The business group is calling on chancellor George Osborne to radically reform public services in this month’s spending review. It says increasing shared services could save Whitehall and local authorities up to £600m a year by 2020.
It also wants the Government to integrate social care spending into the NHS budget and identify contracts and work-streams that could be outsourced to deliver savings.
John Cridland, CBI Director-General, said: ‘Ring-fencing makes life a little more difficult for the Chancellor and so he must start looking at areas where opening up existing markets to fresh thinking and new ideas could improve delivery, like outsourcing management of the Government estate.
‘Shared services should become the norm and the default option for Whitehall and local authorities by 2020.’
The group also said infrastructure should be a top priority in the spending review and is calling for short-term action on improving roads, boosting house-building and getting major projects moving.
Mr Cridland said: ‘The Chancellor must prioritise areas that could propel a fledgling recovery and infrastructure investment should be in pole position.
‘If the Government doesn’t act now even less infrastructure could be built in the years ahead, as cuts from the last spending round continue to feed through and decisions on major projects remain up in the air.’
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Autor(en)/Author(s): Laura Sharman
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