Guernsey P&R under fire for presenting two budgets

Parkinson warned that simply bringing a budget with the spending cuts would lead to "a flood of amendments".

"We're only suggesting under the Option B budget half of what States committees have requested.

"We're not spending like a drunken sailor."

P&R has presented a budget which includes an inflationary increase in income tax allowances, lower taxes on a pint at the pub, a new £15m fund to encourage economic growth, £6m for initiatives to encourage States savings and the abolition…