Since the freeze is on departmental budgets, and it is up to departments to ensure that they're respecting the limits on operating budgets, it will be to them to look at impacts regionally. Obviously it's very early days. The freeze has been announced only in the last few weeks, and departments will be looking at how they're going to meet it. But that will certainly be something for them to look at.
On March 29th, 2010. See this statement in context.