Efficiency Savings

Oral Answers to Questions — Cabinet Office – in the House of Commons at 11:30 am on 14 July 2010.

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Photo of Steven Baker Steven Baker Conservative, Wycombe 11:30, 14 July 2010

What efficiency savings have been identified by the efficiency and reform group.

Photo of Francis Maude Francis Maude The Paymaster General and Minister for the Cabinet Office

I refer my hon. Friend to the reply I gave to Question 8.

Photo of Steven Baker Steven Baker Conservative, Wycombe

The last Government spent a fortune on advertising themselves. How will this Government make savings in that area?

Photo of Francis Maude Francis Maude The Paymaster General and Minister for the Cabinet Office

We established at an early stage a moratorium on new advertising and marketing spend. Any exceptions to that moratorium have to come to me personally, and I am delighted to find that remarkably few applications are being made for exceptions. The amount of taxpayers' money spent by the Government on advertising and marketing has been significantly reduced. At the end of the year, I expect to be able to show a very significant reduction in what was being spent by the last Government on what I have to say was a pretty incontinent basis.