Foreign Office on target for £120m efficiency savings The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has insisted that it is on course to deliver on its £120m efficiency savings target by the end of 2007-08. The declaration comes in spite of delays to its Future Firecrest desktop IT project, which will not be rolled out until early next year. In a review of its annual report for 2006- …
Is it worse when a government department reveals great cost overruns, or when it reveals great savings? I admit that I have absolutely no idea how the Foreign Office has made these efficiency savings - it's just a lot of mumbo-jumbo - but my natural inclination is to wonder what that £120m was doing beforehand, and where it has gone. I choose Paris Hilton as my avatar, because all I want for Christmas is please go away.
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