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Government has saved £10bn in last financial year, says Cabinet Office
Reforms overseen by the Cabinet Office’s Efficiency and Reform Group (ERG) have generated £10bn savings in the last financial...
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Call for CFO as IfG highlights ‘weak’ financial leadership
The government needs a chief financial officer (CFO) “who is clearly and visibly responsible for ensuring that spending...
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McCrae: Abolish the Budget, it’s archaic
The annual drama of the Budget is a dysfunctional relic and should be scrapped, says Julian McCrae. Ministers and civil servants...
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Osborne’s Budget targets pay progression and plans to control AME more tightly
The civil service pay cap will continue for an extra year, limiting pay increases to an average of one per cent per year...
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HMT scepticism on local powers
A senior Treasury official has cast doubt on whether local enterprise partnerships should take significant extra responsibility...
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‘Whole Place’ could save £200m
Four areas piloting ‘Whole Place’ community budgets will produce estimated public spending savings of over £200 million...
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First independently-run shared service centre opens
The government has signed an agreement with private-sector partner arvato to manage an independently-run shared service centre,...
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Marriner defends IT “purchase”
The executive director of shared services in the Cabinet Office, Paul Marriner, has defended the decision to procure from...
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Interview: Paul Marriner
Most attempts to share services in Whitehall have been pretty disastrous. Joshua Chambers meets Paul Marriner, the man charged...
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Dilnot: ‘Mind your language’
Politicians must remember the difference between ‘debt’ and ‘deficit’ and shouldn’t conflate the two concepts,...









