Where Does My Money Go? is an interactive visualisation of the Guardian-style public spending map. It is useful, but I wonder where it should drill down to? It feels quite light at present, but that’s probably because I’m not using it right.
Monthly Archive for December, 2009
Reform says that local authorities need to make significant cuts in frontline staff. The LGA suggests that the cuts required reach £11bn. Elsewhere, Smarter Government seems to have linked up with Total Place and is fêted.
Lots to digest in the Smarter Government report. Headlines: another £12bn in savings over the £26bn from Gershon and £35bn from OEP. In all, that’s approaching 10% of government spend. [NB Steph rightly counsels caution on the numbers.]
Good to see that they have published a broad set of back office benchmarking data allied to the information that we worked hard on collecting during the Whitehall shared services forum days.
Here’s Kable’s take on the publication.
The Institute for Government calls for greater central coordination of government IT. John Suffolk will be delighted.
Slightly skewed by 30 bankers, but still fascinating reading. The interesting point is this one:
By comparison, according to the Institute of Directors, a managing director of a private organisation with a turnover of between £50 million and £500 million could expect to earn £141,440 and an executive director £87,000.
How big are all of the Trusts and departments they are being paid so well to run? Certainly some are larger, but many are not.
Essex has confirmed a substantial transformation deal with IBM. £5.4bn over eight years is quite something. Looks like the speculative investment in Southwest One is paying off.