POTENTIAL options for future development in Guernsey were picked apart in the States yesterday.

A NUMBER of States members contacted this newspaper after this column was critical of the lukewarm efforts to tackle public sector expenditure to say that they agreed with the thrust of the comments.

THE till operator has just finished bleeping your weekly shop through.

ANYONE wading through the 258 pages of the first annual review of the States Strategic Plan will be struck by the positive language adopted in the Billet d’Etat expressing how corporate governance is to be improved, how government is to become more joined-up and how the Assembly will act more corporately.

ONE of the less accessible sections in the States Strategic Plan for approval next month deals with how to streamline the drafting of legislation.

EXPENDITURE should be tied to the States Strategic Plan, according to Treasury minister Charles Parkinson.

VANITY projects prioritised by the Policy Council are getting in the way of essential social policy, a deputy minister has claimed.

A STATES determined to show that it can live within its means has slashed a wish-list of 60 projects down to just eight as part of the States Strategic Plan.

MINISTERS presenting the various elements of Guernsey’s new look States Strategic Plan – the successor to the Government Business Plan – didn’t make much of it, but a key part of the island’s economic direction hinges on an anti-inflation strategy.

BUSINESS leaders got an early insight yesterday into the new Government Business Plan.