BiteBack Publishing

With the leaders of the main political parties engaged in a war of words over the level of cuts in public spending that will be required, Matthew Sinclair of the TaxPayers’ Alliance returns with a simple, straightforward guide to where and how excessive administrative waste can be spared.

In the face of a decline in GDP and tax revenue and an astronomical forecast for interest payments on government borrowings, savings in the public purse are going to be necessary. Neither will health and education, the two most emotive of public sector institutions, be immune from restraints in the new fiscal environment. Recently Britain’s public spending watchdog, the Audit Commission, described public sector pay freezes as inevitable, though some on both benches would argue the toss.

In How to Cut Public Spending, Matthew Sinclair looks at where waste can be avoided, cuts best tolerated and how Britain can embark upon a plan of economic recovery – all without provoking the kind of voter response that can sweep a government out of power.

"The British economy has a problem of too much public spending not too little taxation. Public spending can be cut and this book shows how. A cracking read on how the fiscal landscape could yet be transformed. We ignore it at our peril." Graeme Leach - Chief Economist and Director of Policy, Institute of Directors