09 November 2010
The Prime Minister has published the business plans for the
different departments within the government, setting out the detail
of what they plan to achieve in the next four years.
The Prime Minister said:
"Instead of bureaucratic accountability to the government
machine, these Business Plans bring in a new system of democratic
accountability - accountability to the people. So reform will be
driven not by the short-term political calculations of the
government, but by the consistent, long-term pressure of what
people want and choose in their public services - and that is the
horizon shift we need.
"But more importantly the Business Plans will bring about a
power shift by changing what government does. For a long time,
government's default position has been to solve problems by
hoarding more power to the centre - passing laws, creating
regulations, setting up taskforces. The result is that Britain is
now one of the most centralised countries in the developed
world.
"We will be the first government in a generation to leave office
with much less power in Whitehall than we started with. We are
going to take power from government and hand it to people, families
and communities - and how we will do that is set out right here in
these Business Plans."
The Department for Work and Pensions has published its business
plan for the next four years, which includes progress on planned
pension reforms.
To view the business plan for the planned pension reform changes
click
here
