Michael Meacher MP

Giving credit where credit is due, the Government was quite right to start the process of publishing the Government’s accounts in full – even if not  just for the Tories’ motives, but certainly for other reasons.   The Tories are keen to ensure greater efficiency for their contracts, though competitive tendering ought already to be achieving this.   But the real reason why this is a good innovation is that it increases transparency of Government expenditure (the public’s right to know how their taxed money is spent) and it enhances Parliament’s capacity to hold the Government more effectively to account.   Already it’s showing  in the last 5 months some embarrassing trends for the Government. (more…)