Thursday, December 01, 2005

Government Waste

The government's own waste review- the Gershon Review- came up with £21 bn pa "efficiency savings". But it was seriously flawed, being more a series of aspirations than a serious attempt to identify waste.

The Tories' James Review came up with annual savings of £35 bn. But it was also flawed, not least because it took credit for the £21 bn of dubious savings identified by Gershon.

The Taxpayers' Alliance estimated total waste in 2004 at £81 bn.

1 Comments:

Blogger archie b said...

has anyone tried to work out the amount wasted on consultants, money launderers (tribal, capita etc)and government funded advisory groups.

my money saving tip- stop wasting money on these parasites. Give the money directly to the delivery agencies schools, hospitals, colleges with funding following the customer/student/patient and police them with a very big stick to keep them on track. People will go to the best services. the rest will improve or close.

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