Labour Councillors have pledged to cut over £6 million from Westminster City Council's budget by cutting out waste and reallocating the money to front line services and giving residents better value for money. Labour say that substantial savings can be made by cutting out the following waste: * Temporary Agency Staff - £3 million – the Council currently spends over £12...

The latest way DEFRA intends to save money: a £300 million "voluntary retirement" scheme to any DEFRA employee over 50 who wants to jump ship. There is much jostling on the decks. As one insider, quoted by the Evening Standard comments: "They can't believe their luck. There are retirement parties all the time stretching into next spring. It seems an odd way to save money but no one is c...

Meanwhile, Conservatives claim they have no money but announce £40 million spending on seven West End road projects. Westminster Conservatives have axed a proposed new £9.2 million Adult Education Centre in Moxon Street, Marylebone claiming that they do not have the money yet, on the same day, they announced a new £40 million plan for seven road improvement schemes, including a n...

Labour has called on Westminster voters to deliver a resounding defeat on the Conservative Councillors responsible for a catalogue of financial blunders over recent years. Labour say the Conservatives have been responsible for huge financial blunders, losses and increased charges, for example; Icelandic Bank failures * The Conservatives invested £17 million in now failed Icelandic Banks with...

Labour delivers extra money as Conservatives lose £17 million on Icelandic banks gamble. Thanks to the sterling efforts of Karen Buck MP, residents in poorer parts of Westminster are now £2.5 million better off following a Government decision to recalculate the amount that Westminster City Council is eligible for under the Working Neighbourhood Funds, designed to support economic and c...

It appears that the Glorious Successor may soon have to save the world once more. The banks, which have absorbed almost forty thousand million pounds of taxpayers' money in the past few months, in return for being politely asked to start lending money again, have decided they'd rather just take the money, thank you very much. Accordingly, "options presented to the Treasury are thought to include

Conservatives say there is not enough money for housing improvements but £13 million planned for West End schemes Labour Councillors have slammed proposals by Westminster Conservatives to slash £50 million from the Housing capital budget which will hit Council tenants and leaseholders hard and mean that much needed improvements will be axed and homes will not be looked after as well as...

£17 million invested in two Icelandic banks by Westminster City Council has been lost following the crash of Heritable Bank, where £10 million was invested, and Landisbanki where £7 million of Council Tax payers money was deposited. Westminster City Council was one of only 20 local authorities in the country which have invested in these two banks. In September the Council reveale...

Westminster Council’s income from Parking Fines has halved in the last three years, according to figures obtained by Labour Councillors. Since 2007/08 the Council's income from parking fines has been cut from £41 million to £20 million, while during the same period parking charges have brought in £48 million in 2009/10 – an increase of £6 million since 2007...

Officers should patrol alone to help save more than £500 million a year from police budgets, Alan Johnson, the Home Secretary, said.