A report today shows that moves towards greater sustainability introduced by the previous Government are already saving the public purse more than 60 million pounds a year. The report from the Sustainable Development Commission calls on the Coalition to step up its green ambitions to create further savings – but it coincides with speculation that the Government will today announce the scrapping of the Commission.

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The National Audit Office says the Community Care Grant is helping vulnerable people establish themselves in the community but that as it stands the scheme does not deliver value for money. In a report today the NAO says the Grant is easing exceptional pressure on families and was deliberately designed to be flexible but points to savings that could be made.

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By Catherine Needham

New moves towards transferring the purchasing power of the public sector towards individual users of public services are radical and empowering, but a debate is urgently needed on the way these reforms are to be implemented according to this report from the PMPA.

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