Whitehall website seeks public's views on spending

9 Jul 10
Members of the public are being asked come forward with ideas on how to make public spending more efficient
By Vivienne Russell

9 July 2010

Members of the public are being asked come forward with ideas on how to make public spending more efficient.

The SpendingChallenge website, launched by the Treasury today, allows people both to suggest ways of cutting spending and to rate ideas submitted by others.

Launching the website, Chancellor George Osborne said: ‘Tell us – where’s the waste? What should we cut out, what should we improve? What’s working really well that we should be doing more of?’

It follows on from last month’s consultation with the public sector workforce, which elicited 56,000 responses, Osborne revealed.

‘It just shows how people respond when they’re given a chance,’ he said.

Among the ideas already on the website are: abolishing the Care Quality Commission and returning to local authority-led inspections of health services; radically reducing the number of road signs to save money for local authorities; and making prisoners pay towards for their keep.

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