Free councils from Whitehall’s costly straitjacket
“Putting more responsibility in the hands of local people makes for better decisions and saves money,” said Julia Goldsworthy, the Liberal Democrat Shadow Communities and Local Government Secretary.
Commenting on today’s LGA report outlining measures to save £4.5bn of public money without cutting back on frontline services, Julia Goldsworthy said:
“This report confirms what Liberal Democrats have long believed, that putting more responsibility in the hands of local people makes for better decisions and saves money.
“The Government has tied local authorities in knots with unnecessary targets and red tape. Labour and the Tories have always presumed the best in central government and the worst in local government – it should be the other way around.
“The Liberal Democrats want to free councils from the expensive straightjacket of Whitehall rules and targets. We would scrap the useless and bureaucratic quangos that Labour has allowed to take crucial decisions without any accountability and give power back to local people.”
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