Spending Review: Cuts could cost charities 'billions'

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Dame Suzi Leather: "If you cut the charities, you're cutting our ability to help each other"
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The government's spending cuts could cost voluntary organisations billions of pounds, the charities' regulator in England and Wales has warned.

Charity Commission chairwoman Dame Suzi Leather said cutting funding to charities that were providing key public services would be short-sighted.

She told BBC One's Politics Show that it threatened to undermine the prime minister's Big Society project.

The Cabinet Office said charity funding would increase in the long term.

Many of the 160,000 organisations the Charities Commission oversees provide key services for councils and rely on local authorities for funding.

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