Chancellor counts on government buyers to deliver £6bn in savings
28 August 2012
Gordon Brown has asked government purchasers to deliver £6 billion in savings over the next four years in an effort to boost investment in front-line services.
The savings - announced in the chancellor's spending review last week - are part of the government's ambitious target of getting £21.5 billion of efficiency gains from the public sector by 2008.
These savings will come from a mixture of 105,000 job losses and lower operating expenditure, including procurement.
Targets for the latter will be split almost...