Sorry Pete!!
I think we've had this one before. The Labour manifesto mentioned the timescale (ie later rather than sooner) but no real plans as to how.
The Tory manifesto included broad brush statements like 'we intend to cut public spending' but gave no specifics of what how and when.
Is this specific enough? It's from the 2010 Tory manifesto:
We will start by cutting a net £6 billion of
wasteful departmental spending in the financial
year 2010/11. In addition, we will make the
following savings:
• freeze public sector pay for one year in
2011, excluding the one million lowest paid
workers;
• hold a review to bring forward the date at
which the state pension age starts to rise to
66, although it will not be sooner than 2016
for men and 2020 for women;
• stop paying tax credits to better-off families
with incomes over £50,000;
• cut government contributions to Child Trust
Funds for all but the poorest third of families
and families with disabled children;
• cap public sector pensions above £50,000;
• cut Ministers’ pay by 5 per cent, followed by
a five year freeze; and,
• reduce the number of MPs by 10 per cent.
Over the course of a Parliament, we will cut
Whitehall policy, funding and regulation
costs by a third, saving £2 billion a year, and
save a further £1 billion a year from quango
bureaucracy.