A few weeks ago local MP, Anne Marie Morris, launched the spending challenge in Newton Abbot. Over the next few weeks, Anne Marie will be asking for people’s ideas for how we can control public spending.
As well as sending out surveys asking for people’s ideas to get better service for less money, she will also hold another public meeting on Friday 27th August at 6.30 – 8 pm in the South Devon Inn, Dawlish. This is an opportunity where the whole community can give their ideas on how to deliver better services for people while saving money in the process.
At the end of August Anne Marie will send the best ideas to the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The top ideas on getting value for money and improving services will then be rolled out as part of the comprehensive spending review in the autumn.
Anne Marie Morris is taking this approach because we’re all in this together. After years of Labour waste, Britain now has 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 issue facing Britain today.
Commenting, Anne Marie Morris Conservative MP, said:
“We’re facing the challenge of a lifetime. After years of 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 to getting the economy moving, protecting the most vulnerable and coming out of this stronger. That is why I’m spending the time listening to local people about how we can cut the deficit.”