Finding the Savings

Published on Thursday 16th February 2012 by Jon Hubbard

It’s very easy for opposition politicians to make spending commitments without any idea how they will fund them.

We have costed every one of our proposals and identified how we will fund them. Not by cutting services but by cutting wasteful spending such as the unnecessary and expensive Your Wiltshire magazine.

New income

£0.300m additional income from Schools Trading

Energy

£0.250m saving from reduced electricity consumption from street lights

Senior Management

£0.150m saving from Senior Management (Service Director and Heads of Services)

Communications Department

£0.750m from Communications Department and removing Council’s needless free magazine

Transformation Programme

£0.400m from Transformation (2.7% cut)

Capital Savings

£0.600m from Capital Savings

‘Big Society’ Fund

£0.200m from ‘Big Society’