[wdmmg-discuss] Data sleuthing

Thu Oct 21 13:20:00 UTC 2010

Hi Richard,
Great!
How should people enter their findings? Should they add them to the pad or a
specific place on the website?
Best wishes,
Kathryn

On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 2:12 PM, Richard Pope <richard at memespring.co.uk>wrote:

> Here's a list of some of things that need looking into / FOIing:
>
> http://wdmmg.okfnpad.org/wherearethecuts
>
>
> And below are a few cuts related things I clipped out of the CSR
> document (used to compile the above).
>
>
> ==========
> As a first step, the Government is reducing the number of CRB checks
> required for junior doctors, saving £1 million a year;
> ==========
> change how Jobcentre Plus measures performance, cancelling at least
> two target management contracts to save at least £1.2 million a year;
> ==========
> stop producing National Insurance cards, saving £1 million a year;
> ==========
> No longer require Primary Care Trusts to deliver hard copies of “Your
> Guide to NHS Services” to every household, saving up to £2.5 million a
> year;
> ==========
> Save £2.5 billion a year by 2014-15 by withdrawing Child Benefit from
> families with a higher rate taxpayer so that people on lower incomes
> are not subsiding those who are better off;
> ==========
> Cap household benefit payments from 2013 at around £500 a week for
> couple and lone parent households and around £350 a week for single
> adult households, so that no workless family can receive more in
> welfare than median after tax earnings for working households.
> ==========
> Time limit contributory Employment and Support Allowance for those in
> the Work Related Activity Group to one year, to improve work
> incentives while protecting the most severely disabled and those with
> the lowest incomes, saving £2 billion a year by 2014-15;
> ==========
> In future, social housing will more effectively reflect individual
> needs and changing circumstances. Social landlords will be able to
> offer a growing proportion of new social tenants new intermediate
> rental contracts that are more flexible, at rent levels between
> current market and social rents.
> ==========
> CLG’s overall resource budget will reduce by 33 per cent in real terms
> over the period.
> ==========
> Closure of the Government Office network,
> ==========
> Programmes including the Working Neighbourhoods Fund, Growth Area
> Funding and the Thames Gateway programme will end,
> ==========
> Fire resource expenditure will reduce by 13 per cent in real terms
> over the Spending Review period.
> ==========
> Interest rates on Public Works Loan Board (PWLB) loans have been
> increased to 1 per cent above UK government gilts.
> ==========
> Police resource funding reducing by 14 per cent in real terms by
> 2014-15, taking into account central government funding and the OBR’s
> council tax precept forecast.
> ==========
> The National Policing Improvement Agency will be abolished and some of
> its functions will be absorbed into the National Crime Agency, saving
> at least £50 million.
> ==========
> The UK Border Agency (UKBA) will save around £500 million by reducing
> the costs of support functions, estates and IT.
> ==========
> Plans for a 1,500 place new-for-old prison will be deferred to the
> next Spending Review period, and spending on new IT and court projects
> will be limited to essential capacity.
> ==========
> Overall resource savings of 24 per cent in real terms over the
> Spending Review period, including through major reforms of the Crown
> Prosecution Service.
> ==========
> Reductions in older or non essential capabilities such as the Harrier
> jet, Nimrod maritime reconnaissance aircraft and some frigates;
> ==========
> Rationalisation of the defence estate, including the sale of surplus
> land and buildings, likely to generate running cost savings across the
> estate of up to £350 million per year by 2014-15;
> ==========
> Sales of the telecommunications spectrum and corporate assets
> (including the Defence Support Group and the Marchwood Sea Mounting
> Centre), likely to raise in excess of £500 million over the Spending
> Review period;
> ==========
> Withdrawing Child Benefit from families with a higher rate taxpayer
> from January 2013 so that people on lower incomes are not subsidising
> those who are better off, saving £2.5 billion a year by 2014-15;
> ==========
> Reducing the percentage of childcare costs that parents can claim
> through the childcare element of the Working Tax Credit (WTC) from 80
> per cent to its previous 70 per cent level in April 2011, saving £385
> million a year by 2014-15;
> ==========
> Changing the eligibility rules so that couples with children must work
> 24 hours a week between them, with one partner working at least 16
> hours a week in order to qualify for the WTC, saving £390 million a
> year by 2014-15;
> ==========
> Time limiting contributory Employment and Support Allowance for those
> in the Work Related Activity Group to one year, to improve work
> incentives while protecting the most severely disabled and those with
> the lowest incomes, saving £2 billion a year by 2014-15;
> ==========
> Increasing the age threshold for the Shared Room Rate in Housing
> Benefit from 25 to 35.
> ==========
> Reducing spending on Council Tax Benefits by 10 per cent and
> localising it, saving £490 million a year from 2013-14,
> ==========
> Removing the mobility component of Disability Living Allowance for
> people in residential care, where such costs are already met from
> public funds, saving £135 million a year by 2014-15;
> ==========
> Freezing the maximum Savings Credit award in Pension Credit for four
> years, thereby limiting the spread of means testing up the income
> distribution and saving £330 million a year by 2014-15;
> ==========
> Grant support for the Royal Household will be static in 2011-12 and
> 2012-13 at £30 million. This will call for a 14 per cent reduction in
> Royal Household spending in 2012-13 since the civil list reserve will
> be exhausted.
> ==========
> There will be a reduction of 25 per cent across the period in the
> costs of providing support to the Prime Minister, including reducing
> travel costs through the use of more scheduled flights where possible
> rather than charters, energy efficiency and wider efficiencies.
> ==========
>
>
>
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