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03 Dec 2007
Parliament's spending watchdog has been urged to audit departmental and Treasury claims that efficiency savings are being achieved without cuts in service levels, a Commons Treasury Select committee said.
In a report on plans for spending, the cross-party committee of MPs was sceptical of claims made by government's Gershon review that the £21bn target for efficiency savings had been hit.
'Most investment or implementation costs necessary to achieve the savings' were excluded from the calculation, the committee said.
It remains unclear as to whether government will count the cost of implementation for the target of making an extra £30bn savings by 2010.
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