[wdmmg-discuss] Data sleuthing

Thu Oct 21 13:21:21 UTC 2010

On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 2:20 PM, K Corrick
<kathryn.corrick at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi Richard,
> Great!
> How should people enter their findings? Should they add them to the pad or a
> specific place on the website?

If it is just a few records, then they can go straight on the site.
But most of these will need FOIing.

> 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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