Osborne’s plan for public services contains the enormous assumption that far fewer civil servants can achieve just about the same size of jobWhatever else George Osborne’s performance was in the spending review on Thursday,it amounted to an act of worship to a mysterious deity, one with a name, and a price tag,and multiple mentions in both the chancellors speech and the accompanying Treasury documents. The god is efficiency. The NHS is supposed to be generating savings of £22bn based on it; the Department for Transport’s operating budget is being cut by 37% and will be all the better for it. In the name of efficiency a score or more of the arm’s length bodies run by the Department for trade, Innovation and Skills are to be sacrificed (though detail on which they are is still missing).
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Source: theguardian.com