Hello Today is the launch of the review. The Prime Minister wrote about the process.
Every secretary of state inherits dozens of policies and priorities from his predecessor, and so a great deal of government activity is exercised, even if it is no longer necessary or relevant. In one of my first posts, I said everything to go through the financial lines and cut at least 5%. ‘It is time,’ I said, to slaughter the sacred cows.
But he was not the prime minister of today. It was Boris Johnson in the comments.
As Heather Stewart, Kalyeena Makortoff and Richard Partington spend the night in his story Rachel PrefectThe chancellor also asks cabinet ministers to find the effectiveness of savings equivalent to 5% of spending. That doesn’t mean his policy on government spending is exactly the same as Johnson’s. But this clearly shows how this process mainly affects governments.
Efficiency savings of 5% does not mean that spending cuts are worth 5%. The governor has already been told that the government’s total daily wages must rise by 1.5% a year in real terms. Efficiency savings (which I often like to cut) in one area of departmental spending can free up money that can be spent in other areas.
But not the pain itself. In his news release, the Treasury He says that officials were told that restaurants not contributing to the government’s priority should be stopped.
Secretaries of state across the government will need to allocate their budgets to ensure that the government demands that the prime minister’s policy of change is put in place and that every budget balance is well spent. The Chancellor will work with departments to prioritize spending that supports the delivery of the policy.
In a letter sent by the secretary to the treasury, departments are advised that where the grant does not contribute to the priority, it should be blocked. Although some of these decisions will be difficult, the chancellor is clear that the public must have faith in the government that waste must be eradicated and that their tax dollars are spent on priorities.
He also gives an example of what this means.
Work has already begun to assess the value of money spent, with an estimate of 6.5m spent on social worker programs in schools, which placed social workers in schools, finding no evidence of a positive impact on social care outcomes, meaning the intervention was. not considered cost-effective. The government has declared that it does not refuse to fix the foundations of difficult decisions, as shown by the chancellor’s decisions in the Budget to weigh the books.
The Social worker in schools program It was an initiative under a previous PM – one Boris Johnson. When he had sent it, it was already strangled for the sacred cow.
She is speaking to the supervisor in a case at the hospital this morning, so we will hear more from her soon. We will hear more about the change plan when Pat McFadden, the Cabinet Office minister who oversees the plan, is due to give evidence later. One of the most interesting audience in the corridor.
This is the day of action.
In the morning: Keir Starmer he is in Cyprus, where he has a meeting with Nikos Christodoulides, president and commander of British forces at RAF Akrotiri.
In the morning: Rachel Reeves, chancellor and Darren Jones, chief treasurer, visit a hospital in Kent.
11.30am: Downing Street holds a briefing lobby.
12.30pm: MLAs (members of the legislative assembly in Northern Ireland) are debating whether or not to stay with the Vendor Framework post-Brexit trading rules.
1pm: Lisa Nandy, culture secretary, gives evidence to the Culture Commons about her department’s work.
2.30pm: Alexander Douglas, the minister of art, Stephen Doughty, the minister of foreign affairs, and Lord Coaker, the minister of defence, give evidence about the sale of arms to Israel.
2.30pm: Chief constables from Yorkshire, Cleveland, Staffordshire and Humberside police are giving evidence into domestic affairs surrounding the summer riots.
3pm: Pat McFadden, minister of the Cabinet Office, testified about the management of public affairs and business issues about the work of the Cabinet.
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