We must seize the opportunities to provide services in a more efficient way – cutting the long delays on public procurement is an obvious example.
Skills and training programmes, partly financed by the European Social Fund, are highly centralised and inefficient.
Many thousands took part in events around the country.
Osborne finds £416 million to ease the pain. ConHome coverage quoted in the Commons.
There is a mixed picture but the Government is listening to our concerns.
And, as Boles says, we will never build the number of homes we need unless the state is building 100,000 a year.