The Select Committee on Public Accounts has today published its reports on the DEFRA single farm payemnt subsidy mucks up and it doesn't make pretty reading for the Government. The Government has so far spent £122 million implementing the project, and the scheme was actually part "of a wider business change programme to rationalise systems and reduce the staff headcount by 1,800 posts."
However, that change programme itself had, by the end of March 2006, cost £258 million, and, according to the report is "expected to achieve efficiency savings of only £7.5 million by March 2009". Yes really, £7.5 million "saved" in efficiency terms after spending £258 million to become more efficient. And that figure is overall as far as I can tell. Just to put it into perspective, if that was a yearly saving cost it would take about 35 years to break even.
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Labour have never had the first idea about cost control - it's not their money after all
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