The Cost of Cameron: 40+ ways the Tories are wasting 34 billion of your taxes

40+ Ways that Jeremy Hunt, Michael Gove, George Osborne & Iain DuncanSmith are wasting 34 billion of your taxes, by oin Clarke

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Jeremy Hunt
1. In 2009-10 1.1bn was spent on Agency Staff but that has risen to 3.9bn for 2012 13. (evidence p.20 & evidence p. 193) 2. NHS Spend on outside consultancy has climbed from 468m in 2009 -10 to 596m in 2012-13 (evidence p.20 & evidence p. 193) 3. Redundancy Payouts had cost the NHS 850m by Dece mber 2011 with confirmation that the figure had climbed to 1.4bn (evidence & evidence)

The Cost of Cameron: 40+ ways the Tories are wasting 34 billion of your taxes

4. Tory NHS reforms have so far wasted 1.1bn of taxpayers cash and that some is rising says National Audit Office (evidence) 5. Clinical Negligence Pay-outs have climbed 500m & 63% under the Tories (evidence) 6. The National Audit Office was unable to confirm 2.4 billion of the Savings the NHS claims it delivered & 40% of Trusts failed to deliver QIPP savings (evidence & evidence) 7. 1,500,000,000 of the NHS Budget was not even spent last year. This was an increase of the under spend the previous year. (evidence) 8. 1bn profit will be paid from taxpayers to private health for NHS contracts privatised (evidence) 9. Retendering of NHS111 contracts will cost taxpayer 5m (evidence) 10. Private Firms running our NHS are avoiding their taxes and this could cost taxpayers 200 over the value of existing contracts (evidence)

Michael Gove
11. Free Schools are projected to cost at least 600 million more than was originally planned (page 8) 12. Michael Gove wasted 440,000 on Free Schools that didnt even open [wave 1] (evidence) 13. Michael Gove overspent on Academies by 1bn & cut the funding of state school pupils to pay for it says National Audit Office (evidence) 14. Poor planning in the transfer of school places from LEA run schools & academy schools costs the taxpayer 350 million. A slower transition would have saved cash (evidence)

The Cost of Cameron: 40+ ways the Tories are wasting 34 billion of your taxes

15. The government wasted 114 million on Consultants to plan and implement their Free School/Academy reforms (evidence & evidence) 16. Three Academy Chain networks hand 180+ average pay packets of 88,000 and 7 staff are paid more than the Prime Minister (here, here & here) 17. Michael Gove wasted 25.76 million on temporary staff in the Department of Education (core) last year, up 600,000 from the year previous (evidence) 18. Michael Goves Department give 65,000 of taxpayers cash to schools converting to academy status in what some had described as a bribe (evidence)

George Osborne
19. National Debt is up 430bn & George Osborne is borrowing 235bn more than he said he would (evidence & evidence) 20. George Osborne has allowed the costs of HS2 to spiral by 7bn+

(evidence & evidence) 21. The Regional Growth Fund wasted 160 million protecting jobs at an average cost to the taxpayer of 106,000 per job (Page 8) 22. 1.2bn spent on Local Enterprise Partnerships that were supposed to create 54,000 jobs but in truth will be lucky to create 1/3 of that says NAO (evidence) 23. George Osborne sold Northern Rock for a 480 million loss (evidence) 24. George Osborne sold Lloyds Share for a 230 million loss (evidence) 25. George Osborne sold Royal Mail for at least 50% less than it was worth (evidence & evidence) 26. 4G was auctioned off for 1.2bn less than George Osborne forecast (evidence) 27. The Tax Gap has grown by 4,000,000,000 under the T ories while HMRC staff were cut by 16% and the HMRC budget was cut by 25% Tax Gap (Tax Evasion/Avoidance etc) up 13% since April 2010 (evidence & evidence)
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The Cost of Cameron: 40+ ways the Tories are wasting 34 billion of your taxes

Iain Duncan Smith

28. Welfare Spending climbed 24bn this Parliament (evidence & evidence) 29. IDSs spend on Private Consultants is up 59% this year (evidence) 30. IDSs spend on Temporary Staff is up 91% this year (evidence) 31. 150million+ of taxpayers money wasted contesting successful appeals against unfair WCA assessments (evidence) 32. The DWP have written off 140million in overpaid Housing Benefit paid in error sinc e October 2010 (evidence) 33. 241m of taxpayers money is set to be wasted in IT overspend for the Universal Credit Project (evidence) 34. 90m of taxpayers money is wasted on IT equipment that wont work in 2 years (evidence) 35. 60m of taxpayers money had to a Private Firm to carry out WCA assessments th at they botched (evidence) 36. 1.2bn wasted on over-payments at the DWP due to Fraud for 3 years running (2010-11) (2011-12) (2012-13) 37. 194m wasted on the Tory Back to Work Scheme for Troubled Families that helped just 3% of the families targeted (evidence) 38. 2.25bn spent on a Work Programme that was only 10% successful wasting 2bn (evidence, evidence & evidence) 39. 457m Youth Contract Scheme has achieved a 95% failure rate, wasting 434m (evidence) 40. 40,000 Bedroom Tax victims are exempt due to a loophole that will cost taxpayers 29m (evidence) 41. DHP increased to cover the mess of the Bedroom Tax costing taxpayers 150m (evidence)
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The Cost of Cameron: 40+ ways the Tories are wasting 34 billion of your taxes

42. Impact study of Bedroom Tax arrears suggests 260m could be lost this year (evidence) 43. IDS wasted 75,000 of taxpayers cash on a Bedroom Tax poll (evidence) 44. Shares For Rights Scheme opens up a 1bn tax loophole (evidence)