Economy driver
13 September 2012
The pressure is on the Office of Government Commerce to meet the chancellor's demands and save £21.5 billion. David Arminas asks its new chief executive, John Oughton, how he plans to do it.
Senior purchasers across central and local government face one of their toughest challenges as they make plans for saving £6 billion by 2007-08. The savings target was set out in chancellor Gordon Brown's spending review last month. He wants efficiency gains amounting to £21.5 billion to boost investment in front-line services such as policing, healthcare and...