Interesting exercise in engagement from finance minister Andrew Davies who will today warn local authorities not to “slash and burn” their services in the face of looming public sector spending cuts.
The Assembly Government is facing a £216m reduction in its 2010-11 budget and is likely to pass on a similar sized cuts to local councils but, according to the Western Mail, Mr Davies wants an ‘imaginative response’ from civic leaders on how they can sustain and hopefully even improve services.
You can bet that a good proportion of his audience at Swansea’s Liberty stadium will be unimpressed. It is also entirely possible that one or two might even press him to first come up with examples of how his own regime has adopted the ‘lean’ working methods he espouses to "eliminate waste and unnecessary bureaucracy".
Note: You may have problems with the link as the Wales Online website is still going through temporal distortions of the Groundhog Day variety.
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