Lord Eatwell
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Public Expenditure: Value for Money
Lord Eatwell Excerpts(13 years, 6 months ago)
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Lord Sassoon
My Lords, shortly after coming into office we cancelled £6 billion of in-year expenditure. That is the sort of rigorous approach that we will take, not only to inherited expenditure but to the management of all new contracts.
Lord Eatwell
My Lords, is the Minister’s commitment to value for money and fairness not truly incredible when the Government are cheerfully imposing larger penalties on families with children than they are on the banks?
Lord Sassoon
My Lords, we have introduced a fairness premium worth over £7.2 billion to support the poorest children in this spending review, and I think that that speaks for itself.