The Tresury department is asking for people to vote on a range of options for ways of cutting governemnt costs - these options have been put forward by members of the public.
This link will take you to the Treasury Spending Challenge page.
This is the first part of the Treasury statement:
The Spending Challenge is your chance to help shape the way government works. We need to reduce the deficit by cutting public spending in a way that is fair and responsible - and you can help.
We’ve had an overwhelming response to the Spending Challenge. Over the past month, you’ve submitted more than 44,000 ideas via this website. Now we’re asking you to help rate the ideas we’ve received.
Rating ideas...
Look through the ideas we’ve had, and rate the ones you think have the potential to save money while impacting least on public services. We’ve put the ideas into categories and marked a few we think are interesting – but it’s up to you to tell us what you think. As you read through the ideas on the website, we’re asking you to let us know what you think by rating the idea from 1 star (poor) to 5 stars (excellent).
Remember: we’re looking for ideas that can be implemented quickly to help to make savings, deliver services more efficiently and get more from less.
What next...
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 for the Spending Review on 20th October and beyond
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