Gordon Brown, House of Commons, 5th December 2005: Mr Speaker, as part of the figures I am publishing today let me confirm that already this year the first £4.7bn of savings identified by the Gershon review have been achieved. Gordon Brown, Commons Liaison Committee, 12 February 2009: The prime minister has clashed with a senior MP over the delivery of Whitehall efficiency savings. Thursday's dis...

Asked about taxation of savings, the Prime Minister s Spokesman (PMS) said that savers benefited from the low inflation environment we were seeing at the moment, including the price of many goods coming down, which protected the real value of savings. Since 1997 we had introduced significant support to help savers with the introduction of Individual Savings Accounts (ISAs), which 18 million now be...

Political demands for a smaller Whitehall and more devolution to the front line are said to be putting at risk efforts to make billions of pounds worth of efficiency savings

The Prime Minister has announced the appointment of the man credited with inventing the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee as expert adviser on public information delivery. The announcement was part of a statement on constitutional reform made in the House of Commons this afternoon.

Whitehall departments are resisting attempts by the Treasury to slash their budgets as part of the Government's attempts to make savings in the face of the downturn.

Ministers will set out plans on Tuesday to find £9bn of efficiency savings across Whitehall within four years in the latest political salvo over which party is best-placed to tackle Britain's growing deficit

Asked if the Prime Minister accepted that he was on probation, the PMS said that the Prime Minister accepted that the Government needed to do more in order to take action and help people through these difficult economic times, more to push ahead with the reform and delivery of public services, and more in order to clean up politics. That was why we would be setting out further proposals around int...

Every member of the Conservative shadow Cabinet will spend the next few months carefully studying Whitehall budgets to identify where savings can be made under David Cameron's plans to cut the growth in public spending.

Alistair Darling's pledge to slim down Whitehall to help plug the gap in the public finances has been labelled as "smoke and mirrors" after economists and MPs warned the savings would be very hard to achieve and measure.

She may be angling to become our next Prime Minister but that does not mean that Harriet Harman understands the Barnett formula, or does she? She told the House of Commons yesterday that the Chancellor of the Exchequer's plans for £5 billion of efficiency savings across Whitehall will not lead to the devolved administrations losing out. This could mean one of two things. Either the cuts...