Comprehensive Spending Review

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 1:11 pm on 28 October 2010.

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Photo of Danny Alexander Danny Alexander The Chief Secretary to the Treasury 1:11, 28 October 2010

My hon. Friend makes a very important point. The NAO has indeed criticised the effectiveness of the previous Government's so-called efficiency programme. Many of those criticisms are well founded, and we will proceed on a very different basis. To give an example, the single indicator that they set out for local authorities to report on their own efficiencies had 66 pages of guidance for them to follow, thereby creating a huge industry in local authorities just to meet the reporting requirements.