Could do better – our verdict on the programme for government ‘audit’
The Mid-Term Review could do better
The Mid-Term Review is better than nothing but it could, and should, have been more informative. The 119 pages are essentially a list of pledges made in the original ‘Programme for Government’ of May 2010 and then of subsequent activities under the heading ‘what we have done’. That is helpful. But what is missing is any indication of outcomes. So the public will find it very hard to judge whether the Government has achieved what it promised.