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Efficiency savings urged to ease pain of cuts

Colin Talbot By Colin Talbot Filed Under: Whitehall Watch Posted: March 11, 2009

from the FT – By Nicholas Timmins

Published: March 10 2009 00:39 | Last updated: March 10 2009 00:39

The private sector recession is likely to be followed by a public sector downturn, with big cuts to services that can only be eased by a step change in efficiency, PwC warned on Monday.

The depth of the recession meant the gap between spending and the money the government was likely to raise on current plans would be far larger than the Treasury was predicting as recently as November, said John Hawksworth, head of macroeconomics at the professional services firm.

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Tagged With: efficiency, government, spending

About Colin Talbot

Colin Talbot is a Professor of Government, a former Specialist Advisor to the House of Commons Treasury Select Committee and the Public Administration Select Committee and has appeared as expert witness many times in Parliament, the Scottish Parliament and NI Assembly. He's also advised Governments from the USA to Japan.

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