This is the next of our posts with Reform looking ahead to the Spending Review.
Earlier posts were on health, education, the first hundred days, welfare, the Civil Service, international experiences (New Zealand, Canada, Ireland), Hon Ruth Richardson’s recent speech, selling the case for cuts to the public and how to deliver retrenchment. (And the next subject, defence expenditure, can be found
here)
The debate over spending cuts was taken out of Westminster to the ex-mining constituency of Cannock Chase, Staffordshire on Friday. For “Can Cannock Cope? Showcasing local champions and
public sector reform in Cannock Chase”, Reform assembled heads of local public services and business leaders in front of an audience of 100 Cannock residents.
Still recovering from the collapse of the mining industry thirty years ago, and the 22 percent unemployment that quickly followed, Cannock Chase represents the type of area that must rethink public
services radically if it is to cope with the forthcoming cuts.
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