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and focus their budgets on providing excellent teachers for their students, the government islaunching a number of initiatives:••re-launching the energy supply framework: schools are already realising savings bypurchasing goods and services through procurement frameworks provided by the CrownCommercial Service (CCS); the government expects the recent launch of the updatedCCS school energy supply framework to deliver significant savings for schools in the nextParliament••publishing improved management information and benchmarks: by the end of2015, the Department for Education (DfE) will provide schools with a new indicator tocompare their overall efficiency, and parents will be able to access school benchmarkingtools, allowing them to compare their child’s school’s spending with that of other schoolsand see how effectively the school uses its budget to promote educational attainment••piloting a cost comparison tool in 2015 to help schools identify a target price fortheir most commonly purchased items••introducing a range of initiatives to improve the effectiveness of educationsupport staff, through a series of projects being run by the Education EndowmentFoundation1.79 The government will have increased the health budget in real terms every year thisParliament. 49 At Autumn Statement 2014, the government announced £2 billion of additionalfunding for frontline NHS services in 2015-16 that will be added to the NHS’s baseline fundingin future years. This will help to meet growing demand, improve services and kick-start thetransformation set out in the NHS’s ‘Five Year Forward View’. However, the ‘Five Year ForwardView’ also made it clear that the NHS will need to find significant annual efficiency savings inorder to meet demand and maintain good quality patient care. 501.80 Lord Carter, as Chair of the NHS Procurement and Efficiency Board, is undertaking actionto help the NHS to deliver its efficiency aspiration. Interim findings from Lord Carter’s workshow that action in a number of areas, including procurement, pharmacy and property, coulddeliver significant savings that the NHS could recycle back into frontline care. For example, localsavings of up to £5 million a year have been found in one Trust alone by improving contractmanagement and engaging with suppliers to find ways to resist cost increases. 51 Measures suchas this will be key to delivering the efficiency savings set out in the ‘Five Year Forward View’.1.81 In the criminal justice system, Sir Brian Leveson’s report on the efficiency of courtproceedings has highlighted that there is still significant scope to reduce cost and delay. 52 Forexample, measures to encourage the retention of cases in the Magistrates’ courts rather thansending them to the Crown Courts should improve efficiency and reduce costs in the courtsystem. The government notes these recommendations and, as part of the ongoing programmeto reform the courts, which is intended to save in excess of £100 million a year by 2019-20, willexplore how these recommendations can be taken forward.1.82 The government will also expand the use of benchmarking public service performance asa means to identify savings. It has already demonstrated the potential in this area; for example,the programme to benchmark public sector prisons is driving down unit costs and will deliverannual savings of £300 million by 2015-16. 5349‘Public Expenditure Statistical Analyses’, HM Treasury50‘Five Year Forward View’, NHS, October 2014.51‘Better procurement better value better care: a procurement development programme for the NHS’, Department forHealth and NHS England, August 2013.52‘Review of Efficiency in Criminal Proceedings: Final Report’, Sir Brian Leveson, January 2015.53‘National offender management service business plan 2014-15’, National Offender Management Service, April 2014.28 Budget 2015
1.83 Police forces are already delivering efficiency savings, in a period where crime is downby more than a fifth according to the independent ‘Crime survey for England and Wales’. 54This summer, Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary will carry out an in-depth efficiencyinspection of every police force in the country, to help all forces make best use of resourcesand highlight best practice to continue driving down crime. The government is also committedto supporting a collaborative programme to standardise what the police buy, and aggregatepolice procurement to drive additional savings above the £200 million already achieved thisParliament. 55More strategic management of government land, property and spectrum1.84 Over the next Parliament the government will transform how it manages the significantland and property assets it owns. Budget 2015 announces that the governmentwill implement a new commercially-driven approach to land and property assetmanagement across the central government estate, based on departments payingmarket-level rents for the freehold assets they own. The government will create a new centralbody or bodies, which, working under a cross-government framework and direction providedby the Treasury and the Government Property Unit of the Cabinet Office, will own and managerelevant property and land assets, as well as leasehold assets where appropriate. This will helpdrive better strategic oversight and management of the estate, and provide greater incentives fordepartments to rationalise the space they occupy. It will also deliver efficiencies, and release landand property for productive use, including building new homes. Implementation of the reformwill commence immediately, with the model becoming operational by March 2017, subject tolegislation.1.85 Given their very large property and land holdings, there is also the potential to generatesignificant efficiencies within the Ministry of Defence estate. However, the Ministry of Defencemaintains a varied estate, including assets of strategic military importance. Therefore, thedepartment will introduce a similar charging mechanism, to the same timescale, within itsexisting estate management organisation, to incentivise users of the Ministry of Defence estateto reduce their footprint and release value, including land for development. Given the specialisednature of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s overseas estate, appropriate chargingprinciples will also be developed with land and property managed in their existing departmentalboundary.1.86 In addition to implementing this model for land and property, Budget 2015 announcesthat the government will take a more strategic approach to managing public sectorspectrum. The government will implement a central management system, which will enable itto better prioritise spectrum management, and maximise the economic value of public sectorspectrum.Integrating services to improve outcomes and reduce costs1.87 Further savings will also be achieved by making local services work better for the peoplewho need them. The £448 million invested in the Troubled Families programme has helped over105,000 families to turn their lives around, the government has demonstrated its commitmentto early intervention in a child’s earliest years and the £5.3 billion Better Care Fund is helpingpeople to benefit from joined up health and social care. 56 This is based on the principles thatintervening early can prevent problems arising later on and locally joined up services can bettermeet the needs of vulnerable people. Building on the government’s ambitious programme ofreform, the Budget announces that the government is exploring the cost-effectiveness54‘Crime Survey for England and Wales – year ending September 2014’, ONS, January 2015.55Home Office analysis of data on Police Forces’ non-IT procurement savings between 2010 and Q3 2014.56‘Troubled Families programme: progress information at December 2014 and families turned around at February2015’, Department for Communities and Local Government, March 2015.Budget 201529
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