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Rate the ideas received by the Spending Challenge
The Spending Challenge (opens in new window) is your chance to shape the way government works and help get more for less as we tackle the deficit.We’ve had an overwhelming response from you: over 100,000 suggestions, including more than 44,000 ideas from the public.
Now we’re asking you to rate the ideas we’ve received and identify the ones you think have the potential to be implemented quickly to help make savings, deliver services more efficiently and get more from less.
At the end of August, we’ll review the ideas with the most potential and investigate them in further detail to see if and how they could be taken forward in time for the Spending Review on 20th October.
It isn’t too late to still submit your ideas – these can continue to be submitted in the usual way.
The Spending Challenge website was launched on 24 June, and was initially open to people who work in the public sector to get their professional insights and views on everything from how to cut back on wasteful spending to how to radically change the way services are provided. More than 65000 ideas were received in just two weeks.
We put together an anonymised sample of the ideas that came from the public sector. They ranged from how we could save money and the environment by cutting back on publications and printing, to how we need to stop unnecessary spending of budgets at year end in a "spend it or lose it" culture. The ideas were imaginative and thought provoking. Not all are easy to implement but everyone single one will be considered, and the best ones will be taken forward.
Alongside this, Ministers have been getting out and about across the country to hear your opinions and ideas first hand.
Spending Review 2010
In 'The Spending Review Framework', the Government published details of the process and principles that will underpin the Spending Review., This will be published on Wednesday 20 October 2010 and will set out spending plans for the years 2011-12 to 2014-15.
Last year, Britain had the largest deficit in peacetime history and the highest in the G7 and G20. If this rate of borrowing is allowed to continue, it could threaten the UK’s economic stability. It could lead to higher interest rates, tax rises and less money for services such as schools, hospitals and policing.
The Government has said that reducing the deficit is the most urgent issue facing Britain today. That is why it has committed to a significant acceleration in the reduction of the deficit over the course of this Parliament.
The Spending Review Framework announced the formation of the Public Expenditure (PEX) Cabinet Committee to advise the Cabinet on the high-level decisions during the Spending Review. Alongside this, it also announced that there would be an officials committee at Permanent Secretary level, chaired by the Cabinet Secretary and the Permanent Secretary to the Treasury, to build the Government’s collective understanding of the issues, ensure support for the overall principles and approach and discuss cross cutting issues.
Our web content was reviewed and amended following the 2010 General Election to remove information related to the previous administration.
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