Greg launches Spending Challenge
29 July 2010
Local MP Greg Barker launched the Coalition’s Spending Challenge in Bexhill and Battle on Friday. Over the next few weeks, Greg will be asking for ideas for how we can control public spending and get the economy moving.
Greg was in Devonshire Square and outside Battle Abbey handing out surveys for you to fill in, and at the end of August the best ideas will be sent by Greg to the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Download a survey here.
Alternatively you can submit your ideas directly online by going to the Spending Challenge website.
The top ideas for saving money and improving services will then be rolled out as part of the comprehensive spending review in the autumn.
After years of Labour waste, there is now simply not enough money to go round. Last year Britain had the largest deficit in peacetime history. If this rate of borrowing is allowed to continue, it could lead to higher interest rates, tax rises and less money for services such
as schools, hospitals and policing. That’s why tackling the deficit is the most urgent and unavoidable issue facing Britain today.
Speaking in Bexhill, Greg said:
“We’re facing the challenge of a lifetime. After years of Labour’s waste, cutting public spending won’t be easy but we’re all in this together. I want to get as many ideas as possible on how we can get better services for less money. This is going to be vital in getting the economy moving, protecting the most vulnerable and coming out of this stronger. That’s why I’m spending the summer listening to local people about how we can cut the deficit.”
