‘States has missed its savings target’
Friday 3rd September 2010, 2:29PM BST.
THE STATES fell £1m. short of hitting its savings target last year, it has been claimed.
Jan Kuttelwascher (pictured), the first deputy to join political pressure organisation the Guernsey Reform Group, said that States spending was out of control.
Savings being made are earmarked to be invested in new services. But if they do not happen then the equivalent amount is meant to be taken away from the following year’s budget, he said. That has not happened for 2010.
The annual review of the States Strategic Plan, which details priorities and recommends new services, showed that States spending went up by 7.3% in 2009 when it was meant to be frozen.
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If Jan Kuttelwascher is right with the statement below:
“The annual review of the States Strategic Plan, which details priorities and recommends new services, showed that States spending went up by 7.3% in 2009 when it was meant to be frozen.”
Then who is responsible for policing this. Has Deputy parkinson got the power to clamp down on excess spending, somebody needs to have that power.
Far from cutting back the States seems to be expanding at the taxpayes expense. We now have an office in China, employing one person it appears, We are about to go in with Jersey with an office in Brussels, with what looks like two very expensive members of staff and I’m sure after the delegation to India, the next we will hear is that we need an office in India. Rather than cutting back we seem to employ more and more highly paid civil servants on final salery pensions. These offices will no doubt become a bureaucracy within their own rights swallowing hundreds of thousands of taxpayers money.
The States don’t know what cutting back even means.
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