Last week, the Chancellor and the Minister for Cabinet Office announced that the Government had saved £14.3bn compared to spending levels in 2009/10. Given the wealth of information that the Efficiency and Reform Group (ERG) have put into the public domain, we can take a detailed look at the numbers.
ERG report their savings results in four broad clusters:
- procurement
- major projects
- workforce
- transformation.
Each of these clusters is further broken down into the sub-categories shown in the table below.
- Topic
- Public finances
- Keywords
- Austerity Public spending Tax Budget
- Administration
- Cameron-Clegg coalition government
- Publisher
- Institute for Government