Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Cabinet Office – in the House of Commons at 11:30 am on 24 November 2010.
Absolutely. That is a hugely important point. Everything I have learned over the past two years suggests that for many organisations the whole process of applying for and reporting public money is a bureaucratic nightmare-often totally disproportionate to the sums involved. Changing that is fundamental to the reform of commissioning and procurement that we are undertaking.