States budgets to be slashed

Thursday 27th October 2011, 2:30PM BST.

states building STATES departments have been ordered to cut their budgets for next year in a drive to save £30m. by 2014, it emerged yesterday.

And a separate States-wide initiative will also see 50 jobs lost in its admin and IT sections.

Health and Social Services has been told to cut £2.35m. from its budget next year, the only figure made public to date.

All department chief officers have received a memorandum from States chief executive Mike Brown in what is understood to be part of the States-wide efficiency drive called the Financial Transformation Programme.

Meanwhile, a States-wide IT project, approved yesterday, will see around 50 civil service jobs lost in a streamlining of management, administration and IT systems in an effort to save millions.

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Dave

October 28, 2011 at 1:09 am

Save 30m? That will be useful for helping to cover the next major States project overspend!

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Les Beaucamps Boy

October 28, 2011 at 1:54 am

Print the money like everyone else and be damned!

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Jas

October 28, 2011 at 8:59 am

About time this happen. Should have got to grips with runaway public finances years ago….

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Noddy

October 28, 2011 at 11:20 am

Before they make the departments save money, would it not be a good idea for the elected people to make the first cut?

How about reducing the amount of Deputies to 30, or even 21. Thus starting the saving process and showing by action, that they mean it.

If it across the entire government department, does not also mean the politicians?

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