Sir Peter Gershon explains how wasteful spending can be cut.
Gordon Brown's own former efficiency advisor, Sir Peter Gershon, has set out some of the savings which could be made in government spending without damaging front line services. Sir Peter insisted that these are 'achievable'.
He said not filling empty posts and 'driving down the cost of agency and contract staff' would save 'perhaps £1 billion to £2 billion' in 2010-11.
Cuts to costly IT programmes could save ‘potentially at least’ £2billion to £4billion. Renegotiating contracts with suppliers was ‘not rocket science’, and could save £3 billion.
David Cameron has pointed out that the government payroll can be reduced without sackings or redundancies by not replacing some of the 400,000 public employees who leave each year.
'If you don't fill all those jobs as they become available, that's one way of saving money relatively rapidly,' he told the BBC this morning.
'If you are doing that, not in the front line but in back-office jobs and management jobs, that means you can save money without anyone losing their job.'
He said not filling empty posts and 'driving down the cost of agency and contract staff' would save 'perhaps £1 billion to £2 billion' in 2010-11.
Cuts to costly IT programmes could save ‘potentially at least’ £2billion to £4billion. Renegotiating contracts with suppliers was ‘not rocket science’, and could save £3 billion.
David Cameron has pointed out that the government payroll can be reduced without sackings or redundancies by not replacing some of the 400,000 public employees who leave each year.
'If you don't fill all those jobs as they become available, that's one way of saving money relatively rapidly,' he told the BBC this morning.
'If you are doing that, not in the front line but in back-office jobs and management jobs, that means you can save money without anyone losing their job.'
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