

No, focus on ending tax evasion, and increase taxes on wealthy and multinationals

No, Instead drastically reducing the benefits and salaries of government officials, increase taxes on the wealthy and on large multinational corporations instead

Reduce benefits and salaries of the government, focus on ending tax evasion and increase taxes on the wealthy and large corporations instead

Increase tax on deathly, get tax from multinationals, stop tax evasion

No, corporation tax should be increased to 25% and greater focus placed on combatting tax evasion.

Yes, but also end tax evasion

No, MP's amd party leaders, including the prime minister should take a pay cut. There is no need for the wages they are on while nurses are on substantially less

Yes, but in areas where the government is overspending

No, reduce military spending, increase tax on large multinational corporations, and increase taxes on rich instead

No, grow the economy instead.

Yes, but only where it reduce waste, save taxpayers and wouldn't negatively impact the economy.

No, they should take cuts from their own wages first

i would like to eliminate the lower class

No. Loop holes and tax evaders should be dealt with

No, we should direct funding away from the police, army, banks, and corporations to reduce the national debt.

No, reduce military spending , focus on ending tax evasion, increase taxes on the wealthy, increase taxes on large multinational corporations

Sort out welfare and stop wasting money on more and more handouts for lazy citizens